NIRNAYA FOUNDATION Thrissur, Kerala
Nirnaya Foundation

तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति

Nirnaya Foundation

Seeking the unseen meanings between the visible lines.

Public Charitable Trust  ·  Reg. No. 208/04/2025

About

Why the Foundation exists

From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, India held many parallel traditions of learning — each with its own lineage, its own method of teaching, its own body of texts. These were once open traditions, carried in the belief that knowledge exists for the welfare of all.

Over generations they narrowed. What had been public passed into families, then into a few hands, then into silence. Many of these traditions are now remembered only in fragments, and the scholars who still carry them are few.

Nirnaya Foundation was established in December 2025 to work against that narrowing — to recover these texts and disciplines, to study them in the manner they were meant to be studied, and to place them once again within reach of anyone willing to learn.

Objectives

As set out in the Trust Deed

  1. Collection and digitisation of manuscripts and ancient documents.
  2. Transcription, translation and public dissemination of classical texts.
  3. Documentation and preservation of India's cultural, spiritual and knowledge traditions.
  4. Establishment of Gurukulam-based education rooted in the eighteen Vidyas.
  5. Engagement with traditions of art, ritual and performance.
  6. Development of online and offline archives for public access to knowledge.

People

Those who guide the work

Swami Abhinava Bālānanda Bhairava

Mentor & Research Chief

Sanskrit scholar; Unmesha Research Institute of Indology, Mysore

Lekshmi Padmini

Research Head & Director

MPhil, PhD Scholar, Vyakarana

Dr. Harish Ravi Warrier

Managing Trustee

Ayurvedacharya; Yoga Shiromani; TEDx speaker

Dr. Souhrida P. Santhosh

Academic Director

Classical studies and research

Aswathy Sreedevi

Administrative Director

Foundation operations and administration

Dr. Lakshmi P

Academic Advisor

BAMS, PGDAN, PGDAC

Trust Particulars

Registration and standing

Constitution
Public Charitable Trust
Registration No.
208/04/2025
Trust Deed
Executed 29 December 2025, Sub Registrar Office, Ayyanthole, Thrissur
Registered Office
KITEZ, Thoppinmoola, Poothole, Thrissur — 680004, Kerala, India
Managing Trustee
Dr. Harish Ravi Warrier

Contact

Get in touch

Registered Office

KITEZ, Thoppinmoola, Poothole
Thrissur — 680004
Kerala, India

Enquiries

For study programmes, research collaboration, or institutional partnerships, please write to us and we will respond.