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
- Collection and digitisation of manuscripts and ancient documents.
- Transcription, translation and public dissemination of classical texts.
- Documentation and preservation of India's cultural, spiritual and knowledge traditions.
- Establishment of Gurukulam-based education rooted in the eighteen Vidyas.
- Engagement with traditions of art, ritual and performance.
- 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.