व्यास
Vyasa
Traditional
Arranged the received hymns into the four Vedas, then composed the Mahabharata — the longest poem in any language, with the Bhagavad Gita sitting inside it.
Mahabharata
वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्
Connecting Hindus across the world
Culture, heritage, knowledge, and service — one global family, held together by the traditions we carry.
ज्ञानम्
A civilisation that taught the world to count
Zero, the decimal system, plastic surgery, the yoga sutras. Explore what India gave, and keeps giving.
सेवा
Seva is how a community proves itself
Community kitchens, disaster relief, scholarships, and heritage conservation — funded and run by members like you.
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धर्म Dharma
What we are here to do
We believe knowledge, mutual respect, and constructive dialogue make a community stronger. These five commitments are how that belief becomes work.
To build a globally connected Hindu community rooted in timeless values while embracing innovation, education, and harmony.
संगठन Sangathan
Connect Hindus worldwide
One register of chapters, families, and scholars, so no one has to look for their community alone.
संरक्षण Samrakshan
Preserve culture and traditions
Archive the manuscripts, record the practitioners, and teach the rites before the last person who knows them stops.
योगदान Yogadan
Highlight India's contributions
Put the mathematics, medicine, and philosophy back into the record of how the world got here.
सेवा Seva
Support education and charity
Fund scholarships, community kitchens, and conservation work — and publish what every rupee did.
संवाद Samvad
Encourage constructive dialogue
Argument is a tradition here. We host it on the terms the tradition set: evidence, courtesy, and good faith.
विद्या Vidya
What this civilisation gave the world
Ten fields where Indian thought arrived early and left something everyone still uses. Each is named here in its own language first.
गणित
Ganita
Mathematics
Zero as a number, the decimal place-value system, and the earliest work on infinite series.
खगोल
Khagola
Astronomy
Aryabhata set the earth spinning on its axis a thousand years before Copernicus.
आयुर्वेद
Ayurveda
Medicine
The Sushruta Samhita describes cataract surgery and reconstructive grafts in clinical detail.
दर्शन
Darshana
Philosophy
Six classical schools, argued over for two millennia and still unfinished.
व्याकरण
Vyakarana
Linguistics
Panini's grammar of Sanskrit is still read by computer scientists as a formal system.
साहित्य
Sahitya
Literature
From the Rigveda to the Tirukkural, the longest continuous literary tradition in use.
योग
Yoga
Yoga
Patanjali's eight limbs, now practised daily by an estimated three hundred million people.
शिल्प
Shilpa
Architecture
Temple canons that resolve geometry, ritual, and stone into one coherent system.
संगीत
Sangita
Music and art
Raga and tala: a grammar for improvisation, written down centuries before jazz.
प्रकृति
Prakriti
Sustainable living
Sacred groves and stepwells — an ethic of restraint older than the word ecology.
ऋषि Rishi
The people behind those fields
Grammar, surgery, atomism, the shape of the sky — each of them was set down by someone. Eight of those people, with the text they are known for and the dates as near as anyone can fix them.
वाल्मीकि
Valmiki
c. 500–100 BCE
Wrote the Ramayana, and the shloka metre along with it. Tradition calls it the adi-kavya: the first poem, the one that made poetry a form.
Ramayana
पाणिनि
Panini
c. 4th century BCE
Described the whole of Sanskrit in about four thousand ordered rules. Computer scientists still read it as a formal grammar, two and a half millennia on.
Ashtadhyayi
पतञ्जलि
Patanjali
c. 200 BCE–400 CE
Compiled the Yoga Sutras and set out the eight limbs — the frame beneath a practice that some three hundred million people now keep daily.
Yoga Sutras
सुश्रुत
Sushruta
c. 600 BCE
Set down some three hundred surgical procedures and a hundred and twenty instruments, including skin grafts and the reconstruction of a nose.
Sushruta Samhita
चरक
Charaka
c. 200 BCE–200 CE
The founding text of internal medicine — digestion, metabolism, immunity — and one of the earliest written codes of conduct for physicians.
Charaka Samhita
कणाद
Kanada
c. 600–200 BCE
Argued that matter reduces to indivisible units, paramanu, which combine to make everything else. Atomism, reasoned out from first principles.
Vaisheshika Sutra
आर्यभट
Aryabhata
476–550 CE
Held that the earth turns on its axis, gave π to four decimal places, and explained eclipses as a matter of shadow rather than omen.
Aryabhatiya
आचार्य Acharya
The people guiding the work
Scholars, organisers, and volunteers who carry the programmes between them.
Dr. Anuradha Iyer
Chair, Heritage Council
Chennai, India
Sanskritist and manuscript conservator. Leads the palm-leaf digitisation programme.
Vikram Desai
Director, Global Chapters
London, United Kingdom
Coordinates 140 local chapters and the annual festival calendar across Europe.
Meera Krishnan
Head of Education
Toronto, Canada
Built the beginner Sanskrit curriculum now taught in forty countries.
Arjun Rao
Convenor, Seva Initiatives
Sydney, Australia
Runs the disaster-response network and the annakshetra community kitchens.
Prof. Kamala Nair
Fellow, History of Science
Boston, United States
Writes on Indian mathematics and astronomy for general readers.
वार्ता Varta
Latest news and updates
Heritage
Four thousand palm-leaf manuscripts are now readable online
A three-year conservation effort has digitised medical, astronomical, and grammatical texts that had never left their archive. Every scan is free to read, with transliteration alongside.
Read the story
Knowledge
The Sulba Sutras belong in every geometry classroom
Altar construction rules written before 800 BCE contain the earliest known statements of what schools now teach as the Pythagorean theorem.
Seva
Community kitchens served 1.2 million meals last year
Volunteers across eleven countries kept annakshetra kitchens running through floods, heatwaves, and two displacement crises.
Education
A new generation is learning Sanskrit, in forty countries
Enrolment in our beginner programme tripled this year. Most students are under twenty-five, and most have never lived in India.
उत्सव Utsava
Festivals and gatherings
Open to everyone. Bring your family, bring a friend who has never been.
27
Aug
Global Sanskrit Week
Seven days of free beginner classes, chanting circles, and manuscript readings.
Online, all time zones Online 9:00 am
17
Sep
Ganesh Chaturthi Utsav
Procession, community lunch, and an evening of classical music.
Leicester, United Kingdom In person 10:30 am
14
Oct
Navaratri Garba Nights
Nine nights of garba and raas, open to families and first-timers.
Edison, New Jersey In person 6:00 pm
11
Nov
Diwali on the Harbour
Lamp lighting, food stalls, and a fireworks finale over the water.
Sydney, Australia In person 5:00 pm
दर्शन Darshan
From the community, this year
Photographs and films sent in by chapters around the world.
248,000+
Members worldwide
63
Countries represented
140
Local chapters
512,000+
Volunteer hours in 2025
सेवा Seva
Three ways in
Whether you have two hours a month or a lifetime of scholarship, there is a place for you here.
Volunteer
Teach a class, staff a kitchen, or help catalogue the archive. Two hours a month is enough.
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Fund scholarships, conservation, and relief work. Every programme publishes its accounts.
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