About Anād Foundation
The Anād Foundation is a public charitable trust dedicated to the conservation, documentation, research, education, publication, and living transmission of tangible and intangible heritage.
Its work includes heritage conservation, archives, manuscripts, musical instruments, recordings, oral histories, calligraphy, paper / ink / binding traditions, craft knowledge, publications, education, public learning, and welfare initiatives. The Foundation works especially with the cultural heritage of the geographical and historical Punjab, Gurbāṇī Saṅgīt and the music of Srī Gurū Granth Sāhib, and wider South Asian artistic, literary, musical, craft, and knowledge traditions.
The Foundation’s long-term institutional vision is carried through Anād Khaṅḍ — formerly referred to as the Anād Conservatory — envisioned as a Conservatory of Arts, Aesthetics, Cultural Traditions, and Developmental Studies. Anād Khaṅḍ is being developed as a flexible heritage-transmission framework that may include archives, studios, classrooms, workshops, conservation facilities, research and publication units, galleries, libraries, public-learning spaces, and project-linked centres wherever feasible and lawful.
For legal, statutory, banking, tax, audit, CSR, and formal institutional purposes, the Foundation’s legal name is The Anad Foundation. The form Anād is used as the Foundation’s preferred cultural, scholarly, programme, publication, and public-facing style.
