This page records the continuing online classes, study sessions, and learning circles conducted under The Anād Foundation’s teaching and transmission work.
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.
Continuity of Learning
Anād’s online classes emerged as an important mode of continuity, especially from 2020 onward, when students across different cities and countries required a sustained way to remain connected with teaching, practice, listening, and reflection.
These classes are part of the Foundation’s broader Study at Anād framework and are connected with the work of Anād Khaṅḍ, the Foundation’s conservatory and heritage-transmission initiative.
Areas of Study
The online classes may include study and practice relating to:
- Gurbāṇī Saṅgīt and the music of Srī Gurū Granth Sāhib;
- rāga, tāla, laya, repertoire, and notation;
- Gurūbāṇī pronunciation, textual attention, and listening;
- jōṛī, pakhāwaj, mridaṅg, and rhythmic understanding;
- oral pedagogy and memory-based learning;
- archival listening and source awareness;
- discussions on instruments, manuscripts, history, and heritage;
- student practice, review, correction, and reflection.
Pedagogical Purpose
The online format is not treated as a substitute for embodied learning, retreats, or in-person study. Rather, it serves as a bridge of continuity: allowing students to remain in regular contact with instruction, correction, repertoire, rhythm, listening discipline, and community learning.
The classes also help sustain a wider learning ecology that includes retreats, workshops, archival work, publications, documentation, and individual practice.
Public Record
This log is retained as a record of ongoing educational activity, institutional continuity, and student engagement. It may include dates, class references, brief notes, screenshots, links, announcements, or other records connected with Anād’s online teaching work.
Older entries may reflect the language, formatting, or circumstances of the period in which they were first created and are retained for institutional memory.
Logbook from Sunday, November 7, 2020, till Sunday, February 9, 2025:
