Knowledge was never meant to be sold.
Takshalya Foundation runs free, open courses taught by verified educators — and pays those educators properly. No fees for learners. No unpaid teaching. Both halves, or the argument does not hold.
A foundation, not a marketplace.
Takshalya Foundation was set up on a plain observation: the people who teach are the people who earn least from teaching. Every platform that promised to fix that eventually charged the learner. We took the other route — fund the educator, keep the classroom free, and publish what we spend.
Named for a school that charged nothing.
Takshashila taught for centuries without tuition. Students arrived, studied under a teacher who was kept by the community, and left. We are not claiming its lineage — we are borrowing its arrangement, which worked for far longer than ours has.
Keep learning free at the point of use, and make teaching a livelihood rather than a donation of someone's evenings.
A generation that learns without debt, taught by educators who were never asked to work for exposure.
Discover your next skill.
Every track is open and free, taught by someone paid to teach it well — foundational to advanced, with nothing locked behind a second half.
Start learning today.
Every course is open, free and taught by someone who is paid to teach it well. No trial, no card, no locked second half.
An ecosystem, not an exit.
Learners here don’t stay learners. These started as coursework and became things people use — built by graduates, backed by the foundation, owned by their founders.
Anaaj
Agri-markets · PilotingA price ledger farmers can read on a feature phone, built by two of our own graduates.
Sunaai
Accessibility · IncubatingScreen-reader-first course tooling. Started as a class project; now its own thing.
Karya Collective
Livelihoods · ScalingA fair-pay marketplace for the skills learned here. The loop, closing.
Build something extraordinary.
Learners here don't stay learners. Bring an idea to the innovation programme and we'll help you make it real — mentors, a small grant, and a room that has seen it before.
Ideas becoming reality.
Not prototypes for a demo day — things running in the field, built by people who learned the skill here and then used it.
Careers with the foundation.
Build the loop from the inside. Every role is paid at or above the going rate — including the teaching fellowships.
What’s happening.
Open houses where we walk the ledger, build days with real deadlines, and forums for the educators who make this work.
Open house: how the money moves
Online · Live, recorded afterWe walk the ledger, line by line, and answer anything.
Build day, Ranchi cohort
In person · RanchiA room, a deadline, and mentors who won't let you overbuild.
Knowledge partners forum
Hybrid · Pune + onlineFor educators: rates, rights and what we owe you.
What the arrangement has produced.
The arrangement only means anything if it can be checked, so these are reported as they stand — including the parts that look bad. Nothing here is rounded up.
Provisional figures. These are internal counts and have not been independently audited. They are published here because the arrangement should be checkable, and they will be replaced by audited numbers rather than quietly corrected.
Rooms where this actually happens.
Workshops, recording days, translation sprints and the occasional rollout that needed a generator.
Who stands behind the arrangement.
Grant-makers, delivery partners and curriculum collaborators. Named plainly — where the money and the material come from is not a secret here.
Become part of something bigger.
Learn freely. Build boldly. Give back. Every part of the loop is open — pick where you come in.