About Us
A registered Section 8 non-profit in Ahmedabad, building free libraries across Gujarat and holding rooms where people can be heard. Founded November 2023, funded by monthly donors and CSR partners — no foreign grants.
About Our Foundation
We build slow infrastructure — free libraries that outlast us, and rooms where people who are quietly struggling can simply be heard.
The name comes from virakti, a Sanskrit word for a quiet kind of detachment. Virakt Foundation was registered as a Section 8 non-profit in January 2024 and runs on monthly donors, one-time gifts and CSR partnerships — no foreign grants, no strings. Every rupee in and out is printed, posted and public, every quarter.
Slow infrastructure, not fast programs. Measured in decades. Same library, same Sunday, same chair — for thirty years.
Our Values: What Drives Virakt Foundation
Slow Infrastructure
Measured in decades, not quarters. Same library, same Sunday, same chair — for thirty years. We build things designed to outlast the people who started them.
Hold the Room
We do not fix, advise or rescue. We open the door and pour the tea. The work is making space, not filling it.
Public Ledger
Every rupee in, every rupee out. Printed, posted and public, every quarter — so nobody has to take our word for it.
No Marketing Budget
Ever. If the work cannot bring people through the door on its own, we should be doing different work.
Meet the People Behind Virakt Foundation
Aanya Pandit
Co-founder · TLC lead
Het Trivedi
Co-founder · Libraries
Krishna Joshi
Operations
Riddhi Kapadia
Your Reading Circle
Nisarg Desai
Listener · Rajkot
Falguni Solanki
Librarian
Pinaki Shah
Advisor · Psychiatry
Manav Raval
Volunteer coordinator
How We Work
Two initiatives. Eight projects. Nothing else.
Your Reading Circle puts books within reach — regular meetups in Ahmedabad, thirteen free mini libraries across Gujarat, and full libraries built in remote villages of Gujarat and Bharat.
The Listening Circle makes it ordinary to ask for help — curated two-hour circles with a professional psychologist present, alongside street theatre, awareness and first aid seminars, and city-wide campaigns. Nothing is piloted and abandoned; the point is to still be there in thirty years.
Why Us?
You don't have to trust us. You can check.
Virakt Foundation is a registered Section 8 non-profit, 80G eligible, CSR-1 verified and independently audited. The accounts are not a summary we write about ourselves — they are published in full, every quarter.
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80G Tax Deductible
Donations are 80G eligible and a receipt is issued within 24 hours.
CSR-1 Verified
Companies can route CSR funds to us directly. Registration CSR00029481.
Public Quarterly Ledger
Every rupee in and every rupee out — printed, posted and public, every quarter.
No Foreign Grants
Funded by monthly donors, one-time gifts and CSR partnerships. No strings attached.
Independently Audited
Accounts audited by S.R. Batliboi & Co.
No Marketing Budget
Nothing you give is spent persuading somebody else to give.
Not limited to donations,we're building roomsthat stay open.
₹500 keeps one library running for a day. ₹1,000 funds a listening circle. 80G receipt issued within 24 hours.