About Us

18+ Years of Ideas. One Bigger Mission: Build Bihar’s Future.

About Us

18+ Years of Ideas. One Bigger Mission: Build Bihar’s Future.

AI belongs to everyone. The future begins with those who choose to build it.

For more than 18 years, we have worked to unlock Bihar’s potential through culture, heritage, knowledge, entrepreneurship, technology, and meaningful dialogue.
Our journey has never been about creating events for the sake of events. It has been about creating platforms where ideas meet people—and conversations turn into action.
Over the years, we have built and supported platforms that bring together policymakers, entrepreneurs, scholars, creators, artists, industry leaders, and young changemakers to imagine a stronger Bihar.
We have told Bihar’s forgotten stories through 28 books and 100 journeys. We have worked to uncover its hidden heritage, including 200+ prehistoric rock-art sites, created platforms such as The Bihar Dialogues, celebrated Bihar’s culinary heritage through Pangat, and built the Nālandā International Literature Festival into a platform for global ideas and intellectual exchange.

And now, the world is entering another defining era.

Artificial Intelligence. - AI is changing how we learn, work, create, build businesses and solve problems. But access to this transformation cannot remain concentrated in a handful of cities or among a handful of people.
That is why we created NALANDAi – AI FOR BILLIONS. - Inspired by the original Nalanda—where knowledge travelled across borders and drew learners from around the world—we are building a new movement for the age of intelligence.
NALANDAi is designed to move people from curiosity to capability. -
Not just talks about AI.
Not another conference full of buzzwords.
Real learning. Real tools. Real building. Real skills.
Across immersive masterclasses, workshops, live demonstrations, robotics, AI applications, entrepreneurship, automation, agentic AI, coding, creative technology and certification, participants learn by actually doing.

Our Bigger Vision

NALANDAi begins with a flagship experience in Bihar—but it doesn't end there.
Through Gaon Gaon Tak AI, our ambition is to take practical AI knowledge beyond auditoriums and metropolitan cities and into Bihar’s towns, villages, classrooms, businesses, and communities.
Because the real AI revolution isn't about how advanced the technology becomes.
It's about how many people get the opportunity to use it.
Our goal is to help create a Bihar where talent doesn't have to leave to find the future.

Where a student can build from Muzaffarpur.
Where an entrepreneur can scale from Patna.
Where a creator can compete globally.
Where a government officer can solve better.
Where AI becomes a tool for opportunity—not a barrier to it.

From preserving Bihar's past to building its future.
That has been our journey.
Now, we're taking the next step.

NALANDAi — AI FOR BILLIONS.
Ancient Wisdom. Artificial Intelligence. Boundless Impact.

TEAM OF NALANDAi

NILF team is a band of visionaries, doers, and everyday changemakers. For over a decade, we've uncovered hidden treasures, showcased Bihar's brilliance, and sparked conversations reaching millions—proving that greatness has always lived here.

Every member of our team shares a single goal: to uncover, celebrate, and build upon the greatness that has always existed here.

Advisory Member of the Board

K J Alphons, former Minister of Culture, India
Ajay Singh Former Press Secretary to the President of India
Om Thanvi, Former Editor-in-Chief, Jansatta
Alakh N. Sharma, Director, IHD
Vikas Singh, Senior Adv, Supreme Court
Vikas Vaibhav, Senior Adv, IG Police, Magadh Range
Pawan Kumar, Sr. Journalist
Pankaj Kumar, Sr. Journalist

Council Members

Shri Nitish Mishra, Former Minister, Government of Bihar
Vikas Vaibhav, Inspector General of Police, Bihar
Manjushree Dayanand, Regional Director, Sports Authority of India
Amrendra Singh, Advocate, Supreme Court
Chandrahas Halai, Mathematician and Author

Management Team

Vaishali Seta, Curator
Aditi Nandan, Festival Director
Divyabh Aryan, Creative Director
Sandhya Nandan Rai, Festival Coordinator
Rahul Khushwaha, Head of Partnerships

Executive Committee

Pawan Kumar - Sr. Journalist
Pankaj Kumar - Executive Journalist TV9 Bharatvarsa
Shubhrastha - Political Analyst & Author
Raj Kumar Jha - Former Creative Director, Ogilvy India
Sanjeev Mukesh - Poet
Arvind Ojha - Artist, Author, Orator
Avinash Chandra - Sr. Director & Head Risk, Infomerics Analytics & Research

Leaders

Meet the Visionaries

The next AI revolution won't be remembered for the technology alone. It will be remembered for the people who learned, built, and transformed lives with it.

VAISHALI SETA

CO-Founder, Aamatya Foundation & Curator, NILF & Xtremeroads

ADITI NANDAN

CO-Founder, Aamatya Foundation & Curator, The Bihar Dialogues

DIVYABH ARYAN

CO-Founder & Creative Director Aamatya Foundation