Dr. Rennie Joyy
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
Anchors Foundation's institutional direction — aligning vision with execution to build enduring cultural architecture.
About Us
We Curate Continuity
A Curatorial Platform for Contemporary Practice and Living Traditions.
Institutional Position
Aalekh is not event-led. It is infrastructure-oriented.
Art and Culture Are Infrastructure.
They Demand Architecture.
India’s cultural landscape is expansive and regionally distinct. Across craft, industry, performance, research and contemporary practice, knowledge systems continue to evolve — often within their own domains of expertise.
As these domains expand, the opportunity lies in structured convergence — where material practice, policy, industry and artistic inquiry intersect meaningfully.
Sustained continuity demands alignment. Aalekh works to enable that alignment — not as spectacle, but as architecture.
Art and Culture Are Infrastructure.
They Demand Architecture.
The Moment of Convergence
India’s cultural landscape is expansive and regionally distinct. Across craft, industry, performance, research and contemporary practice, knowledge systems continue to evolve — often within their own domains of expertise.
As these domains expand, the opportunity lies in structured convergence — where material practice, policy, industry and artistic inquiry intersect meaningfully.
Sustained continuity demands alignment across disciplines, geographies and generations — not through episodic programming alone, but through architecture that endures.
Aalekh works to enable that alignment — not as spectacle, but as architecture.
Our Approach
Aalekh Arts & Culture Foundation functions through four interdependent frameworks — each designed to build continuity, scale and structured convergence across disciplines.
Curatorial Chapters
Flagship multidisciplinary chapters such as Anant Samagam, convening practitioners, institutions and industry to shape serious cultural inquiry.
Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Structured exchanges examining cultural responsibility, material practice, policy, memory and contemporary transformation.
The Cultural Registry
A growing national knowledge system documenting practitioners and practices — forming the foundation of long-term cultural infrastructure.
Institutional Partnerships
Strategic collaborations with industry, government, academia and cultural bodies to enable convergence at structural scale.
These frameworks do not operate in isolation. Together, they form a sustained cultural system — not episodic programming.
Vision
Aalekh envisions a structured national framework for art, craft, policy and contemporary practice — aligned through sustained dialogue and institutional continuity.
Our objective is to build cultural infrastructure that endures beyond events, trends and individual initiatives.
Depth over spectacle.
Continuity over moment.
Leadership & Advisory
Aalekh Arts & Culture Foundation is guided by an executive core and supported by
an independent advisory council spanning art, policy, industry and research.
Core Team
Divyaman Singh
DIRECTOR – ARTS & CULTURE INITIATIVES
Shapes Aalekh's cultural initiatives by aligning artistic practice with institutional architecture and curatorial rigor.
Nandini Nampoorthiry
CO-FOUNDER & HEAD – YOUTH AFFAIRS
Integrates youth engagement into Aalekh's institutional architecture — ensuring generational continuity within a national cultural framework.
Nilesh Ranjan
CFO & COMPLIANCE
Oversees the Foundation's financial architecture and regulatory integrity — ensuring that scale, governance and accountability remain aligned with institutional vision.
Anirban Dasgupta
BRAND & COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIST
Shapes the Foundation's brand and narrative architecture — translating vision into coherent cultural positioning across platforms, partnerships, and public interfaces.
Advisory Council
Sonam Dubal
CREATIVE ADVISOR
Brings a distinctive design perspective shaped by decades of work across fashion, craft and cultural narratives, guiding the Foundation's creative direction with depth and clarity.
Ambassador Amarendra Khatua
CULTURAL POLICY ADVISOR
Brings deep experience in cultural policy and institutional leadership, shaping how cultural initiatives engage with governance and public systems.
Sharon Lowen
CULTURAL PRACTICE ADVISOR
Brings decades of engagement with classical arts, offering insight into their continuity, interpretation and evolving relevance.