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Ghṛtam
A civilizational ecosystem for schools, parents, and young people
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Our children are growing up in a world of infinite information and shrinking meaning. Ghṛtam is Bṛhat’s integrated offering for schools and families to restore cultural grounding, identity clarity, and joy to childhood. Rooted in Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), Ghṛtam weaves together school consultancy, curriculum, teacher development, parenting support, storytelling, festivals, games, and camps into one coherent cultural experience.
Why Ghṛtam, Why Now?
We are living through an age of civilizational churn. Children and teenagers are navigating:
Why Ghṛtam, Why Now?
We are living through an age of civilizational churn. Children and teenagers are navigating:
- Always-on screens and social media
- Tech-driven anxiety and comparison
- Confusing global narratives on gender, identity, and history
- Academic pressure without emotional scaffolding
- A growing disconnect from family traditions and cultural memory
Parents feel the pressure to “keep up”. Schools are bound by academic mandates and compliance. Traditional spaces of culture — temples, mathas, gurukulas, festivals — struggle to find a natural place in the everyday lives of young people.
The result: young minds are over-stimulated, under-grounded, and deeply questioned, without the cultural tools to make sense of the world.
Ghṛtam was born out of this gap.
Ghṛtam – Refined Essence, Living Culture
Ghṛta, from the Saṃskṛta root √ghṛ, is well-refined or clarified ghee — the essence that emerges from a careful process of churning and purification. In our worldview, it represents both:
Ghṛta, from the Saṃskṛta root √ghṛ, is well-refined or clarified ghee — the essence that emerges from a careful process of churning and purification. In our worldview, it represents both:
- The ideal we strive for, and
- The reward that emerges from yajña
Ghṛtam is Bṛhat’s sub-brand dedicated to children, schools, and families – a civilizational bridge that:
- Anchors identity in Indian Knowledge Systems
- Makes culture livable, joyful, and contemporary
- Equips children with meta-skills to thrive in a complex world
- Supports parents and teachers as primary culture carriers
Where education has become transactional, Ghṛtam seeks to make it transformational — connecting śāstra (wisdom), ācāra (practice), and saṃskāra (inner refinement).
One Vision, Many Pathways
Ghṛtam is not a single workshop or one-off event. It is a designed ecosystem that works across three primary stakeholders:
- Schools & Educators
- Parents & Families
- Students & Young People
Together, they form the cultural field in which a child grows.
How We Partner With Schools
We understand that every school is unique in its philosophy, constraints, and aspirations. Ghṛtam is designed to be modular and collaborative.
How We Partner With Schools
We understand that every school is unique in its philosophy, constraints, and aspirations. Ghṛtam is designed to be modular and collaborative.
A typical engagement may include:
- Discovery & Design
- Conversations with school leadership
- Understanding context, challenges, and aspirations
- Co-creating a cultural vision for the school
- Program Architecture
- Designing a year-long or multi-year Ghṛtam roadmap
- Selecting components: consultancy, curriculum integration, teacher training, student interventions, parent engagement
- Implementation & Support
- On-ground or hybrid delivery of sessions and workshops
- Regular check-ins with leadership and faculty
- Iterative refinement based on feedback
- Review & Continuity
- Reflecting on outcomes
- Planning deeper integration and scaling across batches, grades, and families
Is Ghṛtam Right for You?
Ghṛtam is ideal for:
Ghṛtam is ideal for:
- Schools that want to go beyond CBSE/ICSE/IB checklists and build identity-anchored excellence
- Educational trusts and networks seeking to seed IKS and culture across multiple campuses
- Parents and parent groups who are looking for serious yet practical Dharma-centric parenting support
- Cultural organizations and community groups that want to collaborate on camps, storytelling, or youth interventions
If you are asking questions like:
- “How do we integrate IKS meaningfully without overloading our timetable?”
- “How do we equip our students for the complex world without asking them to abandon their roots?”
- “How do we talk about identity, gender, success, freedom, culture in a way that is true to us and relevant to them?”
…then Ghṛtam is designed for you.
The larger vision is simple and profound: a generation of young Indians who know who they are, where they come from, and how they can serve the world.
The larger vision is simple and profound: a generation of young Indians who know who they are, where they come from, and how they can serve the world.
Who is Ghṛtam for?
Whether you are a school leader, educator, parent, donor, or collaborator — we invite you to be part of this journey.
Whether you are a school leader, educator, parent, donor, or collaborator — we invite you to be part of this journey.
Key Takeaways
Students
Give students a sense of belonging, continuity, and inner strength
Teachers
Enable teachers to respond confidently to deep civilizational questions
Parents
Empower parents to represent their culture without defensiveness or hesitation
Schools
Help schools offer an education that is not merely competitive, but integral, joyful, and civilizationally grounded
Program Highlights
For Schools and Educators: IKS-Based School Consultancy & Curriculum
We partner with schools that want to go beyond “marks and metrics” to build culturally rooted, future-ready institutions. Our offerings include IKS-based School Consultancy, Curriculum & Pedagogy Design, Faculty Development Programs, and Year-Round Cultural Interventions.
For Students and Young People: Cultural Grounding, Joyful Minds
For children and adolescents, Ghṛtam focuses on identity, belonging, and inner strength, not just performance. We design Storytelling Sessions Through the Academic Year, Traditional Games & Play-Based Learning, Festivals as Living Sampradāya, Creative Immersions: Arts, Crafts, Music, Dance, and Summer and Seasonal Camps.
For Parents and Families: Culture Begins at Home
In the civilizational design, the family is the first school. Yet today, parents are unsure how to set boundaries with tech and social media;
unsure how to talk about gender, identity, success, and failure; unsure how to keep traditions alive without feeling “out of place”. Ghṛtam supports parents through Parent Circles & Workshops, Home Practices & Simple Rituals (Swayambodha and Satrubodha), and Understanding the Child’s World.
Ghṛtam Parenting Podcast: Modern Problems, Ancient Indic Solutions
As part of Ghṛtam, Bṛhat and Chittam are collaborating on a YouTube interview series on Dharma-centric parenting.
Anchored by Charanya Kumar (founder, Chittam) — a technologist turned cultural educator and storyteller — this series is designed for modern Indian families who want to raise culturally confident, rooted, and resilient children. Each episode is a journey through three layers: The Dharma of Parenting, Conversations with IKS Torchbearers, and Living Culture Through Play (featuring Chittam’s games and tools for unconscious learning).
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