Rishihood India's first impact University

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested, all your life. We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

- Swami Vivekananda

What is impact at Rishihood?

We imagine a triple-layer of impact that is interconnected.

People

Build Leadership Capacity With a curriculum anchored on self leadership, mentorship, experience, and multidisciplinary learning.

THOUGHT

Create Thought on Problems and Solutions through bringing the best minds together in a culture of problem – solving, disruption, and impact.

Systems

Scale by reinventing institutions, policies and systems by building an ecosystem of partners such as government, non-profits, media, corporates, and academia.

The center of our education is to nurture the next generation of ‘rishileaders’.
Such leaders demonstrate three fundamental attributes:

Jigyasa

- Desire To know
  • The quest to discover knowledge
  • Humility and respect for others
  • A sense of wonder towards the creation

Chikirsha

-Will to Act
  • A mindset to create and take risks without the fear of failure
  • Be fully involved in the action but remain detached from the fruits of the action
  • Pursue excellence in every action and make it an act of worship

Ananda

- Joy of Being
  • Personal Integrity regardless of outcomes
  • Purity of body, mind, and environment
  • Internal and external peace and harmony

Learn more about the Rishihood Way in our Resolution Paper.

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People of Rishihood

Rishihood is founded and led by people who come from a diverse set of backgrounds including business, public life, spirituality, academia, social entrepreneurship, technology, and social work. We are here to offer a new way of learning and leading.

Learning at Rishihood

To create future leaders, Rishihood provides a multi-disciplinary, multidimensional, and multimodal way of learning.

Learning at Rishihood

To create future leaders, Rishihood provides a multi-disciplinary, multidimensional, and multimodal way of learning.

Rishihood Campus

Rishihood campus is designed as an energizing space that nurtures learning, holistic living, and happy being.

Our History

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Our Vision for the 21st Century

2020-2030
ORGANISATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
  • A new learning model created for the world
  • Rishihood team builds a culture of excellence
  • We ignite the spirit of social impact in the community
2030-2040
WIDE ACCEPTANCE
  • Rishihood becomes synonymous with great education nationally
  • Alumni start achieving top-level success in their professions
2040-2050
INSTITUTION OF IMPACT
  • We become an institutional benchmark for India
  • Our large-scale impact is visible in the society
  • Our alumni become role models for younger generation
2050-2060
MAGNET FOR EXCELLENCE
  • Rishihood attracts the best people in the world to pursue their passion
  • We become a de-facto home for social impact, innovation, and learning
2060-2080
GLOBAL INFLUENCER
  • We achieve global recognition and admiration
  • Rishihood becomes a fountainhead and participates in leading global discourse
2080-2100
MACRO-MICRO IMPACT
  • This leads to an evolution in humankind’s pursuits at large
  • Achieving ‘Rishihood’ becomes an aspiration for people and communities