Tuliresearchcentre.org is a pioneering digital platform offering free, open access to the most comprehensive integrated visual-textual holistic knowledge base on the modern and contemporary Indian fine and popular arts, cinema, photography, architectural heritage, graphic arts, animal welfare and cultural economics.

The launch of this platform marks the culmination of Neville Tuli’s 30-year journey as a cultural institution builder, beginning with the founding of HEART (The Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education and Art, 1995-99) to Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art (2000-21), and Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (T.R.I.S.) which is dedicated to sharing a rare and expansive online-offline knowledge-base, archive and library for public and scholarly engagement.

Tuli’s pioneering thoughts on education, transdisciplinary knowledge-building, and the fusion of image-text-audio knowledge-sources, within a unique conceptual framework of theory, experience and nurturing archival resources, have shaped these endeavours, establishing autonomous spaces of learning and discovery.

Since 2024, T.R.I.S. has organized five exhibitions under its ongoing series Self- Discovery via Rediscovering India. The exhibitions, hosted at venues such as the India International Centre Gallery and India Habitat Centre (New Delhi), have begun to showcase a deeply inter-disciplinary and holistic approach to India and India Studies.

Platform Overview: tuliresearchcentre.org

Conceptualised by Tuli post 2020, after decades of personal research, curation, and transdisciplinary knowledge development, tuliresearchcentre.org places images at the forefront, interwoven with rich textual and audio materials, built basically upon the most basic technology – thousands of integrated Excel sheets. Using Excel as the Content base allows for a world class Search & Filter Engine with the cultural object and/or document as the basic unit so empowering users to retrieve tailored results, enabling precise inquiry across multiple fields.

The platform is structured upon 16 Research Categories, linked to thousands of Masterlists and Posts to create an India Studies Framework, using over 150,000 visual and textual objects of aesthetic and historical significance.

With v1.0 (30 th April 2025) we publicly open the Search and Filter Engine with sample Masterlist pages and 100,000+ objects. In v1.1 (30 th June 2025) we radically increase the number of Masterlist A-Graphy pages and objects, and thereafter begin the last phase of integrating and creating the “customised curricula framework” so that Self- Discovery via Rediscovering India is available by v1.2 (30 th September 2025) as a deeply engaging world of knowledge and ideation. By v2.0 (1 st January 2026) we will be able to roll out all the support systems to the top colleges and universities, especially with regard to India & Cultural Studies.

Knowledge must belong to all. Education must be free. Inquiry must be boundless.

We live by the principle that each answer leads only to a deeper question, so sustaining the process of learning and the eternal curiosity and joy inherent in the nature of consciousness.

The Tuli Research Centre for India Studies stands in solidarity with every student, teacher and learner demanding an educational future that transcends economic and institutional barriers a future where access to deep knowledge, critical thinking, and creative discovery is not a matter of privilege, but a fundamental right.

tuliresearchcentre.org represents a bold commitment to free and open learning, democratizing the understanding of India’s artistic, cultural, and intellectual legacies. It invites scholars, academics, students, and the wider public into a dynamic, evolving dialogue with India’s rich creative traditions and global intersections dismantling the economic and structural barriers that have historically limited access and the justice that inevitably follows.