Breaking Silos.Building Solutions.Designing Futures.

India's first transdisciplinary network for systemic challenges

Why We Exist

Complex Problems Deserve Integrative Ecosystems.

India—and the world—faces a spectrum of challenges that are too complex to be solved by singular disciplines or isolated institutions.

Whether it's climate resilience, forest-based economies, AI governance, or national health policy, our current systems are fragmented.

Our solutions must be integrated, systemic and holistic in knowledge, action, and design. We propose integrating critical, analytical, design and intuitive thinking.

Who We Are

A Do+Think Tank.

NISHThA buildsMicro Ecosystems of Systemic Excellence. Each one focuses on a single challenge but works across policy, culture, science, design and economy.

Integration Map:
  • Research Institutions
  • Policy Makers
  • Industry Experts
  • Grassroots Actors
  • Designers & Technologists

How We Work

Micro Ecosystems Built on Three Pillars

Each Micro Ecosystem is structured around three dynamic and interdependent components:

Co‑creation Lab

Facilitates cross-sectoral collaboration and creates Systems Action Frameworks through:

  • Systems Mapping
  • Policy & Governance Prototypes
  • Cross-Disciplinary Design Interventions

Deep Research Co‑Lab

Integrate traditional and emerging knowledge to expand a transdisciplinary knowledge base:

  • Whitepapers & System Diagnostics
  • Knowledge Synthesis & Foresight Models
  • Actionable Policy & Implementation Toolkits

Polymathic Learning Center

Leadership programs for system-shifting through:

  • 12-month Felloship
  • 3-6 Month Micro-Centre Residencies
  • Executive Design-Labs
  • Immersive Bootcamp & Field Immersions
  • Digital Learning Modules

All learning is Product-based and tied to live ecosystems of change.

What We're Working On

All our projects are aligned to SDG 30 and Viksit Bharat @2047

Ecosystem for Forest Economy

Mission:

To create Large-to-Micro scale Economic Opportunities Models without losing Ethnographic or Ecological Wealth of Forests of India

Why EFE:

India's forests hold cultural, ecological, and economic treasures. But they're being traded for short-term gains and systemic neglect.

Ecosystem for Future of Education & Polymathic Leadership

Mission:

To build a model for 21st-century integrative education that fosters leaders who can think across disciplines, integrate knowledge, and design for complexity.

Why EFEPL:

India's education system prioritizes content over context, memory over meaning.

We produce specialists, not synthesists. Yet, the world's most complex problems—from climate change to ethical tech—require interdisciplinary, polymathic, systems thinkers.

Ecosystem for Swastha Bharat

Mission:

To design a systems-based model of wellness that integrates traditional Indian health sciences, modern preventive care, and regenerative food systems into community-led public health ecosystems.

Why ESB:

India's health crisis is not just medical—it's cultural, ecological, psychological, economic, and systemic.

Polymathic Collective

We're driven by senior Polymathic leaders from Business, Technology, Design, Policy-Making, and Academia.

Co-Founder

Dr. Girish Prabhu

Dr. Girish Prabhu

Co-Founder

Rajat Nagpal

Rajat Nagpal

Co-Founder

Shashank Deshpande

Shashank Deshpande

Join The Movement

We Need the Bold,the Curious, the Systemic.

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We don't just analyse.

We activate, transform & co-create.

Welcome to NISHThA.

Let's build ecosystems that heal, teach, grow, and regenerate.

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