We are a newly established Indian NGO working alongside children, women and communities — through education, empowerment, and patient, on-the-ground partnership.
To put time, attention and resources — where they go furthest.
Cognitud Foundation was set up by Shantanu Bhowmick and Nilanjana Som Bhowmick with a simple intent — to put time, attention and resources where they go furthest: into the futures of children and women in our country.
We are a young organisation. We don’t claim to have solved anything. What we have is a clear sense of where we want to begin, the willingness to do it carefully, and the discipline to measure what we do honestly.
Shantanu Bhowmick & Nilanjana Som Bhowmick
Founders · Cognitud Foundation
Three threads of the same conviction — built around the people we serve, in close partnership with the communities they live in.
Nutrition, safety, learning support and life skills for children in low-income communities — built around the simple idea that every child deserves a real childhood, not a shortened one.
Skilling, financial literacy and leadership programmes for women who are the quiet backbones of their families and want a path forward — economically, socially, and on their own terms.
Foundational learning, scholarships, teacher support and community libraries — because a real education is the single most reliable lever a country has, and the one we believe in most.
We are not here to give. We are here to walk alongside — long enough that the change holds when we step away.
We’re at the beginning. If you’d like to partner, volunteer, donate or just understand what we’re trying to do — please write to us.