The CFAL Research Centre is the formal institution — with its own home at cfalindia.com. This page is for something different: the independent researcher who has no institution, but has work that matters and needs a place to belong.
The Research Centre is based at the CFAL campus in Kavoor, directed by Dr. Smitha Hegde. It has its own full website at cfalindia.com — with its projects, publications, team, and findings. Click below to visit.
The Research Centre's full website — projects, publications, team, and findings — is at cfalindia.com. Clicking the card above takes you there.
Most research infrastructure in India is tied to universities. If you are not employed by one, you have no library, no publishing platform, no colleagues, no way to be found. Your work exists in isolation, and then stops existing.
The Learning Centre Trust is building something different — an open umbrella for independent researchers in any discipline. You bring your work. We provide the infrastructure, the community, and the audience.
This is not an employment offer. There is no salary here. What there is: a research library, a publishing platform, students who will listen, a Thursday evening conversation at TLC Café, and a page on this website with your name and your work on it. Permanently.
Add your research to this page →Click any row to visit their individual page.
If you are doing independent research — in science, mathematics, history, ecology, arts, or any other discipline — and you have no institutional home, write to us. This page is built for exactly that.
This is not a job application. There is no interview. There is no salary. There is a page on this website, a research library, a publishing platform, and a community of thinkers.
Submit your details below. Dr. Smitha Hegde or VJ Moras will respond within two weeks.
After submitting, send any papers, articles, or writing samples to research@tlc.edu.in with subject line "Independent Researcher — [Your Name]". This helps us understand your work more fully.
