Brahm is how Amrita Delhi NCR keeps its Founders’ Day — not with speeches alone, but with five days of seva, sport, stage and celebration that every one of us has a hand in making.
The week runs in one unbroken line — from a health camp in a village on the morning of the 19th to the last word spoken in the Amriteshwari Auditorium on the 23rd. That line is the whole of it. It says that what we are taught here was never meant to stop at the classroom door, and that a university is measured less by what it keeps than by what it is willing to give away.
And it is ours in the most literal way. Colleges arrive from across Delhi-NCR and leave having competed against people who were strangers that morning. Staff, families and neighbours fill the ground for the run and stay long into the carnival nights. What began as a single day of gratitude is now a week the campus carries on its own shoulders — and hands on, a little larger, to the batch that comes next.
GratitudeFor the vision that gave this campus its beginning, and for everyone who has carried it since.
TogethernessColleges on one stage, villages at the health camps, families on the ground. Nobody watches from outside.
The years aheadEach fest leaves something behind for the next batch to pick up — a record, a rivalry, a reason to come back.
Come for a competition. Stay for the week. Leave having belonged to something.
Chapter two
Founders’ Day
The day Brahm is kept for — and the reason the five days are shaped the way they are.
Founders’ Day marks the birth anniversary of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. Across every Amrita campus it is kept the same way she has always asked for — by turning a day of remembrance outward, into service.
That is the thread tying Founders’ Day to Brahm. The fest does not sit alongside the occasion; it is the occasion, carried by students. The health camps come first and the auditorium comes last, and everything between — the competitions, the run, the sport, the carnival — is the campus saying thank you in the way it knows best.
So the week opens in the villages and closes in the Amriteshwari Auditorium on 23rd September, with the Founders’ Day function itself.
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Chapter three
About our Founder
Whose vision decided what this university is for — and why a health camp opens the fest.
Founder & Chancellor
Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi 73 years of pure love & light
Sri Mata Amritanandamayi DeviFounder & Chancellor · Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
The vision behind Amrita
Known to everyone on this campus simply as Amma.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was founded by Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, and it is still her vision that decides what the university is for. She has said that education must reach the heart as surely as it reaches the head — that knowledge without compassion leaves a person unfinished.
From that one idea grew a university spread across campuses, hospitals that treat people regardless of what they can pay, research that begins with the problems India actually has, and village programmes that send students out of the lecture hall and into the places their learning is needed.
Compassion, service, knowledge and the dignity of every person are not a statement framed on a wall here. They are the reason a health camp opens Brahm on the morning of the 19th, before a single competition is judged.
Exact timings and venues for activities marked designated or TBD may be finalised by the organising committee.
19th – 23rd September
Explore the Events
Six ways into the week — the stage, the page, the lens, the grounds and the nights. Pick one and it opens on its own page.
Every competition
The whole inter-college line-up in one list, in the order it runs.
Open to every college
Every competition welcomes entries from outside Amrita.
Registrations are closed
Entries have closed for every competition — they were open to every college, inside Amrita and out. Each event below still runs to schedule, so come and watch.
Three sports, two grounds, two days. The campus plays from first light to the floodlights — badminton indoors at MVN School, football and cricket on the Amrita Ground. The Founders Cup draw is below.
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The draw has not been made yet. Fixtures, teams and match times will be published here as soon as they are settled.
Brahm 2026 is made possible by friends who believe in the students.
Title Partner
BMR Realtors
Hydration Partner
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Driven By
Strada Motorsports
Education Partner
Marrow
In Association With
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Run Partner
Decathlon
About the fest
73 years of pure love & light
Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
Where there is love, everything is effortless.
Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
Brahm 2026 is the Founders’ Day Fest of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Delhi NCR Campus — five days built around the birth anniversary of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, celebrated across every Amrita campus.
The week opens with seva — free health check-up camps in the villages nearby — and moves through the inter-college cultural competitions, a marathon, an auto expo, carnival and DJ nights, three days of in-house sport, and closes with the Founders’ Day function in the Amriteshwari Auditorium on 23rd September.
How it rolls out
Five days, in the order they happen — from the first health camp on the 19th to the Founders’ Day function on the 23rd.
