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TOSS Charitable Trust

I founded TOSS in Tiruchirappalli in 2009 as a youth initiative. Seventeen years later it is a registered charitable trust with more than 150 student and young-professional volunteers in Trichy, Chennai and Tuticorin, and its work has become the setting of much of my teaching and research.

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Volunteers, families and guests gathered on stage under the TOSS Talent Fest 2025 banner

What TOSS runs

  • Inclusion

    TOSS Talent Fest

    A district-level sports and cultural meet for differently-abled and special children, held every year since 2014. The 12th edition ran on 24 and 25 October 2025.

  • Education

    Limitless

    Learning support for hearing-impaired students and aspirants.

  • Environment

    Operation Oxygen

    Tree-planting drives in parks and public spaces, run by the trust's Green Wing.

  • Environment

    Clean Cauvery

    Riverbank clean-ups and water awareness along the Cauvery around Trichy.

  • Awareness

    Eyes Bucket Challenge

    A public campaign that encourages people to pledge their eyes for donation.

  • Awareness

    Social Thinking Carnival

    Campus events with NSS units that get students thinking about civic duty.

  • Giving

    One Rupee One Nation

    A small-giving habit: one rupee a day, saved and spent on a shared cause.

  • Literacy

    Street and school libraries

    Street libraries in neighbourhoods and renovated libraries in government schools.

Five boys in red sashes hold up a handmade sign reading Thank you TOSS
Residents, children and TOSS volunteers with a TOSS banner at the Sundarraj Nagar Park tree-planting drive

Since 19 March 2009

Seventeen years, from a youth club to a trust

  1. 2009

    TOSS starts on 19 March as a youth initiative in Tiruchirappalli.

  2. 2013

    Youth Fest 2013 at Bishop Heber College puts differently-abled young performers on stage. The Hindu covers it.

  3. 2014

    The first TOSS Talent Fest, with more than 350 children from about 15 special schools, and a door-to-door eye donation campaign.

  4. 2016

    I am president of TOSS when The Hindu reports on its sports and cultural meet for special students.

  5. 2019

    TOSS becomes a registered charitable trust and plants a Miyawaki forest of about 320 native saplings at Golden Rock.

  6. 2024

    Fifteen years of service. Our paper on the trust's street and school libraries goes to the G20 Library Summit.

  7. 2025

    The 12th Talent Fest brings more than 700 participants to St. John's Vestry School.

  8. 2026

    Seventeen years of TOSS.

In the news

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In my teaching and research

At St. Joseph's College I have brought the Department of Business Administration together with NGOs for tree-planting drives in government parks and for student volunteering at district sports and cultural meets for differently-abled children. These initiatives earned the Department a special appreciation from the Tiruchirappalli District Collectorate.

The trust's street libraries and renovated school libraries are the subject of a paper I co-wrote for the G20 Library Summit at Pondicherry University in 2024 (see my publications), and what TOSS has learned about running a volunteer organisation comes into my classes on management and entrepreneurship.