Keep the light alive.
The date and the nakshatram. Whose star it is today, and when the next pirannal falls. The hour to light the lamp where you actually live. And a jyothishan when your family needs one.
The answers hang on a kitchen wall in Kerala, three time zones away, on a printed calendar nobody thought to pack. THIRI computes them where you are: the calendar reckoned by Kerala, the sun reckoned where you actually stand.
ഇന്ന് Today
Tell THIRI each person's nakshatram once. From then on the Malayalam calendar is yours rather than a general one: whose star rules today, when each pirannal falls, the ekadashis and pournamis of the month, and the evening lamp timed to the sunset where you actually live.
The nakshatram of every person in the family, and the days that follow from them: the star day each Malayalam month, marked on the calendar and named on the morning it comes. A pirannal falls on the same day for a cousin in Kochi and a cousin in Dublin, because the days are reckoned by Kerala — only the sun is reckoned where you are.
A quiet reminder a little before sunset, wherever you are — Kerala practice lights the lamp as the light goes, not after dark. Sandhya walks with the season and with the city you moved to, so the reminder is computed fresh each day rather than set once at 6:40.
ക്ഷേത്രം Temples
Home may be thousands of kilometres away. Your temple does not have to be. Not the famous ones you can already find online, but the small temple, or the kaavu, the sacred grove your family has supported for generations.
THIRI puts your temple online at no cost to you: profile, festival calendar, vazhipaadu list and a way for families abroad to reach you. The temple receives its full published price. Our fee is charged separately and shown to the devotee.
Talk to usജ്യോതിഷം Jyothisham
For a marriage, a muhurtham, a naming, a worry that will not settle. Not a horoscope generator: you ask from the app in your own words, and a person rings you back.
ASKED A good day for a housewarming in Dhanu, for Devaki.
You ask
From the family screen: choose the person, say what it is about — marriage, career, health, a muhurtham — in your own words, in Malayalam or English. No forms beyond that.
The grahanila
Give the birth details if you have them, and THIRI computes the chart with the same engine that runs the calendar: all nine grahas and the lagna, in the sidereal frame every printed Kerala panchangam uses. An honest "time unknown" is a first-class answer.
A person answers
An experienced jyothishan calls you back and does the jyothisham. THIRI arranges the conversation and keeps you told of where it stands; it does not put words in anybody's mouth.
Privacy
A full name with an exact date, time and place of birth deserves more care than a form field. The terms are plain.
THIRI is not an authority on anybody's faith and does not try to be. It computes the calendar and the chart, arranges the conversation, and says plainly where convention differs between almanac houses.
The first version of THIRI is built around Hindu practice as it is followed in Kerala. That is what we know well enough to get right. Other Malayali traditions deserve the same care rather than an approximation, and we would rather come to them properly than early.
What comes next
Everything needed to understand, prepare for and celebrate a festival wherever you live.
A small, curated collection of traditional objects, with the maker, the town and the craft named.
The family's own private record, filling itself as you use the rest: vazhipaadus performed, festivals kept, and the voices behind them.
Not directions. Why people go, how to prepare and what actually happens when you get there.
No endless marketplace. No random products. Only things we would be happy to bring into our own homes.
കൈത്തൊഴിൽ Makers
THIRI's store is a small verified collection, not an open marketplace. We approve sellers by hand, we name the maker, the town and the craft, and you keep your own stock. We are looking for the first ten to twenty.
We will tell you our commission in writing before you list anything.
A note from the founder
THIRI began with a simple thought: some things are too precious to lose.
Across Kerala, traditions have been passed quietly from one generation to the next, through the prayers our grandparents taught us, the lamp lit each evening, the temples our families return to, and the rituals that make a house feel like home.
Today, Malayalis live all over the world. Distance shouldn't mean losing that connection.
THIRI is our attempt to use technology not to replace tradition, but to help families preserve it, practise it and pass it on.
For our children, and for the generations that come after them.
Keep the light alive. 🪔
Kerala has always carried its traditions through families.
Millions of Malayalis now live far from the places those traditions began.
THIRI exists so distance does not become disconnection.
So a grandmother's prayer can still be heard by her grandchildren.
So a village temple stays connected to the families who left it.
So Kerala's craftspeople find a new generation of customers.
And so the things our families carried for centuries do not disappear simply because we moved away.
Keep the light alive.