Svanubhava is one of the flagship initiatives of Sumanasa Foundation. This initiative started as a festival to benefit students of performing arts wherein concerts were crafted exclusively for them to perform. However this transformed into an arts appreciation and audience building initiative for the arts. Svanubhava also presents an opportunity for artistes of one art form to engage with other art forms.

The objective of Svanubhava is to create inter-art conversations, between artists and young audiences. In the past decade, over a hundred art forms have been staged across various venues in Chennai and Tamil Nadu.