Learning is where we chose to start because it combines all four things we are trying to make work together: handwritten work, a spoken question, listening, and a visual explanation. It gives us a concrete place to develop and test the approach rather than a general one. Interactive books are a second use of the same foundation, across courses, stories and family memories.
That is our reasoning for the sequence, not a claim that the market or the learning outcomes have been validated.
Instead of building another app that needs a smartphone and fast internet, we designed a slate on electronic paper and a notebook it can read — and, later, a printed book that reads itself. Ekalavya is named after the self-taught archer of the Mahabharata; Saarathi after the narrator who described a battlefield to a king who could not see it. Our products are the narrator, not the gift of sight.
