Thinking about education in India

EDUCATION · Aug 1, 2026 · 9 min read

30 Students. 1 Teacher. 45 Minutes. The Math That's Been Failing Your Child.

A standard school period is 45 minutes. There are 30 students in the class. If the teacher divided their time perfectly equally, each student would receive 90 seconds of individual attention per period. Ninety seconds. That's not a criticism of teachers — it's a structural fact about the model we've been using for two hundred years.

Private tuition exists because parents figured this out. But even one-on-one tuition costs ₹5,000–10,000 per subject per month. For three subjects, a family could spend ₹90,000–1,50,000 per academic year. Per child. Aariv is ₹999 a month for all subjects, in any language, at any hour.

PLATFORM · Aug 1, 2026 · 6 min read

Aariv's First Summer: What We Learned Building India's AI Learning Platform

Six months since we opened Aariv to the first real students. The biggest surprise: students returned not because they had homework, but because they didn't want to break their streak. The second surprise: students switch language mid-session — reading a concept in English, then asking a follow-up in Gujarati or Hindi. The AI handles this naturally.

DESIGN · Jul 27, 2026 · 5 min read

One Parent's Question That Redesigned Our Progress Dashboard

A mother in Surat asked: "You show me my child's score. But I want to know — is she understanding, or just guessing?" A score of 7/10 tells you nothing about the 7. We rebuilt the dashboard to show not just outputs but the quality of understanding underneath them.

CURRICULUM · Jul 20, 2026 · 7 min read

Class 10 NCERT Science, Chapter by Chapter: What Students Actually Struggle With

Based on Aariv session data: Chapter 6 (Life Processes) — students confuse breathing with cellular respiration; Chapter 12 (Electricity) — circuit combination problems break without physical intuition; Chapter 15 (Our Environment) — the 10% energy rule requires application, not recall. What these have in common: memorisation creates a false sense of readiness.