Paathshaala

Paathshaala DAO—A Radical Teacher-Owned EdTech Cooperative
In the fast-changing landscape of online learning, a revolution is in the making—not in corporate offices or venture capital gatherings, but in the classrooms of India’s small towns and cities. Paathshaala DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) is not another education platform. It’s a movement. A teachers’ revolution. A new paradigm where teachers become owners, decision-makers, and beneficiaries of the technology they work with.

At its core, Paathshaala DAO unites 10,000+ individual tutors, tuition teachers, coaching center owners, and subject experts into a collective digital space—created, governed, and funded solely by its own members. They collect small amounts and use blockchain technology to produce a platform that benefits them, rather than shareholders.

This is not about skimping on the corners—it’s about skimming off the middlemen. Rather than massive commissions, platform charges, and advertisements, tutors on Paathshaala DAO have complete revenue transparency. Each rupee that is earned through course subscriptions, test series, or premium batches gets redistributed through smart contracts, which means no one needs to wait for payment cycles or go through billing loopholes.

Governance is decentralized too. Want to add content in Kannada? Launch a doubt-clearing bot? Enhance the UI for older teachers? It’s all voted on. Every tutor has DAO voting tokens, providing them with actual say in the future of the platform.

This cooperative approach turns the script around. Rather than tutors being “service providers” to an app, they are co-creators of their own learning environment. They no longer work for the app—the app works for them.

Most revolutionary of all, though, is the pricing: Paathshaala DAO courses cost a fraction of what behemoths like Byju’s, Vedantu, or Toppr do. Why? Because there’s no VC profit margin to meet. No celebrity marketing budget. No ivory towers. Just quality, affordable education made by people who breathe and live the classroom experience.

In the future, Paathshaala DAO may become a federated platform where every regional DAO concentrates on its own syllabus, language, and pedagogy—unlocking India’s phenomenal educational diversity.

Paathshaala DAO is not just a startup—it’s a roadmap to educational democracy in the age of the Internet.

Vachan Libraries—Human Audiobooks for India’s Non-Readers
Where the rest of the world is dashing forward with ebooks, PDFs, and AI-powered learning tools, India has millions caught behind a simple barrier—illiteracy. Either because of schooling deficits, visual impairments, or geographic disadvantages, most of our country is unable to read—but is able to hear. And that’s where Vachan Libraries comes in and speaks to them, literally.

Vachan Libraries is a revolutionary grassroots innovation that builds an audiobook library powered by humans, with attention not on the upper classes, but on rural learners, senior citizens, domestic workers, truck drivers, children with learning disabilities, and daily-wage laborers.

Unlike robotic-sounding AI voices, Vachan’s audiobooks are read by human beings—students, teachers, volunteers, even grandparents—who narrate stories, educational material, how-to manuals, government information, health tips, and even motivational material in warm, understandable voices and local languages.

The platform is ultra-accessible. It is usable without the internet. It does not need a smartphone. It does not need an app. A listener can reach Vachan Libraries through

Toll-free phone numbers” 1 for folk stories, 2 for agricultural information, 3 for school curriculum.”

Pen drives and memory cards—handed out in slums and rural schools

Community speakers—Daily audio broadcast in the evenings in Anganwadis or village squares

WhatsApp audio libraries—released as downloadable ZIP folders in 15+ languages

The content is community-created and community-curated. For instance, a Class 9 student in Assam can record an explanation of mathematics in Assamese; a grandmother in Rajasthan can recount a childhood story in Marwari; a teacher in Tamil Nadu can explain menstrual hygiene in a culturally appropriate voice.

All the recordings are checked for accuracy, age appropriateness, and cultural sensitivity by volunteer editors and NGOs. The whole library is Creative Commons licensed, so it is free to remix, share, and repurpose by teachers nationwide.

It’s more than merely content, though. Vachan Libraries is a vehicle for inclusion. It provides non-readers with an entrance into a lifetime of learning, enables low-literacy adults to gain confidence, and provides disabled learners with a new mode of expression who have been excluded from text-dependent platforms.

It’s also a preservation tool. By promoting local stories and local dialects to be voiced, Vachan preserves endangered languages and oral traditions that could otherwise be lost.

The final vision? A people-powered network of 10,000 village libraries, not books. Learning is no longer a matter of literacy—it’s a matter of listening.