We started with a complaint, not a business plan
In 2020 a group of practising teachers, curriculum designers and one very stubborn editor kept running into the same problem: the policy had changed, the framework had changed, and the books had a new sticker on the cover.
So we did the unglamorous thing. We read NEP 2020 and, later, NCF-SE 2023 line by line. We built an outcome-mapping system before we wrote a single chapter. We hired authors who were still teaching, because people who have not stood in front of a Class 7 on a Friday afternoon write differently. And we piloted every chapter in a real classroom before it went to print — which slowed us down enormously and improved the books immeasurably.
Five years on we publish across every subject from Pre-Primary to Class 12, and we are in thousands of schools. The process has not changed. Nor has the stubborn editor.
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2020
Founded in New Delhi weeks after NEP 2020 was released. First eight titles for the Foundational Stage drafted.
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2021
First classroom pilots across 14 schools. Two entire titles rewritten based on teacher feedback.
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2022
Preparatory and Middle Stage series launched. Free digital resource layer introduced with QR-linked chapter assets.
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2023
NCF-SE 2023 published; full catalogue re-mapped within one session. Secondary Stage Shikhar series released.
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2024
Pinnacle series for Classes 11–12 launched across Science, Commerce and Humanities streams.
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2025
Crossed 4,000 partner schools. Hindi-medium editions expanded across Science and Mathematics.
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2026
AI and skill-subject modules extended to the Middle Stage. Bilingual glossaries across the full catalogue.
Four convictions that shape every book
01The teacher is the product's real user
Children read the book, but teachers decide whether it works. A textbook that is beautiful and unusable is a failure. Every design decision is tested against the question: can a teacher with thirty minutes of preparation actually run this lesson?
02Rigour and accessibility are not opposites
Simplifying language is not the same as lowering the intellectual demand. We write clearly and ask hard questions — the two reinforce each other rather than trade off.
03Context is content
A word problem about a subway system teaches less in Bhagalpur than one about a local market. Indian contexts and knowledge systems are not a patriotic gesture — they are better pedagogy because they are closer to the learner.
04Support should not be a paid add-on
Teacher manuals, digital resources, workshops and syllabus updates come with the book. A school that has adopted our titles has already paid for our help.
Who writes and reviews our books
Every title carries the names of the people responsible for it. Authorship is never anonymous at NEP.
Dr. Sunita Raghavan
Editorial Director
Twenty-two years in curriculum design and teacher education. Leads outcome mapping across the catalogue.
Arvind Kulkarni
Head, Mathematics & Science
Former PGT Physics; designs the concrete-to-abstract sequencing used across our STEM titles.
Meera Nambiar
Head, Languages & Foundational
Specialist in early literacy and multilingual pedagogy; leads our NIPUN Bharat-aligned FLN programme.
Rohit Jaiswal
Head, Assessment
Runs the assessment audit gate; classifies and rebalances every question set before it goes to print.
Supported by a panel of 120+ practising teachers across 19 states who author, review and pilot our titles.
Where we are today
Environmental commitment
All NEP titles are printed on FSC-certified paper using soy-based inks. We have eliminated shrink-wrap from institutional consignments entirely.
Access programme
We supply subsidised title sets to 180+ low-fee and government-aided schools, and our digital resources are free to any teacher in India, adopting or not.
Teacher fellowship
Each year twelve practising teachers join our editorial fellowship — a paid, part-time programme that puts classroom expertise directly into the books.
We are always looking for teacher-authors
If you teach, and you have ever closed a textbook thinking “I could write this better” — you probably could. Tell us your subject and stage.