Appendix: A Parent’s Checklist
Use this parent’s checklist to support genuine education with AI conversations, local mentors, protected learning time, and small learning pods.
Honest advice on fertility, startups and your child's education
I'm Dr Aniruddha Malpani. For thirty years I have worked as an IVF doctor and an angel investor, and written about what I have learnt. Pick the path closest to what you are facing. Each one gathers my most useful posts in the order I would read them. If you have a question of your own, ask me in the chat, day or night.
IVF and fertility
If you are going through IVF
What to understand before you start, how to choose a protocol, why cycles fail, and how to tell when a clinic is not putting you first.
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Startups
If you are building a startup
How to think like a founder, build something people want, raise money, hire well and earn a reputation without a marketing budget.
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Education
If you are paying for edtech
The Byju's Files: how India's most valuable startup sold fear to parents, who it hurt, and what to check before you sign up your child.
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Conclusion: A Practical Hope
Learn practical ways to improve Indian education through AI tutors, learning pods, apprenticeships, skill-based credentials, and protected time for play.
Chapter 16: A Message to Young People
Learn how students can take charge of learning with AI tutors, books, mentors, and projects, then show parents real progress through skill and reliability.
Chapter 15: Using AI More Deeply
Learn how families can use AI for Socratic questions, local projects, apprenticeships, and adaptable learning plans that connect study with real life.
Chapter 14: Overcoming the Obstacles
Learn how families can handle legal rules, social pressure, and credential concerns with portfolios, open schooling, NIOS, and hybrid education paths.
Chapter 13: Education as Growing Up in a Community
Learn how community life, trusted adults, reading, practical work, and AI can help children grow into adult responsibilities beyond school.
Chapter 12: Stories of Indian Alternatives
Learn how Indian learning pods and rural centres use projects, apprenticeships, and AI to rethink motivation, adult roles, credentials, and local scale.
Chapter 11: Edupreneurs and Community Learning Centres
Learn how Indian graduates can start community learning centres offering AI-supported tutoring, projects, apprenticeships and interest-based learning while earning a living.
Chapter 10: Practical Ways Indian Families Can Use AI
Learn how Indian families can use AI tutors, learning pods, community visits, and daily habits to support education and reduce coaching costs.
Chapter 9: AI Tutors – Doing What Schools Cannot
Learn how AI tutors personalise explanations, practice, feedback, and schedules while adults provide mentoring, motivation, values, and relationships.