This site is dedicated to my grandmother

Her name was Keshkali Ishwardeen Maurya. She died on 20 August 2026, five days after her sixty-seventh birthday. She lived with diabetes, and with kidney disease.

What I remember first is small. She made sure I ate on time. Every day, whatever else was happening in that house. That was how she looked after people: she decided what mattered, and then she did it, meal after meal, year after year.

She grew up in a village, in years when girls there were not usually kept in school for long, and she did not finish Class 10. She could not read or write. She could sign her name in Hindi, and nothing more.

She never read a word of what her children studied. She is the reason they got to study it.

She kept them in school and sent them further, in years when that was neither easy nor cheap. In that house, school was not something to argue about. Nobody had to explain to her what an education was worth, because she had spent her whole life on the other side of that question. It was the same decision as the meals, made larger: decide what matters, then do it, and do not stop.

Why that became this site

A person misses an opportunity for three reasons, and none of them is ability.

• Money. The fee, the travel, the documents, the year not spent earning.
• Reach. The news never arrives where they live.
• Language. The page that explains it is written in a language they do not read.

munotes.com is what one person can do about reach and language. It puts every last date in one place, free, with the official link one tap away, and I check every date at its official source before it goes up. About money it can do one thing, and it does it: finding out costs nothing. No fee, no account, no agent, and no paid list.

Every language, treated the same

A website could not have taught my grandmother to read, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. What it can do is reach everyone standing between where she was and a fluent English reader — the very large number of people who read their own language well and no other — so that information meant for them is not kept from them by the language it was written in.

So the site is written in all twenty-two languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, and in English. In the 2011 Census those twenty-two are the mother tongue of about 1.17 billion people.

This is not a translate button added to the corner of an English page. Every language has its own pages: the scheme, who can apply, the amount, the last date and the small print, all written out in that language and not only the headings. Someone who reads their own language and no other should get the same page as everyone else, not a shorter one. A site that says it is available in Kannada, while the information stays in English, is not available in Kannada.

The person most likely to miss a deadline is often the person least likely to read English. That is not a small part of this project. It is the project.

The one thing I cannot check myself is whether a sentence reads naturally to someone who grew up in that language. If one does not, tell me. The address is at the bottom of every page, and a correction like that is the fastest change I make.

What her name on this page commits the site to

Two promises. They are the two that come from her.

• The site stays free. No charge to read a date. Not now, and not when the site is larger.
• Every language gets the real page. If a language cannot have that, it does not go live at all.

The rest of what this site will and will not do — no account, no agents, no selling your details, no paid placement — is written out in who this site is for and in why it exists.

She was given very little and she passed on more than she was given. That is the idea here, and it is a simple one: information costs almost nothing to copy, and it changes what a life can become, so it should reach everyone — in the language they think in, at no cost.

Her name is on this page because the idea is hers; my part is only to keep it running. If this site ever starts charging the people it was built for, this page will still be here, and it will be false — which is exactly why it is here.