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.

The first thing I remember about her is food. She made sure I ate on time, every single day, whatever else was happening in that house. That is not a small thing. For a child, that is what being looked after means. For the person doing it, it is a promise kept again every morning, for years, without a day off and without being asked. That was how she cared for people: in what she did, every day, not once in a while.

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 write her name in Hindi, and that was all the writing she was ever taught.

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 care as the meals: decide what matters, then do it, every day, and do not stop.

Why her name is on this site

I did not build this site because of her. I started it before she died, as a small side project that listed scholarship dates.

On 20 August 2026 I was in the ambulance with her on the way to the hospital. I thought it would be over by the afternoon and we would be back home. It was not.

Afterwards I decided what I wanted this site to be. I wanted her name carried forward, and not forgotten. So it is dedicated to her, and I will keep running it in her name.

She could not read, and in her time there was nowhere to look. What I can do in her name is make sure that nobody is kept from a chance at education because of money, or because the news never reached them, or because it was written in a language they do not read. That is why this site is written in Hindi as well as English, and why I want it in more of this country's languages in time: so that a person who reads only their own language is not left out. It is my way of giving something back, and it carries her name.

She was given very little and she passed on more than she was given. Her name is on this site so that it is not forgotten. My part is to keep it running.