The house lights dim
One story is waiting, chosen for your child’s age. No menu, no “more”. The companion sits down beside them.
One story a day · Grades 1–9
Screen time you
can feel good about.
Steady values, story by story.
One short story a day for children in grades 1–9. Your child makes a small, everyday choice; you quietly see how their values are taking shape, in plain words, never numbers.
Grades 1–9 · five age bands · five domains · one story a day, then it stops · no ads, no scores, no streaks
Character isn’t taught in a lecture. It shows itself in small choices: a broken flower pot, a classmate left out of a game, a pencil box found in the school corridor.
The idea behind My Dhruva
Every story is reviewed before it reaches a child · Aligned to NCF-SE 2023, “Values & Dispositions”
How it works
Stories in front.
Patience behind.
Your child plays one short story a day: an everyday scene, a small choice, set in places they know, beside a gentle paper companion. Over the weeks, the choices they make build a slow, careful picture of how they reason, read patiently and shared only with you.
Five story formatsIllustrated dilemmas, animated stories, scene walk-throughs, real-world missions you confirm at home, and quiet sort-and-breathe activities.
Grows with your childFive age bands, grades 1 to 9. The youngest are read to; the oldest are asked to weigh it.
Bands, never numbersEmerging · Expected for age · Strong · Gathering data, with a short note in plain words, and nothing before four weeks and six stories. Your child sees only the story.
What we look for
Five sides of a growing child.
- 01
Ethics & Morals
Telling the truth when it costs something. Playing fair.
- 02
Empathy & Values
Noticing how someone else feels, and doing something about it.
- 03
Etiquette
Greeting elders, waiting a turn, sharing space.
- 04
Self & Emotions
Naming a feeling. Settling after a storm.
- 05
Decision-Making
Stopping to think. Seeing what happens next.
Built for trust
What we left out, on purpose.
No streaks. No leaderboards. No scores. No open-ended AI chat: every word the companion says was written and reviewed by a person. Nothing reads your child’s face or voice. Built under India’s DPDP Act from the first line of code.
Parental consentVerified through DigiLocker
Your family’s dataStays in India, Mumbai region
Deleting itOne tap · gone within 7 days
Ads & trackersNone. No third-party SDKs. This page loads nothing from anyone else
Camera & microphoneNever used · no face- or voice-reading AI
The companionUnnamed · pre-scripted · never praises or judges a choice
Session length10, 18 or 30 minutes for the younger bands · older bands set with the pilot
Every line above is live before the first pilot family signs in.
See their character
take shape, gently.
The first families and schools join us before launch on 1 June 2027. English first; Hindi, Telugu and Tamil follow.
Chaitanya Sukhavasi, Founder
My Dhruva Technologies Pvt Ltd · founder@mydhruva.com · Bengaluru, India
One story a day
Open the book. One small choice. Close the day.
A session has the shape of a small ritual, the same shape every day, so the story is the only thing that changes. Nothing to collect, nothing to keep up with.
One small choice
A dropped pencil box, a cousin left out of a game. Your child decides what happens next with a slow press-and-hold. There is no wrong answer, nobody claps, and the story goes on.
03 · Close
The day ends by hand
Your child hangs a lantern or places a kolam dot, and the theatre rests until tomorrow. The world remembers that a story happened. It never counts.
Ten, eighteen or thirty minutes for the younger bands. Then it stops, and stays stopped.
What you see
A note, not a number.
After four weeks and six stories, your first note arrives. Each domain is read as Emerging, Expected for age, Strong, or simply Gathering data, with a few plain sentences and one question to try at home. It looks like this:
Sample · after four weeks and six stories
- Ethics & MoralsExpected for age
- Empathy & ValuesStrong
- EtiquetteExpected for age
- Self & EmotionsGathering data
- Decision-MakingEmerging
Your child tends to tell the truth even when it costs them something, and notices when someone is left out. When a story asks them to stop and think before acting, they usually go with the first impulse: worth watching, not worrying about. Nothing here is a score; it is what six stories showed us.
Try this at home“What do you think a friend might be feeling today? Why?”
For schools
A quiet way to see values grow across a class.
NCF-SE 2023 asks schools to nurture values and dispositions, and offers no gentle way to see them. My Dhruva fits one story into a circle-time or assembly slot. Never marks, never rankings.
- Stories aligned to NCF-SE 2023, “Values & Dispositions”, every one reviewed before it reaches a child
- One story a day fits a circle-time or assembly slot, on modest Android phones or tablets
- Teacher load: none. No marking, no dashboards to fill
- Consent: parents verify through DigiLocker; the school never handles a child’s documents, and a child’s file is only ever the parent’s
- Pilot cohort forming for 2026–27 · launching 1 June 2027, English first
Questions parents ask
The things we are asked first.
Is this a test?
No. There are no right answers and no marks. Your child plays one short story a day; over the weeks, you see a patient picture of how they reason, in words, never numbers.
What will I see?
Four plain bands per domain (Emerging, Expected for age, Strong, or simply Gathering data) with a short note. Never a score, and never a comparison with other children.
Does my child talk to an AI?
No. Every word the companion says was written and reviewed by a person. There is no open chat, and nothing reads your child’s face or voice.
How much screen time is it?
One story a day, then a hard stop: 10, 18 or 30 minutes by age for grades 1–6. The limits for older grades are set with the pilot.
How soon will we know anything?
Not before four weeks and six stories. Growth is read slowly, the way a good teacher reads it.
Where is our data, and can I delete it?
In India, in the Mumbai region. One tap deletes it, and it is gone within seven days. Consent is verified through DigiLocker before any child data exists.
When can we start?
The pilot cohort of families and schools forms before launch on 1 June 2027. English first; Hindi, Telugu and Tamil follow.
Children never see scores. Parents never see numbers.
Everyone sees a story, one small, everyday choice at a time.