The Neighbourhood

About The Neighbourhood

Every parent wants the best for their child. Somewhere along the way, we started getting "the best" wrong; earlier academics, more enrichment classes, constant stimulation, all to prepare them for a future that hasn't arrived yet. We're not preparing kids. We're exhausting them, and their parents right along with them. We think there's a better way, and we're building it as one thing, in three parts. The Guidance is a daily companion that actually knows your child; an AI copilot trained on real workshop hours and real classroom observations, not generic milestone charts. Alongside it, development materials you use and hand back for credit when your child outgrows them, so good resources don't just pile up in a cupboard. The Neighbours are the parent education and community we wished existed when we needed it; workshops and answers that cut through the noise with what's actually true, not what's trending. The Spaces are physical campuses, starting in Gurugram, built on the Eklavya methodology designed on the principles of World Designed for Children with forty years of play-based, child-centered learning, run by educators trained in it properly, adapted for how Indian families live now. We didn't build this from a deck. We're a small team that has spent years scaling businesses and now trained in the Eklavya method; but mostly, we're two of the parents this is for. We're Sakshi and Rachit. We started this after weeks spent visiting preschools trying to find the right fit for our daughter Mehr, and realizing the real gap wasn't which preschool. It was that no single trusted source existed for the hundred small decisions in between. Our son Rudr arrived partway through building this, and if anything, that made the case for it more urgent, not less. They say it takes a village to raise a child. This is that village, rebuilt; and we're in it too.