Hey, I am Santanu.
I grew up in Durgapur, a steel town in West Bengal. My cofounder Anushri grew up in Korba, a coal town in Chhattisgarh. Neither of us had private tutors, coaching institutes, or parents who had been to college abroad. What we had was the same thing most Indian kids have — a kitchen table, a textbook, and an exam that felt like it would decide everything.
If you grew up in a Tier 2 or Tier 3 city, you know that feeling. The worry that somewhere, someone else was better prepared than you — not because they were smarter, but because they had access to better resources. A coaching centre. A good teacher. Someone who had cracked the same exam before them and could show them how.
Anushri and I have known each other for over 15 years — we worked together in the US for a few years and have stayed close ever since. We were both secretly studying for the GMAT after work — not telling anyone, because it felt too presumptuous. Who were we, two kids from Durgapur and Korba, to think we could get into a top business school? We borrowed prep books, made flashcards by hand, studied on weekends. It worked — Anushri got into Olin at Washington University on a scholarship, I got into Carnegie Mellon. But it was a lot harder than it needed to be.
Years later, we are both building technology products in North America — Anushri in Canada, me in the States. One evening I was on a video call with my niece in Kolkata — she is in Class 6, had an exam the next morning — just asking her questions the way you do over a family call. She knew some answers, blanked on others. And after the call I kept thinking: she is studying exactly the way I did back then. Printed books. Passive reading. Hoping something sticks. Years have passed and nothing has changed for her.
Early May 2026, I got injured playing cricket and was out for three weeks. Anushri and I had been thinking about this problem for a while — the injury gave us the time to stop thinking and start building.
The idea was simple — take every NCERT chapter and turn it into a proper study kit. Mind map, flashcards, MCQs, chapter notes, board questions. Done in 30 seconds, not 3 hours.
Some kids already have this — tutors, coaching centres, seniors who have cracked the same exam. StudyOS is not about replacing any of that. It is about making sure every kid has access to the same quality of preparation. Not as a compromise. As a right.
We built it for every student who deserves better.
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