The Founder
Shaped by children, in every season.
Mridula Praveen has spent her adult life in service of how children grow. Not in theory. In classrooms, in corridors, in the middle of the night, and across two entirely different seasons of her own motherhood.
What she has learned does not come from research papers. It comes from being the person children and parents turned to, for over a decade, when things got hard.
Before the school
Mridula began her career as a robotics engineer in Singapore. When Anagha was born, she stepped away from engineering, not as a retreat, but as a pivot toward something that would define the years ahead.
As Anagha grew toward preschool age, Mridula found herself drawn into education. She joined the school not as a visitor to the field but as someone who intended to master it. While leading the school she pursued and earned her teaching and educational leadership qualifications, building her credentials in real time, inside a real institution, alongside the children she was responsible for.
She never left education after that. The shape of the work changed: training teachers, building curriculum, working as faculty, and eventually stepping into the world of AI. But the orientation never did. Every season added a layer. Twelve years of experience is not a number she collected. It is one she lived through, continuously, without a gap.
School leadership
She spent nine years as the Director and Principal of a Cambridge affiliated school in India that became known across the region for its commitment to the whole child, not just the academic one. She had strong convictions about how children deserved to be heard, encouraged, and trusted. Those convictions held.
Under her leadership the school was recognised as the most socially active school in the region. She did not build that reputation through programmes. She built it through the daily practice of paying attention to children as people.
Author
The book that led to Anayuga was not written in one sitting. It was written across twelve years of watching what actually changes a child, and what only appears to. 50 Ways is the distillation of that watching. Fifty practices. Each one tested in a real room, with real children, by a woman who had no room for anything that did not work.
Mridula also writes on Medium at @myinnersparkles, long form reflections on parenting, education, and the kind of inner life a parent needs to sustain the outer work.
Mother, twice
Anagha is now a teenager in Dubai, building her own platforms, writing her own code, and co-creating alongside her mother in ways that continue to surprise them both.
Her second child arrived twelve years later, born in Dubai, into the life Mridula and her family had built after leaving the school and beginning again in a new country. A different season entirely. Newborn nights. Postpartum clarity. The particular wisdom that comes from raising a toddler while watching your first child step toward the world on her own terms.
Two children. Two continents. Two seasons. One unbroken commitment to getting it right, or at least, to getting back up when she did not.
Engineer. Educator. Builder.
Mridula trained as an engineer before she ever stood in front of a classroom. She has never stopped building things. Anayuga is her most considered one, a platform, a book, a methodology, and eventually an AI companion, all rooted in the same belief she has held since the beginning.
Children do not need to be managed. They need to be understood.
Anayuga is what twelve years of education and two lifetimes of motherhood look like when they are finally written down.
The children
Two seasons, twelve years apart.
Anagha
A teenager now, building her own platforms, writing her own code, and quietly shaping things alongside her mother. Watching her grow up taught Mridula that the work of raising a child is mostly the work of listening.
Her son
A toddler, and a teacher in his own right. Born in Dubai, he arrived into a new country and a new chapter. He has reminded Mridula that the first season of parenting is not about getting it right. It is about showing up, again, even when you have not slept.
School leadership
Nine years as Director and Principal of a Cambridge affiliated school in India.
Author
Author of 50 Ways. Active Medium writer at @myinnersparkles.
Mother
Mother of two children, twelve years apart. Parenting across two continents and two seasons of motherhood.
Educator and technologist
A trained robotics engineer who chose education. Twelve continuous years across school leadership, teacher training, faculty work, and AI. Comfortable building. Comfortable teaching.
Anayuga is one of two platforms built by this family. The Guest, a youth menstrual health platform built with Anagha, is the other. Both come from the same belief, that young people deserve tools made by people who actually know them.
Read more in Mridula's long form journal.
Or start with 50 Ways, the book that began it all.