Over time, it became clear that Karya had enormous potential, both as a creator of high-quality language datasets in India’s many languages and as a way to help lift rural Indians out of poverty with education and income. The project was spun off in 2021...
“The advantage with Karya is that it has created a lot of trust on the ground. They are really engaged with the communities they’re in,” she says. In her neighborhood in Pune, Bokale is a well-known figure who is universally known as Baby Tai, tai meaning “elder sister.” She ...