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Two books on the shelf

The Parenting Pledge

A heartfelt guide for modern Indian parents

4.8 · 127 reviews · ₹299

Practical wisdom for raising emotionally intelligent children — how to listen without fixing, discipline without shaming, and lead a home where every voice matters. Written from seven years of coaching Indian families.

24K Values

Twenty-four golden values for a life well-lived

4.9 · 89 reviews · ₹349

A luminous collection of values that transform women's lives — boundaries, softness, self-trust, generosity, the courage to rest. Read one value a day for twenty-four days, or keep it as a lifelong companion.

— Where to start —

A short reading guide

If you're a parent, start with The Parenting Pledge — the principles carry into every other relationship in your home. If you're in a reinvention season, begin with 24K Values and read one value a day.

— Book Deep-Dive —

The Parenting Pledge

A heartfelt guide for modern Indian parents

4.8 · 127 reviews

Practical wisdom for raising emotionally intelligent children — how to listen without fixing, discipline without shaming, and lead a home where every voice matters. Written from seven years of coaching Indian families.

₹299

Buy on Amazon

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— Who it's for —

Written for...

  • Indian parents of children 4–16 who want a warmer, more present home
  • Parents who've read the mainstream parenting books and wondered where their context lives in those pages
  • Anyone raised in a household where emotion was managed, not met
— Table of contents —

Chapter map

  1. 01The pledge that changed my parenting
  2. 02Listening without fixing
  3. 03Discipline without shame
  4. 04The invisible weight of expectations
  5. 05When your child mirrors your wound
  6. 06Bringing softness home
  7. 07The pledges we take for ourselves
— From the book —
My daughter asked me, on an ordinary Tuesday, whether I thought she was enough. I paused in the middle of folding laundry — because I realised, with a small shock, that she was asking a question I had never been asked at her age. The pledge that started this book began in that pause: what if the first job of a parent is not to fix, but to remind?
— Reader reviews —

What readers are saying.

Verified

A book every Indian parent needs

I bought this on a whim and it has become my most-dog-eared book on the shelf. Lavya writes like she's sitting across from you with chai. Her ideas on discipline without shame are worth the entire price alone.

Ashima Bose

Verified

Changed how I communicate with my teenager

As a father of a 15-year-old, I thought I was past the point of 'parenting books'. I was wrong. The chapter on listening without fixing cracked something open in my house. Our dinner-table conversations have completely changed.

Rajiv Kumar

Verified

Deeply moving, beautifully written

The prose is luminous and the stories felt lifted from my own home. Four stars only because I wish it were twice as long. A genuinely kind book, which is rare.

Meera Iyer

— Book Deep-Dive —

24K Values

Twenty-four golden values for a life well-lived

4.9 · 89 reviews

A luminous collection of values that transform women's lives — boundaries, softness, self-trust, generosity, the courage to rest. Read one value a day for twenty-four days, or keep it as a lifelong companion.

₹349

Buy on Amazon

Drag a page corner to flip · ends with a buy page

— Who it's for —

Written for...

  • Women in the middle of a reinvention — career, motherhood, marriage, identity
  • Anyone who keeps buying self-help books and setting them down unfinished
  • Daughters who want to gift their mothers something that honours both of them
— Table of contents —

Chapter map

  1. 01Softness
  2. 02Self-trust
  3. 03Rest
  4. 04Boundaries
  5. 05Generosity
  6. 06Voice
  7. 07Belonging
  8. 08Enoughness
— From the book —
I started writing 24K Values the year I understood that a life is not built on one big decision — it is built on the quiet, repeated decisions about which values you choose to carry into Tuesday morning. Each of these twenty-four chapters is a small meditation. Read one, live one, return the next day. In twenty-four days you will have a new compass.
— Reader reviews —

What readers are saying.

Verified

Each chapter is a gift

24K Values is the kind of book you reach for on tired days. Each value is a small meditation — practical enough to apply and poetic enough to remember. I've re-read the chapter on softness four times now.

Sunita Kapur

Verified

I gifted this to my daughter

I ordered two copies — one for me, one for my 19-year-old daughter. She texts me her favourite line from each chapter. That alone is worth everything.

Deepa Reddy

Verified

Reading it slowly, one value a day

The author recommends one value a day and I have kept that pace. Twenty-four days in, my mornings feel different. The chapter on self-trust is the best I've read on the topic, full stop.

Vikram Shah

— On the way —

Three more books on the horizon

Coming soon

The Woman Who Empowers

Lavya's next book — a memoir-in-essays on the quiet moments that built a life of service. Stories from Raipur, from motherhood, from the women who changed her.

Coming soon

Daughter of Destiny

A celebration of the Indian daughter — the ones who hold the family together, the ones who break patterns, the ones who rewrite what it means to belong.

Coming soon

The Heart of the Home

An invitation to every woman wondering if she is enough. A book about love, labour, legacy — and the radical act of remembering who you are underneath it all.

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