Arivu

Just added a bunch more Malayalam across the site and finally got the career guide PDF in. Figured people should be able to save something and actually walk away with it instead of just scrolling through once. Also cleaned up the readability and squeezed out some performance while I was in there.

Honestly the Malayalam translations were the hard part. A lot of career/science terms just don't have a clean Malayalam equivalent, so it wasn't a translate-and-done job; it took a lot of rewriting until it sounded like something a person would actually say instead of a textbook. Still not 100% happy with a couple of sections, but it's way better than before.

What I'm most happy with is that Arivu finally feels bilingual instead of just having a language toggle that doesn't mean much. That was the whole point of building this.

If you're testing it, take a look at the translations between Malayalam and English, download the career guide PDF, and let me know if anything seems sluggish.

I have reviewed all of the errors, made the project better, added Malayalam as a new language, and added more career pathways. The UI was inspired by old mobile notes apps, and we have done a lot of research for this version. I have done a lot of work for this passion project :)

Arivu (അറിവ്) is a bilingual science career literacy platform for +2 students in Palakkad, Kerala — built in Malayalam and English because the language itself is the point. Most students here are told there are two paths in science: IIT-JEE or NEET. There are over fifty. We mapped them.
The hardest part wasn't the tech — it's a single index.html, deliberately. The hardest part was writing career descriptions in Malayalam that didn't read like translated English, and building a heritage module that treats the Kerala School of Mathematics (c. 1300–1600 CE) as the living tradition it actually is, not a footnote. Mādhava of Saṅgamagrāma derived the series for π 300 years before Leibniz. That's rendered live in KaTeX on the site.
What I'm most proud of: the Exam Calendar PDF — 13 major STEM entrance exams, 8 pages, designed to be printed and pinned on a classroom wall. It's already being used in schools.
To test it: go to arivu-pallakad.netlify.app, try the Career Matcher (pick your subjects and interests), explore the Pathways Map, and download the Exam Calendar. The site works on a ₹6,000 phone on 2G — that was a hard constraint, not an afterthought.