During a regular tutoring session, her teacher – who also taught at a government school nearby – mentioned offhandedly that her students in Class 10 were struggling to prepare for their board exams. Not because they weren’t studying. Because they didn’t have textbooks. She wasn’t asking for anything. She was just saying it – the way people mention things they’ve long since accepted as normal. Vedika didn’t accept it as normal. She was a school student herself. A STEM learner who thought in systems, in gaps, in problems worth solving. And here was one sitting right in front of her: thousands of used textbooks thrown away every year by students like her, while students a few kilometres away were sharing torn, borrowed copies – or going without entirely. India doesn’t lack books. It lacks the bridge between the books that exist and the students who need them. Kitaab4U became that bridge & has been serving since 2024.