About the Authors

Hitendra Gandhi and Jyotsna Shah wrote Adhik Mas Nu Nitya Chintan (અધિક માસનું નિત્ય ચિંતન) — 30 daily reflective essays for the month of Purushottam Maas. The book was published in June 2023 by The PrintWorks, Mumbai, and contains each essay in Gujarati with an English translation. All 30 chapters are also available as audio narrations — the Gujarati audio is voiced by Dushyant Mehta and Sandhya Shah, and the English audio is generated using Sarvam.ai.

The essays are not retellings of old stories. They are conversations — between a tradition that has endured for millennia and a generation that is searching for what endures. Each one begins with a teaching from our tradition and asks: what does this mean for the life you are living right now?

Hitendra Gandhi is a Freelance Researcher in Indian Knowledge System (IKS), writer, and speaker. His work centers on making the wisdom of ancient texts accessible to modern readers — particularly to the generation of Gujaratis and Indians living outside India who want to stay connected to their roots while navigating the complexities of contemporary life.

Jyotsna Shah is a co-author of Adhik Mas Nu Nitya Chintan, bringing a thoughtful perspective to the intersection of devotional practice and daily life. Together with Hitendra Gandhi, she crafted essays that speak to both seasoned practitioners and curious newcomers.

The Gujarati audio narrations are voiced by Dushyant Mehta and Sandhya Shah, whose warm narration brings the essays to life with the cadence of a family elder sharing wisdom.

The English audio narrations are generated using Sarvam.ai, an Indian AI voice platform.

Kunal Modi built AdhikMaas.com to bring the stories of Adhik Maas to families across the world in a contemporary and easy-to-understand way — so that families everywhere can sit down together, read, listen, and share these stories with each other.

Based in New Jersey, USA.

For questions or feedback, reach out at support@adhikmaas.com.

AdhikMaas.com is a family project. It began with a simple observation: the beautiful essays in Adhik Mas Nu Nitya Chintan existed as a physical book, but the families who needed them most — scattered across time zones, from Ahmedabad to Atlanta to Auckland — had no easy way to read them together.

We built this site to change that. One story published each day during Adhik Maas. An email delivered each morning. A card to share in the family WhatsApp group. So that a grandmother in Gujarat and her grandchildren in California could read the same story on the same day, and talk about it that evening.

This is digital preservation in its simplest form — taking a tradition that has been passed from person to person for centuries, and making sure it can travel across the internet the same way it once traveled across kitchen tables.

AdhikMaas.com brings these essays to families around the world, one day at a time, with the authors’ blessing.