LKG to Grade 5, with Grade 6 in production. Built on stroke-order research.
Computational thinking and AI for modern classrooms. Levels 1 to 9.
Available nowRecorded lectures, skill development courses and workshops.
Coming soonScan the QR on any lesson page and its digital content opens. Free with every book.
Level 0 to Level 13, six modules, 1.3 million activities.
Coding, computing activities and digital citizenship. Levels 1 to 9.
Coming soonOne year of unlimited Tamil for an individual learner, at their own pace.
The roll of honour: students, teachers and schools of the year.
Install Thambaa Tamil Labs on Windows or macOS.
Payil books and Thambaa Labs as one syllabus, for schools across India.
For Tamil Sangams, weekend schools and international schools abroad.
Level 13 in five streams, and a Centre of Excellence on your campus.
One year of Tamil for one learner, at their own pace, anywhere.
One partner per district in India, one per country internationally.
A research-backed curriculum and a digital lab, built as one syllabus. Fifty schools across India already run it, from Chennai to Tenkasi and beyond.
Dense textbooks, memorised answers, and a quiet struggle to keep up. Tamil period becomes the one nobody looks forward to, and the teacher carries the weight of that alone.
We did not set out to replace your Tamil teacher. We set out to give them something worth walking into class with.
Eighty per cent theory in the books, twenty per cent practical in the lab. They are designed together, priced together, and taught together. Both run on one Tamil grammar syllabus, sequenced level by level — so Grade 6 in the book and Level 6 in the lab are teaching the same thing, from two directions. See what each grade covers.
LKG to Grade 5 available now, Grade 6 in production. Stroke-complexity sequencing, QR codes in every lesson, songs and stories woven through, and a workbook format so the writing space is where the teaching is.
See the Payil Method
Six modules and 1.3 million activities, Level 0 to Level 13. 1,600+ books, 350+ songs, 60+ games, 17+ language tools, 240+ learning videos and 10+ smart trainers, all graded to level.
Tour the labsPayil Computing Books, Levels 1 to 9, teaching computational thinking and AI. Thambaa Computing Labs is coming for the same levels.
All seven, open on your desk. Click a cover and read the sample — the actual pages a child writes on.
Samples are watermarked preview editions of 36 pages each; the printed books are longer. See how the levels are sequenced.
For your Tamil department
A Tamil teacher's hardest hours are the ones before the lesson. We hand over the answer key and the evaluation methodology along with the book.
Weekly sheets with answer keys and rubrics. Quarterly, half-yearly and final papers, fully prepared and aligned to the curriculum.
Lesson-by-lesson presentation slides, vocabulary picture charts and supplementary teaching content for every level.
Product training in Chennai or over video, demo credentials, and a dedicated KTA contact for your school. Not an add-on line item.
Your whole school on one screen, then every class, every teacher and every single learner — with the ten skills separated out at each level, and each child's gap to their class shown beside them. So a teacher can act in week two rather than at the end of term. See the console.
Built for one to four hours of weekly Tamil. Training covers how to prioritise when the period count is tight.
Windows and Mac desktops, with a low-bandwidth mode tuned for schools where the connection is unreliable.
Not a grade out of ten. A report built from what the child actually did in the lab — an overall score, ten skills measured against their class and against every Thambaa learner in the world, and a note from their teacher that reads like a person wrote it.
Listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, literature, logic, creativity
How well, and how much — scored separately, because they are different questions
Class average and world average on every single skill, with the class size shown
The songs, stories, letters and words behind the numbers — not just a score
And what a skill has not started is said plainly — never scored as a zero and never held against the child.
A real report, shared with permission. Reports are issued in Tamil and in English.
The same presentation our team walks a school through. Watch it in order, or jump to the chapter you care about.
An introduction from Dr. Madhan Karky, and then the people who actually use it — students, parents, teachers and school management, in their own words.
Published with school permission.
How partnership works
Tell us your school, your grades and your Tamil period count. We will send the proposal and pricing built for that.
We show you a real lab session, in person or over video, with your own teachers in the room asking questions.
A Memorandum of Understanding directly with Karky Tamil Academy LLP, covering curriculum access, lab subscriptions and faculty training.
Your teachers are trained and your lab is activated within days of signature. Books ship for the term.
Monthly reports on every learner against the world average, and a KTA contact who actually answers.
Schools sign the MoU directly with Karky Tamil Academy LLP and pay KTA directly. Our franchise partners introduce and support schools but never collect payments on our behalf. If anyone asks you to pay them instead, please let us know.
Partnership is not only a licence. It connects your students to a Tamil learning community that reaches well past your gates.
Run with Silverzone Foundation India. Your students compete against learners worldwide, and your school appears on that map.
Every year we publish the students, teachers and schools who lit the lamp of Tamil learning highest.
Official partner status, KTA branding rights, and inclusion in our events, publications and outreach.
Photographs from partner schools, published with their permission and parental consent.
Four schools that already run Payil and Thambaa, in their own words.
Each of these has an MoU with Karky Tamil Academy LLP. Several have renewed more than once, and some — Kalvi across nine campuses, Mahatma across its group — signed for every campus at once. A sample, not the full register.
An MoU is also the least expensive way for a child to reach Thambaa. A school licence is a fraction of what the same year costs an individual learner on Thambaa Indie — the saving is the whole point of signing as a school.
MSN Pioneer Meenakshi Women's College at Poovanthi was the first higher-education institution to sign with the Academy, and Kings Engineering College in Chennai is the first engineering college — the beginning of Level 13, where Thambaa branches into Engineering, Medicine, Law, Arts and Business.
The console every partner school gets. Your whole institution on one screen, then each class, then each teacher — and the ten skills separated out wherever they matter. It is the same console whether you run two sections or twenty.
Sample data. Every name and figure in these screens is invented — no real learner appears. The console is in Tamil as well as English.
Everything on this page, and rather more, in a document you can forward to your correspondent, your trustees or your Tamil department.
Download the proposal PDF · 16 pages · 4 MB
Prices are not in it — those depend on your grades and your student numbers. Ask us and we will quote.
We will send a proposal, pricing and sample pages built for your grades. No obligation, and no salesperson turning up unannounced.