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Research
Source-backed answers your creative team can use.
Research dossier
Take Indian Storiesto the World.
A STORY DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH STUDIO FOR SCREEN, GAME AND PUBLISHING TEAMS
100+ INDIC SCHOLARS · 200,000+ WORDS OF WORLD-BUILDING DELIVERED
MEET THE CORE
From the team that built
Hyper Quest and Shikshanam.
A team that generated 1 Billion+ views on YouTube and taught Dharma to 100K+ Students worldwide.
Vishal Chaurasia
Founder
IIT Patna alumnus. A leading voice in Indology and Indian philosophy, and the founder of HyperQuest and Shikshanam.
Sajal Sahay
Project Head
MA in Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology (BHU). Diploma in Screenwriting from AAFT. 3+ years of experience writing audience-focused scripts.
Walushka Bahuguna
Research Head
Postgraduate in Indian Philosophy / Nyāya Śāstra (Central Sanskrit University, Sringeri). Gold medalist in Nyāya. Fluent in Sanskrit.
Looking Indian isn't the same as feeling culturally alive.
The risk
Mythology or History dropped into a scene without its context doesn't land, and audiences who love detailing, catch it before the critics do.
Script
A serious scene made funny by one wrong line.
The audience remembers the meme, not the moment.
Ritual
A ritual staged for drama, performed wrong.
Spectacle to you, insult to them.
Sets
A temple in a style that never existed.
Locked the day you build it. Never fixed in post.
Every one of these is cheaper to fix in research than in reshoot.
The Craft
What we do?
Five services, one team, each ending in something your team can build from.
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World-Building
One coherent system for history, geography and lore.
World bible
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Story Development
Turn research into characters, conflict and structure.
Story architecture
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Screenplay Review
Catch cultural and historical errors before production.
Annotated script
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Pitch Support
Give your pitch evidence experts can stand behind.
Pitch-ready research pack
SELECTED WORKS
Case Studies.
Two live projects, both under NDA. Here is what we can show.
Transmedia · Animation + Game
100,000+ words of world-building delivered
India based world - building for a Gaming Multiverse .
An animated series and a game set in one world, built from elements that never shared a timeline. We rooted it in the Purāṇic concept of Kalpabheda: one coherent mytho-historical framework covering history, sacred geography, societies and cosmology.
Historical · Screen Research
Doordarshan pitch backed by external scholarly attestation
Nalanda-Based Civilisational Research for a TV serial.
A screen project set in Nalanda's final years. We rebuilt the mahāvihāra as a living institution: its scholarship, monastic life, libraries and timekeeping, and corrected the episodic story before it reached pitch.
THE JOURNEY
Our success with YouTube.
The same research method behind our studio work has already been tested in public, on audiences who love detailing.
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Yogavāsiṣṭha · Gita Press
Kāgbhuśuṇḍi ka Māyāvī Brahmāṇḍ
2M+ views
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Suśruta-Saṃhitā
Sanātana Dharma mein Menstruation ka Sach
2M+ views
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The Ṛgveda
Vedon mein Dinosaurs kyun nahi?
1M+ views
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Śri Śaṅkara Digvijaya
Adi Shankaracharya Vs Mandan Misra | The Greatest Debate Ever
1M+ views
Made at HyperQuest by the team now at The Prapañca.
The Prapañca is where deep researchmeets modern storytelling!
What you receive
Customised research papers, world bibles, timelines, character systems and screenplays your team can build from.
The narrative arm
HyperQuest
Five years of making Indian knowledge accessible to millions. The instinct for how complex ideas become stories audiences connect with.
3.5M+
Followers over Social Media
1B +
Views Generated
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The śāstric arm
Shikshanam
Depth in Sanskrit, śāstra, philosophy and traditional learning, and access to scholars, ācāryas and domain experts across Indic knowledge traditions.
100K+
Students worldwide
The bench behind the work
100+
Indic scholars
10+
Indic institutions
20+
Ācāryas from gurukuls & top universities
Who We Help
If you're building an Indian world, this is for you.
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Film, Series & Documentary
You are developing an India-set story and need the history, ritual and language to hold up on screen.
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Game & Animation Studios
You are building a world, its factions and its lore, and you need one consistent ruleset your team can build from.
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Authors, Publishers & Comics
You are writing mythology or historical fiction and want the sources behind every choice you make.
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Institutions, Brands & Experiences
You are producing an exhibit, campaign or immersive space and need cultural material that scholars will stand behind.
How we start
Three steps to a scoped engagement.
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Send a brief
Tell us the world, the era and the stage you are at. Just fill the form to start.
Reply in 1 to 2 working days
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Discovery call
We map what is culturally load-bearing in your project and what is open to interpretation.
45 minutes, no charge
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Scoped proposal
A written scope with deliverables, a timeline and a fee quoted for that scope. NDA on request.
Within a week of the call
Questions
Frequently asked.
If you have a concept and want to build on it, that is a good time to involve us. We help shape the narrative, strengthen its cultural foundation, and develop the idea into a clear creative direction. We can also join later when a script, world, or visual language needs a more focused perspective.
Let's build something timeless together
Have an India-inspired project in development?
Whether it is an idea, a script, a world, a concept, or a pitch, we'll help you turn Indian knowledge into story-ready creative material with depth, authenticity and narrative power.
Stories of India, by Indians, for the World.