A track record, not a projection
Before asking anyone to back what comes next, here is what Lawtoons has already built, tested, and delivered.
recalled the legal concept after a single reading
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of piloted students preferred Lawtoons to their textbook
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copies of Sentinels of Democracy distributed through the ECI
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copies of Books 1 & 2 sold, in Hindi and English
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trademarks filed protecting the Lawtoons universe
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international awards and fellowships
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The recall and preference figures come from a real-world pilot with 200 students across three schools of different socio-economic backgrounds in Ahmedabad, conducted with child psychologists, retired High Court judges, and children’s story writers.
Books are sold through Amazon, Rekhta Books, and Flipkart, in partnership with publisher Vani Prakashan Group.
Institutional & government partnerships
- Sentinels of Democracy: a comic commissioned by the Election Commission of India, distributed in Hindi and English ahead of the Gujarat state elections.
- Charan Kanya: a girl-child empowerment comic supported by the Canadian Consulate General.
- A design partnership with India’s National Institute of Design.
- A chapter, “Graphically Novel,” co-authored by Kanan and Kelly Dhru, in Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems, published by Cambridge University Press (2024).
- Recognized by Stanford’s Open Law Lab, the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers, and India Today’s “Indians of Tomorrow.”
- HiiL’s (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law) Innovating Justice Award, plus a Fulbright Fellowship and an Acumen India Fellowship for founder Kanan Dhru.
- Featured in YourStory, The Times of India, and the Indian Express.
- Two successful crowdfunding campaigns, the first funded at 125% of target, among India’s first crowdfunded legal-innovation projects.