Support the work
When you know what was passed to you, and you know the next generation needs it, the hard part is that they aren’t always ready to receive it. Maastarji exists to make them ready: stories, letters and worksheets a child will actually sit with.
Everything here is free, and it stays free whether or not anyone ever gives. No paywall, no email gate, no ads. Supporting doesn’t unlock anything. It funds the time to make more.
What support actually pays for
Time, mostly. Nearly all of the cost is hours: shaping each story, worksheet and game until a child will actually sit with it. I use AI to help make the material engaging. That part is quick; what comes after it is not.
Checking it against Sikh teaching. Everything is reviewed before it goes up, to make sure it’s true to Sikh teaching. Every Gurbani quote is checked by hand against the source: the Gurmukhi, the transliteration, the meaning and the Ang. Nothing is published on trust.
What might come later. Hosting costs very little today. If Maastarji ever adds something like a place to follow your child’s progress, that will need real infrastructure. Support is what would let it be built without charging for it.
If you set aside daswand and choose to put some of it here, it goes straight back into free resources for every family. Where your daswand goes is yours to decide — many families give it to their gurdwara, and that is exactly as it should be.
If you’d like to give
Two ways to give, and neither unlocks anything. Everything stays free either way.
Recurring membership
Monthly or yearly, through our newsletter Maastarji Letters on Substack. A paying reader gets the same letter as a free reader. Tiers and prices are on the Substack page.
As a thank-you rather than a perk: every supporter gets a yearly letter on where the support went.
Other ways that help just as much
- Tell one other parent. Reach is what we’re short of, not material. One forwarded link does more than most things. Share Maastarji → Send on WhatsApp
- Print the worksheets for your gurdwara or Punjabi class. They’re free to copy and share. Take what you need →
- Subscribe free. A weekly letter for Sikh parents raising kids far from Punjab, plus new printables as they land. Just subscribe, free →
Thank you for reading this far — and if you close the tab now having given nothing, you’re still exactly who this was made for.
— Gursharn
Made by Sikh parents and teachers, for our kids.