Rhea Karuturi

Bangalore · San Francisco
Teaching
Trust Infrastructure
Reading & Writing
Building
@lighght_thebook
LIGHGHT
A short, strange book about attention and grief.
56,000 words · out querying
  • On returning home
  • Notes on attention
  • What ritual does
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Rhea Karuturi

Bangalore · San Francisco

Reading & Writing

Million Page Project

Every book I've finished, since 6th grade. 624 and counting.

Connects to the YouTube book club · cross-references Chapel.

LIGHGHT

Debut novel. 56,000 words, experimental literary fiction. Out querying. @lighght_thebook.

The Rose King

Second novel, in progress. Set partly in the flower markets I grew up around.

Substack

Essays, mostly on books and building.

Trust Infrastructure

Aadhaar Thesis

Stanford honors thesis on India's identity infrastructure. Trust as a lens has stayed with me.

Throughline to Hoovu (commerce) · to Chapel (taste & memory).

Science, Technology & Society

Major. The frame I learned to think in.

William Woo Award

For opinion writing at the Stanford Daily.

Building

Hoovu Fresh

B2B puja flower supply chain across nine Indian cities. ~₹20cr revenue. Featured on Shark Tank India S2.

Chapel

A second brain where the things that shape your ideas live and grow together.

Smaller projects

Vendetta, The Brief, ComPrice, Cahoots.

Teaching

Claude Community

A community of 141 people learning to build with AI together. Weekly workshops.

Earlier teaching

Stanford CS section leader (CS106A, CS106AP). College tutoring through high school. The YouTube book club.