Two people. Real names. Every visit our own.

Priyanka

Co-founder and care manager

I look after the part that is easy to overlook. The notes, the records, the report that reaches you at the start of every month, and the phone when you call.

Watching Kuldeep's mother fall ill taught me that most of caring for someone is small, unglamorous work done on time. Medicines counted. An appointment remembered. A number written down before anyone forgets it. Nobody thanks you for it, and everything depends on it.

Your parents will see me often. I intend to be someone they look forward to seeing.

Kuldeep

Co-founder and care manager

I grew up in Assam, and Guwahati has been home for most of my life.

I started Sarovan because of what happened to my mother. Priyanka and I were working in Bengaluru. My mother was living alone in Assam. She had a stroke brought on by high blood pressure, and it left her paralysed. We left Bengaluru and came home for good.

What stayed with me afterwards was how ordinary it all was. Blood pressure is the kind of thing someone checks in five minutes. Nobody was there to check it. We were calling every few days, and what we heard was that she was fine.

I do the visits myself, because I would not hand my own parent to someone I had never met.