A set of picture books that take a curious child from her first qubit to a real quantum computer, one short story at a time. Every book is set in the same fictional Indian temple-town bazaar, with the same family of robots, so a reader who loves one book already knows the whole cast.
Ages 5 to 9. Published by RSL Quantum Press, an imprint of RSL Quantum Private Limited.
At RSL Quantum we build an indigenous quantum software stack. Education is one of our core pillars, and we hold a simple belief: the technology only matters if the next generation grows up ready to use it. A child who is eight today will be an engineer, a founder, a teacher or a policymaker of the quantum decade. We would rather she met her first qubit as a friendly brass coin in a story than as an intimidating equation in a lecture hall.
Our founder, Prof. Santhosh Sivasubramani, Director of the INTRINSIC Lab at the Centre for SeNSE, IIT Delhi, has carried this idea for a long time. Quantum science is usually taught late, in dense language, to a small few. He wanted to turn that around: start early, start warm, start at home. Begin with a curious child in a familiar lane, keep the science honest, and let wonder do the teaching.
That is how the Quantum Bazaar Series began. Each book takes one real idea from quantum physics and plants it in an everyday Indian scene a child already knows. A coin that has not decided yet. Light that behaves like a wave. A quiet day full of hidden patterns. Nothing is dumbed down and nothing is faked. The story carries the science, and the science carries the story.
This series is the first public step of that education pillar, and there is much more to come. Quantum Power. From Bharat. For the World. It begins with a bedtime story.
A first picture book about quantum, for ages 5 to 9.
A small brass coin does not pick heads or tails until Quanta looks at it. The first idea in quantum mechanics, told as one warm afternoon in the bazaar.
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A first picture book about wave-particle duality, for ages 5 to 9.
A tiny thing can be sometimes a drop and sometimes a wave. The same tiny thing. A rooftop two-door test on Diwali night shows how.
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A picture-book album of small days in the temple-town lane, for ages 5 to 9.
Thirty-two quiet cameos of ordinary days in the lane from Book 1 and Book 2. Small moments that quietly carry the same shapes science will later ask big questions about.
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The Quantum Bazaar Series follows Quanta, an eight-year-old girl who lives above a tiny laboratory in a temple-town lane. Each book takes one real idea from quantum science and tells it as a small story she can touch: a coin that has not decided yet, light that behaves like a wave, a quiet day that hides a deep pattern. The science is correct. The setting is everyday. Nothing is dumbed down.
Read the books in any order. Book 1 introduces the family and the first idea. Book 2 builds on it. Book 3 is a gentle album of the lane itself, for the days when a reader wants the world without the lesson.
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