CA Dr. Mahesh Gour · June 2025 Edition 24 - The Entrepreneurs of India

It starts in a classroom, not the four-walled one with a blackboard, though. It starts with a young boy, who was Hindi-medium, struggling to crack complicated laws in the inner parts of Mumbai. This boy grew up to be CA Dr. Mahesh Gour, and his was not a story of trying to fit in, but a story of trying to redefine the way education is perceived, implemented, and recollected. His success did not come on a silver platter. It arrived in nights of doubt, years of self-control, and a pig-headed determination that learning could be made enjoyable to all students regardless of their backgrounds. He could have opted to play it safe after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and gotten conventional jobs in finance. However, there was something pulling at him—the need to repay, not only through teachings but through life-transforming tools.

Soon, his expertise knocked at the doors of the government. Training officers in departments such as GST, legal draft preparations, helping in the representation of cases—these were not only professional milestones but eye-openers. Taxation was no longer theory only; it had color, subtlety, and practical implications. And that informed his pedagogy. He started educating students with the perspective of real-time law enforcement—telling them what goes on within the departments, and not what is written in books. Consequently, his lessons were not about notes. They concerned knowledge. Ideas were attached to actions, policies were debated in their most unsanitized version, and students not only came out better prepared to take exams but they came out with a point of view. His comment on how his law life experiences nourished his classrooms is, "I do not simply teach, I attempt to impart clarity."

A video changed everything, however, and the world really started paying attention.

One of the young students, who was trained in the memory methods of Dr. Mahesh, was requested to recite the contents of one complete book. Page numbers, content, reverse answers—the girl replied to all without hesitation in a viral video that shocked millions. She had been tested live by an influencer. What came next was not applause—it was astonishment. The accuracy and the confidence with which the student was working were nearly dreamlike.

The video was not acted or planned. It was simply the logical result of strategies that Dr. Mahesh had devoted years of research to creating—science-based, student-proven ways to turn memorization into a breeze. When the Exclusive World Records and the King Book of World Records noticed, it was not a single-time achievement. It was that over 100 students, in various streams, had accomplished the impossible—memorizing whole textbooks, including page references.  His success in breaking most of the memory records was unlike that of most holders of memory records, who compete as individuals—his success was enabling others to do the miracles. That was what made his recognition rare. He tells us, “It was never about the record. It was about proving that learning does not have to be a burden. It could be a beautiful experience.”

CA. Dr. Mahesh Gour created something more meaningful, slower, and deeper in a world striving after immediate success.

His YouTube channel now has more than 127,000 subscribers. To him, though, each number represents a name, a story, a student. This, via digital media, has seen him penetrate into the remotest of towns, as well as the busiest of metros. A child in Bihar, a professional in Dubai—his voice reaches them all through their devices and makes the students, who believed they were not made to succeed, believe. Any comment he gets, any DM saying that he made GST feel human, only motivates him more. YouTube, he says, is not merely digital reach. “It is emotional attachment.”

Applause, however, is no longer the measure of success to Dr. Mahesh. It used to be, not so long ago—clearing exams, cracking the language barrier, surviving in the high-stress academic environment of Mumbai. But today, it has turned into something else. It can be heard in the shaking voice of a student in a village giving a confident reply. It is in the tears of a parent who has found hope in the eyes of the child at last. The company that he created, Eduveda Edtech, is more than a platform—it is a movement. A place where education finds its soul back. His work is not just on screens and in classrooms. Dr. Mahesh discovered another form of education—visiting old age homes, talking to older people who have been forgotten in the clamor of new life, presence rather than possessions. It was those silent talks, the aspiration in their tales that made him learn that success is futile without sharing. And such a lesson was incorporated into the value system of Eduveda: to teach with heart, to build with compassion, and to grow with empathy.

“We do not wish to create toppers only. Torchbearers are what we desire to develop,” he usually remarks. That line alone has appeared on hundreds of notebook covers, captions, and posters in India.

The expectations of the modern world are so rapid that most of the time, they crush the young minds. To the many people who are combining careers, exams, and dreams, Dr. Mahesh has one simple message: stop, take a breath, and subsequently prioritize. He encourages students to create purpose, then direction. He does not advocate hurry-up. Rather, he has faith in clarity—having a reason behind what you are doing. As he puts it, “You do not need to be the fastest, you only need to remain focused. It is not necessary to know everything, but to continue learning.” It is this simplicity, combined with wisdom, which makes his words seem timeless.

Into the future, in the course of the next five years, there is a vision of ambitious prospects to both Dr. Mahesh and Eduveda. On a personal level, he wishes to penetrate further into the communities that have been left behind—the rural students, the low-income earners, and the learners without any guidance. He does not only want to teach them but to enable them to dream.

The roadmap of Eduveda is expansion with a purpose. A mobile-first platform, focused on offline regions, greater integration with schools and colleges, and the largest student-mentor network in India are already being developed. He is concentrated on science-based memory training, yet emotional support as well—a feature that is scarcely provided in current learning systems.

Eduveda seeks to break the old paradigms by developing AI-based technology to individualize the learning mode. However, he adds, technology should never work the other way round—that is, enslaving the learner. Behind this mission, more than strategy or scale, is a more fundamental objective: to restore the lost faith in the students who have been reminded that they are average. To demonstrate that regardless of the label, every learner has greatness within them.

His mantra is: “Be deliberate in your living, and be concerned in your serving.” It is this conviction that took him out of the dusty streets of his hometown to the national limelight. And to this day, he tells us, the most fulfilling aspect is not the titles. It is the twinkle in the eye of the child as he or she mutters, “I got it.”

He ends every major talk with a verse that speaks not just to students but to dreamers of every age:

"एक टहनी एक दिन पतवार बनती है,

एक चिंगारी धधक कर अंगार बनती है।

जो रौंदी गई है सदा बेबस समझ कर,

वही मिट्टी एक दिन मीनार बनती है।"