About
A morning call, so your call home can be a call home.
Meenira is an AI voice assistant that rings an elderly parent — or a grandparent, a sibling, anyone near and dear — in India every morning in their own language, remembers from one call to the next, and tells you how they are. It is built and run by its founder, Tapas Kar.
Why it exists
You move away for work. The people you love stay in the house you grew up in. And one evening the phone rings out, and you spend the rest of the day imagining the worst. They were fine, of course. The phone was in the other room.
The care companies can send a nurse once a week; the apps need a smartphone and someone willing to learn one. Nobody would simply ring them every morning, in the language they think in, and tell you how they were.
So that is what Meenira does. She rings on an ordinary phone, in one of eleven Indian languages, has a short unhurried chat, remembers what was said, and sends you a plain message. If something sounds wrong, you hear straight away.
Who it is for
Anyone you look after from a distance: a mother or father, a grandparent, an aunt or uncle, a sibling, an old neighbour — anyone near and dear who would welcome a daily call in their own language. You choose who, how often, and at what time.
What Meenira is, and is not
- She is an assistant to the family, and says so on every call. She never pretends to be a person, a relative or a nurse.
- She is not a doctor and not an emergency service. She notices when something sounds wrong and tells the family fast; the judgement and the care stay with the family and their doctor.
- The recording of a voice is never kept. The written notes are kept for thirty days, then deleted. The person is told, in their own language, at the start of every call.
- The person agrees themselves, by a code sent to their own phone, before any call is placed.
Who makes it
Meenira is built and run by its founder, Tapas Kar, and is an Indian company. The eleven languages — the respectful forms, the right verb for a mother and for a father, each language's own word for "mother" — were worked out on real calls, not from a phrasebook.
How this site is written
Pages here are drafted with AI tools and then edited and signed by the founder. Every number carries its source, every sample call is marked as voiced for the demo, and every claim about what Meenira does is one the product actually does. If you find something that is not true, write to [email protected] and it will be fixed.
Contact
[email protected]. Press enquiries: see the press page.