Cities

What a launch stage means

A city appears here at a stage rather than as a yes or a no. A live city has verified pandits who serve it and takes bookings in the app; a pilot city is running with a smaller number of them while the local supply is built; and a city listed as expanding soon has pages — its temples, its pujas, its ritual customs — but no pandits yet, and its pages say so rather than implying otherwise.

The stages move in one direction and they move on supply, not on demand. A city becomes live when enough verified pandits serve it that a booking can be honoured on a date the family chooses rather than on the one date somebody is free — which is why this list grows slowly and why the pages for a city that is not yet live still exist.

What changes with the stage is what a page can promise, not how much of it there is. A city that cannot yet take a booking still has its temples documented, its pujas described and its local customs written, because those are facts about the place rather than about our supply — and its pages carry a waitlist rather than a booking button, which is the one difference a reader should be able to see without reading the small print.