Elyments: Meet India’s answer to Facebook, Instagram

Pertaining to the Aatmanirbhar Bharat crusade, the Indian government aims to replace Facebook, WhatsApp, and others by backing an all-inclusive super app christened Elyments.

The new Elyments app is the brainchild of the Sumeru Software Solutions, the promoter organisation behind The Art of Living’s smartphone ventures. According to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of The Art of Living, the app has been built by over a thousand IT professionals who volunteer at the organisation.

The app was inaugurated by the Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu on July 5, 2020. Providing preliminary insight on the app, Naidu took to Twitter to write, “More than one thousand IT professionals, who are also the volunteers of the Art of Living, have together created an indigenous app named Elyments.