Why Munshi exists
Munshi started with time spent alongside a practising lawyer in Lahore. Their day looked like most litigators’ days in the district courts: four to eight hearings, each in a different courtroom, each with a next date to note. Every case was dictated to the chamber’s munshi, who wrote it in a register — and handed over tomorrow’s list after court closed.
The system worked, mostly. But the register stayed in the chamber, the list came late, and if the munshi was sick or a page was missed, the whole schedule depended on memory. Typing apps did not help: no lawyer wants to type an FIR number and three PPC sections on a phone in a corridor.
So we asked a simple question: what if the lawyer could just speak — in Urdu, Punjabi or English, the way they already speak to their munshi — and get the register, the reminders and tomorrow’s list automatically? That is Munshi: Aap bolein, Munshi likhe — you speak, Munshi writes.