Not being able to see or read shouldn’t stop you from enjoying a book. Nidhi Arora tells Shilpa Sharma how she’s making literature democratic
When Nidhi Arora watched the 1983 Hindi film Sparsh by Sai Paranjpye, she was deeply moved. “The movie starts with two kids reading together, one is narrating and the other, who is visually impaired, is listening. The movie ends, again, with two kids reading, only this time it is the visually impaired kid who is narrating.” She knew right then that she wanted to do something to further the cause of equal education. So, in 1994, she learnt how to read Braille and in 2005,the IIM graduate left her corporate job to start Esha—People For Blind, an organisation that published books in Braille.
This story is from the November 08,2016 edition of Femina.
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