Dated: December 30, 2011
Visually-challenged will now get a peek into the Ramayana, thanks to a
17-year-old student who has made the epic available in Braille. Pranav
Raghav Sood, a grade XI Bangalore student, chose the great epic as it
was not available to the visually challenged.
"I had visited the 'Abilities' school for blind when I was 12. I had
accompanied my grandmother, who used to read out stuff to visually
challenged kids. When we first went to the NGO, a visually challenged
woman actually announced my grand-mother's arrival even before she
stepped into the room. She had apparently figured out things by hearing
her footsteps. I realized that day that the visually challenged had a
different understanding of the world and with a little help they could
actually do wonders in everyday live," Pranav said.
After encouragement from hisfamily, this young boy took 120 days to type
out C Rajagopalachari's Ramayana in English in MS Word format. Any text
in this format can be directly programmed into Braille and this does not
require anyfurther editing.
Kalyan Nagar-based Abilities, which assisted Pranav, said: ''The
Ramayana is the most popular work and each one of us have to know about
this great epic. We are so happy that this work will be now available to
the visually challenged." Pranav's mother, Sood, said: "My son wanted to
help the visually challeng children in writing exams. But as it did not
work, he took up the project of making the Ramayana available to them in
Braille. I hope his efforts will be emulated by other children."
Visually-challenged will now get a peek into the Ramayana, thanks to a
17-year-old student who has made the epic available in Braille. Pranav
Raghav Sood, a grade XI Bangalore student, chose the great epic as it
was not available to the visually challenged.
"I had visited the 'Abilities' school for blind when I was 12. I had
accompanied my grandmother, who used to read out stuff to visually
challenged kids. When we first went to the NGO, a visually challenged
woman actually announced my grand-mother's arrival even before she
stepped into the room. She had apparently figured out things by hearing
her footsteps. I realized that day that the visually challenged had a
different understanding of the world and with a little help they could
actually do wonders in everyday live," Pranav said.
After encouragement from hisfamily, this young boy took 120 days to type
out C Rajagopalachari's Ramayana in English in MS Word format. Any text
in this format can be directly programmed into Braille and this does not
require anyfurther editing.
Kalyan Nagar-based Abilities, which assisted Pranav, said: ''The
Ramayana is the most popular work and each one of us have to know about
this great epic. We are so happy that this work will be now available to
the visually challenged." Pranav's mother, Sood, said: "My son wanted to
help the visually challeng children in writing exams. But as it did not
work, he took up the project of making the Ramayana available to them in
Braille. I hope his efforts will be emulated by other children."
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