Author: Krishna Warrier and Ketan Kothari

Krishna Warrier is affiliated XRCVC, Mumbai, a national support and advocacy center for inclusivity. Ketan Kothari is associated with Sightsavers, an NGO that works to address sight impairments.
Podcast: <i>How the Visually Impaired Read in India</i>
Issue 4 – January 2018, Spotlight

Podcast: How the Visually Impaired Read in India

I never imagined that blind persons could be voracious readers till I met a visually impaired person who introduced me to DAISY. Now before you conjure up visions liked I did of DAISY being a beautiful young woman with a heart of gold, let me clarify that DAISY is not a human being. But wait, we are jumping the gun. My name is Krishna Warrier and I am chatting today with Ketan Kothari. Ketan is a first-class post graduate from Mumbai University who works for an organisation called Sightsavers, he is an avid reader, and happens to be blind.  Krishna: Ketan, what exactly is DAISY? Ketan: DAISY is a digital system which is accessible to print disabled people so the acronym DAISY stands for Digitally Accessible System—rather, Digitally Accessible Information System and it enables us ...