Congratulations Sir! I think you have, once again, inspired me! Wish you all the best!
Salute to you! Preeti Preeti Monga - Chief Executive Officer Inspiring INCLUSION! Fostering DIGNITY! Mobile : 91 9871701646 Landline : 011 22781446 E-mail : preeti.mo...@silver-linings.org /preeti.mo...@gmail.com Website : www.silver-linings.org Our Services: Recruitment, Trainings- Unique Motivation Programmes, Diversity & Inclusion, POSH. Your Choice to partner with us contributes towards quality Education & Empowerment of Visually Impaired Girls, and providing them with secure Hostel facility at SHIKSHA (A CSR Initiative of Silver Linings) -----Original Message----- From: Ai [mailto:ai-boun...@accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in] On Behalf Of r k sarin via Ai Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 15:15 To: Share, empower &Enrich Cc: r k sarin Subject: Re: [Ai] Visually impaired writer starts publishing house for the blind. Thanks Mahendra ji, perhaps, doing something at this age, gives a lot of confidence again and a sense of contributing again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mahendra Galani via Ai" <ai@accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in> To: "Share, empower &Enrich" <ai@accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in> Cc: "Mahendra Galani" <gal...@chello.at> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [Ai] Visually impaired writer starts publishing house for the blind. yes, congratulations Dr Sarin. and Shireen thanks for sharing. At 12:07 AM 10/16/2017 +0530, you wrote: >Congratulations Dr. R.K. Sareen! | NEW DELHI | 14 October, 2017 The purpose >of Raktim Publications is to publish more blind-friendly literature and >make such books accessible for students in the Mangal font. After a life of >living in darkness, a visually impaired writer is making it easier for >blind people to access books in Hindi. Dr Ramesh Kumar Sareen, a lecturer >by profession, is all set to launch his new book under the banner of >â?oRaktim Publicationsâ?, a publishing house that Sareen has independently >started for visually impaired people. The purpose of Raktim Publications is >to publish more blind-friendly literature and make such books accessible to >students in the Mangal font of Hindi language. â?oI have observed an acute >lack of blind publishers, though there are blind people around who are >willing to write. Publishing a book is a tedious task and is discouraging >for blind people to get tailor-made books published,â? said Sareen. Sareen >said that visually impaired people have specific needs that characterise >blind-friendly books. For example, avoiding footnotes, publishing books in >a font that can be read by various software that visually impaired people >use without having to scan the entire book, making e-texts accessible and >transliterating books on various subjects in different languages. Raktim >Publications intends to include all such characteristics in its Hindi >books. Sareen, a former employee at Indian Airlines, left his 13-year-old >career in the aviation industry to become a political science lecturer at >Satyavati College, Delhi University, because he wanted to help eager blind >people to get the education they needed. â?oThere was no job satisfaction >in aviation for me. I was earning money and was able to get married and >start a family, but I was not able to contribute back to society the way I >wanted to. So I decided to become a lecturer and stay close to the young >crop and help visually impaired students.â? Sareen has done a PhD in >political science from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Talking about his new >book, Sareen said, â?oThis is my third book, but the first one which will >be published under the banner of Raktim Publications. The book is in Hindi >and is blind-friendly, which means that the visually impaired will not have >to scan it to read it through software. There will be e-text available.â? >Sareenâ?Ts new book in Hindi is titled Sam Samayik Bharat ki Vikas Prakriya >aur Samajik Andolan, which means â?odevelopment process and social >movements in contemporary Indiaâ?. The book does an analysis of political >developments that took place between 1930 and 2014 in India. The e-text of >the book is in Mangal font and will be available after 31 October. It can >be ordered online by dropping an email at raktimprakas...@gmail.com Sareen >said, â?oI have not done any analysis of political developments that took >place 2014 onward because a lot has happened and we still need to observe >the consequences over the years to come to a conclusion. Whether the >current changes prove good for us or bad will be known in future, no point >passing hasty judgements.â? An atheist by self-confession, Sareen >explained why he named his publishing house â?oRaktimâ?. He said, â?oI >have been heavily inspired by works of Dr Bhisham Sahni who has written a >lot on communal subjects. Since the colour of everybodyâ?Ts blood is same >irrespective of which God they believe in, I chose to name it Raktim.â? >Emphasising on efficient implementation of government policies for the >visually impaired, Sareen said, â?oThings have become a lot easier now >because of technology that helps us visually impaired people learn things >which we could not until a few years back. The government, too, has >increased facilities for people like us; however, a major policy loophole >is not including partially blind people in the list of beneficiaries. Such >people are not able to avail government schemes, nor are they able to study >and work like other people.â? A Guinness record holder, Sareen has written >the maximum words in Braille in a stipulated period of time by typing Hindi >stories for 158 hours. Sareen said, â?oI wish to make it convenient for >visually impaired people to read whatever they want to read. Raktim >Publications intends to fulfil this objective for Hindi language, but we >will also venture into English books.â? source: >http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/11235-visually-impaired-writer-start s-publishing-house-blind >Celebrating International sight day Oct. 12 and World White Cane day Oct 15 >Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the >thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to >its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based >on the mails sent through this mailing list.. 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