PlanetRead

PlanetRead
PlanetRead logo
Motto Literacy for a Billion
Type Nonprofit organization
Legal status U.S. 501(c)(3)
India 80(G)
Focus Literacy
Region
India
Services Same Language Subtitling
President
 Brij Kothari
Chief Operating Officer
 Nirav Shah
Website planetread.org
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PlanetRead is a non-profit founded by Ashoka Fellow, Brij Kothari, to provide Same Language Subtitling on Bollywood music videos in the same language that they are sung in to promote functional literacy. There are an estimated 650 million literate people in India. In reality, half the so-called ‘literates,’ more than 300 million people, can best be called ‘early-literate.’ They cannot read, for example, newspaper headlines.

Same language subtitling

Same Language Subtitling (SLS) has been implemented on existing Bollywood film songs on TV, in 10 languages:

A Hindi song is shown with the lyrics subtitled in Hindi, Tamil songs with Tamil subtitles, and so on. What you hear is what you read. The subtitles are designed to change the color of every word in perfect timing with the song. SLS is cost-effective. On a Hindi program, one U.S. dollar gives reading practice to 5,000 people for one year.

IIM Ahmedabad and PlanetRead Trust have nationally implemented SLS in partnership with Doordarshan. Donors have included:

Media coverage

PlanetRead has been featured by The Economist,[2] The Boston Globe,[3] The Huffington Post,[4] The World Bank,[5] and Extreme Tech.[6] Former U.S. President Bill Clinton also spoke about the importance PlanetRead and Same Language Subtitling.[7]

PlanetRead has conducted many studies demonstrating the positive impact of Same Language Subtitling.[8][9] Their most recent study was in August 2015.[10]

PlanetRead also has all their show times on their website.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Team". PlanetRead. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  2. ↑ "A bolly good read". The Economist. 2015-04-25. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  3. ↑ Shah, Riddhi (2010-09-19). "Watch and learn". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  4. ↑ Kothari, Brij (2015-02-12). "A Prime Minister Gets the Innovation Ball Rolling". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  5. ↑ Trucano, Michael (2014-01-31). "Bollywood Karaoke and Same Language Subtitling to Promote Literacy". EduTech. World Bank. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  6. ↑ Davies, Nicola (2015-06-12). "Keeping it simple: The next technology revolution". ExtremeTech. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  7. ↑ Bill Clinton (2009-10-10). Clinton Global Initiative: 'Same Language Subtitling' on TV for Mass Literacy in India (Video). PlanetRead – via YouTube.
  8. ↑ "Research on Same-Language-Subtitling". Same-Language-Subtitling. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  9. ↑ "SLS Group". PlanetRead. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  10. ↑ Same Language Subtitling on TV: Putting Children's Reading Literacy on a Path to Lifelong Practice and Improvement (PDF) (Executive Summary). Puducherry, India: PlanetRead. 2015-08-04.
  11. ↑ "Programs that have been telecast with Same Language Subtitling". PlanetRead. Retrieved 2017-09-16.


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