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 Freed of the shackles of copyright, Tagore's works have now reached the world of the sightless with the release of the Braille version of the Nobel laureate's book of poems
'Sanchayita'.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee, who released the Braille transcription of the immortal work, presented the first copy to former state advocate general Sadhan Gupta, who is blind, at a function on May 14.
Based on a software, 'BharatiBraille', developed by Webel Mediatronics Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation, the project marks the beginning of Braille content creation in Bengali language.
WBEIDC chairman Aloke Mukherjee said the company had printed 200 copies of the Braille version of Sanchayita, to be donated to the 32 blind schools in the state.
 The state, which is the pioneer in India in augmenting the infrastructure of government-aided blind schools by installing computer-based Braille transcription system, would strive
to reach such facilities to other regions of the country, he said.
By using the BharatiBraille system, texts of 12 Indian languages besides English can be converted to corresponding Braille codes and printed through the Modified Perkins Brailler developed by the company.
Published on 17th
May 2002
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