Madhu Singhal, not well known to the casual civilians of India but according to the Visually Impaired Students she is the Path maker to their Future.
She first stepped into school when she was 14 years old, yet she was one of the brightest students of her batch. She topped in her college, taking everyone by surprise. But visually impaired madhu singhal’s aspirations were soon thwarted because of dearth of study material available in Braille.
Now rolled up story after 30 years, MitraJyothi, the charitable trust formed by Madhu, has recorded 2,000 books in six languages – Kannada, English, Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil and Malayalam – in 20,000 cassettes and helped thousands of visually impaired students to continue with higher education and get white collar jobs.
She conceived the idea of starting a talking library for the visually challenged where novels, guides for competitive exams, magazines and school and college text books would be recorded and given on rent to its members.