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 (SLS) has been implemented on existing Bollywood film songs on TV, in 10 languages: More information...
According to PR-model, planetread.org is ranked 1,820,036th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 56,966th in Ukrainian Wikipedia.
The website is placed before pferde-ungarns.de and after boholnewsdaily.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
