JANUARY 4 - WORLD BRAILLE DAY

The year 1809 saw the birth of three boys destined to create history - Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and the rather under-celebrated Louis Braille...

Born this day in Coupvray, France, and blinded by an accident at the age of three, Louis Braille invented his system of literacy by the age of twelve, and developed himself into an excellent teacher and a gifted musician...

Braille as a script has come a long way to occupy an unique niche in the domain of literacy mediums. With the WHO estimating around 2.2 bn people across the world with some form of visual impairment, the tactile system has endowed self-confidence and independency to the specially-abled...

In a relatively paperless world, technological advances have made Braille more widely available and accessible in the form of quick translations, e-books and e-Braille, compatible keypads along with audio, making life that much easier for the affected, right from a simple dialing of a phone number to the most complex of browsings...

While Louis's alma mater France’s Royal Institute for the Blind Youth adopted the Braille curriculum two years after Louis's demise, the world ought to be grateful for his remarkable invention whereby the specially-abled today are teachers, doctors, lawyers, writers, musicians and so on...

Louis Braille passed away on 6th January 1852 in Paris, reportedly due to Tuberculosis...

The presence of Braille on several objects of daily use like signs, ATMs, elevators, calculators etc. is testimony to it's importance as well as to the greatness of it's inventor. Let us bow in reverence to this great soul...

HAPPY WORLD BRAILLE DAY 

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