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Let a Billion Readers Bloom: Same Language Subtitling (SLS) on Television for Mass Literacy

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The SLS project has received generous financial support from Development Marketplace (World Bank), Google Foundation, Department of Education (Ministry of Human Resource Development – Govt. of India), and Sir Ratan Tata Trust. The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and PlanetRead continue to serve as institutional homes. Significant in-kind and indirect support for the project has come from: Doordarshan and Prasar Bharati, Ashoka, and Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship at Stanford University. See www.planetread.org for sample songs and background details about the SLS project.

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Kothari, B. Let a Billion Readers Bloom: Same Language Subtitling (SLS) on Television for Mass Literacy. Int Rev Educ 54, 773–780 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-008-9110-3

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