PlanetRead is a not-for-profit with the vision of a planet where everyone can read and have access to interesting and affordable reading opportunities in native and any other language(s) of interest. This vision is built around its core innovation, Same Language Subtitling (SLS), and a mission to implement SLS on audio-visual content already watched with a passion by millions of people, in every country, in locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally important languages.
PlanetRead along with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad have implemented and published several multi-year TV pilot studies of SLS in eight Indian languages (2002-2023). This has led to a national policy mandating SLS on 50% of all entertainment programming on TV in India, by 2025. Building on the potential of SLS for reading, language learning, and media access, PlanetRead further innovated the 'AniBook' or animated stories with SLS to massively scale up children's reading in any language(s), on any screen.
PlanetRead Deutsche Welle — India: Learning to Read with Karaoke | Global 3000
PlanetRead and IIM-A among Winners of Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2009
Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year, 2009: Brij Kothari (CNBC, part 1)
Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year, 2009: Award Ceremony covered by CNBC
BookBox: A social venture that supports PlanetRead (CNBC interviews Brij Kothari)
Dr. Larry Brilliant, Google.org in conversation with Dr. Brij Kothari
Bollywood Lessons
PlanetRead Documentary