“As a teacher, I once had a blind student and was amazed at how he took life in his stride,” Zai Whitaker said.

This student was partly the inspiration for Ms. Whitaker’s latest children’s book Kanna Panna , whose protagonist is visually challenged.

In the book, launched on Tuesday at Vidya Sagar, Kanna is a child who leads his life the way any others his age would do. Ms. Whitaker said it was interesting to study the contrast between his perception of life and that of the grownups around him.

He and his friends had a fun-filled life. Being unable to see was just the way he was. Only a handful of children’s books published in India portray disability in a matter-of-fact manner and keep disability secondary to the main storyline, a release from Vidya Sagar said.............Read more

Source: The Hindu