illiteracy – Generation Change https://blogs.dw.com/generationchange Whether they are campaigning for free press in Zimbabwe, helping provide clean water in India, or offering free music lessons to underprivileged kids in the UK, young people all over the world are making a difference. Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:49:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Teaching Indians to read Karaoke style https://blogs.dw.com/generationchange/2012/07/teaching-indians-to-read-karaoke-style/ Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:30:11 +0000 http://blogs.dw.com/generationchange/?p=2119 Social entrepreneur Brij Kothari has set up an innovative project to teach Indians how to read and write by simply singing film songs in front of the television. Kothari’s trick is to subtitle Indian Bollywood songs in the same language in which they are sung in an effort to appeal to the 300 million or so Indians who can’t read or write. As they sing along, they learn to read.

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