By 
Brij Kothari
 | 
TEDx Talk

How movie subtitles can improve literacy

According to a 2017 UNESCO report, around one-third of the world's illiterate population resides in India. The country also happens to house one of the largest film industries in the world. In this inspiring talk, social entrepreneur Brij Kothari explains how he made the connection between these two seemingly disparate facts, leveraging same-language subtitling in Bollywood films to promote mass literacy.

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