In reality, half the so-called ‘literates,’ more than 300 million people, can best be called ‘early-literate.’ They cannot read, for example, newspaper headlines.

IIM Ahmedabad and PlanetRead Trust have nationally implemented SLS in partnership with Doordarshan.

Donors have included: PlanetRead has been featured by The Economist,[2] The Boston Globe,[3] The Huffington Post,[4] The World Bank,[5] and Extreme Tech.

[6] Former U.S. President Bill Clinton also spoke about the importance PlanetRead and Same Language Subtitling.

[7] PlanetRead has conducted many studies demonstrating the positive impact of Same Language Subtitling.