Meet, S Manjula - Proofreader For Two Monthly Tamil Magazines Meant Exclusively For The Blind

Indian Association for the Blind (IAB) - an NGO based in Madurai - has been printing two monthly magazines in Braille dedicated to the visually challenged.

S. Manjula, the joint secretary at IAB and the person in-charge of the Braille press run by the association, has been editing and proofreading these books for years now.

She runs her fingers over the pages and reads out the words as she checks for errors.

ANI

'Vizhi Saval' and 'Braille Manjeri' the Tamil magazines have over 200 subscribers each, across Tamil Nadu, apart from some readers in neighbouring states.

With 65-pages each, the magazines for visually impaired persons are printed using a pair of advanced printing machines that can print about 650 characters in a minute.

The pages are then arranged and put together into a magazine format and tied together with a string and stacked up to be dispatched.

"My work is to read proofs of the material which is then sent for printing. We have more than 200 subscribers," Manjula told ANI.?

?'Vizhi Saval', which was launched in 2011 and 'Braille Manjeri' launched in 2013 magazines curates??articles from various newspapers and magazines.?