Marathi filmmaker Swagat Thorat, who created a record of sorts by having 88 visually impaired artists perform on stage, is now working on a movie, casting ten such performers, who are playing sighted ...

Swagat Thorat has been running India’s first Braille newspaper since February 2008. His 50-page Marathi newspaper Sparshdnyan, meaning ‘knowledge by touch’, is published on the 1st and 15th of every ...

Helping hand: Swagat Thorat, journalist-turned-entrepreneur. Until now, blind people in Maharashtra who wanted to keep themselves abreast of the latest political and current affairs news had no option ...

He was always fascinated by the way the visually challenged adapted to their disability and navigated their sig­htlessness. For Swagat Thorat, who is known as the Braille Man of India, introducing the ...

After a gap of two years, Thane residents can participate in the annual Swagat Yatra on Gudi Padwa on Saturday. Swagat Yatra on the morning of Gudi Padwa is a two-decade-old tradition and attended by ...

Swagat Thorat’s endless fascination for the ways the visually challenged adapt to their disability It all started in 1993, when Swagat Thorat did his first project with the visually challenged: a ...

The annual new year’s procession, popularly known as Swagat Yatra, during Gudi Padwa organised by Kopineshwar Cultural Committee will have fewer vehicles and more people walking this year. HT Image ...

"The film is still in the process..We have not even decided its title. It will be ready in next 6-8 months. The lead roles are also enacted by two visually challenged artists. They are playing role of ...