Newspaper reviews  
 
 
       
  PlanetRead joins Google, LitCam, and UNESCO to celebrate World Book Day on The Literacy Project - World Book Day, April 2008.  
       
  Eradicating illiteracy, karaoke style - Management Next, May 2008.  
       
  Power of subtitles - The Times of India, 6th April 2008.  
       
  Singing To Read - Same Language Subtitling on Bollywood film songs, a solution for India's illiteracy problems - Courtesy: asia! Sept. 2007  
       
  Google aid for literacy project - article in The Times of India 18 Apr, 2006  
       
  Web resource to spread literacy - Google, UNESCO and Frankfurt Book Fair join hands
The Hindu, 15th October 2006
 
       
  Read a Song, Learn Along - A deceptively simple idea integrates literacy with popular lyrics, achieving remarkable results - India Today, 26th June 2006  
       
  TV brings quantum leap for literacy with same language subtitling – ICT in Education UNESCO Bangkok – March 2003  
       
  2003 Laureate: The NASDAQ Stock Market Education Award - The Tech Museum Awards 2003  
       
  Same Language Subtitling on TV for Mass Literacy – The World Bank - Development Market place - DM2002 Projects  
       
  Social E-Challenge: Spotlight: BookBox – BASES: Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students - May 2004  
       
  The Google Literacy project – Official Google Blog – Posted by Dr. Brij Kothari, Founder and President, PlanetRead & BookBox, Inc., 4th October 2006  
       
  Google: Doing Good in India - BusinessWeek online – 29th August 2006  
       
  Fellowship combines tech and social entrepreneurship. The Stanford Daily 10th February 2004.  
       
  Power of an idea - digital opportunity channel – 11th August 2005.  
       
  Learning is a Song, U.S. Embassy's "Span" Magazine September – October 2005  
       
  Easy read, The Hindu - Metro Plus - Pondicherry – 9th April 2005  
       
  Sing a song for literacy, Trans World Features, TWFIndia.com – March 2005  
       
  Same Language Subtitling - Official Google Blog – Posted by Dr. Brij Kothari, Founder and President, PlanetRead – December 2005  
       
  Chitrahaar improves mass literacy! - Deccan Herald – 30th July 2003  
       
  The idiot-box turns into a teacher... and entertains better
- TWN Third World Network - October 2002.
 
       
  Junior films documentary to boost literacy in India – The Brown Daily Herald – Brown University Newspaper – 22nd September 2006  
       
    Subtitling TV songs for mass literacy - Global:Ideas:Bank  
       
  Same Language Subtitling: Small Change for Colossal Gains in Literacy - iConnect Online – 27th March 2001  
       
  Why is a professor subtitling Chitrahaar? MUMBAI Newsline – 17th August 2003  
       
  Promoting literacy through same language subtitling - BhashaIndia – 11th April 2005  
       
  Literacy through subtitled songs - The Indian ExMedia - Friday, 4th June, 1999  
       
  Researcher uses TV for literacy - Gujaratplus - Wednesday, 10th January, 2001  
       
  The karaoke way to literacy - GoodNewsIndia – 24th November 2003