About Touch-Read Project
So some of these stories, approximately 150 stories,  were prepared for publishing in Hindi Braille language for our visually handicapped people. A project with the name of Touch Read was started in October 2013. Under this project various countries' folktales written in Hindi language were organized under 15 titles. One of them is already out while others are underway to be published.

Its first Hindi Braille title " Nigeria Kee Lok Kathaayen, Pahalaa Bhaag" was published by National Association for the Blind (NAB), Mumbai, and was distributed to 120 schools for visually handicapped all over India free of charge. Any visually handicapped individual - man, woman or child who can read Hindi Braille living in any country could always ask for a copy of any of those 15 titles (when published) free of charge by writing to hindifolktales@gmail.com. Later two books more, published through them only, were distributed in the same way but they welcomed them in disinterested way.

It was irony of the education or desire of learning that the people who have only few resources at hand could not make use of those resources which were readily available to them without any charge. There was a time when people walked miles from one village to another for their schooling. Today when the resources are freely open they are ignored. God bless India.

As nobody seemed interested in Hindi Braille book, neither teachers nor even readers who always have limited resources at their hand, this Project came to halt.

But we felt so disappointed to find when no school, not even one to count, cared even to acknowledge the receipt of the books, let alone giving thanks, reporting back with normal courtesy, like "These books are good.", "Yes they will be useful to our children.", "They will increase their knowledge about other cultures." or "When are you publishing your new book?" etc. etc. That at one time I lost my enthusiasm. I started feeling either I am mad or people are mad. Then thought "No, all people cannot go wrong about one thing, it is only my fault that I am unable to explain my works' importance to them." But still I did not know how to convince them and what to do to convince them. I was very much adamant to implement my project.

Normal Publishing
So I restored my courage and I again contacted a publisher in India and was able to publish my one book, my first book, "Raven Ki Lok Kathayen-1" (Folktales of Raven-1) by Indra Publishing House, Bhopal in 2016. It contained 20 folktales of Raven who is the hero of Native American Canadian folktales because of his Creation stories. This book was also also sent free to more than 160 schools, plus organizations and people. It also met the same fate.

One last effort more - I contacted a big publisher who published two books for me - "Ethiopia Ki Lok Kaythayen-1" (Folktales of Ethiopia-1), and "Ethiopia Ki Lok Kathayen-2" (Folktales of Ethiopia-2) in 2018. They took two years to come out in the market, but still not up to my expectation....

Later I got published two books more from the same publisher - "Sheba Ki Rani Makeda" and "Raja Solomon" which came out in January 2019. On contacting the NBT, Delhi, they got ready to publish the translation of one old book "Bengal Ki Lok Kathayen" (Folktales of Bengal). This book was published in English in 1889, now published for the first time in Hindi by NBT in 2019 - 130 years later.

Now the times are different. Those times are gone when people took years to produce translation of foreign language books like this (more than a hundred year). Now is the time that we should pay attention to translate as many good books as possible not only to preserve them for future but also to enjoy reading them now by other language speaking people.