The Assumption That Holds Us Back : A conversation with Siddhant Sathe
What if meaningful impact isn't created by building more technology, but by helping people believe in their own potential? If we think of accessibility as simply providing assistive devices, we're only solving part of the problem. Real inclusion begins when technology, policy, education, and belief in human potential work together. Our next guest has spent his high school years proving exactly that. As the founder of Light of Letters , he has combined research, technology, and grassroots implementation to improve access to STEM education for visually impaired students across rural India. His work spans field research in blind schools, publishing a needs assessment on accessibility, building partnerships with organisations like Bookshare and Sugamya Digital Foundation, and designing scalable systems that continue creating impact beyond the founder himself. Soon beginning his undergraduate journey at UCLA, he represents a generation of young changemakers who believe that meani...