Antardrishti 20 Years, 20 Stories anniversary campaign artwork featuring illustrated portraits representing people and a journey, with the messages “Twenty years of Antardrishti cannot be told in one story,” “From 1 September 2026,” and “One story. Every day. For 20 days.” The artwork highlights Antardrishti’s focus on preventing blindness, restoring sight, and empowering visually impaired people, with the tagline “Together only we can.”

ANTARDRISHTI AT 20

20 YEARS · 20 STORIES · One Journey

We did not set out to build an organisation. We set out to answer a question, a question that began with a boy named Raju, who knew everything about a joker from his Braille book but had never actually seen one. What happens when a child can learn everything a book can teach, but still needs opportunities to experience the world beyond the book? We did not have an answer, but we could not stop asking the question. Over the next twenty years, it took us into schools, villages, streets, communities, kitchens and places we had never planned to go. Along the way, we built things, made mistakes, changed direction, learned to say no, and met people who changed the way we saw the world. These 20 stories are our celebration of 20 glorious years of Antardrishti, not a history or a record of achievements, but twenty moments that shaped who we became. This is what we saw. We hope it helps you see something too.

Today’s Story

Illustrated cover for “The Umbrellas on the Street,” showing a busy street exhibition with large umbrella frames displaying eye donation awareness posters as people walk through a market.

The Umbrellas on the Street

We bought three large umbrellas. They were not for the rain. It was evening, and the market was beginning to come alive. People were coming out to shop, families were moving through the crowded streets, and the smell of street food was spreading through the air. The lane beside us was particularly busy, with people stopping to eat, talking over plates of food and moving in and out of the shops. That was where we put the umbrellas. Three large umbrellas stood along the roadside, right beside the street-food lane. We had removed their covers and turned the frames into…

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