She has heard about the beauty of the Taj Mahal and the
engineering marvel that the London Bridge is but Tahira has
never been able to understand what makes these architectural
wonders so special. For her and millions of other blind people,
a mere description of what a monument looks like is the closest
they have come to seeing the real thing. A group of students at
the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) along with NGO
Saksham, however, has come up with 12 miniature models of
monuments from across the world to help blind children touch and
try and understand for themselves what the monuments looks like.
The students and design workshop faculty at SPA undertook the
project to develop to-scale architectural models of well-known
monuments and structures from around the world for the visually-
impaired children at Saksham. The idea was floated by the NGO
and quickly taken up by Vikrant Sharma, a guest faculty at the
school. "I heard about the idea that Saksham had and spoke to
the first year students of the