Suvankar Saha

Summary What happens in the brain when someone who has been blind begins to see? This fundamental question drives Project Prakash Foundation. Our work sits at an unusual intersection of service and science. We identify children with treatable blindness, remove every barrier between them and surgery, and provide the care they need to see. Then, with appropriate consent and ethical oversight, we study how their visual systems develop and adapt after sight is restored. The same child who goes...

Summary For children in rural India, the nearest eye specialist can be hours away. As a result, many vision problems go unnoticed until they have already affected a child's learning and development. Project Prakash's outreach programme works to close that distance by taking paediatric eye care directly to the communities where children live and learn. In June 2026, the team held two outreach camps in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh. They screened 132 children, connected those who needed...

Summary Ruhi (11), Juhi (9), and Nitya (5) are three sisters from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, who were all born with bilateral congenital cataracts. Their mother has lived with a vision condition since birth, so she knew firsthand how poor sight can shape a childhood. She held on to one hope: that her daughters would see a different future. With timely eye care through Project Prakash, all three sisters have now had surgery and are beginning to see the world clearly for the first time. Their...