‘How I taught My Grandmother to Read’ is a story by Sudha Murty, writer, social worker and chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. It describes how, as a girl of 12, Sudha empowered her unlettered grandmother by teaching her to read, and how, by learning to read, the old woman felt independent and free.

Window to the world
The story begins with a description of the remoteness of the village in Nort…