In 1928, Jawaharlal Nehru decided to open Indira's eyes to the world. He wrote to his 10 year-old daughter from Allahabad and filled his letters with what amounted to history lessons. The batch of 30 letters that makes up "Letters from a Father to his Daughter" was first published in 1929. And now, a brand new Braille version will reveal their contents to the visually impaired.

The collection has gone through many editions since 1929 with Indira Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra writing forewords for some of them. A Braille version of the collection – non-fiction for kids essentially – was released at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library on Monday.

The proposal first came in 2008, says Anupam Chakraborty, secretary, Blind Person's Association, an organization based in Kolkata. It was made by Dr N Ratnasree, director of the Nehru Planetarium, who is also associated with BPA. It was accepted in 2009 and BPA sought the support of NMML. " Sonia Gandhi gave us the requisite permission and after that we provided financial support," says Mridula Mukherjee, director, NMML. The plan is to distribute copies of the 109-page book, prepared by the Lal Bihari Shah Braille Academia (the Braille press and library project of BPA), among the sightless in and around Delhi. "The NMML purchased 200 copies from us for the purpose," says Chakraborty.

"It's a wonderful work for the dissemination of knowledge among the blind," says Chakraborty. The collection includes knowledge on creation, life, universe, ancient civilizations, world history and the Indian epics. The style is one a 10-year-old would easily absorb. The Braille edition will have Nehru's 1929 foreword and also the preface to the second, 1931, edition.