First feature · 3 min read · 22 October 2026
Upasana Makati and White Print, India's braille lifestyle magazine
Our first feature is a woman who started a magazine. Hers is read with the fingers.
Prive Pages is a magazine about women who built something of their own. The first woman we feature built a magazine.
In 2013 Upasana Makati asked a simple question: what do blind people read for pleasure? The answer was almost nothing. Textbooks, manuals, newsletters from organisations. So she left her job and started White Print, India's first English lifestyle magazine in braille: 64 pages a month of politics, sport, travel, food and fiction, printed at the National Association for the Blind in Mumbai and posted across India.
Why her
Three things made the choice easy for us.
She built it to last. White Print was set up to pay its own way, from subscriptions and advertising, not donations. Before the first issue she wrote to more than 200 companies; one said yes, and paid for the launch.
She kept going past the first idea. Running the magazine showed her that people's ideas about disability were often a bigger problem than the shortage of books. So she turned to children: braille alphabet books to touch, picture books on inclusion, and a book of her own, Run Saba Run. Today she also advises companies on diversity and inclusion.
Others noticed. The First Lady Award from the Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2018, Forbes India 30 Under 30, Fortune India 40 Under 40, and the Rising Talents of 2019 at the Women's Forum in Paris.
Where to read it
Her full profile is on our site now: She made a magazine you read with your fingers. It will also appear in print in an upcoming issue of Prive Pages.
If you know a school, library or reader who should be getting White Print, the subscription is at whiteprint.in.