Had Enough By The Time

Within just a few weeks time, she received sharpeners specially designed for left-handed people. However, the company had been working on a mould of sharpener for left-handed people. She began with a search for stationery for left-handed people. The natural instinct of a left-handed person is to write from right to left, like the Urdu text.[标签:标题] THE ASIAN AGE. The availability of stationary for left-handed people is a common phenomenon abroad but it doesn’t have a market in India. So Shweta had to extensively train her daughter to write in that format.”Not just this, the child even faced problems in writing.The company is now fast-tracking its process of producing specific products and sees the sharpener as stage one towards it. Even writing letters and numbers like S, 7 and 3 is a challenge, at times she writes them in reverse.

“Of the other challenges, it was even difficult for her to write on a board, as her hand would end up erasing the text.She first became aware of the problem when she witnessed her daughter struggling at a sports event back in playschool.He points out that this was an unprecendented for the company, and has triggered a sudden awareness to produce writing skill specific stationary. The firm is now working towards manufacturing scissors for left-handed people. Instead she took action. “Either there was no stationery available or if there was, it was expensive,” she recalls. Shweta, who comes from a family where everyone is right-handed, was unaware of the challenges a left-handed person could face. And finally, she wrote to Hindustan Pencils Pvt Ltd (manufactures of Natraj and Apsara pencils) explaining her problem. Also using scissors and writing on spiral books is difficult,” she adds.end-ofTags: unique art, hindustan pencils pvt ltd.

“My daughter, Isha was part of a race where she had to run for a distance, collect objects kept on the right and dump them in the bucket on the left. “We never gave it a serious thought but this case got our attention suddenly that there is a section with such requirements, even if it is smaller, we can look into that segment,” he says. “Our research and development team had been China mold Insert Cores working on it and it is under process,” says Sanjay Tiwari, group-marketing manager at Hindustan Pencils.Singh wasn't one to sit and let her daughter think there is something wrong with being a lefty.Shweta Singh with her familyShweta Singh had had enough by the time her four-and-a-half-year-old daughter returned home from school upset and feeling low.And finally, she decided to take things in her own hands. When enquired, she found out that her daughter’s issue was rather unique — being a left-handed person, she was unable to sharpen a pencil with the ease of the right-handed people. She found it difficult to complete the task. “It was an unusual case so I called her personally to understand the problem,” he recalls.