What is your relationship with sound? What sounds make you happy, afraid or sad? Sounds can be a trigger for a story. That was how Priya Sen began. I was at a Digital Story Telling Workshop for the blind, with visually-challenged students from various Mumbai colleges participating at the session.

The sounds that made them happy, afraid or sad, were a revelation. For Nidhi Goyal, happy sounds included, “diyas bursting into flame, barish mein talne ki awaz (something frying when it's raining outside), and the beep of the microwave, indicating that a process is finished.”