Purple Pencil Project’s About Us section on their website reads, “Stories are the best way to know more about anything and anyone, and we want to help everyone know more about India through its stories.” And in a country with 22 official languages, no one language can express the entirety of our experiences and cultures. So, this International Mother Language Day, they’re inviting readers to be a part of their mission by submitting videos of themselves, grandparents, relatives and neighbours reading in their mother language, followed by a quick translation. “Whatever small snippets they can manage, a poem, childhood rhyme, a part of a folktale or novel, however rusty their diction or slow their reading speed — it doesn’t matter,” says Prakruti Maniar, co-founder at Purple Pencil Project (P3).