So can you describe the project and your own personal experience going into it?

Sure.

So I think for me, the project is really interested in how India as a nation state sees its responsibilities to its citizens, um, and specifically to deaf and disabled citizens.

It's always been a place where deaf and disabled people have received certain kinds of entitlements, um, such as hearing aids, pensions, um, walking canes or sticks, um, some technology, and so on.

And then in 2014, the state decided to, to focus on providing cochlear implants, again, to below poverty line children, and they worked with the three multinational corporate, um, manufacturers of these cochlear implants, and they worked to get tenders, or actually not tenders, but they worked to, to procure devices at a affordable price.

Um, and they saw it as a nationalist project.

You know, we're getting cochlear implants for a cheaper price than they would be otherwise.

So w- what are the kind of post-implantation struggles, and why do we not talk about them?