Titan Eye+ [ The Ek Tara Project ]

1 in 5 school children in India, an estimated 3 crore children, live with undetected vision problems, hampering their learning in formative years. They don't even know they have a vision problem, as kids just assume that's how everyone sees. Parents on the other hand, tend to believe that vision problems only come with age. As a result, children in India are rarely taken for eye checkups. Undetected vision problems can often even be misdiagnosed as learning disorders, compounding making matters even worse for these children.

To address this issue, we needed an effective, easily scalable, accessible preliminary vision test, one that is available at near zero cost to these children. We found the answer in the stars.

The hunter's test - is an ancient vision test used by our ancestors to pick hunters with the sharpest vision by spotting two separate stars, Alcor and Mizar. As binary star systems, they are locked together eternally. If one could see these as two stars separately, they had good vision. But if they appeared as one star, they had blurry vision.

We turned this ancient wisdom into a glow-in-the-dark star spotting aid that doubled as the most accessible, playful vision test. Fun star spotting nights with children across the country could now become preliminary vision tests, raising awareness and prompting eye checkup for children at scale. An initiative launched on Children's day 2025. Good vision is now written in our stars.