Listening, the singular experience on which this podcast is anchored, is taken for granted until we no longer have the ability to hear. Unlike other forms of disability,  deafness the disability is invisible, what is visible are the related educational and social widening gaps. Arun Shah, the Director, Development of the All India Federation of the Deaf, shares with Baroque his engagement with visibilising the invisible disability. He has been supporting non-profits, in marketing, communications raising resources, both material and human for nearly four decades.  In the course of the conversation, he discusses growing up as the younger brother, of one of India’s most talented artists, the painter, Prabha Shah, and the journey from being a supportive family member to becoming an advocate for the rights of the deaf, working full time, to bridge the divide between the deafness of those who are reluctant to hear and the difficulties of the hearing impaired who want to live lives of meaning and self-respect.