The Magic Makers: Jivya’s Talking Hands: How Jivya Soma Mashe Found His Voice Through Art

‘Left right . . . Left right . . .’Jivya followed the ants everywhere—up mud walls throughrustling leaves over cool stones. After losing Aai when his ownwords slipped away the ants became Jivya’s only friends. Thenone day they led him to a new place. A place filled lines circlesand triangles . . . a place filled with stories about the people andlife around him.Could this discovery help Jivya tell his own stories and give hima new voice one that needed no words at all?