What is a story and how to tell it?
Amit Kapoor “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young...
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Martin Elrodt When I first fell in love with storytelling in 1990, at the age of 24, and in the following years migrated from my previous profession as actor to being a storyteller, it was still quite...
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Aditi Padiyar Before writing revolutionized literacy, all we had was the spoken word. The history of mankind has passed down generations, surviving the tragic extinction of many a language, only...
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Swetha Prakash The guru-shisya parampara or the traditional education system, whereby a qualified teacher conveyed knowledge of the Vedas, art, architecture, philosophy, and spirituality to students,...
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Sonali Bhatia Having attended several storytelling sessions, I have noticed that the children in the audience are often mesmerized and enthralled by the tale, and remember events, characters and...
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Nina Sabnani Stories mesmerize, invoke curiosity, enhance memory and listening skills, reflect culture and teach lessons for life. In all ages and all places stories have been exchanged between people...
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Sheel For as far as I can remember, I’ve had a fascination for stories. Maybe many of you do, too. The ones among the most intriguing to me are the stories about stories. There’s this story about a man...
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