Storytelling
Recent Highlights
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Storytelling and healthcare: How childhood trauma can get in the way of describing symptoms, medical history well
•Every patient is forced to be a storyteller; a health-care professional’s job is to make them an excellent one.
Tracing Cinderella's origins: Birthed by a network of women storytellers, robbed of feminist potential by male writers
•Cinderella began its life as a folk tale, passed orally from household to household. The earliest recorded copy dates back to China in 850-860.
Out of Print turns 10: Indira Chandrasekhar on the acclaimed online journal, and the short story as a literary form
Aarushi Agrawal •It’s a flash of extraordinary brilliance on a single moment, episode, character, or transition, says Chandrasekhar about the short story as a literary form.
Amitav Ghosh on his book Jungle Nama, folk traditions: 'We have to find ways to make reading collaborative'
Arshia •Through his new book Jungle Nama — written completely in verse, with artwork by Salman Toor — the writer wishes to uphold and celebrate folk traditions of storytelling by engaging with diverse mediums such as audiobooks, graphic novels and video-gaming.
AfsanaBadosh ep 2: Listen to Premchand's 'Sawa Ser Gehun' | Presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam
Jashn E Qalam •AfsanaBadosh, presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam, celebrates the spirit of storytelling through narrations of the greatest Hindi and Urdu stories. This is Episode 2 — Premchand's 'Sawa Ser Gehun', as performed by Vicky Ahuja.
AfsanaBadosh ep 1: Listen to Rajinder Singh Bedi's 'Quarantine' | Presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam
Jashn E Qalam •AfsanaBadosh, presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam, celebrates the spirit of storytelling through narrations of the greatest Hindi and Urdu stories. This is Episode 1 — Rajinder Singh Bedi's 'Quarantine', as performed by KC Shankar.
Farmers are playing major role in building Aatmanirbhar Bharat, says Narendra Modi during Mann Ki Baat
•Talking about various success stories of farmer groups across states, Modi also said the agriculture sector will benefit immensely with greater use of technology
Storytelling for Gen Z: How Yuvaa is centering conversations, content on identity and mental health
Anuprabhakar •The objective behind Yuvaa is to empower children by getting them to speak up about identity and mental health-related issues, which they are otherwise not prompted to do
Neelesh Misra on navigating fiction and fact: 'Journalism helped in striking the right balance in my storytelling'
Suryasarathibhattacharya •Neelesh Misra tells us about his career as a journalist, lyricist, scriptwriter, author, radio jockey and mentor to emerging storytellers, amid the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2019
Kathakar: The eighth edition of the festival brings together vast array of stories from across the world
Anandamayee Singh •This year’s Kathakar took featured performances of Polish, Indian, Guyanese, Iranian and Greek legends, as well as old and modern Indian tales.