Interview with Nitin Harsh, founder of Rhythm of Rajasthan, a group that works to coral folk musicians from across Rajasthan and give..
Tejimola is an Assamese folktale with the standard motifs of a step-mother and a troubled daughter, which was first published in 1911,..
An interesting folktale, The Two Storks, prevalent in the Sindh province of Pakistan, sends a very interesting moral message. According to this..
There is a saying that it takes all sorts to make the world and the story I am about to tell you..
The Jataka Tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. The Jatakas are..
‘A Story and a Song’ is a translated tale from Kannada and included in the collection ‘A Flowering Tree’ by A.K. Ramanujan...
Remember when we passed our evenings lying on Grandma’s lap, listening to the tales from Panchatantra? Grandpa’s animated voice as he would..
Last week, we talked about Daura. Author Anukrti Upadhyay’s debut work of fiction, published by 4th Estate Books (an imprint of Harper..
The cover itself draws you in. A maroon background, a sand-yellow illustration of a tree (a kalpavriksh, perhaps), and the beautiful typeface,..
Interviewing a storyteller is like listening to a fable – it is filled with anecdotes, short stories from yore and a feeling..