Recent Highlights
All Stories for Storytelling
Storytelling and healthcare: How childhood trauma can get in the way of describing symptoms, medical history well
• 4 years agoEvery 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
• 4 years agoCinderella 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 • 4 years agoIt’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 • 4 years agoThrough 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 • 4 years agoAfsanaBadosh, 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 • 4 years agoAfsanaBadosh, 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
• 4 years agoTalking 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 • 6 years agoThe 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 • 6 years agoNeelesh 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 • 6 years agoThis year’s Kathakar took featured performances of Polish, Indian, Guyanese, Iranian and Greek legends, as well as old and modern Indian tales.