Sharanya Manivannan’s Incantations over Water: A graphic novel that submerges into the deep blue oceans of diasporic longing and folklore. Meet Ila – a mermaid
Interview with Nitin Harsh, founder of Rhythm of Rajasthan, a group that works to coral folk musicians from across Rajasthan and give them a fighting
Tejimola is an Assamese folktale with the standard motifs of a step-mother and a troubled daughter, which was first published in 1911, by the renowned
An interesting folktale, The Two Storks, prevalent in the Sindh province of Pakistan, sends a very interesting moral message. According to this story, in a
There is a saying that it takes all sorts to make the world and the story I am about to tell you proves this. About
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 amongst the earliest
The epics have been a major influence across communities and tribes in India. In the folk oral epics of Central India, especially in Chattisgarh and
‘A Story and a Song’ is a translated tale from Kannada and included in the collection ‘A Flowering Tree’ by A.K. Ramanujan. . The world
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