Storytelling
I have always been fascinated by storytelling or to put it correctly story reading. Starting from Chandamama to Ayan Rand, RK Narayan, Michael Chricton, Vikram Seth etc.
However now I wonder where are the storytellers in Indian langages. Do we see a Premchand in our midst , NO!!!Why??? You can find Amatav Ghosh, Anita Desai but no one who writes in Hindi. Wonder who is gonna take up the baton. It would be our, yes our, responsibility to again start patronizing local languages. Whoever has read Chandamama would find it hard to believe that such an enriching storystrip had lost steam but it again picked up only recently.
check out at http://www.chandamama.org/
Here is a beautiful journey of chandamama http://specials.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/28sld1.htm
Movies are another medium for the same thing, just that they are condensed and the characters have faces and they can talk too and if it is an Indian movie then they sing too. Apart from the fact that movies provide entertainment for millions they also reflect the society. They sometimes speak for ourselves, what we cannot speak openly we make the movies convey the same for us. I read a recent review in TOI about Indian movies that had that effect. http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDA2LzA4LzI3I0FyMDEwMDA=&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom
Thankfully movies are faring much better than the books.
However now I wonder where are the storytellers in Indian langages. Do we see a Premchand in our midst , NO!!!Why??? You can find Amatav Ghosh, Anita Desai but no one who writes in Hindi. Wonder who is gonna take up the baton. It would be our, yes our, responsibility to again start patronizing local languages. Whoever has read Chandamama would find it hard to believe that such an enriching storystrip had lost steam but it again picked up only recently.
check out at http://www.chandamama.org/
Here is a beautiful journey of chandamama http://specials.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/28sld1.htm
Movies are another medium for the same thing, just that they are condensed and the characters have faces and they can talk too and if it is an Indian movie then they sing too. Apart from the fact that movies provide entertainment for millions they also reflect the society. They sometimes speak for ourselves, what we cannot speak openly we make the movies convey the same for us. I read a recent review in TOI about Indian movies that had that effect. http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDA2LzA4LzI3I0FyMDEwMDA=&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom
Thankfully movies are faring much better than the books.
posted by Vaibhav at 9:45 PM
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