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Of some of the treasures Youtube has to offer, there is the storytelling channel of Deepa Kiran. And within this channel you can find this gem of a story – How a young poor girl became a snake doctor. Deepa Kiran starts us on the storytelling journey with a musical introduction. A custodian of the…
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Kathalaya Interview Series What are the uses of storytelling? Storytelling fosters the social and emotional development of the child. The main offshoots of storytelling are that it fulfils children both socially and emotionally. Schools are not completely equipped to work on some of these areas of each and every student. I felt the need to…
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Kathalaya Interview Series Could you talk about the relevance of storytelling? Once anything is put in the form of story it can easily be understood and remembered. We never forgot the stories our grandparents told us. When we hear stories – this is the space we return to after so many years. The storyteller and…
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Kathalaya Interview Series Your career trajectory? I am an electrical engineer. I was with Konika films. I had great growth in that company. They made camera films. I am a Kannadiga. I was managing aftersales. I was in many managerial roles and managed multiple projects. I worked on System Integration. I worked on seamless management…
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Rimi has won the Best Screenplay (Student) at DadaSaheb Phalke Film Festival Award 2021, after which it went ahead to premier at IFFSA – Toronto 2021, Indisches FilmFestival Stuttgart 2021, IDSFFK Kerala 2022 and India’s only Oscar Qualifying FilmFestival – Bengaluru International Short FilmFestival 2021. It has also bagged awards at Regina International Film Festival,…
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Rimi, an Indian housewife, feels trapped in the roles of a mother and wife, bound by domesticity. After years of entanglement, everything comes crashing down on a rainy day when she meets Riya, a free-spirited woman whose beauty and magnetism stir a deep longing in her. Rimi realizes she has sidelined her dreams for her…
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Story Knowledge Systems of Mothers and Grandmothers of India How does Indian culture get transmitted through its stories? Indian Culture through its stories makes a distinction between the good and bad. These stories give a strong foundation to children. These stories encapsulate the values we pass on to the younger generation. These stories are an…
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Story Knowledge Systems of Mothers and Grandmothers of India Could you talk about the traditional stories of India that you heard as a child? Most of the stories were like mythological stories like reincarnations of Vishnu, Ram, Krishna and Narasimha. These have been very close to me. These are certain moral stories. There was this…
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You had a vision for India as teenager and that is what motivated you to become a journalist. Could you talk about your experiences of meeting people with a vision for India? I have a worked on a series of profiles of scientists who won awards. Some have done very interesting projects. Some of them…
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Deepa Balakrishnan has been an award-winning journalist in Bengaluru for nearly two decades. In that short stint, she has had the privilege of covering a host of subjects from politics and rocket science to tsunamis and riots. She has spent most of her professional life as a broadcast journalist, though she also wrote for newspapers…
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