In a Story Telling Festival
The winter eve was lazy as ever. Dogs curled up in corners,
unwilling to bark. Forget the lazy cloud and the shameless sun engaged in their
deep slumber even as my clock ticked 2’o clock. Motionless trees have
disconnected themselves from the wind around. As I walked past the gates of
IGNCA, I was led to an open stage facing rising layers of semicircles seating
the audience. The cushions wrapped in white cloth were placed over seating and
ground left red carpeted. The branches and leaves of Peepal tree roofed the
open stage sketching an ancient India into the space. Lighted uncolored bulbs
were knitted on to the leaves painting eyes to the uneyed, yet the unblind
trees. With its hundred eyes gazing at the stage waiting for the stories from
across the world, its green leaved head let the calm breeze swing it to her
winter symphony. Only her head and part of her brown rooted neck was visible
for the people populating the space above the land.
A Hungarian Story |
As the panel discussion ended, the Sarah Rundle, a British
Story teller, set the mood of the eve. She was specializing on the Silk Route
stories. The historical Silk route that cuts through Central Asia connecting
Japan, China, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Arabia and Europe. Culture, science,
religion, conquests, treasure and goods, all flowed through the highways of
Silk Route into the various human civilizations. Arabic stories adapted into
Chinese myth, Italians myths that trace back to Indian civilizations and Slavic
fantasies with Mongolian origin.
She began with a story of Onibaba, an old nanny who went in
search of a liver of an unborn baby and went on with Chinese story “ The Donkey
Inn”. To board the silk route fairy tale
ride of Sarah Rundle, wait for a few more days. Uploading soon… :D
Wait a bit more for stories ! :D
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