Storytellers At Work

Storytellers At Work

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Author: Eminent Contributors
Editor(s): Geeta Dharamrajan
Publisher: Katha
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 207
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189020013

Description

This book brings together some of the speeches and essays delivered or written by the participants of the Katha Utsav, Linking Diversities and Forging Identities, a festival celebrating diversity and cultural differences. With 191 sessions and spaces for master classes, certificate workshops and keynote addresses, the utsav was an open meeting place for creative people from India and Europe to share their ideas, to reflect to discuss and debate, and freely exchange collective experiences and maverick expressions.

The festival brought together a variegated group of more than five thousand people that included scholars, thinkers, writers and storytellers as well as school students and teachers, college students and academics. This book will, we hope, carry forward the utsav and its dominant ideas, challenges and excitements.

A celebration of words. An explosion of ideas. The joy of storytelling. From writers, translators and philosophers to storytellers, filmmakers and economists- each of them wield the power of story to offer a glimpse into their art and craft, thoughts and ideas.

Twenty one stimulating talks and essays that invite the reader to dip where they choose, to take the book's challenge where they please.

Contents

TALKS

DIPANKAR GUPTA
Favoring Modernity

ASHOK ROW KAVI
A Matter of Choice

KAMALESHWAR
Facts are but fiction

GANESH N DEVY
Practical Dreams

TARUN TEJPAL
Creativity and Commerce

KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI
Point Counterpoint

WAGISH SHUKLA
The Future of languages

DILIP CHITRE
Teaching Plurality

SONA KHAN
The idea of plurality

PETERZILAHY
The Absurdity of reality

CHANDRASEKHAR KAMBAR
A Storyteller's Canvas

RAMACHANDRA GANDHI
Memory and Myth

ORHAN PAMUK
Frame by Frame

ROBERTO CALASSO
The Power of Story

ESSAYS

LUCE IRIGARAY
The way of breath

TIMPARKS
Rancor

STEPHANOS STEPHANIDES
The translatability of culture

ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER
Indian Muslims and Modernity

GEORGE SZIRTES
Fables of Home

FOLKE TEGETTHOFF
The art of narration and the art of listening

JYOTINDRAJAIN
Picture showmen of Gujarat