Online storytelling that will have kids entertained and adults nostalgic

Complicated times can be helped by simple measures.

For Vikram Sridhar, a Bengaluru-based performance storyteller and theatre practitioner, simple but profound folktales continue to have a universal appeal, irrespective of age and other diverse forms of entertainment. As he puts it, folktales serve a multi-pronged purpose: children learn a thing or two about morality while adults revisit their faculty of interpretation, through the lens of their social, political or personal contexts. And while all cultural products — books, films, dance, music, theatre — either narrate or are shot through stories, Sridhar is working hard to revive the oral tradition, possibly the earliest and most basic form of storytelling.