How I Wonder Posts

KNEEL DOWN, LADIES & GENTLEMEN – For Love & Beauty

Edited into this beautiful video by – Priyal Shah Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash KNEEL DOWN, LADIES & GENTLEMENFor Love & Beauty       The message travelled across the micro land of the plateau. Faster than how a wildfire spreads, faster than how a rumour spreads in a village, `faster than light’, said […]

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MORE VERB, LESS NOUN?

Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash MORE VERB, LESS NOUN? When it is children’s activities, we mostly describe them to others like this: Maya, she loves cycling the whole day, just doesn’t like to sit and study. Ahmed can spend hours making things. He loves to dismantle, investigate, reassemble. Kiran just loves asking questions […]

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ARANYA’S ARANYA

Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash ARANYA’S ARANYA Aranya didn’t just wake up this morning. She was smiling as she woke up. There was also a beat and a groove to her feet, like feet become, when they are ready to go out. When her ears too woke up right after, she heard frogs […]

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Shadow And Light

SHADOW AND LIGHT – Animation By Priyal Shah Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash SHADOW & LIGHT 1. High Shadow To get a window seat on an evening flight before sunset when it is a clear blue sky with sprinkles of cloud, is like securing the best seat for a hit Broadway show. This […]

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When It Rains Upon Us

Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash When It Rains Upon Us `Why are you shouting sitting so close to me?!’, I shouted back at my husband. Both of us looked up at the roof. Dhad-dhad-dhad-dhad the rains beat down on the roof tiles of our balcony in Goa, under which we had sat down […]

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THE UNBROKEN WEAVE

Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash THE UNBROKEN WEAVE Disconnectifly woke up pretty late this morning too, and found that the rest of her community had long left the rock crevice where they rested the nights. After all it was early summer, and with just two weeks more left to mate and lay eggs, […]

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A Summer WITH The Season

Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash A Summer WITH The Season 1. A Summer I stood at the regular roadside vegetable and fruit market. Three tiny pieces of clothing on my body – my panty, my bra and my thin cotton dress, clung to my skin with the weight of perspiration. I noticed, this […]

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