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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash GIFTS – A WAY OF GATHERING MYSELF There are things about me that I do not fully see or acknowledge – it could be because I am in self-doubt, or I judge myself harshly in some specific area, or I feel that it is no big deal, or […]
Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash SENSORY INTEGRITY – Offerings by Three Sensory Storytellers “One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, `What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’ – Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder Rachel […]
Listen to this StoryNarrated by Anjan Prakash HOW LOCALLY ATTUNED & RESPONSIVE ARE WE? 1. How Locally The puff-throated babbler is back to sing his most unusually long song between 6.50am – 6.55am like he did, a year ago; the Gray Langurs or the Hanuman Langurs as they are called have returned to our tamarind […]
COME DECEMBER We have now come into December, the last month of the Gregorian calendar, a calendar that most of us have come to follow over the last several decades. November ended and December began for us with an immersive experience in the two beautiful jungles of India, Sunderbans and Kaziranga. The heart is so […]