Eklavya organisation, Anand Niketan and Azim Premji Foundation organised a storytelling programme at SOS Village’s school on Friday in which 300 students of the primary section took part along with their teachers. Around seven story tellers recited the stories to the students.
Anand Niketan’s Anil Singh narrated the story ‘chuhon myaun soo rahi hai’ to the students, while students enjoyed the story by acting like mice. Dipali Shukla of Eklavya narrated the story ‘mai to billi hun’ to the students. Tultul Bishwas, Parul Duggal and Santvana Aras have also narrated the stories among the students.
Swedish story ‘kajri gay jhule par’ was narrated by Rudrashish, Anil Singh and Dipali Shukla. The folklore of Ao tribe of Nagaland, ‘murga aur suraj’ was narrated Rudrashish. lyrical poem ‘tali baji pat pat, darwaja khula khat khat’ was recited by Jalaj Verma. Students and the teachers recited ‘koi lake mujhe de, ek achi si kitab’ and ‘ek mitha sa sawaal’ in the end of the programme.
Convener of the programme, Manoj Nigam told that Eklavya, Anand Niketan and Azim Premji foundation is organizing various storytelling programmes under ‘Aaha Kahani- Kaha Kahani’ programme.
The main objective of programme is to develop the culture of reading and storytelling.
SOS village school’s Principal Bhagirathi Verma said that poems and stories could be recited in an interesting way through this kind of programme.
The tradition of storytelling has been ended in the society. This kind of story telling programme should be conducted regularly for the students.