Art of storytelling

“Gift a story to your grandchildren” is an initiative conceived by the Early Learning Centre (ELC) in Bejai Kapikad, calling all grandparents to record stories & share with them.

Deemed India’s first female Dastango has not only broken into the male bastion, but is striving every single day to revive the 13th century dying art of oral Urdu storytelling, Dastangoi, in the country.

What began as a daily ritual of recording stories and sending them to her grandson and grandnephews and nieces, soon grew into Sarla sending weekly stories to her followers as WhatsApp audio messages.