Communities, Networks, Clubs and many such miniature loops
to hangout around any corner of a city can be seen everywhere. It might be
sports club, a ladies club, men’s club etc etc. No matter what such groups are
all about, there do exist a space to spend a quality time to have fun by being
in them. Bangalore city - the most busiest city of the state where the
lifestyle has become materialistic to all working class and all sorts of people
surviving here. When it comes to weekends, normally we perceive it to be
lucrative window shopping at malls or a party bash double days. But Bangalore
is not only into such page 3 entertainments.
Still one can witness many options to recreational ideas, many options
to flush the mind of boredom from the work load it carries the entire day and
weeks. I happened to come across a surprising group as such called ‘Story
Telling network.' Sounds silly isn’t it ? I too felt the same when I heard the
name. Curiosity caught my interest. I enquired what that fuss is all about and
then, why not give a visit to that place.
This group was started with just 2 women who took up a
tickling idea of starting an innovative group of narrating the stories. It began
with an easy source of medium – the social networking sites. They framed it as
‘Meet Up – Bangalore story telling network’ and was conducted in a book store.
Its been 6 months that has started and they are getting a magnificent response.
The session was scheduled on a Sunday morning. I was amazed to see nearly 40
plus audience from corporate background, well designated, well paid
intellectuals, to that place. The event began, where in a female narrator of mid age started with a story, not just a story, it did had the moral at
the end, not just any Panch Tantra morals, morals that we get to learn to
sustain in this society. Morals to lead life in our own way decoratively. The
session went for nearly 2 hours and many who were the members of that community
voluntarily narrated their versions of stories. It was then, when I realized
that, story narration is an art. It is not an easy cake to relish. You get to
keep the audience attracted to the plot. All of them were taken to their
childhood days reminding of their elders or grandparents who were the masters
of teaching their kids with a motto to understand the good and bad around their
kids. Even I too recollected my childhood days. By the time the session got
over, I was overjoyed by reincarnation of the child inside me.
As we grow old, we tend to forget or rather say the essence
of innocence evaporates. Most of us don’t even remember the stories we did hear
through our adolescence. Whenever we come across people who shares stories, we
avoid them, we ignore them. But I must say it is a remarkable experience one
can have. One can also take up story telling as a profession. Most of them also
take their time out of their busy schedule and try to take it as passion.
Story telling is not easy cake walk. Story telling is not
only to kids. Stories are part of ingredients to live a happy life.
