TIMELESS TALES
It will be a monthly program in which we will first read some selected pieces of an old book and a new book and discuss it together. The aim of the program is to create an atmosphere of enthusiasm in Adivasi society towards books, libraries and literature and literary criticism.
Adivasi society is traditionally a oral
society. To tale and listen to stories is the inborn nature of
Adivasis. Reading and writing in this sense is not an
interesting act for them. Yet they learned to read and write in
the nineteenth-twentieth century colonial days. But in the
twenty-first century, the introduction of new techniques of
information and communication has changed a lot in the habit of
reading books. Adivasi people have not been left with this
change and they also have less interest in books. This program
is meant to enhance the interest in books and to develop an
environment to books reading in the Adivasi society, using the
oral tradition of storytelling and listening..
