Stories of nature, children, and Covid-19 lockdown: A storyteller’s story

Originally published July 14, 2020, by OnlineKhabar.

“No story lives unless someone wants to listen.” – JK Rowling

We are living in the times when we need listeners more than speakers; the listeners who can listen from the heart and not from the head, the listeners who have the faculty of wonder, the listeners who remain content that we may not be able to get all the answers that we ask, the listeners of the stories narrated by weathered faces from time immemorial. These are the faces which witnessed environmental disasters, famines, and human wars; wrinkles that withstood times of monarchy, patriarchy, feudalism and vanity; those experiences wisely wrapped in stories meant to be told to generations thereafter—to be remembered, to be inspired, to learn from mistakes and to be wise.