Golpo | Stories From Around the World
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Golpo | Stories From Around the World
Golpo is the Bengali word for stories. It is a curious little word, both a verb and a noun at the same time. As a child Rituparna would insist on two stories and two songs every night. She would pretend to go off to sleep testing her parents to see if they'd finish the story they started to tell...
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Season 2 | Ep 52 | The Myth of Sisyphus | A Greek Myth
I end this season with a story that is close to me. I read this one as a young student of Literature and found it echoing through many of the things t...
Season 2 | Ep 51 | Dividing the Goose | A Russian Folktale
Here is a story that I had shortlisted many many weeks ago, but I hadn't recorded it. In ways, I am glad I waited to put this episode together. My res...
S2 | Ep 50 | The Peasant's Riddle | An Italian Folktale
The Peasant's Riddle is a story suggests an investment strategy that will provoke both your thoughts and emotions.
At the face of it, this is a...
S2 | Ep 49 | The Flying Tortoise | A Retelling for a Panchantara / Aesop / Jataka Tale
You may have heard this one as the Talkative Tortoise or The Tortoise who Wanted to Fly. A tale so popular that Panchantra, Aesop Fables, Jataka Tales...
Season 2 | Ep 48 | The Owl Never Sleeps at Night | An African - American Folktale
This is a story about sleep.
If you are listening to this at night, take a moment to listen to your body. Do you know when it needs sleep? Or ha...
Season 2 | Ep 47 | How Long will it Take? | A Mullah Nasruddin Tale from Turkey
What if you could get a route map out to wherever you want to be!
That goal you have set in your life, your dream job, a promotion, better grad...
Season 2 | Ep 46 | The Fire & The Jar of Fools | A Jewish Folktale
This week we decided to go back to Chelm, the fictional town of fools and bring to you two stories.
Are fools really fools?
Or are they...
Season 2 | Ep 45 | Quarrel of the Quails | A Jataka Tale
Quarrel of the Quails is the origin story behind the phrase "United we Stand, Divided we Fall", that simple phrase that we have all heard since we wer...
Season 2 | Ep 44 | The Teapot | A Hans Christian Andersen Tale
The Teapot is a fairytale with a fable-like overtones. Here is an inanimate object telling its story, personified and humanised with a distinct charac...
Season 2 | Ep 43 | The Peasant and the Apple Tree | An Aesop Fable from Greece
Fables are some of the world's oldest set of stories. They stories have survived the times, been passed on orally for centuries, instructed and inspir...
Season 2 | Ep 42 | The Talking Skull | A Folktale from Nigeria
This week’s episode from Africa brings together myriad themes of #SpeakingUp #Truth #Whistleblowing #Proactiveness #ActionTakers
If you want to...
Season 2 | Ep 41 | The Nail | A Grimms Brothers Fairytale from Germany
"For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost." You have surely heard the proverb...
Season 2 | Ep 40 | The Boy who Wanted the Moon | A Folktale from the Republic of Congo
“The Boy who wanted the Moon” is our little tribute to the scientist’s of ISRO who achieved the momentous success of Chandrayan-3.
The moon has...
Season 2 | Ep 39 | Why Trees Stopped Moving | A Folktale from Nicobar, India
Why Trees Stopped Moving is a fascinating folktale from Nicobar Islands that blends in ideas of forests, trees, climate change, intergenerational rela...
Season 2 | Ep 38 | Counting the Stars | A Gopal Bhand Legend from India
Gopal Bhand is a legendary court jester from Bengal, India. Growing up as a child in a Bengali household the stories of Gopal Bhand filled my childho...
Season 2 | Ep 37 | Emperor's New Clothes | Danish Fairy Tale
"What's the one story you remember from your childhood?" I asked a room full of IT professionals.
"Emperor's New Clothes" was the story that I...
Season 2 | Ep 36 | Half of That | A Sheikh Chilli Legend
A Story about money, negotiations, buying, selling and bargaining!
Tell this at home to discuss money with your child, or take it to the math o...
Season 2 | Ep 35 | A Useful Donkey for Sale
Do you have the skill to turn a 'useless' thing into a valuable and useful thing with the power of storytelling?
How does changing the narrativ...
Season 2 | Ep 34 | Volga & Vazuza | A Russian Folktale
Rivers have a life of their own. They too have stories of their own.
Listen to this snappy Russian Folktale, the story of two Russian Rivers and...
Season 2 | Ep 33 | "How Far Does my Voice Go?" | A Mullah Nasruddin Tale | A Turkish Legend
The Legend of Mullah Nasruddin never fails to create magic!
The stories make you laugh, make you think, and question something that you know. If...
Season 2 | Ep 32 | Kokras Kuni Zang | An Indian (Kashmiri) Proverb
Kokras Kuni Zang is a Kashmiri Proverb that means "an adamant / stubborn person."
This is one of the few proverbs that has an 'original' story a...
Season 2 | Ep 31 | A Mountain & A Hill | An Indian (Sikkimese) Folktale
This week, we are retelling a story from Season 1, retelling a Hindi story in English and bringing it in context of this season of the podcast. In the...
Season 2 | Ep 30 | The Sheep and The Pig Who Went Into The Woods To Live By Themselves | A Norwegian Folktale
This Norwegian Folktale is entertaining wherever you choose to tell it...in the Classroom, Living Room or Boardroom. And true to every other story in...
Season 2 | Ep 29 | Blessing in Disguise | A Chinese Folktale
I was listening to a podcast on the theme of Incognito when I was reminded of this story!
Isn't it amazing when ONE thing reminds you of a story...
Season 2 | Ep 28 | Papa God's Well | A Folktale from Haiti
Papa God's Well is an Haitian Folktale that I discovered in Dr Margaret Read MacDonald's Book Earth Care
I remember telling this story in a wor...
Season 2 | Ep 27 | The Happy Man's Shirt | An Italian Folktale
Are you happy?
What makes you happy?
Who makes you happy?
How does happiness impact your life?
Here is a story that will take...
Season 2 | Ep 26 | The Mayoress | A Russian Folktale
Folktales are unkind to women and female characters. You cannot pick up a folktale to tell without passing it through the gender lens.
At the f...
Season 2 | Ep 25 | The Sun | A Chinese Tale
How far is the Sun from you?
When is it the farthest? When is it the closest? Does it seem close and far at the same time?
The Sun, is a C...
Season 2 | Ep 24 | If you Don’t Like It, Don’t Listen | A Russian Fairy Tale
This is a story for YOU, the Storytellers (closeted, learner, aspiring, amateur, professional) who listen to this podcast.
The ones who tell st...
Season 2 | Ep 23 | Truth & Falsehood | A Folktale from Greece
Which is the one story that teaches you about the dangers of lying?
Was it The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
Teaching someone to say the truth is a...
Season 2 | Ep 22 | The 8th Donkey | A Folktale from Turkey
The 8th Donkey is MY story!
I am the protagonist and I have lived like him for years, feeling ashamed of my weakness with numbers. I have strug...
Season 2 Ep 21 | 2 Goats on a Bridge | A Russian Fable
I am sure you have heard this story in some form or the other.
Two Goats on the Bridge is a popular fable that has been used to reminder listen...
Season 2 | Ep 20 | The Right Way
When standing at the crossroads, which is the right way?
If you ask me, I will always tell, it's "The Storied Way"!
What do I mean by that...
Season 2 | Ep 19 | The Flying Contest | A Folktale from Suriname
A little bird enters a flying contest, flying against the mighty falcon. What do you do when you are in a competition & you know that the odds are aga...
Season 2 | Ep 18 | The Knee-High Man wants to get Sizeable
The Knee-High man took me back to school when I first heard the word Pygmy. I am not sure if I heard it in a good way, or did someone use it as an ins...
Season 2 | Ep 17 | A Drop of Honey | A 1001 Nights Tale
This is one of those stories that is a riot to perform before children. It's a clever tale that is both hilarious as is serious. If told well, this st...
Season 2 | Ep 16 | The Stone Soup | A European Tale
For the longest time, I didn't tell this story because its so popular. The Stone Soup is every storyteller's favourite and listeners had heard this on...
Season 2 | Ep 15 | The Squirrel & The Forest Gecko | An Indigenous Tale from Brunei
Where and how you hear / read a story is an excellent way to interpret a story. Take this story for example:
I read this first in an anthology...
Season 2 | Ep 14 | The Shorter Line | An Akbar Birbal Legend from India
I remember this story from a long time ago. Back in the day our favourite sport was doing better than a classmate. How can we outdo the other, a compe...
Season 2 | Ep 13 | Anansi & the Drum of Common Sense
What's common about common sense? How do we acquire them? Do we inherit or learn them? Do we share a set of common sense? Or does each one of us devel...