World Storytelling Day (March 20) was a reminder that the art of storytelling is slowly but surely disappearing. Now television attracts the young and sidelined mothers and grandmothers have little to do in the late evenings, except staring at TV screens. It’s a sad commentary on our mundane times when children are being robbed of innocent pleasures that inculcated in them a sense of wonder. However in the Walled City, compared to the posh areas, the tradition has not completely died down.

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