NEW DELHI: Get ready to be transported to a different era as the traditional art of storytelling dastangoi is being resurrected.The performance will be held this weekend in the backdrop of 17th-century Mughal monument Chausath Khamba in Nizamuddin basti. Organized by the Aga Khan foundation, the epic narration will be done by `Peepli Live’ co-director Mahmood Farooqui and associate Danish Hussain. The public will get free entry.
This 16th-century tradition is considered a dying art today. The word `dastangoi’ is made up of two Persian words `dastaan’ and `goi’. It means to tell a dastaan an epic tale which is usually oral in nature and is read aloud or recited.
via Keen listeners keep storytelling alive – The Times of India.
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