15 | Prof.Srinivas Reddy | Indian society seen through folk and other stories | 4 April 2017

India boasts one of the richest stock of stories in the world. This lecture will explore classical texts like the Brhat Katha and Pañcatantra alongside regional folk epics as they converse with the vast world of performative oral storytelling that pervades every region of the subcontinent. We will read and listen to these stores as reflections of deep societal concerns and attempt to understand how they both reinforced as well as questioned normative social structures.
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