{"id":573,"date":"2012-08-07T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T11:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/?p=573"},"modified":"2018-05-17T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T14:51:58","slug":"an-evening-with-anushka-ravishankar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Anushka Ravishankar"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the eve of 6th<\/sup> August, PeaceWorks<\/em><\/strong> in collaboration with Scholastic <\/em>hosted children\u2019s author Anushka Ravishankar. She read out her newly published books to a group of children from Nabadisha<\/em> and Disha Foundation<\/em> and the volunteers of our story telling project\u2014 Share Stories Open Minds<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Rumour\u2019<\/em> and \u2018A Boy Who Drew Cats<\/em>\u2019 were read out by the author and translated into Bengali by Purbani Das. What a wonder adept storytelling and beautiful illustration can do! It brought the world of fantasy alive for the children.<\/p>\n

Rumour\u00a0<\/em>is the story of a grumpy little man while\u00a0The Boy Who Drew Cats<\/em>\u00a0was laced with simplicity and humour. It was about a little boy who loved drawing cats and did little else. At the end of the story a girl from the audience raised her scrawny little hand and announced that she too would like to do the same.<\/p>\n

Inspired, more children started interacting and participating and couple of them narrated stories as well. Funny and animated, these stories revealed the inherent storytelling ability of the children and the impact our project has had upon them.<\/p>\n\n\t\t