There is something about stories from the Panchatantra that has made them a favourite read of generations of children. For 70 days of the lockdown, author and voice artiste Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan had been narrating stories about Tenali Rama and stories from the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. Why did you decide to narrate tales from the Panchatantra, the Jataka tales and Tenali Rama during the lockdown? I’ve been feeling for a while that many Indian children are not aware of these interesting Indian classics. A generation in India used to devices and accustomed to listening to music and podcasts on their headphones will also find it easy to ‘read’ books this way.

Source: The Hindu June 11, 2020 10:52 UTC