Launched in March 2020, Logon Ka FolkLog is an online storytelling festival that\u2019s staged every few months on Facebook and Instagram. The festival aims to celebrate and showcase Indian parables, folk tales and indigenous forms of storytelling in languages such as Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Rajasthani, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is an effort to create a caste, class and gender-neutral space for the country\u2019s folk artists and provide them with a global online presence. Oggu Katha from Andra Pradesh, Ojapali from Assam and Rajasthani puppetry are among the storytelling styles that have been presented at the event at which performers from Argentina, Mexico, New Zealand, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have also participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actors Adil Hussain, Danish Husain and Indira Varma, radio jockey Mir and storyteller Jan Blake are among those who have narrated tales in previous editions of Logon Ka FolkLog, the fifth and most recent instalment of which was held in January 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n