Shimla, Feb. 6 -- The Kathakar International Storytelling Festival was held in Shimla on Thursday, bringing together artists from India and abroad for a one-day celebration of storytelling.

Festival organiser Rachana Gehlot shared insights into the origins of Kathakar, describing it as an effort to revive the dying art of storytelling.

"This is a festival started by three sisters in memory of India's first Braille editor, Thakur Vishva Narayan Singh. He was instrumental in providing vision to over 10 million people. Earlier, books were only accessible to those who could see, while the blind had to rely on others to read to them. If no one read for them, they simply could not access books. Thakur Sahab took the initiative to translate an...