Why is Story-telling a Political Act?
In Chimamanda Adichie's 2009 Tedtalk 'The Danger of a Single Story,' Adichie talks about the danger of dominant or one track stories; discourse that can be culturally reductive, deny groups with less political or social impact a 'voice' i.e. representation in the prevailing historical or social narrative and deny young people of role models that look like them. In this episode, I talk with a young Indian woman, Maya Prakash, an international student, who had an article published in the New York Times on the Rohingya crisis, and has recently built a website named 'Shakti Stories,' designed to share the lesser heard narratives of some powerful women in the Indian feminist movement, and dispel some myths about the female experience in India.