India Booked | Timeless Tales from Marwar
b"For centuries, Rajasthan has been a gold mine of oral traditions and histories,\\nwith Padma Shri Vijaydan Detha being one of the foremost storytellers of all\\ntime. His stories, collected from the common folk of Rajasthan, mark an\\nimportant intervention in 20th century Rajasthani literature.\\xa0\\nGiving a new lease of life to his writings, Timeless Tales from Marwar is a\\nhandpicked collection of folk tales from the everlasting works of Detha's\\ncelebrated Batan ri Phulwari meaning 'Garden of Tales'. Collected and written\\nover the span of nearly fifty years, this fourteen-volume assortment of\\nRajasthani folk stories earned him the moniker-the Shakespeare of Rajasthan.\\n\\nOn this episode of India Booked, Ayushi Mona talks to Vishes Kothari, a\\nfinancial consultant, native of Sadulpur in Rajasthan with a keen interest in\\nthe oral and musical traditions of his state.\\n\\xa0He has been associated with UNESCO-Sahapedia on projects focussed on the\\nmusical traditions of women in Rajasthan, and as a language expert with the\\nJaipur Virasat Foundation."