A man with a long, silver beard sat on a little settee in the corner of a children’s library in Tokyo, Japan. The man introduced himself to Geeta Ramanujam as Kato Sensei, a lexicographer from Tokyo. Geeta told him she was a storyteller from India. “Would you like to hear a gripping story?” asked Kato, gently stroking his silver beard, and Geeta welcomed his tale about the huge mountain, Tojin Mura, along the rocky coast of North-east Japan.
“I have travelled to the nooks and crannies of India and abroad to import, exchange and share stories with tellers. Most of the stories in my book, Tales from around the World (Puffin Books) are those that I have heard from people,” says Geeta, who has collected 20 stories from around the world in this book illustrated by Arkapriya Koley.
