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The Disappearing Languages of India: Why It Matters for Your Child
Explore why India’s endangered indigenous languages matter. Discover the cognitive, cultural, and lifelong benefits of raising multilingual children and preserving heritage.
SaY India
3 min read
Why Reading is the Superpower Kids Don’t Realize They Have
Discover why reading is the ultimate superpower for kids. Unlock imagination, empathy, creativity, and storytelling through the magic of books.
SaY India
4 min read
🪔 Preserving Voices, Protecting Identity: Why Indigenous Languages Matter More Than Ever
Discover how Spin A Yarn India, The Read Aloud Project, and Daughters of India are preserving India’s indigenous languages and oral traditions. In partnership with UNESCO’s Decade of Indigenous Languages, we work with 800+ schools to protect cultural memory through storytelling, reading, and intergenerational wisdom.
SaY India
3 min read
🗣️ When a Language Dies, a Universe Disappears
Every 40 days, a language dies—taking with it a world of stories, wisdom, and memory. Spin A Yarn India champions the preservation of indigenous languages and oral traditions by connecting children with the voices of their elders. Join us in protecting culture, heritage, and identity—one story at a time.
SaY India
1 min read
"Let Us Be Good Memories” — On the Power of Memory, Storytelling, and the Echoes We Leave Behind
In a world chasing speed, we’re losing the power of memory and storytelling. This article explores why preserving oral traditions and indigenous stories—like those upheld by Spin A Yarn India—is essential for future generations. Let us not just live, but become good memories. Join the movement.
SaY India
2 min read
The Language of Belief: Superstition as Memory, Culture, and Heritage
By Spin A Yarn India Long before the microscope or telescope, humanity made sense of the world through stories. These stories—of shadows,...
SaY India
3 min read
The Power of the Gaze: Nazar Is Not Superstition. It’s Cultural Memory.
We laugh off nazar as superstition, but ancient cultures knew better. From India’s black threads to Turkey’s blue charms, from China’s mirrors to Egypt’s sacred eyes—every tradition guarded what was delicate: joy in its early form. The gaze, even loving, can carry envy, altering what it touches. Nazar isn’t fear—it’s ancestral wisdom. A way of saying: protect what is still becoming. Guard the story before it’s ready to be told.
SaY India
3 min read
The death of a language
"A language isn't lost when the last elder dies—it's lost when the first child isn't taught."
SaY India
2 min read
Nationalistic Influences on Language: Protecting India’s Linguistic Heritage in a Global Context
India’s 19,500+ languages are vanishing—each loss erasing centuries of wisdom. From Hindi imposition debates to tribal tongue extinction, how does nationalism shape language? Compare with France’s linguistic centralization, China’s Mandarin push, and Māori revival. Is linguistic unity a force of cohesion—or cultural erasure? Dive into the battle to save India’s soul, one word at a time. #SaveOurLanguages
SaY India
3 min read
“The Living Memory of Our Ancestors: Why Cultural Heritage Isn’t Just History—It’s Who We Are”
Before Google, before textbooks, before bedtime YouTube playlists—there was Dadi ki kahani.
Stories whispered in moonlight, rituals practiced at dawn, songs carried on the backs of migrating birds.
SaY India
3 min read
What Does ‘Itihasa’ Really Mean? How Language Shapes Memory, Myth, and History
In Hindi, itihasa means history—fact-based, scientific, taught in schools. It tells of horses arriving from Eurasia, of chariots and invasions. In Sanskrit, itihasa means sacred story—epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata, where time is cyclical and truth is symbolic. Both meanings shape how we remember. At Spin A Yarn India, we honour all Indian languages, knowing they carry not just stories, but worldviews that define who we are.
SaY India
3 min read
"SaY" it with a Story - #AStoryADaY
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To do the voices, to make it interesting for them.
SaY India
1 min read
"SaY" it with Culture: Why Storytelling is Important for Culture
Storytelling is so intertwined with any culture that you could almost say that culture is storytelling!
SaY India
15 min read
"SaY" it with Culture: Storytelling Traditions Across the World: New Zealand
Storytelling isn’t just entertainment, it’s a way to protect your heritage and culture. A lot of cultures have rich storytelling traditions.
SaY India
5 min read
"SaY" it with Culture: Importance of Storytelling Traditions Across the World - Morocco
Stories have special powers. Not only are they entertaining but they are also ways to communicate morals, lessons and culture.
SaY India
3 min read
"SaY" it with Culture: Why your child must read Indian authors too
Representation in storytelling matters!
SaY India
3 min read
"SaY" it with Culture: Fables, Folktales, Epics and FOOD!
Little do we realise that food has seeped into our consciousness at a very early age — through folktales, parables, fables, and rhymes.
SaY India
5 min read
"SaY" it with Education: Learning Languages through Stories
Encouraging your child to read or listen to stories should therefore help them to learn a second language in a way that is not only fun, but
SaY India
4 min read
"SaY" it with a Story: Fascinating Indian Folk Tales
Whether it is to preserve history or provide moral lessons, ancient folk tales have served a much bigger purpose that just entertaining peop
SaY India
7 min read
"SaY" it with a Mission: Securing our Heritage
Spin A Yarn India is on a mammoth cultural mission to preserve India's fairytales, folklore and fables
SaY India
3 min read
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