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Storytelling: The Ancient Skill That Builds Tomorrow’s Leaders
Storytelling is more than bedtime fun—it’s leadership training in disguise. 🌍✨ Discover how folk tales and storytelling help children become tomorrow’s changemakers.
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
3 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
Don’t Sweep After Sunset: A Superstition Rooted in Collective Memory
We don’t just preserve stories—we preserve sensibilities.
Not to go backward. But to reclaim the grace with which our ancestors lived.
Their ways weren’t always literal. But they were always meaningful.
So tonight, when the broom calls out to you—wait.
Light a lamp. Sit with the day. Let its dust settle.
There’s wealth in silence too.
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
How to Read Aloud to a child that won't sit still
Reading Aloud especially to small kids is no mean feat. Here are some tips that may help.
SaY India
2 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: Importance of Storytelling Traditions Across the World - India
Storytelling has different forms and mediums across the globe. But every story has a common purpose no matter the country or medium.
SaY India
3 min read
"SaY" it with Education: Reading Aloud can help you bond with your kids and make them better readers
Reading with your child is a practice that creates space for deeper independent learning and exploring.
SaY India
5 min read
"SaY" it with a story: A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice
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
9 min read
"SaY" it with Stories: Stories Matter - Learning & More
Storytelling provides imagery-building skills, creates an attentive listener, expands interest into new areas.
SaY India
4 min read
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