00:00I haven't heard the whole of his speech. I know that he is a visual artist. He has created films,
00:14he has written a novel and the thing is that what comes out from his talk is that anything can
00:22be a story.
00:23Anything, even a newspaper clip can be a story. A newspaper clip, even a newspaper clip can become a novel.
00:34So story can come out from visual archive films, old films, they can be recreated into new films.
00:44A refugee's memory, that can also become novel and that is what he himself is speaking from his own experience.
00:56He is from Malaysia. He was born and brought up there and he has seen the changes and he had
01:04been commuting between India and Malaysia.
01:09He has gone to many countries and now he is saying that storytelling has become easier because globetrotters are, you
01:19know, going all around the globe and it's not that expensive as it used to be earlier.
01:26So storytelling has become easier nowadays and the mediums are various, different.
01:33Actually, this is an international conference on Restoring India, Metamorphosis in 21st Century Storytelling.
01:40This conference has been organized on two days, 12th and 13th November, 2026 and this is organized by the Department
01:49of English, Tejpur University.
01:50We have our keynote speaker who is a renowned scholar, Professor Pramod K. Nair.
01:55He is the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, Department of English, University of Hyderabad and he gave a keynote address
02:04on Writ in Stone, Origin Stories and the Geological Imagination in British India.
02:09Then we have Dr. Sandeep Ray about whom Professor Shravati Biswas has already spoken about.
02:15Then tomorrow we are having two more plenary talks by Dr. Shovik Mukherjee.
02:21He is an Associate Professor in the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata and he'll be speaking on other
02:27cemeteries and absences, storytelling in digital games in India.
02:32And also we have our third plenary talk by Dr. Theshi Mokhedichu.
02:37She'll be speaking on vernacularizing children's literature, language, image and the making of new narrative centers.
02:43So she's an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Kohima.
02:47We also have a cultural evening on the 12th of November and will conclude on the 13th with a museum
02:54visit in the Department of Cultural Studies.
