Arabian Nights or Thousand and One Nights is retold and understood in a manner that is at once contemporary and irresistible. Narrated in Tamil by scholar Dr. R Lakshmi Priya it is at once taking us back into the history of storytelling and into the magic of classic storytelling collections. Arabian Nights is the story of many stories narrated with a strikingly startling story frame. In this storytelling in Brio TV Dr. R Laksmi Priya narrates the frame story of Arabian Nights and analyses it in the context of current post colonial understanding of the western gaze and orientalisms. The analysis tells us that these western translations of Arabian Nights that are available to us must be written incorrectly in their highly demeaning portrayal of women. The protagonist and chief storyteller of the 1001 nights in Sheherazade, herself a wonderful and brave women risks her life for the sake of other women. Welcome to Keladi Kanmani of Brio TV with Dr. R Lakshmi Priya.
A very, very profound storyteller Dr. R. Lakshmi Priya also narrated the story of Satyavan and Savitri wherein Savitri tricks Yama, the god of Death into returning her husband Satyavan back into the world of living.
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