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THEY HAVE STORIES TO TELL…
With an idea of making the time worthwhile on and off the internet, the members of Stories Worth Sharing conducted Meetup Lucknow 2.0 at a city cafe recently. The group is conducting offline meetups in different cities of India every weekend and regulate the online content at the same time.
The storytelling initiative has been started by two engineering students, Mohit Manjal and Himanshu Poswal. “With an intention to kill the noise and revive human interaction, we conduct storytelling meetups in different Indian cities. With a presence in 70 plus Indian cities, we are on a mission to revive the postcard culture,” says Vaibhav Sharma, associate partner.
Co-organiser Divya Agarwal, said, “The idea is to bring together people from all walks of life and make them share their life stories. Such meetups have already been held in various places including Delhi, Mumbai, Banaras, Bhopal, Ranchi and even Singapore.”
Among the storytellers for the day Nikhil Shaurya shared, “How I became a writer?” Shivani shared her travel experience whereas Poorva Mahindatta talked about “A person I opened up and who helped me”, and Hamd khan among others.
Every speaker was given enough time to speak and wind up their story and listeners to retain stories in their memory.
The event was graced with presence of students and working class people. Total fifteen people shared their stories with each other and tried to learn from each other stories in order to see the clear path of life. Most of the stories were from college days and few of them were on different kinds of phobias one faces in life and how that phobia becomes their strength.