A yearly storyteller’s festival hosted by the Alliance Française du Bengale, in collabration with Culture Monks (Kolkata, India).
This year the theme is emergence.
Besides appearing as a guest speaker in a panel discussion on Saturday, on Sunday Francis will perform his much acclaimed story Kusum.
The story of a girl and the goddess Ushas and Nachiketas and Satyavant and the Art of Fooling Death. As it all happened, on the side of a long straight road in Bihar, the sacred land of monasteries, where every mile is touched by the feet of the historical Buddha, in whose footsteps I traveled. And of how I read her the Kathopanishad. And of how that night and that morning changed my life.