Did you know that 15-year old Renjini, living in Kerala’s remote Monippally village, is said to be the only living person in the world who enacts folktales with wooden string puppets on the tip of her lips? Or that Yurutse, nestled in Ladakh, is known as ‘Ek Ghar-Wala Gaon’ since the village only houses a family of three? These and many other lesser-known stories are unravelled on Untold Collective, an online portal started in May this year by eight Bengaluru-based professionals from various media backgrounds, who share a common passion for storytelling. 

Three members of Untold Collective on India’s first fatbiking (bicycles with over-sized tyres) expedition to Chitkul, the last village on the Indo-Tibetan border, in Himachal Pradesh in winter