Makarand Deshpande at an earlier Kahanikar event

"In The previous chapter, I was a tad apprehensive about going up and reading my story out as the people who read before me were absolutely brilliant. I felt that my reading, after theirs, would be rather tame. But then, when I went ahead anyway, I realised how their session inspired me to deliver my story better," recalls actor, director and writer Makarand Deshpande, who will be reading out a fresh story at the next session of Kahanikar, a storytelling and poetry recital event.