What is the best way to read a story to children without losing their interest or focus? Make it interactive, engage them in conversations, show some illustrations and add a bit of dance and singing. That seems to be the mantra of Goshtarang, an innovative project by Sonale-based Quality Education Support Trust (QUEST), a not-for-profit organisation. Goshtarang, is a project where theatre and storytelling techniques are used, as part of QUEST’s reading and writing enhancement programme, where trained theatre professionals perform stories based on children’s literature.

Walunj during an offline storytelling session at a Goregaon school