Shreedevi Sunil outgrew her love for fairy tales when she realised that she couldn’t relate to them. How could Cinderella marry the prince after only a dance? Why are all stepmothers evil? These questions triggered the city-based educator and founder of Talking Turtles Storytellers to start researching the history behind these stories. And the multiple perspectives she found as a result of her research, will be presented at Tales (Un)Faired, an online talk hosted by TabooDana, a platform for tabooed discussions.

The session is open to adults only and three stories — titles will be unveiled only at the event — will be discussed. “I’ve read and listened to many original versions of these fairy tales. Stepmothers, for instance, were not really stepmothers. My understanding of it is that they were just mothers who were not in the best of mental state. Parenting is not always easy,” she shares.