JUSTORI
Justori is a wonderful invention! A wonderfully creative idea. The heard voice, telling a tale or reciting a poem, is vastly interesting and very different from words that are read in print. The stresses and inflections in the voice, the nuances employed by the speaker, the audible tone and the quality of the recording voice, - sharp or sweet or dreamy or firm, - all bring out the meaning and significance of the author as a print reading cannot.
Many of us have grown up in some way or the other, with elders telling us stories, either getting us through the often boring act of eating healthy food or while going into the world of sleep. So listening to spoken material, stories or otherwise, gives a different inspiration, and holds the attention of the listener, and makes the listener receive, understand,retain and appreciate much more what he has listened to.
Radio, they used to say, created intimacy without familiarity. Yes, intimacy is a quality voice has more than print, and this intimacy reaches the heart and conveys more deeply the content of the material and leaves a lasting impression. The quality of the grandmothers' stories while you spent a quiet evening at home or went to sleep on her lap.
Or, as in other cases, inspirational stories, for thinking adults, like in Upanishadic times, when truths and wisdom was conveyed by voice and was passed on through the ages from generation to generation, from parents to children, from teachers to taught, by the power of the voice.
Whole schools can participate in the Justori programme. The stories can be played back in classrooms, for recreation or as a basis for comprehension or knowledge or creative writing. Children can be encouraged to write stories and feed them in and have the thrill and satisfaction of their own creation being played back to their classmates. How much self confidence and furthering of thinking and creative ability this kind of exercise can promote!
And Justori has very good categories: the categories of"soul" and "inspirational" or "indigenous" and " migrant" are unique in their own way while the kids section is a very thoughtful inclusion.
It is very unique idea indeed, this idea of having Justori as a site for oral expression and communication and I hope it will receive many contributors and patrons and become known worldwide.
Akhila