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Articles: Folklore | Folk Tales of Telangana
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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4.Narratives presented through clay and wooden figures (e.g. Mandechula stories).
5.Stories rendered by two lead narrators (e.g. Oggu).
6.Four or more narrators donning various roles on the spot (e.g. yakshaganam).
7.Single narrator, usually to the accompaniment of one or two musical instruments (e.g. Budige Jangam).
8.A group of actors performing at a street corner (e.g. veedhi bhagavatam).
9.A group of singers making a presentation clapping or striking sticks against each other as they go round and round (e.g. batukamma, kolatam).
Current Scenario :
The young men and women of the artist communities mentioned previously are now gradually switching over to regular professions because of a combination of factors such as the indignity attendant on dependence, meagre and uncertain income, lack of patronage, hectic pace of life and lack of leisure and above all the lure of gainful employment elsewhere. As things stand now these speech genres have reached the brink of extinction. They may as well disappear forever once the last practising members of these communities pass away.
The government, the official electronic media and the Telugu University have been doing their bit to encourage them but it is almost certain that, in the absence of full-time practitioners of these arts, they will eventually die out and disappear. In spite of the fact that these tales, legends and stories constitute a virtual treasure trove of wisdom, history and culture of our timeless past perhaps nothing can be done about saving them from extinction, given the constraints and compulsions.
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