• Mukherjee Debabani

Story telling sessions have always provided entertainment to the young generations. Our culture has been weaved with the concept of embedding the difference of good and evil into the soft minds through stories and this process has been an effort since ages with the beginners. The grandparents, and the book shops have played the key role in keeping the children engaged introducing them with the Indian culture and social patterns. The stories they narrated and published, hovered around Epics, Aesop’s Fables, Panchatantras and European Folk Tales. Folk tales and stories have always revolved around the ancient times in multifaceted forms. And story time sessions always opened up the pitarrie for these fresh brains. The characters were crafted in a way to feel them very close to their young hearts and were devoid of any cultural clash or racial fervor. These narrations awakened the cells of creativity and delved the morals of life. The transformation stepped in with the evolution of science and technology. And moreover the concept of Globalization flooding in with the Western life styles , largely influenced the Indian Societal aspects. Similar resultant effects were observed in Bengal, a region always well known for its culture and intellectualism. Gradually the family concept shrinked into nuclear ones and the senior citizens were shifted to Old Age Homes. The story telling sessions faded away and the paradigms of story writing and narrating changed dramatically. Digitisation took over. Social media pawned the free space and the Y generation immediately stuck to the technology magic. All the stories which used to enchant them couched into Compact Discs and reading story books no more remained a passion. The cultural paradigm had a three sixty degree transformation. The objective of this topic would be dissecting the aftermaths of the Technical modes and how it has affected the reading habits of the “Y” class. The research shall revolve around the degeneration and loss of value system in the Bengali culture.There would be areas highlighting the genres of Bengali stories with the methodology being restricted to secondary sources such as story reviews and other narratives

"Storytelling and Culture ---- A three Sixty Degree Transformation in the Young Generation.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.30-32, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCX06009.pdf

"Storytelling and Culture ---- A three Sixty Degree Transformation in the Young Generation.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp30-32, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCX06009.pdf