Ashish Vidyarthi's Journey from Acting to Storytelling

“It's important for people to know other ways of living. When you discover that there are other ways of living, thinking, eating, other ways of bringing up children, or other ways of living meaningful lives other than what you thought the only way that is when you discover the world is filled with so many different kinds of people. Some horrendous things have happened recently. It is just the lack of sensibility that there are people who don't look like me and who also belong to my country. We really have to understand that in this word there are different kinds of people who speak different languages and have different ways of living. As for me, I grew up in a multicultural background- Malayali father and Bengali mother, so I have always wondered how different kinds of people live and create valid lives. And that's what I do with my storytelling.”

“I am touched by the love and affection that I've seen in Assam; the language is so sweet. The people are even sweeter when they speak that language; there's kindness, belief, and trust, and I think that is something which needs to be nurtured. I am in the presence of love. Now that Rupali and I are here, the entire family has gathered brothers, sisters, and cousins. And they have been spending time together and sitting for long conversations. There are no very big conversations happening, but these are conversations about simple things in life. And I have reconnected to it. So, I'm really appreciating how a joyous life can be led with simplicity and that's what I want to just tell people from this wonderful State.”