Vayu Naidu is an accomplished storyteller, writer, performer, workshop leader and teacher. Her art of storytelling is derived from the Indic oral tradition and its energy comes quite simply through the telling – not reading – of a story. The imagery is dense with rasa or mood, triggering emotional resonances. Storytelling for Vayu is about composing oral literature, and the emotive impulse to it originates from the oral imagination. It is creative expression in speech, movement and music that draws on historic incidents to heighten an awareness of human nature.