Bat-Ras[बतरस] Storytelling in Bihar: what is the Bihar story?   by Ratnakar Tripathy Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi in his classic study of early Hindi literature ‘Hindi Sahitya ka Adi Kal [the early phase of Hindi literature, lectures delivered in Patna in 1952]’ lists a number of narrative techniques commonly used in our literature since its early days, as early as the 9th century AD. For the profound phrase ‘narrative techniques’, please read storytelling tricks, quite simply! Acharya Dwivedi goes on to list 21 of these commonly used gimmicks, all of which cannot be... 

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