Everyone has a story to tell..

The Kahani Movement, an oral history project modelled after StoryCorps, was launched at the opening of the seventh annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles April 21st 2009.

The Kahani Movement inspires Indian Americans to tell stories of their early days in the U.S. from the comfort of their own kitchen tables and then share this content on a newly developed social network (http://kahanimovement.com).

This storytelling project is targeted toward the Indian-American and South Asian communities. The Kahani Movement is the brainchild of Suneel Gupta and his brother Sanjay, the chief medical correspondent for CNN.The project takes a unique approach to sharing these stories by motivating young Indian Americans to pick up a camera, interview their parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles, and then post that footage to Kahani’s web platform (http://kahanimovement.com).
“Take the time to sit down with the parents, grandparents and get their stories. These are powerful, amazing stories. Everyone can be a filmmaker, everyone can tell stories,” says Suneel Gupta, who has been working on the project for more than one-and-a-half years.

Kahani’s platform allows storytellers to browse through stories submitted by fellow users, and submit their own in the form of video, audio, photos, and writings. With an open-source approach to film production, the Kahani Movement gives the storyteller the ability to not only share his or her stories with a network but also be able to access the content from other participants.

Kahani hopes to continue to inspire generations of Indian-Americans to embrace and document the rich cultural traditions of their ancestors. The purpose of creating the Kahani Movement is three-fold:

1. Assemble a well-organized archive of content that helps current and future generations to better understand the Indian immigration experience.

2. Empower the Kahani Movement community to collaborative creatively. The Kahani Movement inspires community members to add to and remix content on the site to tell the Indian immigration story in new, imaginative ways.

3. Inspire others outside of the Indian community to create their own Kahani Movement. Every community has powerful stories that are worth preserving. An important goal for Kahani is to lower the barrier to capturing these stories by creating a digital model that is easy to replicate…. Read More

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