Onam gift from Malayalam literary app: stories in writer's voice!
Synopsis
The app,named 'Kelkaam' is released by keralabookstore.com The app presents stories and poems in the writer's own voice. Each story will have music and background score.
Malayalam literature is thriving across digital platforms, with innovations taking place in the form and narratives as well as in the way it reaches out to new readers. The latest is a mobile app that reads out stories and recites poems in the writer’s own voice.
The app titled 'Kelkaam' (Let's hear) has a compilation of short stories and poems. Launched a few months back, the app is bringing out its Onam special, a collection of stories by leading writers in Malayalam, read out by the writers themselves. Each story will also have music and background score.
The Onam special audio anthology has stories written by Shihabuddin Poythumkadavu, Ashitha, P F Mathews, Priya AS, Damodaran Radhakrishnan and Sreebala K Menon.
Besides the Onam special anthology, the app has stories and poems for the digital generation.
Once the app is installed, users can download the stories and can either read or hear them.