Next month, The Festival of Indigenous Storytellers at Windmere Hotel in Darjeeling will be a bit about losing and finding things — finding origins of folklore in tribal traditions, and losing inhibition in front of an audience with a glass of chi (fermented millet beer), for the first-ever session on drunken storytelling.

Kwoica (centre), Acoustic Traditional’s co-founder, Barkha Henry and the team with one of the oldest shamans in upper Dzongu, North Sikkim