Folk songs
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Bhongarya is a festival celebrated by the Pawara community of Khandesh, a region defined by its languages Ahirani, Bhilau and Pawari spoken in parts of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Bhongarya is considered the festival of love because on this occasion young Pawara men and women choose…
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As the first president of Padumlal Punnalal Chair for Creativity, he was associated with the Department of Culture of the Chhattisgarh government. He was awarded the Statesman award for rural reporting for two consecutive years in 1994 and 1995. He has researched extensively on the Ramnami…
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The Ramnami Samaj of Chhattisgarh found a rather unique and peaceful way of opposing the caste system in India. Not allowed to enter temples, the community members tattooed their entire bodies, in some cases even eyelids, with the name of ‘Nirgun Ram’ as a way of peaceful defiance against the…
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A resident of Na Shyam Gaon in Jorhat district of Assam, he traces his lineage to Pangyuk, one of the nine original Khamyang leaders who came to present-day Assam. Dr Shyam has worked extensively to conserve indigenous Tai Khamyang knowledge and promote studies related to the Tai people and…
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After the first Tai community crossed the Patkai Hills in the thirteenth century, numerous Tai groups of South and Southeast Asia have, since then, migrated to and settled in Assam. Of all of these Tai peoples, the Tai Khamyang group is one of the lesser documented. After leaving their home in Mong…
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Jungoo and dooah are agricultural folk songs sung by hill folks in the Jaunpur and Jaunsar regions of the Garhwal Himalaya. In a pastoral society where people toiled for hours in faraway woodlands, mostly in solitude, these songs developed as conversational ‘call–response’ songs with a melody style…
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सरगुजिहा लोक गीतों में वर्षा
मानव जीवन में ऋतुओं का विशेष महत्व है। उनमें एक है वर्षा ऋतु। वर्षा ऋतु को पावस ऋतु, बरखा ऋतु, बरसात ऋतु व जीवन दायिनी ऋतु के नाम से भी जाना जाता है। इस ऋतु में सभी प्रांत के लोग अपनी-अपनी स्थानीय बोलियों में वर्षा लोकगीतों का गायन करते हैं। सरगुजा अंचल की सरगुजिहा…
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मानव में अपने शरीर को सजाने, संवारने की नैसर्गिक प्रवृति होती है। अनादिकाल से ही वह अनेक प्रकार के उपादानों से स्वयं को आकर्षक बनाने के प्रयास करता रहा है। स्त्रियों में तो यह प्रवृति और भी तीव्रतर होती है, वे न केवल स्वयं को अधिक सुन्दर देखना चाहती हैं बल्कि अन्यों से अलग भी दिखने की अभिलाषा रखती…
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