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Song 3 – Raja Pravir Chandra Bhanj Deo’s Assassination
The revival of the Kachargarh pilgrimage has been instrumental in bringing together different adivasi traditions annually. Rohidas Ghodham speaks Gondi, Marathi, Hindi, and Telugu and is a talented and respected folk singer who has been…
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Song 2 – Indira Gandhi’s Assassination
The revival of the Kachargarh pilgrimage has been instrumental in bringing together different adivasi traditions annually. Rohidas Ghodham speaks Gondi, Marathi, Hindi, and Telugu and is a talented and respected folk singer who has been performing in…
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Song 1 – Gondi Vivah Geet
The revival of the Kachargarh pilgrimage has been instrumental in bringing together different adivasi traditions annually. Rohidas Ghodham speaks Gondi, Marathi, Hindi, and Telugu and is a talented and respected folk singer who has been performing in…
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Devakumar Thenchery
Dr Babu Mundekkad is a folklore expert from Kerala. His doctoral research was on the life, culture and education of the Kallatta Kurup community and the ritual art of kalamezhuthu pattu (a kind of floor painting practised in Kerala).
Devakumar Thenchery: India has a rich visual…
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Mayuri Pralhad Patankar
Poet Ushakiran Atram invites her readers to honour the lifeworlds of adivasis by lending an appreciative ear to their cultural expressions. Here she speaks about Gondi culture, language and literature. She writes poetry in Gondi, Marathi and Hindi. Acute observation, powerful verse…
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Sunil Kumar
चित्र: राजा सलहेस की टेराकोटा मूर्तियां, रमा पंडित, दरभंगा, 2017 । फोटोग्राफर - सुनील कुमार
नेपाल की तरार्इ में स्थित महिसौथा गांव में दुसाध जाति के एक महात्मा थे। उनका नाम था वाक मुनि। वे 12 वर्ष की कठोर तपस्या में लीन थे। इसी दौरान इन्द्रलोक से मायावती नाम की एक अप्सरा फूल लोढ़ने के…
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Arighna Gupta
Chandraketugarh translates, from all its Sanskritic philological manoeuverings, as ‘the bastion of Chandraketu’. Quite naturally, this fuels the curiosities of many as to who was Chandraketu? While the lack of certitude is baffling to many, it is fodder to the rest. However, it is the…
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Sunil Kumar
चित्र: महेंद्र साव, सलहेस लोक-कलाकार, बेतौनहा, मधुबनी, 2016 । फोटोग्राफर - सुनील कुमार
मधुबनी के घोघरडीहा में देर रात तक चल रहे एक लोकनाट्य का दृश्य, मंच पर गर्व से लबरेज नायक के कई संवादों में से कुछ की बानगी:-
नायक का अपना परिचयात्मक संवाद -
हमरो जे घर यौ पंचन
राज छै…
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