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Sweta Kandari
Bagori village is an unexplored settlement of Jadh Bhotiyas, an ethno-linguistic tribal community en route to the Gangotri shrine on the banks of river Bhagirathi in the Garhwal Himalayas. Historically, the community was a pastoral nomadic tribe from the Nelang and Jadong valley of Uttarakhand.…
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Sweta Kandari
The residents of the Bagori village are Jadh Bhotiyas who shifted to this location after the 1960s Indo-China political conflict. Bhotiyas are originally an ethno-linguistic tribe along the trans-Himalayan belt. They inhabited the high-altitude regions (from 6500 to 13000 ft) of the Indian central…
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Sweta Kandari
Bagori is one of the many villages that flourished along the banks of river Bhagirathi in Uttarakhand, India. It is an unexplored trans-Himalayan settlement tucked away in the Garhwal Himalayas en route to the Gangotri shrine. The settlement can only be accessed by foot or on two-wheelers from…
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Shweta Radhakrishnan
A Garhwali community radio station was a long-cherished dream in the region, kept alive and nurtured by a dedicated group of community members for over a decade. This dream was finally realised when Mandakini ki Awaaz began broadcasting on September 21, 2014.  Manvendra Negi and Devilal Bharati are…
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Shweta Radhakrishnan
Madhuri was 13 years old when she first met the Mandakini radiowalahs (radio people), as they were called in her village. They were a small group of three people from the Mandakini ki Awaaz radio station who had come to her village, Pinglapani, to record content—songs, stories, jokes—for the…
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Shweta Radhakrishnan
‘Lyaava suna, suna meri baat, Mandakini ki awaaz, lyaava suna, suna meri baat, Mandakini ki awaaz’ (Let us listen, listen to what we have to say, the voice of the Mandakini, let us listen, listen to what we have to say, the voice of the Mandakini) Every morning across the Mandakini river valley, …
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Shweta Radhakrishnan
Community radio is a broadcast medium operated ‘in the community, for the community, about the community and by the community’, as radio broadcaster from Philippines, Louise Tabing writes in the UNESCO-published How to Do Community Radio.  More localised than state-owned and commercial radio,…
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Deb Mukharji
Deb Mukharji made multiple treks across the entire stretch of the Himalaya over six decades. The result is a photographic documentation spanning India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet and five Indian states (Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Ladakh). He has curated a selection of…
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