A recent Instagram video featuring elderly artisan Khata Nath playing the ancient Morchang in Rajasthan's Thar Desert has ...
Some songs never really age, they simply travel. Shakira’s Waka Waka (This Time for Africa), originally released as the ...
Fusion has quickly gone viral, earning applause for celebrating folk traditions while giving a global hit a distinctly Indian ...
Rajasthani folk artists Gafruddin Mewati Jogi and Taga Ram Bheel were on Sunday announced as recipients of the Padma Shri ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The setting for the Jodhpur Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF) is a 15th-century hilltop fort — one ...
The Desert KATS from Barmer, Rajasthan enchant with Rajasthani folk melodies. They are brilliant musicians and singers from the Langa community in western Rajasthan. The trio (they are a quartet) were ...
Backed by a gritty oral narrative passed on from one generation to another, folk musicians around the world have been providing healing and happiness to society for centuries through their ...