Singer Vijaya Maid, from Shirur town in Pune district, sings nine ovi inviting the gods and goddesses to a family wedding. The songs picture of the joyous day

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Savitribai Ubhe sings five ovi about the daily grinding of grain to flour, and a woman’s efficient ways that could make her family prosper.

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Adivasi poet Jitendra Vasava, from Narmada district in Gujarat, reads his poem तोरती गरभ हाय, written in the Dehwali Bhili language.
Art by Labani Jangi.

तोरती गरभ हाय | Jitendra Vasava

Adivasi poet Jitendra Vasava's poem written in Dehwali Bhili.
Art by Labani Jangi.

असभ्य जाहिर मोव | Jitendra Vasava

Adivasi poet Jitendra Vasava's poem, originally written in Dehwali Bhili, translated and read in English by Pratishtha Pandya.
Art by Labani Jangi.

Fragile Heart

Uncivilised mahua | Jitendra Vasava

In times of divisiveness and hatred a poet goes looking for the languages of love and liberty.
And where else does she end up but in a gossamer of mother tongues rising from silenced
histories

مادری زبانیں | Sabika Abbas

PARI in collaboration with Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan presents a rich archive of folk songs and music from Kutch, Gujarat.

Mitho mitho panje kachhade jo paani re | Naseem Sheikh, Anjar

Hamisar talave pani haali chhori Hamali | Bhavna Bhil

Sayaba, ekli hun vaitaru nahi karun | Nanduba Jadeja

Munara Mi Alah | Kishor Ravar

Jeelan tara paani mune khara zer laage | Shankar Barot

Kali kali vadalima | Ghelji Bhai

Pittal tala kholaasi, tramen tala kholyaasi

Door ti vina, pardes ti vina | Juma Vagher

'A Palghar village battles a national highway'

Here is a poem Deenodaan from his collection Kahini that brings to us the plight of the ordinary people in a kingdom, mythical and otherwise, that is not built on the universal values of humanism.

দীনদান | রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

Deenodaan | Rabindranath Tagore

Kare oonare sudla pakhi gheli gujarat | Juma Vagher

A poet and a teacher, who has dedicated his life to displaced children of Dalit and Adivasi communities gives a voice to their collective anguish

سن لو کہ ابھی میں زندہ ہوں | Merajuddin Syed

Listen, I am still here, alive | Merajuddin Syed

A poem in Dehwali Bhili warns us about the dangers of distancing ourselves from poetry at a time when the world is in need of light and love

कविता उनायां बोंद की देदोहो | Jitendra Vasava

Since you've stopped listening to poetry | Jitendra Vasava

Kunjal na maar veer kunjal na maar | Juma Vagher

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Lilabai Shinde, 11 Ambedkar Songs
Under The Grindmill Songs Project.
Read about Lilabai Shinde, the singer of this song at https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/ambedkar-lives-on-in-rural-womens-songs

Ambedkar lives on in rural women’s songs

The People's Archive of Rural India (PARI) is both a living journal and an archive aimed at recording the everyday lives of everyday people. And to do that across what is, in many ways, the most complex and diverse part of the planet: rural India, with 833 million human beings, 700 living languages, multiple cultures and unrivalled occupational diversity. PARI is an online archive seeking to capture these many worlds on one website. PARI hosts and combines video, still photo, audio and text archives. There is content we already have and content we are newly generating. Both will take time and effort to organize and load.

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