Basudeb Baul gets his own film
“No one sends a copy of the film they make on us.” That’s Basudeb Das, Baul singer from Bolpur, speaking. I made a short documentary on Basudeb da - and sent…
A translator for PARI shares his experience
Here is a share by Pu. Ko. Saravanan who translated the ten tales of freedom - these are stories and interviews of freedom fighters of India. *** I had once…
The grindmill songs: making music with stone and verse
The idea was to publish one ovi, a couplet rendered as a song, everyday, from the Grindmill Songs database along with text and audio. It seemed like a simple enough…
Welcome to the PARIvar: Reflections from a newcomer to the People’s Archive of Rural India
It occupies an unassuming fifth floor apartment just off the Western Express Highway, on a leafy lane where autowalas routinely park to nap. There’s the front room with its oversized…
Remembering the revolutionary who led the Toofan Sena
And a visit to Vita in Satara district, where P. Sainath received an award on August 6, instituted in the memory of Krantisinh Nana Patil The children of the Krantisinh…