When Songs Carry History: Bhojpuri Folk Music and Migration
Simit Bhagat Is an award-winning Filmmaker, Journalist, musician and cultural archivist based in Mubai, India Some histories survive not in official archives, but in songs. In the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in northern India, folk music has long carried an emotional record of departure, labour, longing, and return. These songs were…
