Music6 min read
Kajri Season
Kajri is a song for the monsoon, and the monsoon is a song for women whose husbands have gone away. An essay on one of the great seasonal forms of Bhojpuri music.
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Essays produced collaboratively by the Discover Purvanchal editorial team — reporting, fact-checking, and photographs pulled together from across the masthead.
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Traditions6 min read
Sarnath: The First Turning
The Dhamek Stupa, Ashokan remains, and the modern-day monasteries of Sarnath — a visitor's guide that takes the site on its own terms.
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Traditions7 min read
Jaunpur: Mosques and the Sharqi Century
Atala, Jama, and Lal Darwaza — the three great Sharqi mosques of Jaunpur, and a short history of the Sultanate that produced them.
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Music8 min read
Bhojpuri Music: Roots and Rhythms
A primer on the song-forms of Purvanchal — Kajri, Birha, Sohar, Nirgun, Chaita — where they are sung, who sings them, and what they are really about.
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