सास बहु सोहर गीत | Bhojpuri Folk Song | Sohar Geet
Smt. Indravati Devi (Chachiya) sang for us a beautiful Sohar song when we spent time with her in 2014 at her house in Bhadwar village (Buxar), Bihar. She is no more but her memories and her voice lives with(in) us.
Ep 1 – Culture Concept | Intro to Anthropology
We make an attempt towards introducing everyone to Social & Cultural Anthropology. First episode – ‘Culture Concept’. The concept of culture is rather hard to conceive. If people are left without any culture it seems that we will end up destroying each other and ourselves. Therefore, we have in some way traded our freedom to […]
Participating at SAGSC, UChicago
Founder, Rajat Nayyar will be going to Chicago to participate in the upcoming The University of Chicago conference on 23rd & 24th Feb’17. Theme: Materials in Focus: Working across Media and Methods in South Asia. Will be screening my upcoming film ‘Ropani’ (portrait film on Aaji who has been sowing paddy for 40 years in Bihar) and will also […]
Janeu (film) gets selected for International Festival of Ethnological Film ‘KRATOVO 2016’, Macedonia
Good news everyone! Our film Janeu | Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs has been selected to be screened at THE 5th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOLOGICAL FILM „KRATOVO 2016“ to be held from 30 September – 2 October 2016. The festival is organised by The Macedonian Ethnological Society and Culture center L. Sofijanov in Kratovo, […]
Interview with MEDIAFORCHANGE.org
Our founder, Rajat Nayyar, was interviewed by Shamina de Gonzaga from Mediaforchange.org Background SG: How did you come to name your project “Espírito Kashi” and qualify your work as documenting “intangible cultural heritage”? RN: “Intangible cultural heritage” or “ICH” is a term I came across going through UNESCO’s charter. I use it to encompass oral and […]
Retelling the tale of Tenali Rama and The Brahmins: an ethno-fiction experiment
On 6th of July, our house was transformed into a film set. I live with a Banarasi family and their distant relatives in a three storeyed, courtyard house at the Panchganga Ghat, close to Thateri Bazaar in Varanasi. In total, we are 9 people living in the house. Espírito Kashi, our little office is […]
Espírito Kashi 
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