‘Kashi Labh’ Official Selection – Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival!
We are so happy to let you all know that Kashi Labh will be screened at the 9th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival, Delhi on April 30. The day marks the birth anniversary of Late Sh. Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, the father of Indian cinema. The film has already been screened in twelve cities around the […]
Kashi Labh | film trailer
Aesthetics of dying, coming together of family and the last vital breath in Kashi, India’s sacred city. A video reflexive ethnography by Rajat Nayyar. Kashi Labh is coming this July! It took more than 7 years of research that started with after death rituals and then before death rituals in Kashi. Nowhere we could locate […]
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, […]
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