Posts Tagged Gujarat
Prachi Dublay – Adivasi Music from Gujarat
Posted by Sudev Sheth in Baajaa Gaajaa 2012, Gujarati, Interviews, Underscore Records on February 20, 2012
This video features Prachi Dublay, Ashok Gaikwad, and Nilesh Deshpande performing Adivasi music from the Tejgadh district in Gujarat. The repertoire presented by Prachi Dublay is interpretive, and comes from collaborative work she has done with tribal artists and community members at the Tejgadh Adivasi Academy in Gujarat. This performance took [...]
Tribal Music of Gujarat – Somabhai Pawar at Baajaa Gaajaa 2011
Posted by Sudev Sheth in Baajaa Gaajaa 2011, Gujarati, Marathi, Underscore Records on July 27, 2011
Featured here are singers Somabhai Pawar and his brother Kherubhai Pawar. They are from a community of tribals known as Dang. They come from the Dang district of southern Gujarat. Somabhai plays the copper thali, known as Thaali Vaadan, while singing traditional narratives about famous rulers and deities. Somabhai, a fourth generation artist, learned this [...]
Darpana Academy – Folk Dance from Gujarat
Posted by Sudev Sheth in Baajaa Gaajaa 2010, Gujarati, Music, Underscore Records on June 7, 2010
From a performance at Baajaa Gaajaa 2010 (Pune, India).
This video features artistes from the Darpana Academy of Ahmedabad performing Gujarati folk dance. The Academy has various departments ranging from performance and teaching of the arts, to the use of performing arts for social welfare development projects.
The performers (musicians/dancers) in this video [...]
‘the Blessed Port of the Mughals’ – Cambay
Posted by Sudev Sheth in History, JNU, Travel on January 17, 2010
This past weekend (January 13-16), I visited my family in Khambhat (aka Cambay) to fly kites as part of the annual Uttarayana Festival. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
I am also including an essay that briefly describes some aspects of medieval Cambay: Assessing legitimacy & power, c. 1572–1730. It was written for a course taught [...]
Rajasthan 2009 – Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, & Udaipur
Posted by Sudev Sheth in History, Travel on December 29, 2009
My family and I took a 6-day road trip to cities of Rajasthan state -Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, and Udaipur. Along with visiting the major palaces and forts at each one of these timeless cities, we broke our journey along the way in minor temple-towns like Pavapuri and Nathadwara (or Shrinathji).
To view my pictures from this trip, [...]
Old City – Ahmedabad
Posted by Sudev Sheth in History on December 18, 2009
I am staying with family in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) for a part of my month long semester break from JNU. Though I’ve been to this city about ten times in my life, I was either too young or not interested enough in visiting the old temples, mosques, and the narrow lanes of the Old City. This [...]