07/04/2026
Music & Connection
Last year, in Auroville I met Martand who played a Pahari song (from mountains) that got stuck to me until today. A few days before being on my way to a singing retreat in Almora I discovered that this song mentions this place.
During a break in the retreat, we went on a walk with some of the participants and I felt like asking the villagers if they knew this song and if we could sing it together… and so it happened. We ran into these cheerful lovely women who even showed us the steps so gracefully. This song says that the fig ripens all the year round while the bayberry only ripens in Spring, April. Just in the time I was there.
This song also talks about beautiful things of village life, and the feeling of missing this lifestyle when away. I realized how the music and the lyrics deeply resonate in me for the connection I feel in these locations, this life and people. I can’t explain such a feeling of home and belonging.
Grateful for this magical moment of connection through Singing & Dancing, my beloved practises that create unity & joy beyond time, cultures, places.
As I was writing this in a restaurant now far from Almora, while waiting for my lunch, one of the employees played a Pahari song. I checked with him if this music was Pahari and he said yes so I mentioned him about this song. He knew it and then played it too. Grateful to this language of magic: MUSIC.
In this video I share the encounter with the wowen in Almora; when I discovered this song in Auroville last year and a bit of the version the guy at the restaurant played.
Grateful for all these beautiful musical sharings.
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Thanks to .banda capturing these beautiful moments, thanks and .shri23 for joining with your voice and dance, thanks for capturing the moment I found this song last year in Auroville and thanks to all those who were there enjoying.
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