Their voices rise strong and clear. The open setting of the Kalakshetra is appropriate for these traditional folk singers whose forefathers wandered through the villages of Rajasthan rendering devotional songs. But Ganesh Jogi and his wife Tejuben Jogi are much more than itinerant singers. The couple has reinvented itself brilliantly to suit changing times and the demands of an urban sensibility. Theirs is a unique combination, of expertise in full-throated singing and intricately-executed painting.

Composed and serene

The balladeers sit on the grounds of the Kalakshetra as composed and serene as they would under the banyan tree in their village — he in his bright turban and she in her sunflower yellow ghagra, bringing a colourful note of Western India to the visitors of the Datskari Haat. The crafts fair was held recently by the Dastkari Haat, in collaboration with Kalakshetra Foundation.............Click for more

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