Forgotten Songs Collective aims to preserve ancient hill tribe’s music by bringing it to a global audience
s he sat around a fire, deep in the forests that cover the hills of Dima Hasao in Assam, a shadow of sadness came into the eyes of Lallura Darnei. Now in his seventies, Darnei is one of the oldest members of the Biate community, an ancient hill tribe living in north-east. The songs he sang around the flames that night five years ago, speaking of great floods and the birds that flap their wings at sunset, dated back so many generations the tribe said they were as old as time.
Sitting across from Darnei as he shared his grief over his disappearing culture were two people who did not belong to the tribe. Piyush Goswami and Akshatha Shetty, a married couple from Bengaluru, had stumbled upon the Biate in a long journey they were taking across India, documenting and living with marginalised and tribal communities and finding ways to bring them greater prosperity.
“This was not the first time we realised that these Indigenous cultures are fading away,” said Goswami. “All over, we had seen that these cultures which had thrived and sustained themselves for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years are now facing extinction. What we stand to lose is staggering.”
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