| Description |
This Bārahmāh or “twelve months song” depicts the singer as a gopi, or girlfriend of Krishna, who is yearning for Krishna, throughout the changing seasons. The song starts with Chaitra, the spring month of March/April. As the Brindavan landscape changes throughout the different months, the gopi tenderly remembers Krishna, who is now away in Mathura. Sung by a group led by Nirmada Upadhyay at a wedding of her relative in 1991, the song is inflected with Punjabi, a reminder that the Punjabi had a strong cultural influence in Kangra, which was an administrative district of Punjab until 1966. Recorded and collected by Kirin Narayan |
