These songs were sung by a bunch of young women, after hours, in a hostel in the hinterlands of Bijapur district, Bastar region, Chhattisgarh.
Despite the high conflict that the community is faced with, in the midst of raging battles between the State and the Naxalites, young voices thrive to express tiny every day joys they find in the nature that surrounds them, familial and community relationships. And somewhere, hidden deep inside, the idea of the tricolour and their country.
Mahua Tripps 