INDIA, June 6, 2016 (The Guardian): The dance troupes of Karnataka, the formidable hunting tribes of Nagaland, the revered qawwali singers of Rajasthan — these musical groups, once essential to and symbolic of their regions, are dying out and may no longer exist in 15-20 years.
Musical traditions often center around community events such as births, festivals, marriages and deaths. Faced with globalization, increasingly cheap technologies and rapid rural to urban migration, many of the most vibrant cultural practices and musical traditions inherent to India’s villages are dying out
Spectacular photos at “source” by filmmaker and photographer Souvid Datta who shot these images while producing his documentary, Tuning 2 You: The Lost Musicians of India