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Archives Southasia

Connecting Southasian Archives As part of this initiative, we are working on creating and maintaining an active network of localised archives across the region. The aim is to garner greater recognition of the individual archives, as well as the importance of archiving in general. The ever-growing online database listing private archives and collections of Southasia is a rich resource, especially for historians, scholars, researchers and students. Learn More

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Love Legends

Forbidden love: The Love Legends of southasia Researching and documenting the love legends of Punjab, is an attempt to simultaneously address the geopolitical as well as social contradictions that afflict Southasia in a mass scale today. There has been a need felt for a cultural project in Southasia which brings issues of cross-national and cross-cultural to a level where the mass public can empathise. Learn More

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Gandharva

Music on the move: The Gandharva of Nepal Research on the specific musical styles and techniques of five Gandharva communities across the country, focusing on the modes of diffusion; the barriers to the traditional modes of transmission; and the study of new methods that can be utilized to allow the Gandharva community to pass down their musical knowledge as a means of livelihood. Learn More

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We are happy to share with you the current issue of Hri-searching Southasia, the Hri newsletter. In our first issue this year, we look back at our work and share brief highlights of our completed ventures, our on-going projects and plans for the future.

Blog

What Children Must ask Sohni

Love legends have the potential of allowing children to engage with complex

1 April 2014

More a cradle than a refuge

A linguist’s views on the prehistoric habitation of the Himalaya and the Nepali

26 February 2014

Friendships Across Borders: Valentine’s Day redefined

Feeling flustered by celebration of ‘love’ or making ‘peace’? This Valentine’s

14 February 2014

The Journey's End

The last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar’s tomb in Yangon weaves threads

17 December 2013

Raconteurs sing songs of love

Hri weaves magic with love legends in Burkina Faso, recounts Laxmi Murthy.

11 December 2013

About HRI

"Hri" - a sound or a vibration, the utterance of which awakens the empathy that is an inherent part of every sentient being. Regionalism must no longer remain a prisoner of platitude, since there is a consensus that geopolitical friction, poverty and pressing environmental issues as well as cultural and social dislocation must be addressed through the regional framework. There is a need to revive and energise discussions of regionalism on the platform of mainstream politics, public information and research, with a dynamic Southasian sensibility.