The field trips began at the end of 2003, when Moushumi Bhowmik's project proposal 'Love, Loneliness and Longing: Biraho in the folk repertoire of Bengal' was being considered for a research and documentation grant by India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore.
Here is a selection of recording sessions, chronologically arranged, and sorted by year to give an idea of how the work has evolved and how the field has grown and continues to grow, also how the researchers are evolving in the process. Moushumi has written the session notes from a personal point of view, based on her own and Sukanta's observations and interactions in the field, and all the thinking, reading and listening that have come later.
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