Disappearing Holi songs - a cause for concern among the elderly

The fervour of Holi festival has already broken out in many districts in the Province No 2 as the festival of colour is at hand. Nevertheless, the elderly people have expressed their concern over the disappearing Holi songs and eroding culture of celebrating the festival traditionally. Earlier, the locals were seen singing Holi songs (popularly known as Jogira) and dancing to those traditional songs especially during the night in the run up to Holi. Lately, neither they play drums and sing Jogiras. One such popular Jogira song is ‘Jogira Sara ra ra..” Umashankar Shah of Lalbandi Municipality-7 in... Read More