“You don’t visit in the evening, you dont talk to me or carry the kids If you don’t need me, take back to my home. But mind you, If I go home, You won’t get a drop of water....”
As 89-year-old Madhavi sings this ancient ditty, her grandson records it on his mobile phone. She smiles as she sings of a young woman complaining to her husband who has not returned home. The woman climbs up a hill and sings loudly, so that her husband may hear her and return home.
Madhavi is from Kavumthara in Kozhikode district and her local dialect-laced song is from her generation. The primarily forgotten traditional folk song will now be preserved in a digital archive.
