The present becoming history
What Bihar remembers—and carries forward.
Stories of places, practices and working lives being remembered, adapted and carried forward.
2 growing entries
“Before It Fades” continues here as an editorial series within a wider account of memory, adaptation and change.
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Living memory · Oral-history projectRohtas industrial memory
Work, neighbourhoods and family histories connected to an industrial world that has substantially changed.
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Living memory · KartikSonpur fair in transition
A historic gathering changing with regulation, commerce, entertainment and new expectations.
Culture has names and faces
Meet the people who carry it.
Individual artists, cooks, speakers, organisers and custodians belong in the People archive, connected to the traditions they sustain.
Explore People →