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The traditional customs and folk culture retreated in the blind race of modernity
Capital Information
|June 24, 2025
Our villages are changing. This change can be seen at many levels. Not only contacts improved in villages when connected to road and railroads, but lifestyle and rural surroundings have also changed. There was electricity in villages, which brought light with them, also made a medium of tools like TV. The road and electricity played a big role in trying to make villages stand parallel to the cities and move towards par. Now the villages did not remain the same as were three-four decades ago. Arguably, this change should be called positive and growth oriented.
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These references sometimes become factors of social and cultural change and take us away from our cultural heritage. If electricity came in villages, it also brought side effects with lights, in the dark of which the folk culture of villages began to vanish. Electricity did not change the lifestyle of the people of the villages, but also changed their thinking.
TV opened the window of rural life towards the city and the big cities. Rural life was greatly influenced by it. In a spree of modernity, people went away from their traditional customs. Modernity also dominated in manglik programmes with festivals that people began to understand their traditions the past. At one time, songs were sung from every small-grown festivals in villages to different seasons. People used to feel the weather not only because of the change in the abo-air, but also from the mind-brain. Folklore-Music works to connect people with traditional cultural heritage. But the changing times changed everything. Now the songs are not heard fag, teal, crutches, kazari, barhamasa and jhula.
This story is from the June 24, 2025 edition of Capital Information.
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