সংগীত ও বহমান পরম্পরা
Music & Living Traditions
Documenting the folk, Baul, mystic, spiritual and regional music of Bengal — and the people and places behind it.
What we preserve
Heritage we hold close
Twelve traditions at the heart of our work — and a great deal more along the way.
দক্ষিণ এশিয়ার লোককথা ও লোকঐতিহ্য
South Asian Folklores
Folk tales, myths, legends, ballads, proverbs, riddles and oral histories, traced as they travel between communities.
ঐতিহ্যবাহী ও নৃসংগীতের বাদ্যযন্ত্র
Traditional and Ethnomusical Instruments
Ektara, Dotara, Setara, Gopi Yantra, Khamak and Sarinda — studied as vessels of craft knowledge, not objects.
কাঠের শিল্প ও কারুশিল্পের ঐতিহ্য
Traditional Wood Art & Craft
Local wood species, selection, carving, joinery and ornamentation — and the knowledge built around working with wood.
ঐতিহ্যবাহী ও আধুনিক আসবাব
Traditional and Modern Furniture
From piri and jalchowki to palang, chests and shelves — design, materials, technique and the memory they embody.
কারুশিল্প ও নির্মাণজ্ঞান
Craftsmanship & Making Knowledge
How a craftsperson observes, selects, prepares and shapes a material — the process valued as much as the object.
প্রকৃতি ও প্রাকৃতিক উপকরণ
Nature & Natural Materials
Wood, bamboo, gourds, clay, leather and fibres — an object's story begins with the tree, soil or landscape it came from.
মৌখিক ও লিখিত সাংস্কৃতিক স্মৃতি
Oral & Written Cultural Memory
Folk narratives, puthi manuscripts, sayings and proverbs — oral history valued alongside the written record.
স্থান ও সাংস্কৃতিক ভূদৃশ্য
Place & Cultural Landscapes
No tradition exists independently of its landscape — rivers, soil, forests and settlements shape what grows there.
শব্দ, ছবি ও নথিকরণ
Sound, Image & Documentation
Photography, audio, video, interviews and measured drawings, building a multidimensional archive.
আচার, বিশ্বাস ও দর্শন
Ritual, Belief & Philosophy
Letting each tradition speak through its own language, practice and memory rather than a single interpretation.
পরিবর্তন, অভিযোজন ও ধারাবাহিকতা
Change, Adaptation & Continuity
Heritage is never static. We study not only what is disappearing, but how traditions adapt and find new form.