Practice:Folk Lore Studies

My interest in Folklore Studies has been lying dormant for some time now as I have been busy with other things. Having lived in a small town in West Bengal India and belonging to a community that people know little about, I often wondered about all the stories that were told around fireplaces on cold winter nights. Later, when doing my M Phil at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, I decided to do a special paper on folklore studies and I tried to bring together Folk Tales from Bhutan and Folk Songs from Nepal. Two neighbouring Himalayan countires, both ertswhile monarchies, both multiethnic and multi lingual.