Bhojpuri superstar Pawan Singh is once again in the spotlight as one of his songs has crossed an impressive 800 million views ...

Through radically different sounds, two musicians are reshaping how Bhojpuri is heard and understood in their country.

If you’ve been scrolling Instagram lately, chances are you’ve come across a group of women in Banaras singing a beautiful Bhojpuri song. It looked as though they’d known it forever. Well, they have.

“A lot of music is built around instant recall and virality, and I worry that silence, poetry and emotional depth are becoming harder to sell. This has always been the case. Even earlier, it was the ...