In Marwari, 78-year-old Leela Somani’s mother tongue, there is an old saying: When times change, only two aspects of a culture remain — its bheent (monuments) and its geet (songs). In the 1950s, ...

To mark Mother Language Day (February 21) in 2020, we wrote about the significance of mother tongues in allowing us to access our pasts and our identities: “One’s mother tongue is really one’s oral ...

In the 1930s and ’40s, many members of the migrant Marwari community became actively involved with the freedom movement. The community went through a process of embracing a “national” identity, for ...

The Marwari Sanskriti Manch is organizing a cultural festival called the Marudhar Mela. The Marudhar Mela is an event that started on December 24 and will continue until December 31. Every day the ...