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[RAJASTHAN KABIR YATRA]
ABOUT Rajasthan Kabir Yatra is India’s longest travelling folk music festival, celebrating the oral traditions of the Bhakti Ras, Nirgun and Sufi poetries such of Kabir, Mirabai, Baba Bulleshah, Gorakhnath, Shah Lateef, and other saints and sages who share a deep mystic ecstasy sublimated in their poetic voices. This folk music festival voyages across the rural regions of Rajasthan every year between 2 and 8 October. Sharing a spirited environment for musicians, artists, scholars, students and seekers to immerse themselves in the world of soul-driving poetry and music, it features performers, and singers from different communities coming together to communicate the works and Darshan of folk poets and philosophers. The first Rajasthan Kabir Yatra was initiated in the year 2012 under the NGO Lokayan Sansthan. It was further annually held from 2016 to 2019 in partnership with the Rajasthan Police and the Department of Tourism. In turn to the COVID outbreak, the yatra, which was halted for 2020 and 2021, is scheduled to return in Oct 2022.

VISION

An idea nurtured to preserve the traditional folk music of Rajasthan and present its elderly spiritual wisdom; Rajasthan Kabir Yatra desires to develop a community which is receptive of its cultural heritage and ancestral knowledge. Promoting the oral traditions of Rajasthan, it deems to portray the folk artists and traditional singers in a dissolving fun way for the contemporary world, to uphold love and harmony midst society, softening all the boundaries of religion, caste, creed and identity.

LOKAYAN

Lokayan, which translates to ‘dialogue among people’, was registered as a public charitable society in 1996-97 at Bikaner. Heartily consolidated with the energies of several heritage preservers, performing artists, historians and visual artists who were deeply committed to documenting the northwestern Rajasthani culture, it is deemed to preserve the Rajasthani heritage art & ancestry. Lokayan has established a strategic vision of creating Rajasthan a state where its cultural heritage, art and artists are valued and staged. It envisions a community that respects creativity and heritage, passing its cultural legacy to future generations. Dedicated to the revival, restoration and renewal of the intangible and tangible cultural heritage of Rajasthan, Lokayan focuses to promote the Rajasthani art and heritage with great pride and introduce it to the world at large.

PROJECT TAANA- BAANA

For the last six years, Rajasthan Police has worked together with Lokayan Sansthan as a pilot project, 'Taana-Baana' in Rajasthan which assisted to organize the Rajasthan Kabir Yatra from 2016 to 2019. The exhilarating experience of these four consecutive years in seven districts of Rajasthan has given Rajasthan Police the vision of promoting and nurturing a harmonious atmosphere between different casts/communities to ensure peaceful coexistence in society. RKY becoming an institutionalized mechanism supported by various departments of the government with the mentioned objectives, the police receive the dominant role of coordinating the efforts of concerned departments of the government to organize RKY as a tool for community outreach initiatives. It plays an essential role in establishing social harmony amongst people, making them discoverable of communal un-dividedness.

PREVIOUS YATRA’S

The first edition of the Rajasthan Kabir Yatra was embarked in the year 2012. With the village residents hosting a warm welcome to the travelers, the yatra opened at Momasar and journeyed through the rural regions of Bikaner. Throughout the years, the Yatra has bought together diverse musicians and even a more diverse set of Yatra, who voyage in buses from one location to another for nightly concerts and Satsang in different villages. In the very first year, more than 200 people from across the country and abroad joined in. After 3 years of immense planning and increased vigor, the Rajasthan Kabir yatra revisited the land of dunes in 2016. With the cooperation of the Bikaner Police, Lokayan Sansthanstaged the project, 'Taana-Baana' with a vision of promoting and facilitating a harmonious atmosphere between different casts/communities to ensure peaceful coexistence in the society. The yatra stayed active for another three-consecutive year covering the heritage-rich rural locations of Rajasthan. With morning Satsang's, evening walks and late-night Jagran extending to the early hours of sunrise, the yatra did make travelers experience immersing in an otherworldly mystic experience. Sleeping rowed, with one mattress stuck to the other, munching together on the traditional Rajasthani cuisine or enjoying the evening jaunts giggling and chatting with each other, the yatras did the job of bringing different people from diverse cultures together in the love of the 15th century poet-philosopher, Kabir.

SATSANG RETREATS

A 3-day music festival curated for seekers and life-learners to experience the enlightening world of Kabir, the first Satsang retreat 'Kahat Kabir' was held at Rishikesh, 22-24 October'21 in collaboration with . Soon after the flourishing response of Kahat Kabir, RKY revisited the Satsang retreat, scheduled 14 -16 May'22. Midst the haze-hooded mountains, and the serendipity of the all-day trickling cool breeze, the retreat scheduled at the SIDH LRC campus of Mussoorie brought up people from diverse parts of the country together, enjoying the evergreen Nirgun and Sufi poetries of mystics and saints. Yoga and sound healing sessions in the morning and the afternoon illuminated with self-reflective sessions, group activities and games, presented a priceless experience filled with love, compassion and gratitude to the artists and people gathered.

TESTIMONIALs

Experience in Kabir Yatra is not like staying in the city and listening to a concert. You are directly related to life and the environment. This music is just not to listen to, it completely works on your body, and through all your cells, and it has a tremendous healing effect!

-Parvathy Baul, Baul singer

Performing for the first time in villages, a lovely lineup of artists. Come for an immersive Kabir experience.

-  Maati Baani, a renowned band

People from both the communities came along to celebrate the music and poetry of great bhakti and Sufi poets.

- Dr Amandeep Singh Kapoor (IPS)

Thank you for an amazing event.

- Rajasthan Tourism

= Refrences And External websites =

2.https://www.thebetterindia.com/72362/rajasthan-kabir-yatra-bikaner-communal-harmony/

3. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bp/struck-word-poetic-musical-moments-rajasthan-kabir-yatra-095125801.html

4. Parvathy Baul, Baul singer

5. Dr Amandeep Singh Kapoor (IPS)

6. https://openthemagazine.com/photographic/travels-through-song/

7. Maati Baani, a renowned band

8. Lokayan

9. Satsang retreat

10. Sangrachna Foundation

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