User:G. B. Amar

G. B. Amar is his short name, but he really means Gangadhar Behera (Amar).

He is a sociolinguistic researcher in India. Now he is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, but basically he is from Orissa. His home town is Phulbani, where did his studies. After his 12th, he moved to Rajasthan to continue his further studies. He often travels, because his profession is like that. He is a multilingual person; knows Hindi, English and Oriya; Oriya is his Mother Tongue. He can also understand few Indian languages like Gujarati, Marathi, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri, Sadri, Bengali and little bit of Malayalam. He is a friendly and social oriented guy. you could easily reach him (amarawaaz@gmail.com)... no prob.

He has done few sociolinguistic research among the minority languages and people groups like; (Bagheli in Madhya Pradesh), (Korwa and Kodaku in Chattisgarh and Jharkhand), (Mewati in Rajashan, Haryana and Punjab), (Muria Gondi in Maharastra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa) and (KLM - Kharia, Lodha and Mahali in Orissa, West Benagal and Jharkhand). Any information regrading above language and people groups can be collected from him personally.

From childhood, he has been gifted with singing and music. This led him to pursue for music and media. At present he is an Ethnomusicology consultant. He trains people to create songs and music in local languages throughout the country. He records their songs in their heart languages and in local tunes. Now Ethnomusicology and Ethnoarts are becoming familiar to people.

His multi-lingual interest and background helped him to taste Indian culture and languages in a varieties way. His musical gifting from Almighty God helped him to produce a Music Album called "namra ARAADHAK" (humble WORSHIPER) - called to worship God in spirit and truth. It is totally a devotional album, that reflects his life and work. His family has been his great inspiration and friends have been his jewels (www.araadhakamar.worpress.com)

With best wishes for him

his friends in Bangalore

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