A Farming Culture of Singing While Working

There is an 83-minute award-winning documentary which tells a beautiful story of culture of an Indian village of 5,000 people, where everyone sings while working in the rice fields. The documentary title is "Kho ki pa l�" which means "the sound goes up, the sound goes down and the sound goes sideways", thus the English title "Up Down and Sideways". (Kho ki pa l� is the way the polyphonic music of

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