My gold indhoni rupa bedlu re, when the water is gone, Radhaji nar re, the same friends spoke. O queen, pour out the water, O thy married neighbor is home, O day will rise and come home. Hey, my gold… Hey Radhaji came home after washing his clothes, he came home and opened the doors of the bedroom, he opened the doors of Madi Keran. Hey, my gold… Hey, go, go, get some jewelry, there is a diamond carousel around it, come home after eating. O my gold… O Rani Nahi Re Diyaan Re Notaran Re, O Rani Nahi Re Ryan We Are Nowhere For Night, O Gowalie Rokia Re In The Forest. O my gold… Folk media of ancient times proved to be the best for propaganda then and even today. Today there are platforms like print, electronic, social media to spread any right or wrong thing, earlier folk songs and folk stories played that role. Today, we have WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter-etc to do Panchaat of the whole village, earlier it was the Otla of the village padar. Today, the work that our WhatsApp group does is done on water sources like wells, lakes, rivers, etc. The platform has changed, human behavior has remained the same. Right and wrong things, rumours, back and forth, happen even today! The characters of the folk song 'Mari Sona Indhoni Rupa Bedlun Re…' are Radha-Kan, but actually it is not about Radha of Barsana and Gokul-Mathura with Kan, it is a story of a couple from the common people and it has a story that will be true till the end of the ages. The thing is that when Radhaji went to fetch water from the well-lake or the river, one of her friends said that your husband is staying at home in the neighborhood, he comes home at dawn! Radha got angry, went home and locked herself in the room. When Krishna came home, Radha said what is here? Go to Sami Madi, there are Heer carousels, delicious food…! Purushottam had to retort that I have not received any note from the opposite house, why should I go there to eat? My overnight stay was in the forest as the cowherds stopped me. By imputing the small and big incidents that happen in the life of the people to the lives of folk heroes, folk poets make the couplets of Radha-Kan, Sita-Rama, Parvati-Shiva into the characters of folk songs with the auspicious wish that people will think about it very seriously and follow the teachings arising from it. Our folk song speaks of human nature-behaviour. Here a female character spreads bad things about someone, then the opposite woman doubts her by believing things against her husband. Swinging in the carousel…!
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