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Digital Archive

Welcome to the Karoonjhar Intangible Heritage Digital Archive — a growing collection of stories, songs, rituals, and artistic expressions rooted in the ancient landscape of the Karoonjhar Mountains. This archive preserves and celebrates the cultural memory of the region through contributions from local communities, artists, and researchers. Explore a living record of heritage, accessible to all.

Watercolors of Karoonjhar

A blend of plein air paintings created on location and more detailed studio works, each reflecting the artist's experience with the region's landscapes and people.

Amruta – The Age of Forgetting

An audio-visual performance exploring the relationship between Amruta — the immortal plant — and Kalyug, the age of forgetting.

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From Within the Mountain

A collection of oral histories, poems, and reflections that channel the spirit of Karoonjhar, giving voice to the mountain’s myths, memories, and timeless presence.

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Eras Through Her

A journey through time, land, and legacy—viewing history as it moves through the women of Karoonjhar.

Parvati

i have always been here

A poetic interactive map using ethnographic narrative illustration to trace the sacred feminine across Karoonjhar’s landscape through myth, memory, and story.

A journey through separation, belonging, and the songs that remember what history forgets.

To remember without becoming stone

A poetic reflection on memory and resistance in a land marked by loss and resilience.

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Lives Moving through Karoonjhar

Glimpses of those who walk, work, and weave their lives through the mountain’s enduring presence.

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Mapping Nagarparkar's
Ancient Jain Temples

Each temple holds a story of sanctity & departure. Explore rare photographs, interactive maps and videos that echo what once was.

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The Listening Hills

Karoonjhar rendered as an ancestor, watcher, and wounded sentinel through mixed reality—each mountain a witness, each frame a gesture of remembrance.

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What the Stone Remembers

Tracing forgotten histories etched into Karoonjhar’s stone—where memory lingers even when voices fade.

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Pattern as Memory

Exploring how motifs, textiles, and repetitions carry ancestral memory and echo the rhythms of Karoonjhar.

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