Telangana - Katha

To eke out their existence these folk singers go from house to house, village to village singing and performing, particularly during the non-agricultural season. With successive droughts and depletion of water resources, depending on agricultural labor has become very uncertain for them. Please note what these women say , “ for lack of agricultural work we return to our villages only once in a few months”. These women come from a village near Husnabad town of Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh state of India, where a 'flood flow canal' on river Godavari was conceived more than two decades ago to irrigate the drought prone villages. Blatant discrimination and apathy of the policy makers and state government dominated by an Andhra elite has kept the project in cold storage causing enormous human suffering -- a complete halt of agriculture, fallow lands and migration of a whole section of the rural populace. The folk singers in this short video present one such case. The villages under the 'KALUVA' that these women migrate to falls under the Sriramsagar project, which has become a life line for farming in hundreds of villages in Karimnagar and warangal districts. The second stage of this project still remains unfinished. Scores of such injustices is what has resulted into the demand for separate statehood for Telangana region