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Published on 23rd April, 2022, in The Hindu. In North India, especially in the Gangetic plains, in what is now Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, we find songs known as Baramasa. It is a 12-month cycle in poetry, expressing the loneliness and longing of a woman in a village, for a husband who is travelling far away. “The Bedu berry ripens all year long, but the Kafal berry only ripens in spring,” says a more recent and popular Kumaoni song. The key theme is viraha or separation. In many songs, the husband is referred to as jogi, which is a local way of saying yogi, ..