Projects
Ritika and Shinjan (Ongoing)
Image Credit: Jayme Halbritter
As cultural carriers of Bengali folk music, Ritika and Shinjan connect global story listeners with rich traditions of oral musical storytelling in South Asia. As a duo, they are known and loved for drawing the listener into familiar, future, and faraway worlds as they connect our everyday with 200 year-old songs and poems in Bangla.
The Mushroom that Swallowed the Moon Whole (2024)
Image Credit: Zoe Cinel
The Mushroom that Swallowed the Moon Whole is an in-progress bi-lingual operatic work about the epic impacts of self-absorption, laziness, and resignation around the crisis of climate change.
Sound Stories: Activating Community Voices in a Collaboratory (2023-24)
Image Credit: Dan Norman
A year-long public composition experiment at the University of Minnesota to explore individual and communal resonance and resistance through sound.
Listening, deeply (Ongoing)
Image Credit: Ritika Ganguly
Listening, deeply. is a long-term project and community space involving storytellers, musicians, academics, and story-listeners across the globe. At its center are the wandering Baul poets and musicians of urban New Delhi and rural West Bengal.