Mainadal is a village in Birbhum district, West Bengal, 215 km north-west of Kolkata, where the Dutch scholar and field recordist Arnold Bake had gone in 1933, to record kirtan in the home and temple of the Mitra Thakurs. The Travelling Archive went to Mainadal for the first time in August 2014, on the trail … Continue reading Letters from Mainadal