In this episode we will be focusing on Music and Migrants to understand music as more than just a cultural artefact but as a carrier and capsule of that very culture from which it emerges. Music fills the landscape that lies between the memory and speech. Have you ever thought about how powerful the music can be? Well,  music as any contemporary form, has the power to re-invent itself and assimilate foreign influences. Music acts as a vehicle to tell stories and document the history. Migration has been a persistent phenomenon in the region of northern part of India for centuries. It has become an oft-repeated motif in Indian cultural forms of music, especially folk songs. Leaving their homes in northern India, migrants worked in the cities of colonial India but they were shipped to far away islands to work on colonial plantations and they carried with them their meagre belongings and their music.