Bundelkhand

Yes, so in that same life and in that same tradition, I kept moving forward.

And because I have lived in different places of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, and I was born in Bundelkhand, and I have a lot in common with the Bundeli songs.

And whatever content I was writing or I was going to direct, all of that is somewhere in Bundelkhand.

And there are many such things of Bundelkhand that I wanted to inculcate.

And Sadhu Tiwari, who is also my friend, and Sunil Lodi, whom I found on the internet.

And I called him to the same office where I'm talking from.

You want to mention that because the smaller characters also really make the movie in the background.

They all seem authentic, like it's from Bundelkhand or wherever they are at that point.

Uh...

यह तो, uh, thanks to Mukesh Chhabra, casting director.

uh we have a topic about, you know, Adivasis and the Ken Betwa River Link.

The Ken Bedwar River Link project in Madhya Pradesh's Bundelkhand region will displace thousands of tribal families from 22 villages.

The Daudhan Dam, the project's main component, will submerge 10 villages, including Daudhan, home to 700 people.

Another 12 villages will be displaced to compensate for forest area loss within Panna Tiger Reserve.

Approved by India's Union Cabinet in 2021, the project involves a 231-kilometre canal transferring surplus Ken River water to the water-stressed Petwa River for irrigation and drinking water.

Bundelkhand, spanning 13 districts across Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, faced severe water scarcity and poverty.

Residents expressed deep emotional attachment to their ancestral lands, fearing cultural displacement in new settlements.

Congress Party supports the villagers' protest against the project.

The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows.

Leaving Bombay it passes through Salsette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the western Ghauts, runs thence northeast as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelkund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence easterly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little and descending southeastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.

The passengers of the Mongolia went ashore at half past four p.m. At exactly eight the train would start for Calcutta.

Mr. Fogg, after bidding goodbye to his whist partners, left the steamer, gave his servant several errands to do, urged it upon him to be at the station promptly at eight, and with his regular step, which beat to the second like an astronomical clock, directed his steps to the passport office.

The country soon presented a very savage aspect.

Copses of dates and dwarf palms succeeded the dense forests; then vast, dry plains, dotted with scanty shrubs, and sown with great blocks of syenite.

All this portion of Bundelkund, which is little frequented by travellers, is inhabited by a fanatical population, hardened in the most horrible practices of the Hindu faith.

The English have not been able to secure complete dominion over this territory, which is subjected to the influence of Rajahs, whom it is almost impossible to reach in their inaccessible mountain fastnesses.