کرگٹّم تمل ناڈو کا ایک پرانا علاقائی رقص ہے، جسے مرد و عورت دونوں اپنے سر پر وزنی برتن رکھ کر پیش کرتے ہیں۔ یہ عام طور سے دیہی رقص ہے، جسے مذہبی تہواروں کے ساتھ ساتھ ثقافتی پروگراموں میں بھی پیش کیا جاتا ہے۔

مترجم: محمد قمر تبریز

Aparna Karthikeyan
aparna.m.karthikeyan@gmail.com

Aparna Karthikeyan is an independent journalist, author and Senior Fellow, PARI. Her non-fiction book 'Nine Rupees an Hour' documents the disappearing livelihoods of Tamil Nadu. She has written five books for children. Aparna lives in Chennai with her family and dogs.

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Translator : Mohd. Qamar Tabrez
dr.qamartabrez@gmail.com

Mohd. Qamar Tabrez is the Translations Editor, Hindi/Urdu, at the People’s Archive of Rural India. He is a Delhi-based journalist, the author of two books, and was associated with newspapers like ‘Roznama Mera Watan’, ‘Rashtriya Sahara’, ‘Chauthi Duniya’ and ‘Avadhnama’. He has a degree in History from Aligarh Muslim University and a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

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