Kalpana Patowary is one of India’s respected folk singers. She was born in 1978 in the northeastern state of Assam. Her father, singer Sri Bipin Nath Patowary, taught her local Assamese music from their village. Kalpana-Ji formally studied Hindustani classical at Bhatkhande Music Institute University in Lucknow. There she was exposed to Bhojpuri folk singing in the forms of sohari, kajari, pachra, and vivāh geet (wedding songs). The institution is located in Uttar Pradesh, which along with the n