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Sandhya Renukamba
WHAT A SONG ! : A BUNDELKHANDI FOLK TALE by Eklavya Eklavya Publications, 2012, 35 pp., 70
November 2012, volume 36, No 11

Once upon a time, there was a woman who could not sing. She did not know any song. All day long, while going about their daily work, all the other women would sing. She was enchanted by their singing, and wanted to know how she could get a song to sing.

Now, the other women thought it was a big joke that she did not know any song, and decided to have some fun. They told her that she could buy a song at the market.

The woman asked her husband to buy a song for her when he next went to the market. So he went. No shop there had a song for sale. They all thought it strange, too, and sent him off.

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