Smt. RITU VARMA has been performing 'Pandvani' since the age of six years.She has been trained in this folk art under the guidance of Gurus Sri Gulab Das Manikpuri and Basant Ram Naik.Ritu Verma never went to school but knows all the 18 Granths of Mahabharat. She has performed all over India and in many countries abroad. In the year 2009, she received the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar

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PANDAVANI Pandavani is Indian folk music in ballad form, performed predominantly in Chhattisgarh It depicts the story of the Pandavas, the leading characters in the epic Mahabharata with gusto, in the unique Pandavani style of singing and enacts ballads of the Pandavas Pandavani is narrated in a very lively form, almost constructing the scenes in the minds of the audience The artists in the Pandavani narration consist of a lead artist, supporting singers and musicians Pandavani is accompanied by musical instruments such as the harmonium, tabla, dholak & manjira There are two styles of narration in Pandavani Vedamati and Kapalik.