The session was chaired by my guide Lt. Gen. (Retd) Mathew Thomas and was conducted my Sq. Ldr. (Retd) Rana T.S. Chhina.

The lecture was on various aspects of the 900 year oral rendition of Alha which is sung in large tracts of northern and central India, our focus being the rendition which was sung in Western Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and related parts of Haryana in one of the local dialects of this region.

Over and above the task of preserving this nearly lost folk tradition, the task of the fellowship project is to study and analyse various aspects of history, military traditions, social interaction and linguistic information stored within this extremely important source of Indian oral history.