Jhapa’s roadside singer Jetha Murmu, 39, dies

Jhapa’s roadside singer Jetha Murmu, 39, dies

For years, his voice rose above the traffic on the East-West Highway. The visually impaired Santhal singer, honoured but never lifted out of poverty, died Friday in Itahari.

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