Dohori (Nepali: दोहोरी, romanized: dohorī pronounced [doɦoɾi] or [doːɾi]), is a Nepali type of music usually sung by two teams, one of the men and another of women.
The term dohori, means 'back and forth' and refers to the exchange of lyrical phrases between the contesting singers.
[3][4] Like all Nepali folk songs, dohori originated in the rural areas of Nepal and now is sung in both rural and urban settlements and is popular amongst the Nepali speaking diaspora in the UK, US, and Bahrain.
[5] The men and women sit on opposite sides and the goal is to keep improvising until one team runs out of witty answers.
Subjects range among love, tragedy, society, politics and development.