For a folklorist, it seems, there is enough folk lore in every community, the old ways of life and the important people and their achievements that has been passed on from one generation to another.

As the time passes the origins of some traditions are forgotten and only the activities are practised as rites in some religious or social rituals, but folklorists investigate deep into the past and bring out the real purpose of a particular custom, for example, we see people hanging wreaths, thick circles of leaves and flowers, on the front doors and other places, but never know when, where, how and why that tradition existed in the first place, and folklorists make it their business to know about such things!

Folklorists are of different kinds: some take up folk art, some other take up folk dance and music, and yet some others work on forgotten words and their origins.

After graduation, Martha took up a course in folkloristics, the science of studying folklore, to become a folklorist and worked, on field and in labs, along side learned anthropologists and archaeologists studying and recording the folklore of several communities around the world.