Bratya Basu is making his debut as jatra director. Says the director, The jatra that I have signed on is titled Premer Ghate Laglo Jowar . Bratya Basu is making his debut as ...

Rituparna Sengupta strongly reacts to false advertisements in the media claiming she is directing a Bengali jatra! On Sunday morning, Rituparna Sengupta got the shock of her life when she came to know ...

The folk play Shitla Mangal and Bhavani Bengali Jatra style was presented on Friday on Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum's YouTube Channel. The folk play was presented under the direction of Shubhajit ...

Ten years after leaving his childhood home in West Bengal, photographer Soumya Sankar Bose returned to find that stars of Jatra, a popular local... Photographer Soumya Sankar Bose remembers how Jatra, ...

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Bangladesh has banned the vuvuzela, the popular but noisy South African horns, from the country’s most colourful procession, the Mangal Shobha Jatra, in the capital Dhaka. Hundreds of thousands of ...

Jeffrey Stanley, Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, is a 2018-19 Fulbright-Nehru Scholar researching early 20 th century film and theatre in the state of West Bengal and its impact on India's ...

The publication ceremony of "Boundless Bengal," a research-based book on Bengali folk theatre traditions, was held at the Seminar Room of Central Public Library yesterday. Swedish folklore researcher ...

Photographer Soumya Sankar Bose remembers how Jatra, a style of folk theater, was popular during his childhood in West Bengal. But 10 years after moving out, Bose returned home to find that Jatra was ...