Varanasi: Kashi Durgotsab Samiti (KDS), the fourth oldest Puja committee in Varanasi established in 1960, is the only organization which has been carrying forward the Bengali tradition of Jatra during ...

Bargarh: The Bargarh town turns into a living stage as the world-famous Dhanu Jatra to begin today evening marking the start ...

Female jatra artistes in Mymensingh are facing severe financial struggles as half of the peak season, from November to February, has already passed without receiving a single performance contract. "We ...

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee batted for both the stage and the screen on Sunday, taking up cudgels on behalf of jatra troupes that cannot tour the suburbs because of political violence and film actors and ...

Maa Mati Manush — the words bear significance not only for Mamata Banerjee and her party members but also the prisoners at Alipore jail who are busy rehearsing for a jatra by that name. The jatra, ...

An actor killed a pig live on stage and ate a part of its thigh during a folk play in India. The man, who was playing the part of a 'demon', picked up the young white piglet, killed it and took bites ...

Despite coming under attack for her spending habits, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced a pension of Rs 10,000 per month to elderly jatra (folk theatre) artists. At the programme, she ...

Dhaka, June 12 (BDNEWS) – Bangladesh Jatra Shilpa Unnayan Parishad Sunday organised a human chain at the Muktangon demanding cancellation of contradictory government orders which were hampering the ...

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 ...

For us humans to see, to hear and to feel can never be enough, for experience is meaningless without expression. It is the primeval, instinctive impulse to share one's inner visions, emotions and ...

I am no longer as beautiful as I used to be, he says with a twinkle that went back to the 1960s and sparked memories in my head of this once- and ever-beautiful woman-man: Chapal Rani. The reigning ...