Bengal’s jatra industry, which was hit hard by the pandemic like most other aspects of life, is finally gearing up to get back on its feet after the state government allowed the folk theatres to ...

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 ...

Chapal Bhaduri has spent a lifetime playing mythical heroines and goddesses on stage. On his 80th birthday, the legendary female Jatra impersonator of Bengal, arguably the last in a long tradition, ...

Unlock 5.0, just ahead of Durga Puja, seems to have injected a new lease of life among residents of Kolkata. After an interval of nearly seven months, performing artistes are now gearing up to take ...

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 ...

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 ...