Many art forms of the rural areas of Bangladesh are on the verge of extinction. We often talk about the rural artistes in seminars or symposiums, but do we really care for those who put in efforts to ...

The fortnight-long “Theatre Festival on the Liberation War” featured diverse forms and different approaches of theatrical presentation. To highlight the theme of the glorious past, traditional forms, ...

What’s in a name? A lot, to go by the experience of a jatra troupe. Sovabazar-based Natta Company, which has been regaling audiences across Bengal for more than a century, has become the target of ...

Jatra or travelling theatre, as one knows, is a form where theatre artists travel from village to village and perform to large audiences who would gather together on a field where a temporary wooden ...

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 ...

He has a loud booming voice that can be heard from the farthest corner on an open ground. Many regular jatra-goers often compare him with Arun Dasgupta, a leading artiste in Calcutta. After Arun died, ...

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 ...