Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Vijaya

Durga Puja is widely celebrated in India an specially in West Bengal with much hype now a days. The last day of celebration is marked as "Vijaya Dasahami" with exchange of greetings. One important part is offering of sweet meats to the guests in home. The tradion of preparation of sweets at home by the elder lady members are getting rare now a days with advent of tecnology and scarcity of tme.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Patua from Satpalsa

The Patuas or the Scroll Singers. prepare a series of painting generally based on mythology and sings the story with the help of pictures. Probably new gereration inspired by them in preparing "Power Point Presentation". This is going to become a obsolete art form and rare to find. He is from a remote village of birbhum and engaged as a professional in this art form for some generations. Paintings are made using vegetable dye traditionally.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Migration

They have already started migrating from a distant place to this spot like previous years
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Monday, September 19, 2011