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 word Yakshgana literally translated means the songs of the demi-gods. These performances started sometime during the 11th century during the Vaishnava Bhakti movement in the coastal areas of ...

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 ...

In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Prince Rama of Ayodhya, his wife Sita, and his brother Lakshmana meet Viradha, a ferocious rakshasa (demon), in the dense forests of Dandakaranya. Viradha not only clashes ...

Bhubaneswar, Feb. 23: Things have changed since the early 90s. Till then, mostly men use to play female roles in jatras. Now, a large number of women work in the industry. What has not changed is the ...

Bhubaneswar, Feb. 5: Jatra is big business. Call them loud and crass but the masters of ham acting are raking in the moolah. With an approximate annual revenue of Rs 50 crore, the mobile theatre ...

When I first met Chapal Bhaduri on screen, he seemed multitudinous. Narrating his life history in the 1999 documentary, Performing the Goddess, Bhaduri, an icon of jatra, splits himself three ways.

With daily Covid cases in the range of 200-250 over last week, the Odisha government on Saturday allowed all cultural activities, including jatra and open-air theatres, with a maximum attendance of ...

The two-day Adi Kruthike Jatra Mahotsava, an annual fair held on the premises of the Guddekal Balasubrahmanya Temple here, ...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the Khandagiri jatra festival, beginning Feb 6, the commissionerate police issued stern directives to performing troupes to refrain from showing vulgarity on stage. Police have ...

In its current avatar Jatra, the most happening place in town is in the heart of Thamel near the Ganesh Man Singh building. It’s a restaurant of amazing design built around a courtyard where brick ...