The story of Jatras, the popular travelling folk entertainment operas in Odisha, may well be over from July this year with the opera owners deciding to stop organising shows due to a financial crisis.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that the annual stipend of ‘jatra’ artists in the state would be increased by Rs 10,000. Inaugurating the annual ‘Jatra Utsav’ here, ...

Rabin Kumar Majhi (left), 51, and Anukul Ghosh, 63, pose for a portrait as a newly-married couple. Mr Ghosh used to play female characters in Jatra in the 1970s The popularity of Jatra, a ...