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CPI(M)’s ‘Bangla Bachao Jatra’ seeks to reclaim its legacy, centre livelihood issues in Bengal politics

With this Yatra, the CPI(M) in Bengal aims to confront the ruling Trinamool Congress and key opposition, the Bharatiya Janata ...
Indiatimes

8 killed in separate road accidents involving motorcycles on Dol Jatra in Howrah

HOWRAH(West Bengal): Eight people died and three others were injured in separate road accidents in West Bengal's Howrah district on Dol Jatra, police said on Wednesday. All those killed and injured ...
The Telegraph

The Stage. Streaming

Flashes of light, deafening music, a flourish of drums and then, silence. Next, half a dozen men and women enter with candles in hand. They punch the air even as the sound boxes begin to play the ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

A Photographer's Search For The Vanishing Stars Of Bengali Folk Theater

Ten years after leaving his childhood home in West Bengal, photographer Soumya Sankar Bose returned to find that stars of Jatra, a popular local... Photographer Soumya Sankar Bose remembers how Jatra, ...
Drexel University

Jatra With Me

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 ...