Bhubaneswar: To give a modern touch and expand the global appeal of centuries-old pattachitra art, a workshop was held at Raghurajpur heritage village in Puri district on Tuesday. The initiative, ...

Art is timeless; it has been a part of centuries of generations, even when it was not properly consecrated as a form. People ...

Midnapur (West Bengal), May 18 (ANI): ‘Pattachitra’ is a pictorial folk art which comes mainly from eastern India. ‘Pattachitra’ involves telling stories by painting multiple panels on a cloth scroll.

A series of Pattachitra paintings depict Radha and Krishna during the passage of seasons. But it’s the charming backdrops that get your attention. One painting shows a farmer ploughing the fields in ...

Nestled amidst coconut and palm groves, Raghurajpur, a hamlet in Orissa’s Puri district, is home to master painters of Pattachitra, a traditional scroll art based on Hindu mythology said to have ...

National award-winning pattachitra artist Bijoy Parida fell into painting quite by accident. His was a business family that had little inclination towards the arts. But a friend of his father noticed ...

Odisha's traditional art form 'Pattachitra', which dates back to 5 BC, continues to live on in India's first heritage village Raghurajpur. One of the oldest and most popular art forms of Odisha, the ...

ROURKELA: Twenty-six-year-old Bhagyasri Sahoo is on cloud nine. What started as an amateur passion for Pattachitra art has made her reach greater heights after PM Narendra Modi heaped praise on her ...

Artist Baharjaan Chitrakaar with her Pattachitra art. I visited SARAS Mela in New Town, Kolkata on the last Saturday of December. It was early in the day; half the stalls were yet to open. I came ...

Nestled amidst coconut and palm groves, Raghurajpur, a hamlet in Orissa’s Puri district, is home to master painters of Pattachitra, a traditional scroll art based on Hindu mythology said to have ...