As the sun rises above the Aravallis, covering the Rajasthani city of Jodhpur in gold dust, the song-and-dance performance of Narayan Bhopa and his wife picks up pace. As the 40-year-old singer twirls ...

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For artist Kalyan Joshi, each painting is an act of devotion. Before that first stroke of colour on his canvas, handwoven cloth in this case, a prayer is offered to either Pabuji, a folk deity of ...

Shantilal Bhopa is medium-built, wiry, dark-skinned with a thin handlebar moustache. In his long red robe and tightly wound red-yellow turban, he is the cynosure of attention, which seems to unnerve ...

Born in Shahpura, Rajasthan, Phad is a scroll art form originally practised by members of the Chhipa caste. These paintings served as visual aids for the bhopas and bhopis, priest-singers of the ...

The strains of Ravanahatha vibrate and a rich mellifluous Bhopha sings pointing to a Phad — Pabuji Phad, in another strain the Pung Cholom drummers beat with precision, the performers are applauded ...

The corridors of MCRHRD Institute in Jubilee Hills look almost deserted till you hear old Hindi songs wafting out of Ambedkar Hall. A group of people, bent intently over paper sheets, infuse life into ...

Even before the Corona outbreak, Phad painting had lost many of its 150 practitioners. For some of the remaining 50-odd artists in 15-20 families living in Bhilwara, Shahpura and Chittorgarh region, ...