The term Dokra (or Dhokra) comes from the Dokra Damar tribe, an extensive ethnic community now spread all across India. This tribe produces the traditional metalsmiths of West Bengal and Odisha, who have given Dokra artefacts their name, and their technique of lost wax casting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPOTHJ3CH9g Rural cooking videos have picked up in recent years and the familiar frame of frail, aged women seated in their mud-plastered courtyards or farm fields with traditional earthen cookwares, Shil-nora or Sil-batta (grinding stone) and mortar and pestle, ready at hand and cooking up a
If you wish to recreate Tagore’s Shesher Kabita on the foothills of the Himalayas in North Bengal instead of Shillong, then Rangaroon is the place to go. Why? It’s because during the spring and summer seasons, this small village in Darjeeling is awash with the
When it comes to authorship, folk songs can be hard to pin down. Many of our most popular folk songs have been around for what could be centuries, with their original creators remaining forever unknown. Such as the song ‘Bare bare ar asa hobe na