Remember that palm leaf sepoy that you played with in your childhood? Yes, in absence of electronic gadgets, children once played with indigenous toys, like the Talpatar Shepai. Chalchitra Academy is trying to revive and popularise this dying crafts form of rural Bengal. They are
From the 26th to 30th of August, 2019, Jhargram's Khwaabgaon (Lalbazar) village witnessed a Potochitra Painting Workshop focusing on tribal and traditional art, organised and funded by Lalit Kala Akademi in collaboration with Chalchitra Academy. Chalchitra Academy is a Kolkata and Jhargram based cultural organization
There was a time when fibre glass Durga idols made way to various cities of USA and Europe months before Durga Puja. Now villages in Nadia are churning out brass and bell-metal idols of Lakshmi and Ganesh that have found a big market in USA.
Actor, musician and performing artist Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee speaks to Saheli Mitra on his newly launched jewellery and fashion accessories range. Read to know more on how the actor’s take on life and its conflicts get reflected on an expressive medium! • We know Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee
His constant companion was a sketchbook and pen. For that’s how artist Rathin Mitra captured the heart and soul of Kolkata, the vibrant and colourful city in a monochrome frame. But what stood out from the rest were the small historical anecdotes that Mitra wrote
Imagine a small tribal hamlet of Bengal that has turned into an art village with all mud houses painted in tribal art. Well, this is not a fairytale land but Khwaabgaon of Jhargram. This is a village dominated by the Shabar community and Chalchitra Academy
Remember the opening scene of French cult filmmaker Jean Renoir’s The River, filmed in 1950 at Barrackpore? That intricate drawing on the ground created by women huddled on a courtyard creating an alpona. Their hands move swiftly and elegantly and each deft finger-stroke etch out
Kalighat painting or pat was not a well-recognized form of art and took years even to be marked as a proper art form. Today it has a wide influence in various forms of art throughout the world. Kalighat Pat is the only indigenous art of
Author and philosopher, Howard Thurman had once said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Many of us get caught in the
Terracotta of Bankura, clay dolls of Nadia, Kantha works of Birbhum, Dokra of Purulia, Midnapore and Burdwan – and one can go on naming such amazing work of artisans across districts of Bengal. My quest to soak in one such famed craft of Bengal took