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

Anukul Ghosh (left), 63, and Rabin Kumar Majhi, 51, pose as a newly married couple. Ghosh used to play female characters in the 1970s and 1980s. He has now retired from Jatra.

Ten years after leaving his childhood home in West Bengal, photographer Soumya Sankar Bose returned to find that stars of Jatra, a popular local form of folk theater, were fading from public view.

(Image credit: Soumya Sankar Bose)



from Arts & Life : NPR https://n.pr/2HCkxql

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