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See It, Believe It
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Themed on travelling tent cinema companies that accompany jatras, annual religious fairs, the photographs show cinema just the way they were, with the multi-coloured trucks that zoomed past the villages. Shirley Abraham, a documentary filmmaker and a
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Veteran Bengali theatre actor passes away in N24Pgs
Uni :: Russia | 7 months ago
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Pal who had been suffering from cancer, is survived by his wife, a son and a mentally-retarded daughter. According to the family source, he had been hospitalised on October 15 and returned home three days back...Santigopal popularly known as Yatra
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SEE: Nepalese don scary masks for Buddhist holiday
Lalitpur :: Nepal | 10 months ago
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Nepalese revelers don frightening masks to commemorate Buddhist holiday In Lalitpur, denizens wear a series of rather frightening masks in order to celebrate the festival of lights known as Neku Jatra-Mataya. A masked devotee takes part in a parade
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NOW SHOWING: MAMATA?S MYSTIQUE
Chennai :: India | 12 months ago
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I watched, mesmerised, as did the rest of India as Mamata di and her band of merry men kicked up a dust storm at Eden Gardens celebrating the epic victory of the Kolkata Knight Riders at the IPL finals in Chennai. It was pure tamasha, a jatra, if you
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Award winning Manipuri films
Mumbai :: India | 1 year ago
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Today's Manipur Directed by Devkumar Bose and adapted from a play Tirth Jatra, Matamgi Manipur (Today's Manipur) was the region's first feature film. The film won the President's Medal at the 20th National Film Festival in 1972. A family drama, it
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Actor Amol Bose is dead
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | over 1 year ago
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Dhaka, Jan 23 (bdnews24.com)Famed Bangladeshi movie and popular television comedy actor Amol Bose passed away on Monday at the age of 75. His son-in-law Indrajit Sarkar told bdnews24.com that the actor suffered a stroke in the morning and was taken
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Folk-dramas on Mamata Banerjee's rise hits in rural Bengal
Mumbai :: India | over 1 year ago
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Mamata Banerjee's ascent to power capping a series of landmark movements organised by her party Trinamool Congress is now the theme of several 'jatras' or folk-dramas which have become runaway hits in rural Bengal. More than the mass leader's
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Pahela Baishakh masti is in air
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 2 years ago
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Dhaka, Apr 12 (bdnews24.com) A 40-feet crocodile, portraying Bangladesh's 40 years, will just one of the many floats forming part of a procession to celebrate the Bengali new year on Thursday. Here comes a crocodile, with lifeless bodies, raped women
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Assamese looking forward to a better tomorrow following militancy decline
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | over 2 years ago
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The decline of militant activities in the northeast has given a fillip to development activities and employment generation here, and this is gradually transforming the lives of those staying in rural areas. A lot of changes are taking place in
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Special Drive to prevent animal sacrifice in Sulia Yatra
Every year, Sulia yatra festival is being observed in Bolangir District on the first Tuesday of Pausha month and it is slated on January11this year. During this famous Sulia Yatra, hundreds of animals
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