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#Traveltales: Exploring Naya, Bengal’s Village Of Singing Painters

#Traveltales: Exploring Naya, Bengal’s Village Of Singing Painters

by The Daily Eye Team November 5 2016, 2:05 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 23 secs

An intricate tapestry of music and visual art is what makes Naya more than just a village in West Bengal’s Paschim Midnapore district. A quaint little village, Naya is home to around 250 patuas or chitrakaars, a unique community of folk artistes who are painters, lyricists, singers and performers all rolled into one. These traditional painter singers specialize in the ancient folk art of pata chitra, a type of narrative scroll painting.

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