For artist Kalyan Joshi, each painting is an act of devotion. Before that first stroke of colour on his canvas, handwoven cloth in this case, a prayer is offered to either Pabuji, a folk deity of ...

Like most mothers, mine loves to embarrass me with her highly dramatised versions of stories from my growing years. But then there is also one that is told in its purest, unexaggerated form. That’s ...

Shantilal Bhopa is medium-built, wiry, dark-skinned with a thin handlebar moustache. In his long red robe and tightly wound red-yellow turban, he is the cynosure of attention, which seems to unnerve ...

New Delhi, Oct 2 (PTI) Brightly coloured minuscule characters from Rajasthani folk tales painted across long scrolls is one of the most striking aspects of traditional art of ‘Phad’ painting. While ...

As the sun rises above the Aravallis, covering the Rajasthani city of Jodhpur in gold dust, the song-and-dance performance of Narayan Bhopa and his wife picks up pace. As the 40-year-old singer twirls ...

Born in Shahpura, Rajasthan, Phad is a scroll art form originally practised by members of the Chhipa caste. These paintings served as visual aids for the bhopas and bhopis, priest-singers of the ...

The bi-annual Paramparik Karigar exhibition is back in the city. This time around you can choose from enamel jewellery to Phad paintings The bi-annual Paramparik Karigar exhibition is back in the city ...

Even before the Corona outbreak, Phad painting had lost many of its 150 practitioners. For some of the remaining 50-odd artists in 15-20 families living in Bhilwara, Shahpura and Chittorgarh region, ...