India, May 4 -- Down to Earth speaks to UK-based academic on her latest book about a unique art form from West Bengal and Bangladesh
This photograph of a Kobigaan performance was taken at the Sundarban Kristi Mela O Loko Sanskriti Utsab (December 20 to 29, 2015), organised by the Kultali Milon Tirtha Society at Kultali village, Narayantala, Basanti, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Photo credit: Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 3.0
South Asia or the Indian subcontinent, like any other region of the world, has its fair share of classical and folk performing arts.
While South Asian elites have been patrons of classical music and dance, folk and popular arts were sources of entertainment for the masses.
One of the many folk-art...