Santhal community celebrated Sohrai in West Bengal's Purulia with traditional Santhal dance. Sohrai is the most important festival of the Santhals. It is the winter harvest festival celebrated ...

Picture courtesy Ravi Kant Dwivedi Ranchi, Jan. 6: Clay animation, meet your great-great grandparent. This is indigenous animation at its best — figures that dance in such perfect and continuous ...

"Preparations begin months in advance with youths practising dance, drama, and sports," added Majhi. Kendujoda is home to over 200 members of the Santhal community living in around 40 families.

Santhal Pargana’s indigenous art forms are on the verge of extinction The last few practitioners of Chador Badoni, a form of puppetry, and Jadu Patiya, a form of painting and storytelling, say ...

THE walk through the village was almost like a stroll around an open-air art gallery. We were in Boner Pukur Danga, a Santhal village near Santiniketan, to collect material for a project on ...