The tradition of iconographic painting practised in West Bengal and Odisha on scrolls made out of cloth, patachitra tradition is among the many art forms to emerge from the Jagannath Temple, Puri.
In the quiet, sunlit corners of Rampurhat in West Bengal, a man bends over a piece of cloth stretched taut across a wooden frame. With steady hands and a brush carved from bamboo, he paints—not just ...