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At village level myths and legends circulated through efforts of professional storytellers called sutras who travelled a lot with painted paper scrolls.  Charana bard community of Banaras are tradition singers and story-tellers. The Malas of south India were the story-tellers. A group of mendicant story tellers Santhal Pargana and scroll painters have kept alive a

When we talk about folklore the picture comes to our mind is a grand Ma sitting outside her hut, surrounded by village children, ready to tell some absorbing tales to the children that could be of valour, bravery or example of honesty, and so on. Or village people sitting around a bonfire in evenings to

Folk tales depicts the earliest tradition and culture of the people. Folk literature comprising stories ballads, songs, proverbs and riddles is essentially an oral tradition. Folk tales of different regions in the world represent a way of thoughts, ideas, traditions, manners and customs and even the incidence of wit and wisdom of the people of

The art of tradition of pata paintings developed near temples. This tradition of folk paintings on cloth is largely known as pat, patt, pata, and phad paintings. Pata paintings have religious themes and thus illustrate unity in diversity in India. This establishes the fact that in spite of regional variations there is an all India