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Panjabi: Also known as a kurta, is a traditional upper-body garment worn by men in Bengal. It is a long, loose-fitting shirt, typically reaching the knees, and is often made of cotton or silk. It is a long, loose-fitting shirt, typically reaching the knees, and is often made of cotton or silk.
Use of natural color is one of the individual characteristics of the Bengal Patachitra. In general, blue, yellow, green, red, brown, black and white are used in the Patachitra of West Bengal. Chalk dust is used for white color, pauri for yellow color, cultivated indigo for blue, bhushakali for black and mete sindur for red color. [40]
Wooden protima or idol is seen in Indian Museum. The art-making wooden dolls have been an age-old practice in West Bengal and Natungram is one of them. Natungram, a village of West Bengal makes wooden dolls like Gouranga, Krishna, Bor-Bou, Gour-Nitai, owl etc. [38] Gomira masks of North and South Dinajpur in West Bengal are also made of wood ...
Baul singers at Shantiniketan. The culture of West Bengal is an Indian culture which has its roots in Bengali literature, music, fine arts, drama and cinema. Different geographic regions of West Bengal have subtle as well as more pronounced variations between each other, with Darjeeling Himalayan hill region and Duars showing particularly different socio-cultural aspects.
Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.
An alpana is usually created on flooring, generally directly on the ground. On this, a wet white pigment made of rice flour and water (or in some places, chalk powder and water) is used to outline the alpana, with the paint being applied by the artist's finger tips, a small twig, or a piece of cotton thread that is soaked in the dye, or fabric. [3]
The classic debates were suddenly eclipsed Thursday when the Internet exploded with deliberation over the colors of a dress posted to Tumblr. Some saw a black and blue ensemble. Others saw a gold and.
Dhaniakhali saree (Bengali: ধনিয়াখালি শাড়ি) is a cotton saree made in Dhaniakhali, West Bengal, India. [1] It is a saree with 100 by 100 cotton thread count, borders between 1.5 and 2 inches and six metre long drape.