-The Hindu Considered a ‘cousin’ of Madhubani Mithila, but perhaps closer to Bengal’s Kantha work On a late winter morning a group of women — Pinki Devi, Khusbu, Chanchala, Sunita, Nutan and Bhibha Devi among them — sit on a large, grimy, black tarpaulin sheet in the part-shadow of a slouching tree in Bhusra village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. In their hands are colourful fabrics on which are emerging stories told through chain...

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