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Examples
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Who cares, so long as Bengal has its 'jatra': Mamata's and the Marxists 'mutually assured distraction.
The Times of India 2009
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The incident which sent shockwaves in the area occurred on December 10 last when Nasreen had gone to watch a 'jatra' with her grandmother on the occasion of Id-ul-Fitr.
The Times of India 2009
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He put his head in his hands afresh, simulating the despair he had truly felt the first few days, and with a heavy sigh that was an unconscious emulation of the lead actor in a jatra he had seen, he began again to speak.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Patachitra, like many other popular folk art of Bengal such as pottery, the weaving of the Muslin and Jamdani, and jatra, was practised in families through generation after generation.
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He sounded and looked like something out of a cheap film or jatra, laughable, yet somehow menacing.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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He sounded and looked like something out of a cheap film or jatra, laughable, yet somehow menacing.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The jatra that the rally with rath (van) of Lord Jogonnath.
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He sounded and looked like something out of a cheap film or jatra, laughable, yet somehow menacing.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The jatra that the rally with rath (van) of Lord Jogonnath.
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He put his head in his hands afresh, simulating the despair he had truly felt the first few days, and with a heavy sigh that was an unconscious emulation of the lead actor in a jatra he had seen, he began again to speak.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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