Ghoora- Fireside tales Ratnakar Tripathy Folk theater, music and cinema: the difference between culture and PR By Ratnakar Tripathy Must have been eleven or twelve! I remember the first time I saw a professional nautanki show in my childhood. The occasion was a wedding and the ‘khela’ [play, game] as everyone called it was ‘Durgadas Rathore’. I later discovered that for some strange reason, Durgadas, an 18th century warrior-legend from Rajasthan, remained a fixture in the nautanki circuit for a long time through the 1960s -1970s. The lead actor of the play seemed to be a precursor of...