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| Patua Men of West Bengal, India sharing the Good News Photo courtesy of Stories from Storytellers |
It is a tradition among this people group to broadcast the news of the day using hand-painted scrolls. Men and now women too, travel around sharing local and global news, health tips as well as religious stories using scrolls like this 7 foot banner accompanied by narrative songs. Another indigenous expression of the Christian faith, how beautiful is the variation! I found this YouTube which is a short clip from the documentary Singing Pictures, 2006. In the beginning you see a man singing the story of 9/11. At 4:40 you see a woman painting.