Shantilal Bhopa is medium-built, wiry, dark-skinned with a thin handlebar moustache. In his long red robe and tightly wound red-yellow turban, he is the cynosure of attention, which seems to unnerve ...
The singer-priests of the Rabari tribe carry their temple with them — scrolls of hand-painted images of local deities — wherever they give performances, reports RANJENI A SINGH Pappuram Bhopa and his ...
On September 11, Seeta*, 43, branded a witch, was thrown out of the village by her family. In August, her 29-year-old nephew had visited a bhopa, a faith healer, to find a solution to his parent’s ill ...
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