Kashmiri artists revive Bhand Pather at Himalayan festival

Paying tribute to the slowly vanishing Kashmiri folk art form, Bhand Pather, a group of Kashmiri artists performed "The Way of Unbecoming in the Haunting Place" today, offering a glimpse into an art tradition gradually fading from its homeland.

- PARWINDER SANDHU

The performance was part of the ongoing "Journeying Across the Himalayas", an exhibition-cum-festival organized by Royal Enfield at Travancore House in New Delhi.

The performers, under the banner of Shikargah Collective, included Khursheed Ahmad, a teacher and recipient of the Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners from FICA, Tanveer Fighter, a member of the Bhand community, Salman B. Baba, a Kashmir-based performance artist and educator, and Nasir, an art student.