Woman Empowerment Editorial Photo

A underprivileged woman artist doing folk painting in the remote village of West Bengal,India where a few families having a traditional form of inherited folk art called 'Patachitra', reside together.They use organic colors and paint a series of paintings depicting a story usually from Indian Mythology.The painters are now improvising their skills with the increasing demands of their products. They also create painted wooden souvenirs which are as small as wooden vases to as large as decorated bullock cart wheels.