Pattachitra Art 

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• The Prime Minister of India applauded a girl from Odisha who mastered the art of creating Pattachitra on various themes using the soft stones. 

• Pattachitra or Patachitra term commonly used for traditional, cloth-based scroll paintings. 

• The style of art is based in the states of Odisha and West Bengal.

• The art form is renowned for its elaborate descriptions and the mythological myths and folktales inscribed in it.

• The literal meaning of the word “Pajtta” is “cloth” and “Chitra” means “picture” in Sanskrit. 

• The colours used in the Paintings are natural and the paintings are made in an old traditional way by Chitrakaras (Odiya Painter).