Our favorite was Honk Asian Restaurant where I ordered Phad Thai.
Phad is a type of scroll painting that depicts
exploits of local deities.
I told her I will get a different wife, but I will not leave the Phad.
She started her tamasha career
at the age of 12-13, and grew up watching her mother dance in a Phad.
First, Phad painting designs are made on the khadi cloth
and the empty spaces are covered with flora and fauna.
Phad painting history dates back to about 700 years ago and Phad paintings flourished for generations because of the royal patronage given to them.
During the four months when the Phad is on a break,
the artists and labourers work on their farms or as drivers and domestic workers.
My husband[a farmer] also doesn't want me to work in the Phad, but I have an eight-year-old brother
and a three-year-old daughter to take care of,” she says.
Assam Saharanpur Wood Work Tanjore Paintings of
Tamil Nadu Madhubani Paintings of Bihar Phad and Miniature Paintings of Rajasthan Kalamkari Paintings
of Andhra Pradesh Warli Paintings of Maharashtra Jaipuri.
Joshi was born on 5 March 1931 at Shahpura in Bhilwara district in a
family widely known as the traditional artists of Phad painting for the last few centuries.
We take loans from private moneylenders and
repay them over the next eight months, during the Phad season,” says Mohit Narayangaonkar,
the owner of another tamasha and Mangalatai's brother Kailash's son.