Phullara-r Bhoj [Phullara's Feast] The story of Phullara is based on academic sources and research which was discussed with the artists. On that basis, Dukhushyam Chitrakar first composed a poem and set it to music. The painting then began with a pencilled outline of the entire story. Colours were prepared and the panels painted collectively by the chitrakar community over a number of days. The story of Phullara-r Bhoj [Phullara's Feast] is taken from the Bengali Mangalkavya tradition of oral narrative poetry, which tells the tales of deities who establish their cult among human beings. This popular genre in Bengali, influenced by regional cults such as that of Chandi, Manasa, Dharma, or Vaishnav songs, flourished from the thirteenth century to the eighteenth. Phullara's story appears in the Chandimangal composed by Mukandaram Chakravarti in the late sixteenth century in West Bengal, India. The scroll painters decided to focus specifically on Phullara's lament on seasonal hardships across the year. The conversation about Phullara-r Bhoj took place over several days at Naya and Jadavpur University. It included discussion about the form and dimensions of the Phullara scroll prior to the start of the process, examples of song and rhyme schemes, and dialogue about the content and source material itself. [This information was taken from the project website at https://faminetales.exeter.ac.uk in 2024] 2020