Thursday, 9 July 2026

Obit / Tribute - Teejan Bai: Folk Theatre artist from the Pardhi Margins to the Throne of the Mahabharata - Dr Navina Jafa



The stage did not tremble when Teejan Bai stepped on it; it remembered how to tremble.

Teejan Bai, the great teller of the Pandavas, died on 5 July 2026 at the age of 70. She was born into the Pardhi community, a denotified tribe in Chhattisgarh that had been unjustly branded as criminal and pushed to the margins, and was told early that women in her world were not meant to speak for gods. She did not learn to obey. She learned to sing the Mahabharata aloud, on her own feet, and in her own voice. 

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