• “In Search of Goddess Sitala” is a multimedia theatre performance that reflects on the lives of the contemporary female impersonators in “Sitala Jatra” beyond their performative gait.

• Sitala (from sital, meaning cool; literally, the cool one), a non-Aryan deity, is the much-dreaded goddess or mother of spring diseases.

• Sitala Jatra or Sitala Mangal, is a performance ritual, that depicts the struggle of Sitala to establish herself as a Goddess, is mostly performed in the rural parts of West Bengal. The performance generally entails singing more than fifty songs accompanied by a musical choir and 200 paragraphs of dialogues.

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