Children perform street circus in India, in West Bengal

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Children performing street circus in capital city of West Bengal. They are very talented but they didn't get the right opportunity at right platform. In a street performance of yore, in the 1980's, these children perform for an audience of modest means, in Calcutta, West Bengal. Four of them fit themselves into a ring to impress the crowd. Circus shows are all about acrobats, jugglers, jokers, stunts and much more. Various items from the programme chart are added or removed to cater to the ever-changing taste of the audience. There has been a debate as to when the tradition of circus entered India. Many believe that this entertainment became prominent in the late nineteenth century. India, being a culturally rich country of course has had many travelling entertainers, similar in lines to t