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Ansh Baid
Anurupa Roy is the founder and managing trustee of the Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust, a puppet theatre group based in Delhi since 1998. She has been working with the artists of Kathputli Colony in New Delhi for the past 25 years and is a major creative force in Indian puppet theatre. Claudia Orenstein…
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Ansh Baid
In India, there are as many kinds of street art forms as there are regions and dialects, and where there is a likeness in form, there is variety in narrative and performative styles. Kathputli Colony in the Shadipur area of Delhi, one of the largest communities of street artists in the world, is an…
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Dadi Pudumjee is a noted puppeteer known for his experimental use of puppets in forms of dance and theatre. In this interview, he speaks about his early interest in puppetry, his formative years at the National Institute of Design and the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, where he began to learn…
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Vinod Balakrishnan
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Anupama A.P. and Vinod Balakrishnan
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Vinod Balakrishnan
P. Bharathiraja, the veteran director of many blockbusters in Tamil cinema, provides us with an insight into his 2008 release, Bommalattam. Bommalattam, he says, is a metaphor for cinema. He goes back to his days of childhood in the village where there were bommalattam (puppet) artists  travelling…
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Anupama A.P.
  Cinema is a collective achievement arising out of the negotiated interactions between the producer, consumer and the filmic text. The understanding of the filmic text is headed in two ways. On the one hand, cinema can be understood as a sequence of events and spectacles that form the narrative.…
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Anupama A.P. and Vinod Balakrishnan
The Indian subcontinent has always boasted of cultural traditions which are colourful and vibrant. These traditions, whose values have been transmitted from one generation to another, are manifested as distinct, regional representational forms. They reflect a creative artistic process which affects…
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