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Anurupa Roy has been fascinated by Puppets since she was a young child, but she found a way to use puppets to address and discuss issues that affect the lives of adults. In the second episode of Samavāya, Anurupa talks to Savera Weerasinghe on how puppet theatre has become a mode of communicating with adults in South Asia, particularly on topics that are considered taboo in South Asian culture.
Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust is a traveling puppet theatre company based in New Delhi, India, that focuses on presenting visual narratives with objects and puppets at venues and festivals across India and the world.
Katkatha on Google Arts and Culture.
Katkatha’s community and peace-building projects involved taboo or sensitive topics like gender and sexuality, regional trauma and conflict, climate change, and more. For example: Community Health Project (2005-07), in collaboration with World Bank, CHEALSEA and Make Arts/Stop AIDS), was an HIV/AIDS awareness program that ran for over 8 years and spanned 5 states of India included the play Virus ka tamasha that performed over 150 shows.
The Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) aims to improve the treatment and facilities for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV).
Supported by WISCOMP, KASHMIR PROJECT (2006) took place in the village of Beejbehara, near Srinagar, Kashmir, where 25 young women aged of 18-25 worked with team Katkatha using masks and puppets.
Early influences on Anurupa’s practice: Varun Narain, a Delhi-based puppeteer who believes in blurring boundaries and uses puppetry as a tool to raise issues about stereotypes and prejudices; and Ranjana Pandey, a puppeteer, playwright, theatre and television director, and educator. .
Bunraku is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed across the world today.
Chhau is a folk performance form that incorporates martial arts and dance-drama elements, performed in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal in India.
Follow Anurupa Roy on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Follow Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
This podcast is hosted by Savera Weerasinghe
Editing and engineering: Nakul Agarwal
Intro & Outro Music: Sirfula Siraima by Nepathya
Interlude Music: Siran Ma Photo Chha by Nepathya
Know more about Nepathya
Samavāya is produced by Asia Society New York and Asia Society India Centre.
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By Asia Society India CentreAnurupa Roy has been fascinated by Puppets since she was a young child, but she found a way to use puppets to address and discuss issues that affect the lives of adults. In the second episode of Samavāya, Anurupa talks to Savera Weerasinghe on how puppet theatre has become a mode of communicating with adults in South Asia, particularly on topics that are considered taboo in South Asian culture.
Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust is a traveling puppet theatre company based in New Delhi, India, that focuses on presenting visual narratives with objects and puppets at venues and festivals across India and the world.
Katkatha on Google Arts and Culture.
Katkatha’s community and peace-building projects involved taboo or sensitive topics like gender and sexuality, regional trauma and conflict, climate change, and more. For example: Community Health Project (2005-07), in collaboration with World Bank, CHEALSEA and Make Arts/Stop AIDS), was an HIV/AIDS awareness program that ran for over 8 years and spanned 5 states of India included the play Virus ka tamasha that performed over 150 shows.
The Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) aims to improve the treatment and facilities for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV).
Supported by WISCOMP, KASHMIR PROJECT (2006) took place in the village of Beejbehara, near Srinagar, Kashmir, where 25 young women aged of 18-25 worked with team Katkatha using masks and puppets.
Early influences on Anurupa’s practice: Varun Narain, a Delhi-based puppeteer who believes in blurring boundaries and uses puppetry as a tool to raise issues about stereotypes and prejudices; and Ranjana Pandey, a puppeteer, playwright, theatre and television director, and educator. .
Bunraku is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed across the world today.
Chhau is a folk performance form that incorporates martial arts and dance-drama elements, performed in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal in India.
Follow Anurupa Roy on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Follow Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
This podcast is hosted by Savera Weerasinghe
Editing and engineering: Nakul Agarwal
Intro & Outro Music: Sirfula Siraima by Nepathya
Interlude Music: Siran Ma Photo Chha by Nepathya
Know more about Nepathya
Samavāya is produced by Asia Society New York and Asia Society India Centre.