The roads that lead to it are unpaved, dirty and narrow. The houses are rudimentary and sparse. The meandering alleys, slippery and narrow, are almost a hazard to navigate with an overbearing smell of ...

Trending News: A video of a Kathputli wala (puppeteer) in Rajasthan singing and making his puppet dance to Shakira's popular song 'Waka Waka' has gone viral on social media. The Kathputli is a ...

Luna and Leo learn about the art and performance of kathputli puppets. Luna takes Leo to meet her two friends Sunil and Anita who run a kathputli puppet theater. Leo learns that each puppet is hand ...

Kathputli Colony was the inspiration for the “magicians’ ghetto” in Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie’s 1980 magic realist novel. “We keep Indian culture alive, we are its ambassadors across the ...

The artists complain that the impending move has affected business. Fear of displacement resulting in negative impact to an already suffering career in a traditional art form has enveloped them, ...

Turn out of the train station, head along the jammed, honking road and then dive left into one of the alleyways. Immediately, you're surrounded by goats, children, smells, noise, people. And ...

When Vinay Bhaat, 25, wants to stage a puppet show these days, he logs on to the Facebook page where his production company, Puppet Kala, lives. The online platform is among the few certainties of ...

Kathputli artistes from Jaipur have started uploading videos on Tiktok, seeking help from the government for artistes who are worst affected due to the lockdown. Our situation is degrading every day ...

New Delhi [India], October 14 (ANI): Delhi's Kathputli Colony which is home to 2,800-odd families of puppeteers, magicians and acrobats, is struggling to make ends meet as COVID-19 restrictions on ...

Residents of Kathputli Colony, who are currently residing in a transit camp, will soon be shifted to 'pucca' houses as three residential towers will be ready for their use by December, Union Minister ...