A Short History of Puppeteers in India
Puppeteers have increasingly been pushed towards working for an entertainment heritage industry, which has led to new forms of neo-brahminical and neo-mercantile exploitation.
These quotes have been selected from Hiren Gandhi and Saroop Dhruv's article, "Puppetry: Re-establishing the Folk Art" which was published in EPW on 23 July 2011.
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