{"id":82626,"date":"2021-02-13T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=82626"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:32:25","slug":"tholpavakoothu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tholpavakoothu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tholpavakoothu&#8221; the shadow leather puppetry to be Performed using Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Tholpavakkoothu, the famous shadow leather puppetry will tell the stories of the Ramayana with the help of robots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tholpavakoothu<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tholpavakoothu is a form of shadow leather puppetry that is practiced in Kerala. It is also known as Nizhalkkoothu and Olakkoothu.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Temple art form: <\/strong>It is a traditional temple art. It has roots in Palakkad and neighboring regions in Kerala. It used to be performed in the Bhadrakali temples of Palakkad for telling tales from the Ramayana.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin: <\/strong>It is believed to have originated in the ninth century AD and uses Kamba Ramayana as its basic text.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Made up of: <\/strong>The puppets used to be made out of deerskin but are now typically made from goatskin. The puppets are painted in vegetable dyes, as these dyes last long.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Instruments used: <\/strong>The instruments used for the art form include Ezhupara, Chenda, and Maddalam.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Puppeteer<\/strong>: The lead puppeteer is usually called a pulavar. It is an honorific given to a puppeteer who is also a scholar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=G61897C7M.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? For the first time, Tholpavakkoothu, the famous shadow leather puppetry will tell the stories of the Ramayana with the help of robots. Tholpavakoothu Tholpavakoothu is a form of shadow leather puppetry that is practiced in Kerala. It is also known as Nizhalkkoothu and Olakkoothu. Temple art form: It is a traditional&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tholpavakoothu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Tholpavakoothu&#8221; the shadow leather puppetry to be Performed using Robots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,7965,9],"tags":[1453],"class_list":["post-82626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-art_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701161592},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}