{"id":13842,"date":"2021-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/13-02-2021\/tholpavakoothu\/"},"modified":"2021-02-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T00:00:00","slug":"tholpavakoothu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/13-02-2021\/tholpavakoothu","title":{"rendered":"Tholpavakoothu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Context <\/strong>&#8211; Recently, a shadow leather puppet in Kerala\u2019s famous temple <strong>art Tholpavakkoothu <\/strong>has been animated by a robot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>first robotic leather puppet<\/strong> was installed at the<strong> Palakkad District Heritage Museum, <\/strong>which was inaugurated by the Minister for Museums.<\/li>\n<li>The famous shadow leather puppets will tell stories of the epic <strong>Ramayana<\/strong> with the help <strong>of robots the first time.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Tholpavakkoothu<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tholpavakoothu or shadow puppetry is a temple art form which is prevalent in the <strong>Bhagavathy temples (mother Goddess)<\/strong> in <strong>Kerala regions.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tholppava (<strong>Thol means leather<\/strong>, <strong>Pava means puppet<\/strong>) are moved with the help of <strong>strings,<\/strong> and<strong> their shadows<\/strong> are depicted on a screen with the help of a <strong>row of oil lamps in the background. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The story of <strong>Tholpavakoothu&#8217;s performance<\/strong> is from the <strong>Indian epic, Ramayana<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The narrative used for the performance is a mixture of <strong>prose and poetry called Adalpattu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Accompanying instruments include Ezhupara, Chenda and Maddalam.<\/li>\n<li>The puppetry is staged on a special structure in temple premises called <strong>Koothumadam<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as <strong>Nizhalkkoothu and Olakkoothu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cfstatic.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/file_library\/mix_content\/644183640792889000_image.png\" style=\"height:281px; margin-left:200px; margin-right:200px; width:499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/entertainment\/theatre\/tholpavakkoothu-robots-and-a-puppet-master-with-a-chip-in-the-brain\/article33824857.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source :TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Context &#8211; Recently, a shadow leather puppet in Kerala\u2019s famous temple art Tholpavakkoothu has been animated by a robot. About The first robotic leather puppet was installed at the Palakkad District Heritage Museum, which was inaugurated by the Minister for Museums. The famous shadow leather puppets will tell stories of the epic Ramayana with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/7648655current-affairs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}