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INTACHTHE HERITAGE CLUB NEWSLETTER

Hello Friends!

Hope you all did well in your exams and are enjoying your new class. We welcome you to a brand-new issue on the lively world of puppets! All those of you who have seen a puppetry performance would agree that these animated dolls capture our attention quite easily. Puppet theatre of India is full of drama, action, thrill, comedy and fascination.

Puppeteers live in small villages across India and make beautiful puppet-dolls and weave stories and performances around them. We will tell you about some of the many kinds of puppetry traditions in India and abroad. Puppetry as an art-form has also changed over time and many new modern forms are being experimented with. Our activity for you, this time, is one that you can enjoy with your friends.

It is wonderful to receive all your essays. But friends, try to write to us more about your own experiences and ideas. Please don‛t be afraid to be original and creative in your essays and do not just copy from the internet! If possible, look through your school-library or other books or simply write to us what you feel and know about.

Enjoy discovering about myriad kinds of puppetry traditions.

VOL. 7 No. 2APRIL - JUNE 2010

Saying it through Puppets 1

Who made the fi rst Puppets? 2

Types of Puppets 3

Putul Map 4

Essays and Artwork from

Heritage Club Members 5-7

Modern Puppeteers 8

My City My History 9

News from Heritage Clubs 10

Learn about Child Prodigy Chopin &

Subscription form 11

Prize Winners. What’s Next? 12

CONTENTS

From Us to U

If you think that puppetry is just-for-kids’ entertainment, you are wrong. Puppet

shows are entertaining, but also have other tasks to perform. Puppets have

always been used by man to tell stories with a message. Today, educating both

kids and adults using puppets is common. Puppetry as a performance art can

reach out to everyone, even those who cannot read and write.

And really, what better way to use these little dolls than to send across important

social messages, especially to disadvantaged people? Puppeteers make creative

use of puppets, masks and other objects in their shows. In the picture you can

see a puppet show about serious health issues such as HIV AIDS, drug abuse and

others. Social issues such as early marriage, family planning etc. are also dealt

with in these performances. We will tell you more about modern puppeteers and

the forms they practise inside.

PLAYFUL PUPPETSSaying it through puppets

BONUS pages with this issue!• Puppet Show Activity

• The Chopin Crossword

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WHO MADE THE FIRST PUPPETS?Puppetry is the grandpa of TV! Did you think life was oh so boring when there was no

television to watch, computer to play games on or radio to listen to music? Long long

long before these things were invented, people had ingenious ways to enjoy themselves

in their free time, and puppetry was one of them. Of course, puppets have also always

served to educate people about traditional epics and other local tales and have always

got a message across.

Some believe that puppets are as old as the Harappan civilisation, dating back to 2500

BCE. It is possible that the objects found from there include a few early puppets. For

example, a terracotta bull with a detachable head that can be manipulated by a

string or another fi gure of a terracotta monkey that slides up and down a stick,

creating a vertical movement, may be the earliest prototypes of puppets.

The earliest written reference to puppetry in India is found in the epic

Mahabharata and in the writings of ancient writers like Panini, Patanjali and

Tiruvalluvar. In classical Sanskrit theatre, the narrator is known as a Sutradhara,

which literally is the holder (dhara) or manipulator of strings (sutra).

According to a legend, the fi rst Indian puppeteer,

or Nat, was formed by the Creator Brahma to

entertain his wife Saraswati. Saraswati was so

pleased to watch the puppets perform that the

puppeteer was sent to earth.

The word ‘puppet‛ comes from the Latin ‘Pupa‛, meaning ‘a doll‛. In

Sanskrit, puppets are termed Putraka, Putrika or Puttalika. In Hindi, the word

for puppets is ‘Kathaputli‛.

What are puppets called in your language?

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TYPES OF PUPPETS

Glove PuppetsGlove puppets are also known as sleeve, hand or palm puppets. They are a simple form, where the puppeteer puts on the glove-like puppet and manipulates the head of the puppet using his forefi nger, while controlling the arms with his thumb and middle fi nger. The head is made of either papier mache, cloth or wood, with two hands emerging from just below the neck. This tradition is popular in Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal and Kerala.

What do you think would be the size of these

puppets? Large or small?

Rod Puppets

Rod puppets are an extension of

string puppets. They are moved

with the help of a rod to hold

the puppet and two other thin

rods attached with two hands

of the puppet for manipulation.

Variations of rod puppets are

found in Orissa and West Bengal.

Which one of the above four kind

of puppets do you think would be

easiest to control?

Shadow PuppetsIn this Indian puppet form we see not the puppets but their shadows. The fl at fi gures, usually made of leather, are lightly pressed on a translucent screen, like a thin sheet, with a strong source of light placed behind. This creates shadows and silhouettes or colourful shadows on the screen. The puppeteer swiftly moves the puppet to the background music and voices. The impact on the audience, surrounded by darkness all around is quite dramatic. Shadow puppeteers in India come from Orissa, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

What do you think would happen if shadow puppets

were made of opaque material?

String Puppets or Marionettes

Indian string puppet or

Marionette is a fi gure with

multiple joints, suspended by

string from a control. String

puppets operate from above.

These puppets are highly fl exible

and are so they can perform a

variety of actions. Rajasthan,

Orissa, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

are some of the regions where

string puppetry is practiced.

Do you think these puppet-dolls would be light or

heavy in weight?

Puppets can be divided into four types, according to the way they are handled or manipulated.

Ravana abducting Sita, Togalu Gombeyatta, Karnataka

Krishna & Duryodana, Pavakathakali, Kerala

Krishna holding Sudarshana Chakra,

Gombeyatta, Karnataka

Puppet from Daanger Putul Nautch, Bengal

Puppetry is a performing art. It is passed down generations and children learn by watching their elders. This means that if people who know how to make puppets or present a show with their puppets, stop doing so, then, nobody will remember how to! And the art will be forgotten and become extinct. This is why it is a part of our living or intangible heritage.

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India has around eighteen to twenty living forms of puppetry belonging to all the four kinds of puppets we just learnt about. These are practiced by performers across the length and breadth of the country. See for yourself the wonderful varieties of puppets that have developed in India.

PUTUL MAP

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Shadow Puppets of Andhra Pradesh are wandering entertainers and peddlers that pass through the country side during the course of a year. They off er to sing ballads, tell fortunes, sell amulets, perform acrobatics, charm snakes, weave fi shnets, do tattoos, mend pots. In this way for centuries before radio, movies and television arrived, the knowledge of Hindu epics and local folk tales not to mention news spread to the most remote corners of the subcontinent.

The performance begins with a series of sung invocations and a line of ornate, strikingly stylised puppets pinned in overlapping fashion onto the sides of the screen. The puppets are mounted down in the middle on the stem of a palm leaf and extended to form a handle, which is used to move the body of the puppet. The arms are moved with attachable sticks that have a small piece of string with a peg at the end, which slips into holes on the hands. Musical instruments that accompany the performance are harmonium, mridangam, strings of bells worn on the ankles and wrists and pairs of fi nger cymbals.

Shadow play was an ingenious technology of animated pictures that was developed centuries before motion picture industry. It was but one incarnation, one set of techniques for dramatising the vastly rich Hindu epics. In the modern age, it has been superseded by motion pictures and television, which have reinvigorated the epics for the electronic age.

Bhagyalaxmi, Std 9, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Public

School, Hyderabad

ESSAYS & ARTWORK FROM HERITAGE CLUB MEMBERS

I saw the fi rst puppet show at Ramoji Film City near Hyderabad. I was excited as we bought the tickets for the show. As the show began, I noticed the puppets and how small they were. The puppeteer was just manipulating the puppets and making them dance on a beat or song sung by people in the backstage. It surely takes a great deal of talent. Watching this puppet show was a great pleasure and a wonderful learning experience for me.

Mayank Aggarwal, Std 9, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s School, Hyderabad

My first experience of a puppet show

Mrs. Seethalakshmi from Andhra Pradesh is a famous puppeteer in Dakshinachitra, a heritage museum in Chennai. Puppetry is a traditional and occupational art. She learnt this art from her family right from when she was three years old! She has travelled extensively and performed shows all over the world. She is an extremely talented Shadow puppeteer. Other than showing stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, she has even spread messages to people on other important issues like Global warming, Saving Nature etc. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet Mrs. Seethalakshmi who answered all our questions about puppetry eagerly and patiently.

J. Kiranitha and S. Gayathri, Std 8, Sri Sankara Vidyashramam School,

Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai

AN INTERVIEW WITH A PUPPETEER

Shadow Puppeteers from Andhra Pradesh - Tolu Bommalatta

Tolu Bommalatta Shadow Puppets - Ram & Sita

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Daanger Putul NachThis is a form of rod puppetry that comes from West Bengal. The rod puppets are upto 1.25 meters high and weigh about 5 to 10 kilograms. The puppets often wear ornate mukuts or crowns and zari-embroidered jackets.

GopalilaGoaplila is a fast vanishing string puppetry tradition from Orissa. It enacts themes from the Srimadbhagvat that relate to the lilas of Krishna in his childhood and youth. Krishna’s playful pranks with gopas and gopis, his love for Radha, lifting of the Govardhan hill and encounters with

the demoness Putana and his wicked uncle Kamsa are some of the stories told by the puppeteers. Traditionally, these performances are held against a backdrop of peacock feathers.

Gulabo-Sitabo This is a simple old glove puppet tradition that was performed in parts of Lucknow and neighbouring areas of Uttar Pradesh, but is now almost extinct. The story of Gulabo and Sitabo, two women married to the same man must have been a humorous and entertaining one!

How I enjoyed a Kathputli show!When I was around eight years old, I went with my family and friends to Rajasthan. We stopped for lunch at a dhabha where we saw a Rajasthani puppet show. It was very exciting. They showed the wedding of a Rajasthani bride and groom. The bride was well-dressed and was looking very pretty. But I feel that Child marriage is bad and can spoil the life of young children.

Aashika Agarwal, Std 9,

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s

School, Hyderabad

Kathputli Nats or Bhats of Rajasthan are a community associated with the string puppetry tradition of Kathputli. They wander around, doing shows of puppetry during the dry season and return to their homes to cultivate the fi elds after the rains. They tell stories of local heroes and rulers. These performances are full of humour and wit. The puppeteer speaks for the puppet characters in a squeaky voice with a bamboo whistle, this known as boli.    The puppet heads are made of a single piece of mango wood and large expressive eyes are painted on them. The puppet dolls are made to wear interesting costumes and head dresses and even jewellery. The dolls are made to dance to regional Rajasthani music tunes. Puppeteers move the dolls with two to fi ve strings which are normally tied to their fi ngers and not to a prop or support.

Bangali JadugarHe is a very interesting character from a kathputli play. This special puppet is made in such a way that his head dances and gradually separates from the body! See the picture.

Illustration by V.Sridevi, Std 9, Sri Sankara Vidyashramam School,

Chennai

LESSER KNOWN PUPPETRY TRADITIONS

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The Secret trail of a lost treasure'Saya tida suka bumi ini', this line in Bahasa Indonesia means 'I don't like this world'. This line comes from a Wayang Kulit show of Ramayana in Indonesia. During my stay in Indonesia, I have seen many of these plays, the fi rst left me completely awestruck, and I was absolutely stunned to see the fi gure of Sita in Ashok Vatika with Hanuman. After the show I left with one question in mind, what if this ancient art form – that had supposedly started in Indonesia had a trail leading to a much older country?  But what if it came in from a diff erent country? What if this country was India?

But fi rst just to get this straight, what is a Wayang Kulit? 'Wayang' in Bahasa Indonesia means 'show' and the word 'kulit' means 'skin'. In other words a wayang kulit is a shadow puppet. You could check out one example at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fVxPoRu2bw&NR=1. It is shown in many Indonesian theatres where there is a translucent sheet of paper and a light source and in between there is the wayang kulit. The wayang kulit blocks the light and creates a shadow on the translucent paper. The wayang kulit is a very important 'entertainer' in Indonesia and many people come to Indonesia just to see this ancient art form. India and Indonesia have known each other for a very long time, ever since Hinduism and Buddhism spread to Indonesia between the beginning of the Christian era and a century after it. It

brought with it many new beliefs and ways of life, not to mention lots of art forms.

So, Wayang Kulit may be infl uenced by puppet-form from Kerela, known as 'Tholpava Koothu'. Along with Hinduism and the stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata, this form of puppetry probably followed from India to Indonesia. When

small trading colonies were set up in Sumatra by the Indians, many of the Indians decided to settle there permanently and spread the stories and the art form of Tholpava Koothu. The Indonesian kings adopted this art form and evolved to make the very fi rst Wayang Kulit. This art form then spread throughout Indonesia.

Today, Indonesia is well-known for its tradition of Wayang Kulit and people from all over the world watch these puppetry shows. If it's doing so well outside the country, it must be fl ourishing here, but alas, the answer is no! This art form is virtually dying in India. Why?

You may ask. The answer is simple, just lack of awareness. People need to be aware of this art form. It needs to be appreciated and valued. Once people are aware of this wonderful art form, a new form of entertainment will be reborn. It will help us in telling stories about the past, myths, legends and stories about India's heritage. Through this art form we shall be able to create an India that will appreciate this art form TOGETHER.

Arnav Ghosh, Grade 7.2, Ecole Mondiale World School, Mumbai

PUPPETRY TRADITIONS FROM ASIA

Bunraku, JapanBunraku puppet theatre from Japan was founded in

Osaka in 1684. This is a highly sophisticated form of puppetry that uses three puppeteers to manipulate diff erent parts of the puppet, even its eyelids, eyeballs and mouth to show expressions. The play of the puppets is accompanied by a chanter (tayu) who provides a voice to the puppets and a shamisen player.

Water Puppets, VietnamThis puppet form was invented by farmers in tenth century Vietnam in order to entertain themselves.  They conducted their own puppet shows in water-logged fi elds of paddy or in communal ponds. Today puppeteers stand in waist-deep water to manipulate puppets using a string and pole technique. The puppets are made of fi g-wood and are made water-proof using resin from the lacquer tree.                                                                       

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Meet Dadi PudumjeeWouldn’t it be exciting if your favourite pastime turned into a lifelong career? This is what Dadi Pudumjee, one of the most-well known modern puppeteers in India today too feels. What began as a hobby for a boy of seven is now a passion. Pudumjee’s interest in puppets began when as a child he was fi rst gifted two string toy-puppets. He pursued his hobby through school and college and decided to take it up as a career-choice. Pudumjee studied design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.  Then he

went on to learn the art of puppetry at the Darpana Academy and later at the Marionette Theatre Institute at Stockholm. In 1986, Dadi Pudumjee started the Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust, a not for profi t organization in Delhi. In 1992, Dadi Pudumjee received the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. He is also the fi rst non-European president for Union Internationale de la Marionette (UNIMA). Dadi Pudumjee does interesting workshops using this puppets for school children. You can contact him at dadipud@gmail.com

MODERN PUPPETEERS

Puppets on TV

Puppetry today has become even more exciting as it uses kinds of props, music and dance forms. This results in fantastic imagery quite different in nature from traditional puppet shows. As we told you on pg. 1, the themes of these shows are no longer confi ned to the sacred and mythological tales of the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Different stories are written and performed with the help of puppets. Puppets are also important part of some popular shows on TV.

Dance and puppets

Puppets using natural materials.

Traditional and Modern puppets together on stage

Tele-tubbies Gustaaki Maaf Gali Gali Sim Sim The Muppet show

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Fox History Channel- INTACH CollaborationExtracts from the Essays of the Five National Winners

Out of Ashes-Taj

Mahal HotelIt was this spirit that characterized

the Taj. It was this spirit that helped

it to stand tall among the ruins, even

as people expected it to collapse,

and made it the symbol of Mumbai‛s

resilience. But then this hotel has always been

special for Mumbai. With its vaulted

alabaster ceilings, graceful archways,

crystal chandeliers, and a dramatic

cantilever staircase that is referred

to as the ‘grand staircase‛ the hotel

has always made a big impression on

its visitors. Celebrated as the best

place to wine and dine in Mumbai,

it also showed its other face when

during World I it served as a 600 bed

hospital. Hitesh Shetty,Thakur Vidya Mandir

High School, Mumbai

Namma Bengaluru began

with a handful of boiled

beansBangalore cannot be complete without

its beans; after all it was the things that

helped it gain its name. Those who regard

this just as another bedtime story should

be delighted to know that the historical

evidence of the name “Bengalooru” can

be found in the 9thh century Ganga

inscription (Veeragallu) found in a temple

in the village of Begur. But the deliberation

that how its is called Bangalore still lingers

in one‛s mind. Well, there is a reason for

that as well. As we know the Britishers did

not possess a very good accent of Indian

languages, often due to which the place‛s

name would be changed or pronounced

incorrectly, like Thiruvananthapuram was

changed to Trivandrum.

Karishma Shiraj Mulani ,National Hill

View School, Bengaluru

History of Delhi PoliceAccording to the 1912 Gazette, Delhi District

was under the control of a DIG of Police with

its headquarters at Ambala. The police force in

the Delhi district, however, was commanded by a

Superintendent and a Deputy Superintendent of

Police. The total composition of the force then

was two Inspectors, 27 Sub-Inspectors, 110 Head

Constables, 985 Foot Constables, and 28 Sarwars.

In the city the rural police was in the charge of

two inspectors with their headquarters at Sonepat

and Ballabgarh respectively with 10 police stations.

Rishita Ray, Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, Delhi

Leh Palace Leh, capital of Ladakh is the most

attractive place for its numerous

monasteries and the Leh Palace. Leh

palace is perched at the edge of the

Namgyal hill and overlooks the entire Leh

town below. The palace was constructed

in the 17th century to serve as the

residence of King Singge Namgyal.

The Leh Palace is being deserted since

1830‛s, when the royal families of

Ladakh were exiled to the Stok Palace.

Years of neglect have resulted in the

palace being reduced to ruins. Towering

over the Leh Palace is a huge ‘Victory

Tower‛, which was built to celebrate the

victory of the Ladakhi soliders in the

early 16th century, over the attacking

army of Balti Kashmiris.

Presently it has been converted into

an offi ce for Indian Government‛s

archaeological conservation organization.

Gaurav Sharma,Springdales, Kathua

Raj BhavanThe design of the Government House, Calcutta is an adaption of the plan of Kedlerton Hall in Derbyshire which was built for Lord Searsdale, the great great grand father of Lord Curzon of Kedlerton, in the year 1759-1770 by the renowned architect Robert Adam. Although the fame of Kedleston was on many lips in the second half of the 18th century on account of its decorative features and the beauty of its style was not this so much as the remarkable suitability of the general design to the condition of a tropical climate which led to its adoption as the general model for government house, Calcutta, which was built in the year 1799-1803.

Aneequa Ahmed ,Loreto Day School, Kolkata

Girls from Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan’s School, Hyderabad did a small puppet show on a story titled ‘A Hasty Decision’. They made eco-friendly puppets and believe that ‘Team Work is the Best work’. 

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NEWS FROM OUR HERITAGE CLUBS

I N T A C H P a r a m p a r a Heritage Club from Sri Sankara V i d y a s h r a m a m S c h o o l , Thiruvanmiyur, C h e n n a i celebrated Swami Vivekananda’s birthday on 12th January 2010 as National Youth Day. The students of std. 6, 7 and 8 participated in this event. They shared the incidences and famous events in Swami Vivekananda’s life and how his teachings can help the present day youth to cultivate good character, noble personality and an ideal individual. A quiz on the life of Martin Luther King was also conducted on 19th of January, 2010.

‘Arise, Awake and stop not till the goal is reached’

- Sreeram G, Std 7

Parampara Heritage Club from Sri Sankara Vidyashramam School, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai

Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan’s School, Hyderabad

ReConnect‛s First Expedition

The fi ve members of Mumbai’s fi rst Heritage Club,

ReConnect, and our mentor Mrs. Gaynor strolled over to

the main gate of the school, intently waiting for the Jeep

that would drive us through our fi rst expedition. We all

hopped in, sorting out our stationery while the car rolled

through the dug-up roads of Juhu, heading directly for

Bandra. We crossed archaic buildings like the Mithibhai

College, the coarse waters of the Juhu beach, the Talao

Lake, St. Joseph Convent from 1803, St. Peters Church,

St. Stephens Church and fi nally our destination, Mt.

Mary. Mount Mary was a basilica, meaning it contained

relics of a great person. This basilica is extremely

famous in Mumbai, and has a huge fair in September

to celebrate the birthday of Mary. The members of

ReConnect marched to the entrance of the basilica,

where we noticed the heavy Portuguese infl uence on

the construction. We noticed the silence of each footstep

rebounding off the high arches that formed the dazzling

ceiling, intense with bright designs like the walls which

portrayed the life of Jesus in vivid colours. The tall statue

of Mary stood amidst vibrant fl owers looking down on

the benches. After noting down facts, we leaped back

into the vehicle in awe. We rode into St. Andrews, where

we got a jolt to fi nd graves dating back to 1908, piled

out in the entrance like paving stones. After noting the

features of the church, we rode back to school. Going

on this one trip has increased my knowledge on the

heritage of Mumbai and the history behind it by acres.

Aditya Krishnan 7.2 ReConnect

ReConnect INTACH Heritage Club, Ecole Mondiale World School, Mumbai

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FRÈDÈRIC CHOPIN

A child prodigy pianist of Poland

The Polish Parliament unanimously passed a vote to make the year 2010 a year of Fredric Chopin. This year marks the 200th birthday of this extraordinary composer and pianist.One of the greatest musicians of the 19th century, Chopin was born on 1st March 1810 in the village of Zelazowa Wola near Warsaw. Chopin was a music composer and a maestro at playing the piano. From an early age, he was considered to be a child prodigy musician as he already had the talent of an adult skilled pianist. By the age of six little Chopin tried to make up new melodies and he gave public performances by seven. When he was eleven years old, Chopin performed in front of Alexander I, the Tsar of Russia. His composition included songs and chamber music too. At an early age he also showed remarkable abilities in observation and sketching, a keen wit and sense of humor, and an uncommon talent for mimicry. An anecdote describes how Chopin helped rowdy children by fi rst improvising a story and then lulling them to

sleep with a berceuse (lullaby) — after which he woke everyone with an ear-piercing chord.

At the age of 20, on 2 November 1830, he left Warsaw for Austria, intending to go on to Italy. He was one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration. Chopin moved to Paris in 1831where he lived for the rest of his short life.In Paris, he made a comfortable living as a composer and a virtuoso pianist.

Chopin died on 17th October 1849 in Paris at the age of 33. He is considered to be one of the greatest masters of romantic music. He is remembered as one of the fi rst nationalist composers of Poland ,using the themes and dances of his native Poland as the sources for his pieces specially the polonaises and mazurkas.His name and music has lived on for 200 years and will do so for many more years to come.

It is therefore befi tting that the motto of The Year of Chopin be as per the words of Rabindranath Tagore “music is such a universal language that it needs no translation. For in it Soul speaks to Soul.”

Check your Chopin knowledge meter! Do the crossword!!

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WHAT'S NEXT?JULY - SEPTEMBER 2010Global Warming, Heritage Warning

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing our heritage today. Be it the planet’s fauna and fl ora, man-made wonders of architecture or even our cultural traditions, nothing is spared from its impact. Find out and tell us about the ways in which heritage in your region has been eff ected by environmental changes. Coin a term for ‘Climate Change’ and a slogan for it in your own language. Tell us how we can save our heritage from further harm.

Last date for entries : May 15, 2010

LANGUISHING LANGUAGESIndia is a land where hundreds of languages and local dialects are spoken. But these languages are in grave danger of being lost as few children learn to speak the language of their forefathers. Today only a few know Sanskrit, the mother of all Indian languages. Do you speak your mother-tongue? Find out and write to us about lives and works of famous writers of the language that you speak. Write a small poem or paragraph (not more than a page) in your mother-tongue with an English translation.

Last date for entries: August 15, 2010

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References

Putul Yatra, an exhibition of Indian Puppets, Sangeet Natak AkademiIndian Horizons, Vol. 55 No. 2-3, April-September, 2008Puppetindia.comWe are grateful to the Ministry of Culture for sponsoring Young INTACH, a quarterly heritage newsletter for and by children that has about 20,000 readers and the number keeps on going higher with each issue.

Do you have any ideas, comments or suggestions to make Young INTACH more interesting? We welcome any thoughts on what themes you would like us to select for the upcoming issues of Young INTACH.Please write to:Shobita Punja

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PRIZE WINNERS

Dear Heritage Club members and teachers,

We would like to know about the activities you and your students have done in school’s Heritage Clubs. Send us write-ups along with pictures about interesting programmes that you conduct and we will print them in Young INTACH.

ATTENTION!

Bhagyalaxmi, Std 9, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Public School, Hyderabad

J. Kiranitha and S. Gayathri, Std 8, Sri Sankara Vidyashramam School, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, V.

Sridevi, Std 9, Sri Sankara Vidyashramam School, Chennai

Aashika Agarwal, Std 9, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s School, Hyderabad

Mayank Aggarwal, Std 9, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s School, Hyderabad

Aditya Krishnan, Grade 7.2, Arnav Ghosh, Grade 7.2, Ecole Mondiale World School, Mumbai