In 2015, when I was in 10th standard, my Geography was organizing a puppet show with students for our Annual Cultural meet of A.K Ghosh Memorial School. I was immediately drawn to the lucrative behavior of the puppets and was amazed by how they perform with some sound tracks to provide the viewers a perfect storyboard.

                      It was then I started to making puppets from my own knowledge of making it. I first used glues and tapes but they were not good for cloth. Under the guidance of Mrs. Ranjana Mukherjee, I learned the art of making puppets and along with her she took me to several puppet shows to learn and perform with her.

He is my first puppet named Joker

My second puppet, Rukmini, a bengali girl

My third puppet, Sushila, a Kathakali dancer of South India

My fourth puppet, Jamila, a tribal girl of Jharkhand

She is a stick puppet named Pinki

A female string puppet from Rajasthan, gifted by my teacher

A male string puppet from Rajasthan, gifted by my teacher

India is a vast culture of different ways of story telling. Puppets are one of them. Different cultures have different types of puppet styles for story telling. Here are some of them.