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Rahul Koonathara has been awarded UConn’s Harriott Fellowship for outstanding young scholars who have been admitted to doctoral programs at the University of Connecticut.  Recipients of these fellowship represent the very best applicants to graduate programs at the University. Applicants must also demonstrate a commitment to enhancing diversity in higher education and/or a commitment to enhancing diversity in their field of study.  Rahul will be taking up the PhD fellowship in the fall of 2024.
Rahul Koonathara is completing his MA in Comparative Literature which is focused on tradition and transformation in  shadow puppetry. He is himself an accomplished shadow puppeteer, a tradition in his family. This past summer he toured extensively through the US with his father, Padmashri Ramachandra Pulavar, also a master and keeper of this form. They  performed across the country.
He has produced several puppetry shows here at the Ballard Institute celebrating South Indian shadow puppet traditions of
Tolu Bommalatta
and
Tholpavakoothu
, as well as recent innovations reflecting the changing nature of the form, in a show he has curated called
Tradition and Revolution in Indian Shadow Puppetry
.  The show last summer led to a longer-term exhibition at the Ballard Institute.
Rahul Koonathara manipulates puppets.
The exhibition’s opening took place on August 4th. It featured a tour of the Ballard Institute, a gathering to celebrate the opening, followed by a 45-minute-long performance of
Tholpava Koothu: The Shadow Puppet Play of Kerala
by Padmashri Ramachandra Pulavar and Rahul Koonathara. This ancient, ritual-based performance was based on selected verses from the epic
Kamba Ramayana
. On August 5th Rahul  and Ramachandra Pulavar hosted an Indian Shadow Puppetry Workshop. The day-long event featured shadow puppet design, carving, and manipulation.
For over thirteen generations Indian puppeteers have performed myths, customs, and rituals based on two Hindu epics,
The Ramayana
and
The Mahābhārata
. In recent years new variations in design, construction, and content have re-shaped traditional performances, which in many cases have shifted from temple performances to secular locales and included new subjects such as the lives of Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus, and the animal characters of the
Panchatantra
, as well as contemporary social and political themes.
Shadow puppetry in action.
Tradition and Revolution in Indian Shadow Puppetry
will remain on exhibit at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry through December 17, 2023
Please note this exhibit contains some nudity.
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