Pulling the Right Strings: Dadi Pudumjee on Aspects of Puppetry Dadi Pudumjee is a leading Indian puppeteer and the founder of The Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust. He has served as the president of UNIMA India, as the president of UNIMAs Asia-Pacific Commission, as the vice president and president (since 2008, elected at the Perth Congress) of UNIMA International. He has also coordinated an Asia-Pacific Commission meeting (Iida, Japan, 1992; Chennai, India, 2002) and an UNIMA executive committee meeting (New Delhi, 2003). In addition to many local awards, including the Sanskriti Pratishtan Award in the earlier 1980s given to young artists to encourage them in their future work, Dadi Pudumjees work has been acknowledged with the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1992), and the third highest civilian recognition, the Padamashree (2011) presented by the President of India.
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