Of the hands that hold the puppet strings Bhimavva's husband Doddabalappa also came from a family with a tradition of puppetry. After marriage, they travelled together from one village to another ...

Geoffrey Rush in ‘The Rule of Jenny Pen’Courtesy IFC Films/Everett Collection The ideal mountaintop for a Machiavellian hand-puppet ... and playing with a doll, which in one sense is very ...