by Thamburaj Dharmaraj (Continued from The Touch of Ambedkar (Part I)) The shadow puppeteers’ mother tongue is not Tamil. Among themselves they speak a remote dialect of Marathi, which is their only communicative medium. To interact with others they use Tamil language. They claim their caste identity as ‘Mandikar’. The names of men of this …
The Touch of Ambedkar (part II)
