The most popular stories depicted are excerpts from the Mahabarata and the Ramayana, epic poems composed in India thousands of years ago. Wayang kulit are made from stiff thick water buffalo leather.

Malaysian college lecturer Ahnaf Hakimi Ahmad hopes to save the ancient tradition of shadow puppetry using 3D-printed figures controlled by robotics instead of people. “Wayang kulit”, a ...

and the flat leather shadow puppet (wayang kulit) projected in front of a screen lit from behind. Both types are characterized by costumes, facial features and articulated body parts. There's also a ...

Wayang Kulit is now a dying tradition in Malaysia. For centuries, a main “trunk” of shadow puppet stories told and played across South-East Asia has been the Ramayana epic,” Dain shared.

Bratislava [Slovakia], April 10 (ANI): President Droupadi Murmu, along with more than 100 Slovak children, watched a special puppet show based on Ramayana in Slovakia on Thursday. She viewed an ...

KUALA LUMPUR - Concerns over the declining popularity of wayang kulit (a traditional form of shadow puppetry) have driven three artistes to take an innovative approach to ensure the heritage art ...