Sangeet Natak Akademi organized a workshop of Kathputli in New Delhi from 25 to 28 July 2005. The workshop focused on the Kathputli puppet of Rajasthan, involving young people from families of traditional puppeteers. The fifty participants in the workshop came from settlement of Rajasthani caste puppeteers in Delhi and Jaipur, where the practice of puppetry for a living has given way to merely puppets, unfit for performance, to be sold as curios, or to street – singing, acrobatics, or magic. The workshop disclosed to the participants the wonder of their own traditional art, and trained them in its rudiments in order to resume its practice professionally in a later day.