Ram Lal of Tehri Garhwal says, “I use the medium of traditional folk lore -- especially puppets -- to take messages of social concerns to people. Domestic violence as an issue needs to be brought out into the open so that the secrecy that shrouds it is shattered. Folk lore can help break the awkwardness and the taboos on the subject and get people talking on the issue. Women in many ways are like puppets – they have no freedom of movement or a voice of their own.”