Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

The politics, the technologies, the languages and genres, the physical and the social sciences, even the humanities of India, have all become marginalized. Increasingly, they are viewed either as quaint and ethnic, or even extinct. Only Indian classical music and dance survives—indeed, it flourishes. It flourishes as a system. Irfana Majumdar, artistic director of the NIRMAN Theatre Studio, Varanasi, India, and classically trained in Hindustani music, will delve into this ever thriving and increasingly globalized coupled tradition.