India News
See photos taken by Brandeis-India Initiative Fellow Melissa Donze '12 and her fellow internship colleagues in the Global Brandeis Blog.
Navarasa Dance Theater, who will be at Brandeis on Oct. 24-29, devises stories for the stage using classical Bharatanatyam dance of India, Western modern dance, martial arts and contemporary text, presented with comic timing and innovative staging. This is first time that dancers from South Asia will take the stage as part of the MusicUnitesUS campus residency and concert program.
Welcome
The South Asian Studies Program offers a minor (open to students in any major) for those who wish to structure their studies of South Asia or the South Asian Diaspora. The minor offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the literatures, histories, societies, cultures, religions, arts and contemporary importance of South Asia and diasporic South Asian communities.
South Asia, one of the world’s most populous and significant regions, includes the modern nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and in certain contexts Afghanistan, Maldives, Myanmar and Tibet. Students completing the minor will come away with a strong understanding of the intellectual, cultural, political, economic and social developments at key periods in South Asia’s history and in the contemporary era.