guru-shishya

A gift to posterity

A gift to posterity

IIT Kharagpur’s Centre for Classical Arts will transform the way the classical arts are taught and preserved   A new dream is unfolding in IIT Kharagpur. The premier technology institute is working towards the creation of a Centre for Classical Arts. As to why an institute specializing in science and technology should ramify into the arts, the big picture first. For a variety of socio-economic reasons, the traditional guru-sishya parampara through which many of India’s intangible art forms have been passed down through generations is unlikely to survive in the future. There is a dire need to evolve a modern…
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