Scenes from The Manganiyar Classroom

Sounds of the khartaal and dholak fill the room accompanied by lilting, rustic voices that warm your heart. But this is not just any other Folk performance. The actors in a new play belong to the Manganiyar clan from Rajasthan; a community of professional musicians whose music has been passed down from generation to generation as a form of oral history of the desert that they inhabit.