The Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania announced in June that Penn alumna Sindhuri Nandhakumar, C’14, is the recipient of the 2015-2016 Sobti Family Fellowship. Established through a gift from two Penn parents, alumnus Rajiv Sobti and Slomi Sobti, the annual fellowship, now in its second year, provides funding for a recent Penn graduate to conduct independent research in India.

Ms. Nandhakumar will use her award for a nine-month research project on how English theater in India has continued to adapt and evolve in relation to the liberalization and globalization of the Indian economy. She will conduct ethnographic research in the artistic communities of Chennai and Mumbai and will be working with Theatre Nisha in Chennai and the Drama School in Mumbai.