Jakarta has been graced with a new teacher from Bharat, an older name for the land now known as India. But Nandini Sinha comes from Bharat, not India. Why is this? Because the spins, gestures and movements that Nandini teaches are part of the kathak dance, a dance predating modern India. More accurately, Nandini comes from Kolkata, or Calcutta _ which the French writer Dominic Lappire has called 'The City of Joy', and which has been home to th