Secret Obsessions is Atlas Obscura’s new column where we ask wondrous people to take us down a rabbit hole. This edition features Grammy Award-nominated sitar player Anoushka Shankar, as told to Associate Editor Sarah Durn. I was two years old when I saw my first dance show. My mom took me to an Indian cultural center in London, the Bhavan UK, where they were doing Mowgli. It was a dance drama of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book choreographed by the legendary Dhananjayans and mostly done in Bharatanatyam, a South Indian…
