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Minhazz Majumdar is a curator, writer, designer and educator who has been deeply involved in preserving and promoting Indian cultural traditions for three decades. As a curator, Majumdar has worked on major shows on India in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Australia and has built collections of Indian arts and crafts for museums across the world including QAGOMA, (Brisbane),  National Gallery of Victoria, (Melbourne) Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, (Cambridge), National Museums Liverpool and Glasgow Museums. She is recognised internationally as an authority on the folk, tribal and outsider art scene in India. Majumdar has also written extensively on Indian art and culture for publications across the world.  She is the editor and author of Bhumijan: Artist of the Earth and has contributed to Roots: Art from the Tribal Heartland of India. She has worked closely with the Indian government, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Volunteers and global nonprofits on social development projects for marginalised communities and on environmental issues such as phasing out CFCs in India, sustainable irrigation technologies, and renewable energy. She serves as a visiting faculty for several institutions such as the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi. 

Majumdar is featured in Dr. Stephen Huyler’s Daughters of India as one of 20 Indian women profiled in the book. She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her multifaceted career  has taken her all over India and the globe and she loves exploring new cultures and meeting people. In her spare time, she is an avid organic farmer and enjoys experimenting with world cuisines using fresh produce she grows on her farm in the foothills of the Himalayas.