Performer
We know the freedom struggle’s great names, its fighters, and its stars. But there are many more influences that often get lost in the stories. This performance traces the people Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi met along his journey: the lesser-known encounters, quiet and easily overlooked, who helped turn him into the great man history remembers.
Through song, anecdote, and lore, the performance unpacks the word itself. Mahatma. It asks what this title might still mean today, in a world so far removed from the one that first gave it to him. What does it really take to turn a man into a Mahatma?
Performer
Vikram Sridhar
Vikram Sridhar is a performance storyteller, TEDx speaker, theatre practitioner and narrative-based facilitator, combining his various interests and projects from over twenty years in theatre, conservation and social work. Over the last fifteen years, specifically, he has travelled to spaces, museums, institutions and cities connected to M.K. Gandhi’s life, focusing on the less-documented, lesser-known people who deeply influenced him. Based in Bangalore and Chennai, he has spoken at multiple events on the power of stories and theatre, including TEDx, and has been quoted in various media. He extensively travels the country, performing and speaking at schools and literary and cultural festivals for children, students and adults.
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