According to Vikram Sridhar, a 36-year-old storyteller and theatre practitioner based out of Bengaluru, Mahatma Gandhi is everywhere. "He's one of the very few Indians who's relevant across the country, spanning generations. He's in markets and roads named after him in most towns in India, in statues at crossroads, in our history books, and in our pockets," points out Sridhar. He adds that he found that the political icon had a local connect wherever he would travel, be it a school in Bengaluru or a museum in Kolkata. It is this localisation of the national figure that Sridhar will explore in his online storytelling performance, titled Mohandas to Mahatma Gandhi, on Sunday.

We've all grown up calling him the Mahatma, and, know of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's life from textbooks, films and biographies — from his advocacy for civil rights in South Africa, to the Non-cooperation Movement for self-governance and his fight to make available proper treatment for leprosy. But the people who make him the Mahatma are lost in the footnotes, shares Sridhar. "There is so much of him that was documented. And yet, we don't know of the encounters that he had with the people who influenced his life," adds the storyteller.