Two years ago, when Bharatanatyam exponent Vidhya Subramanian started working on her solo dance-theatre performance Still I Rise, she had little inkling of how relevant the piece would come to be in the time of #MeToo.

Inspired from the powerful Maya Angelou poem that goes by the same name, Subramanian's performance incorporates neo-classical Bharatanatyam and spoken word to revisit the vilified character of Draupadi from Mahabharat. "In 2005, I did a standalone piece on Angelou's Still I Rise for a women's organisation. Since then, the poem has continued to haunt me."