Kahaani: Folk Deities of India
This 45 minutes storytelling performance will include oral and local histories of the land through songs and lore. The performance will also include stories of a few Indian queens (ranis).
About Vikram Sridhar
Vikram is a Performance Storyteller & Theatre Practitioner combining his various interests and work over 20+ years in Theatre, Conservation, and Social Work.
Based in Bangalore and Chennai, he has spoken at multiple events on the power of stories and theatre, like the TEDx, and has been quoted in various media. He has extensively traveled the country performing and speaking at public spaces, community libraries, schools, corporates, business conferences, and literary & cultural festivals for children and adults. With an engineering and Management degree from institutes like the IIT, Vikram became a full-time Arts Practitioner after working in the Consulting and Marketing domains with IBM and SAP. He believes in the Desi way of Storytelling as a powerful medium of conservation from nature to human relationships, as his stories are rooted in folklore, myths, and legends inspired by various communities of the soil. He firmly believes ‘A Story a Day keeps the Doctor Away, ‘not an apple.