Aug 15 2025 to Aug 15 2025 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Indian Heritage Academy

20th Main Road, 6th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095

Event Description

The Prophet and the Poet | Bangalore Little Theatre
The Prophet and the Poet is an internationally acclaimed play developed by the Bangalore Little Theatre (BLT). It is based on the exchange of letters and articles between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore over 25 years with the Indian freedom struggle as the backdrop. The exchanges reveal how the two personalities differed significantly on many matters including the form and content of the freedom movement. The differences widened over the years. However they maintained genuine respect and love for each other steadfastly despite the deep differences.
It was the political maturity that prevailed in those times in India. The play has been used as a base in several senior-level leadership development programmes focusing on the organisational conditions that create a culture of maturity in internal and external transactions.

Bangalore Little Theatre was privileged to be invited to stage the play for the President of India and at the places associated with Gandhi and Tagore – Sabarmati Ashram Santiniketan and Jorasanko Thakurbari (Rabindra Bharati). In 2014 Prasar Bharati commissioned a telefilm on the play. The film was telecast several times over Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti.