Kings, demons, Elon Musk and Mark Twain
is the greatgrandson
Prabhath, 32, harat one of Venkanna Dasa, of
These were traditional the great haridasas. in who performed storytellers
Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, what are now Maharashtra. and
Nadu, Telangana
Tamil involved singing,
, form, harikatha
Their art a bit of often with philosophising, tales of dancing and typically enacted in. They I have humour thrown epics. “But and demons, myths performed a kings and great-grandfather my Prabhath says. also heard that Vivekananda,” harikatha on Swami us an idea 1900s. This gives early
“This was in the
Sthen.” were even back of how open people contemporise
harikatha,
trying to retains Prabhath is now authentic and sure it is while making
. but that its essence he was 19, performing since a harikatha
He’s been never watched so “I have already 2009, was performed was in the way it performance “The style I have Prabhath says. back in the day,” descriptions from my is based on additions. incorporated my own scholars, and teachers and time I go on father, a newborn every like I still feel and stage.” Kannada, English in
Prabhath performs Sanskrit. He draws on his is brushing up Dasa and Hindi, and music of Purandara also from the devotional and Tamil, but in Marathi ancient poetry songs. oration. writes his own into extempore he breaks
Between songs, or Mark Twain; quote Socrates
Here, he might finding time such as everyday struggles war in talk about Elon Musk, the discuss communism. to go to the gym; decline of and the
Ukraine, terrorism attention through the audience’s
This helps hold serving a function he says, performance, that of a traditional this tradition: long-existed in deviate that has to subplot. “It is traditional or out of the upakatha to jolt people stories, just unconnected to reverie.” borrows a joke. A their
Prabhath just and Sometimes, Sherlock Holmes one in which what favourite is the Holmes asks Watson Watson go camping.
The good doctor Dr them. the night sky above astrology, theology he sees in elaborate take on an does replies with universe. “What in the and Man’s place finally asks.
Holmes?” he “What it it say to you, replies. idiot,” Holmes
“Watson, you tent!” has stolen our someone tells me is that