The Mind Has a Hundred Thousand Gates
Connecting Kabir’s Ancient Wisdom to Minneapolis’s Present Grief
Time & Location
Apr 10, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
About
Pangea World Theater is pleased to present The Mind Has a Hundred Thousand Gates: an exploration of Kabir, a 15th century poet from India for the stage through poetry, spoken word, music, and movement. This will be a concert performance with narrative and poetry intertwined to bring the powerful words of Kabir to life. With musicians and composers Pooja Goswami Pavan and Allalaghata Pavan, Pangea World Theater explores Kabir’s message of love and compassion and how his words resonate today. Created by Meena Natarajan. Directed by Dipankar Mukherjee.
Fiercely independent, Kabir has become an icon of speaking truth to power. He implored his listeners to shed their delusions, pretensions, and orthodoxies in favor of an intense, direct confrontation with the truth. He was an incisive satirist, exposing violence, hypocrisy, and greed. Belonging to a social group that was marginalized, he cut through the absurdities of caste ideology and declared the…