In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led a nonviolent protest called the Salt March, which marked the beginning of the end of the British Empire. 

At the center of the story is Maya Mehta, a Cambridge-educated girl whose family benefits financially from the empire. She strives to be recognized as a poet in the West, while her family plans her wedding to a wealthy prince. But in one life-changing moment, the Salt March arrives on Maya’s doorstep. An eye-opening counter with her former servant, Harini, leads Maya to commit herself to the Salt March, and when Maya joins the thousands in their quest to shake the foundations of an empire, the Mehta family’s world changes forever.

Told with contemporary language and a score that fuses Western pop and Indian Classical music, MĀYĀ is about the ties that hold us, the illusions that bind us and the truth that can finally set us free.