Dr Omkar Bhatkar is running a university of life inside a college. SAPP, full-formed to St Andrew's Centre for Philosophy and Performing Arts, is a two-room box inside Bandra's Riverdale High. One room is the play area, where all the courses take place; the other is the administrative area, covered ceiling-to-floor in posters of all the courses taking place: Ancient Greek Tragedies; Mysticism, Women and Poetry; Theatre of the Absurd; Sacred Voices from the West, and other light material. A bookcase is sardined with paperbacks such as The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, Silence and Beauty by Makoto Fujimura and Ways of Seeing by John Berger. It's a space in which Rodin and his masterpiece would feel at home. At the moment, Bhatkar does.

Dr Omkar Bhatkar. Pics/Shadab Khan