The Martyr's Column (also known popularly as 'Eleven Figures') is an iconic sculptural ensemble occupying a prominent place in New Delhi made by Devi Prasad Roychowdhury in the 1970s. It shows Gandhi, staff in hand, leading a group of men and women to their tryst with independence and freedom. India, today however, is moving in exactly the opposite direction envisioned for it by the Mahatma. In cleverly recalling and redirecting an image that tells the story of a nation-coming-into-being, Scaria compels us to ask if the Mahatma no longer leads, or is no one interested in following him anymore?