[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Alexander the Great — whose Hindi name would be Sikander — set on to conquer the world. But Sikander, the dholak seller, is more humble. He just want to conquer his fate. “I have come from a khandaan of dholak wallas... my father sold dholak, his father sold dholak, and his father sold dholak too. But I want to break this cycle... the dholak hasn’t made us rich... I want to do something else instead of walking along the streets, crying out for people to buy these dholaks.” It’s a cold afternoon and Sikander is wading through the Sadar Bazaar crowd in Gurgaon in the Greater Delhi Region. He has two dholaks hanging