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A poetic tête-à-tête with Prakash Raj
Raw verse and unfiltered reflections by the stage and screen maestro
Deepti Sudhindra accompanied by Shivaranjini Harish, Srividya Ramanath, Krishna Kashyap, Sri Prithvi Krishna
Tracing the story of mysticism through timeless sacred renditions
Mahesh Garg "Bedhadak"
Giggle and guffaw to hasya kavita
Anupama Raju and Rajashree Warrier
An interpretive performance of a poet's work through the lens of a Bharatnatyam dancer
Neeraja and Prafull Shiledar
Join our Marathi poets as they explore contemporary anxieties and societal shifting grounds
Bhumika Anand, Mani Rao, Namrata Varadarajan and Rajani Radhakrishnan
A dramatized reading of an enduring Sanskrit classic
Buku Sarkar with Jeet Thayil
Poems that snake through the streets of Paris, New York, Calcutta. And they sing of love - of its unruliness; its faltering ways; of its tenacious hold over memory
CP Surendran with Maitreyee B Chowdhury
A lyrical meditation on spiritual dispossession, these poems navigate an estrangement from the very fact of existence
AJ Thomas, Mamta Sagar, Mani Rao and Roopa Pai with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
Finding the right word... Join these translators as they look past dictionary definitions
Akhil Katyal
Spend an intimate afternoon exploring the personal and the ordinary
Anbuchelvi Subburaju, Prafull Shiledar, Roopa Pai, Trishna Basak and Zothanchhingi Khiangte with Amulya Arasinamakki
Enjoy the effortless linguistic diversity of the subcontinent with poets near and far presented with English translations
A Performance by Tishani Doshi
Lines alive with birds - woodpeckers, orioles, pigeons and egrets - who become prayers, omens and prophecies
Aparna Kapur and Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan
The serious business of writing rhyme for children
Bhumika R, Pushpanjana Karmakar, Sangeeta Mansur and Sheena Lakshmi
Listen to the sounds of the city come alive
Maitreyee B Chowdhury and Vinita Agrawal
Book Launch: Join these poets as they navigate borders and belonging
Mainaosri Daimary and Zothanchhingi Khiangte
Step outside the conventional literary axioms that defines literary discourse
Gopika Jadeja and Kanji Patel
A spotlight on the literary resistance and oral histories of Dalit and Adivasi communities of Gujarat
Kyoumars Freeman and Shaista Yacoob with Karishma Ahuja
Evoking Rumi - as Jalal al-Din Balkhi is popularly known - through a curation of ghazals and quatrains
Devdutt Pattanaik
Join the acclaimed mythologist as he unmasks the hidden allegories behind classical texts
Doyir Ete Taipodia, Gopika Jadeja, Inakali Assumi and Nirmala Putul
Mapping the deep intersections of sacred lore, memory, and indigenous faith systems
Akhil Katyal, CP Surendran, Jeet Thayil, Neal Hall, Tishani Doshi and Vinita Agrawal
Six powerhouses of contemporary poetry dissect the sharp ache of abandonment, grief, and romantic fallout
Ankush Banerjee, Kunjana Parashar, Mahua Sen, Snehal Vadher and Srividya Sivakumar
The delicate, profound, and often fragile bonds between human consciousness and Mother Nature
Anitha Thampi, Kanji Patel, Mainaosri Daimary, Nabanita Sengupta and Neeraja with Mamta Sagar
A rich tapestry of poetry from diverse linguistic landscapes, presented with English translations
Susha
Listen to the many sounds of love, inspired by jazz, bossa nova and desi melodies
Neal Hall
On the heavy cost of prejudice, drawing parallels between the marginalization of African Americans in the US and the caste system in India
AJ Thomas and Anitha Thampi
When words dance on the tip of a tongue, in Malayalam to English and back again
Aditya Tiwari and Natasha Badhwar with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
A gentle exploration into how verse can help us mend our fractures
Nabanita Sengupta and Trishna Basak
Let's adda on how books row, romance, and rally along in multiple languages
Jayshree Misra Tripathi and Rajani Radhakrishnan
Book Launch: A lyrical and geographic map of lives lived across cities and cultures
Ashis Dutta and Nivedita Dutt
A poem. A song. A novel. And their tumultuous journey of 150 years that sometimes straddles the faultlines of fact and fiction
Amulya, Divya Unni, Sandhya Ranganathan, Shruti Kulkarni and Srijani Mitra
The spice and scents of our Bengaluru
Anbuchelvi Subburaju and Rathna Venkat
Connecting Earth and the elements via Tamil kavithai
Sushma Soma with Akhila Krishnamurthy
An intimate collection of songs that journeys through sorrow and survival
Amulya, K V Nethravathi, Nabha M Okkund and Nandini Heddurga
A new generation of voices that carry the legacy forward
Naresh Saxena and Nirmala Putul with Sourav Roy
The profound values of timing, truth and human action from our Hindi stalwarts
A thunderous, foot-stomping live finale celebrating contemporary folk-rock