Bangalore Events — Events

Join us on 18 April at for a reading session on 'Namma Bangalore: The Soul of a Metropolis' with author Shoba Narayan at The Biere Club.  RSVP here What makes Bangalore different from other cities in India? What are some great restaurants for authentic Karnataka food? Where do you go to find a community of wine lovers in Bangalore? What makes Shivaji Nagar special? How does Bangalore deal with its heritage buildings? Is there a nature community in Bangalore? Where do you go birdwatching in this city? What are some great places to shop? Who are the movers and shakers...

Join us on 20 April at 5 pm for the book launch of 'Like Being Alive Twice' by Dharini Bhaskar. Dharini will be in coversation with Jahnavi Barua.  RSVP here  Born in Bombay, Dharini has at various points also called the UK, Greece, Delhi and Bangalore home.  Her debut novel These, Our Bodies Possessed by Light (Hachette India) was shortlisted for the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature, Tata Literature Live! (First Book: Fiction), and the Valley of Words book awards. She has been published in the anthology Day’s End Stories; is a columnist for The Free Press Journal; and has contributed to Hindu BLink, Arre, Firstpost, Mint Lounge, Vogue, among other...

Join us on 13 April at 11:30 for a hands-on session with Ashwin Prabhu on his new book, "Sculpted Stones - Mysteries of Mamallapuram".  RSVP here  Thanks to formulaic ways of teaching, children often mistake history to be nothing but a bundle of facts - years, names, dynasties and battles. Some children who have a flair for memory respond well to this approach, while most others are quite put off by the singular focus on 'knowledge'. In similar fashion, art in school is usually treated as something meant for those who are able to master a particular technique - again ending...

Join us on 21 April at 10:00 AM for a workshop on painting with botanical inks! An introduction to botanical colours, this workshop brings together elements of everyday science of pigments in nature, towards creating art. It also hopes to bring focus to what we call or consider ‘waste’ in our everyday lives and what we do with it. The workshop is designed in two parts. First half will involve making the botanical inks from kitchen and garden scraps. The second part will give participants the time and space to paint with the inks, on paper. In groups, participants will...

Join us on 30 March at 5:00 pm for the book launch of 'Dream Machine: AI and the Real World' by Appupen and Laurent Daudet. Appupen will be in conversation with Prashant Srivatsa.  RSVP here.  Appupen has been one of India’s leading voices in comics since the publication of his first book Moonward, in 2009. He is the creator of the mythical world of Halahala. He was artist-in-residence at Angoulême in 2021. Laurent Daudet is physics professor at one of Paris’s leading universities. He is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of LightOn, a start-up at the forefront of ‘large language models’, the...