Bangalore Events

Join us on Saturday, 26 August for a discussion on Sebanti Chatterjee’s book Choral Voices. The author will be in conversation with Rochelle Pinto and Sandra Oberoi followed by a performance by The Harmony Chorus. The event will take place at Champaca, from 5 PM onwards. Please RSVP here. Open to Bangalore only.  About the book: Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV shows, and festivals. Voice and genre emerge as social objects annotated by tradition, nostalgia, and innovation. Piety literally and metaphorically shapes the Christian lifeworld, predominantly those belonging...

Join us on Sunday, 27 August, for a wonderful morning with Arati Kumar-Rao and Harini Nagendra! They will discuss Kumar-Rao's book Marginlands, an urgent work of environmental journalism.  The event will take place at Champaca, from 11 AM onwards. Please RSVP here. Open to Bangalore only.  About the book: In the boundless Thar, deemed a ‘wasteland’ by the authorities, miners bulldoze sand dunes guarding life-sustaining water. The Gangetic dolphin, once a thriving apex predator, struggles for survival as its riverine habitat is fragmented by dams and roiled by incessant shipping. Deep in the mangrove forests of the Sunderban, tigers prey on desperate crab-catchers....