Bangalore Events

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...

Join us on 29 March at 6:00 PM for the launch of 'Snakes, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll' by Romulus Whitaker, with Janaki Lenin. They will be in conversation with Suhel Quader. RSVP here  Romulus Earl Whitaker is an American-born Indian herpetologist, wildlife conservationist, and founder of the Madras Snake Park, the Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust (ANET), and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. In 2008, Whitaker was selected as an associate laureate in the 2008 Rolex Awards for Enterprise for his efforts to create a network of rainforest research stations throughout India. In 2005, he was a winner of a Whitley Award for outstanding leadership in nature conservation. He used this award...

Join us on 23 March at 5 pm at Champaca Bookstore for the launch of Karthik Venkatesh's book '10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be'. We will have a fun quiz from the book followed by a discussion.  Karthik will be in conversation with Ramjee Chandran. This book talks about ten Indian languages—of the thousand-odd languages spoken in India—and their evolution, transformation and development. These languages (Tamil Telugu Brahui Santali Khasi Kokborok Manipuri Marathi Punjabi Hindi) -  Karthik Venkatesh traces the long and varied journeys of these languages through time, examining the cultural shifts and political and social...