Bangalore Events

Join us on the 23rd of October, Friday, for a conversation with author Usha KR, about her book Boys From Good Families published by Speaking Tiger. She will be in conversation with Keerti Ramachandra, translator and editor.

Boys From Good Families is a powerful, evocative story of love, ambition, the old city of Bangalore and the new city of Bengaluru. Get your copy of the book here, and RSVP for the Zoom link.

Calling all kids — join us on Sunday, Oct 18th for an interactive conversation with authors Bijal Vachharajani and Radha Rangarajan, about their book 10 Indian Champions Who are Fighting to Save the Planet, published by Penguin!

In this book, Bijal Vachharajani and Radha Rangarajan write about the inspiring lives of people who are striving to solve the most pressing problems on this planet—from climate change to habitat degradation, from food insecurity to species loss.

Get your copy of the book on our online store, and RSVP for a Zoom link here.

The third Reading for Change event takes David Quammen's Spillover as an entry point to SDG 3 Good Health and Well-Being! Where and why do new pathogens emerge? How do they turn into a pandemic? David Quammen explores these questions in Spillover, an accessible and well-researched book about pathogen spreads before Covid-19.

Join author David Quammen and science journalist and writer Anil Ananthaswamy in conversation about Spillover and SDG 3. Read the book and join the discussion with your thoughts, reflections and questions.

Sign up here, and purchase the book here!

On Saturday, 25 September, 2020 at 6:00 pm IST, Rakshanda Jalil will speak to Somak Ghoshal about her anthology, Preeto & Other Stories: The Male Gaze in Urdu.

Purchase the book here, and sign up here.