Can you challenge yourself to do something revolutionary? Explore voting and word games, and create an election campaign along with Dhara, Carol and the students of Sarvaloka Public School.   Revolutionary Ideas If you want to create change, what would you do? Some of you may want to have the right to choose what uniform they wear. Others may want more screen time. What do you want? What is something that you want to do that you aren’t allowed to do?   Let’s Vote! Election fever has gripped Dhara’s school, Sarvaloka Public School. Let’s read Read More..

Muqtalif, which means different is formed by three very different people who have found a way to remember some musicians and songs that mustn’t gather dust on the www pages!
  These are songs that are meant to celebrate the heartaches and the bad decisions and the glorious mistakes that now can’t be unmade. Life in its entire package includes colours of gloom that are either kept inside old diaries or stacked above old furniture in the attic, it is our attempt to clean the dust off the old diary and feel the now yellowed pages and smell the air that once wa Read More..

"O my language/ I return to you / when my tongue feels / stiff from / remaining silent, / hurting my soul." - Kedarnath Singh (trans Kalpana Singh-Chitnis) In October, the Atta Galatta Book Club is reading anything and everything in Indian languages. Bring your favourite book, poem, drama written in a vernacular language. We'd love to hear the work read as it's supposed to sound! (Translations are welcome too, of course.)   Read More..

At a time when we are spoilt for choice on what to watch, the best movies don't make it to streaming. And nothing beats the communal experience of watching a movie together. Join us for the first (literally) Underground film club in the city.  This month, we’re screening “In The Month Of Madness” (1994). When horror novelist Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) goes missing, insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) scrutinizes the claim made by his publisher, Jackson Harglow (Charlton Heston), and endeavors to retrieve a yet-to-be-released manuscript and ascert Read More..

The Write Step is a writers’ support group that hopes to foster and grow a community of writers who meet once a month to talk about the myriad aspects of writing. Writers in the making who haven’t published or written yet are most welcome. The aim is to devise a support group that sparks creativity.   While each meeting will be around a certain predefined subject matter pertaining to the craft, there will be time set aside for the group to address individual queries.   Read More..

Our emotions and memories are intrinsically related to the food we eat and the genre of food literature combines them in a way that helps us connect not only to our past and our present, to different cultures, and communities, values and rituals, events both life-changing and mundane but to each other as well.   So, if viewing the world through the lens of food and literature interests you, then join us to begin a dialogue on “Food in Indian Literature” and to celebrate those stories and their diversity. Each month with Prachi Grover, we will be reading our way through s Read More..

After touring the country with his solo stand up shows, Rohit Swain is back with his new standup show “Hello Saar” - a corporate theme based standup show! Come down to witness sketches, standup & musical comedy - all of it on corporate culture. Get your friends, family, maybe your boss too (at your own risk). Catch the show live in one of your city’s best performance venues. Get your tickets now.   Read More..

Join Author Priyanka Kumar in the book launch of her fourth book, "People's Kafe - The Secrets Granny Whispered in My Ears". This book is a kaleidoscopic ride into Nani’s life set in pre and post-independence India right until Instagram stormed our lives. She led a life of purpose when odds were stacked against her. Born into a humble family of six siblings, in a heavily caste and gender prejudiced society, much before India gained freedom, Nani shattered the unwritten glass ceiling by attaining a graduate degree, carving a career at the National Family Planning Commission Read More..

Are you ready to restart your career journey? If so, ‘Back On Your Feet Workshop’ is the perfect starting point. It is meant to be that gentle push you need to take a crucial step towards your career comeback 💪   The free workshop provides a safe and supportive space for participants to openly discuss the unique challenges they face in restarting their careers after a break. It offers a wealth of resources, innovative ideas, and practical frameworks that you can personalise to create a solid and actionable career restart plan for yourself.   📚  Nove Read More..

The Storytelling Meetup is a monthly Oral Storytelling event by the Bangalore Storytelling Society (registered non profit society towards the revival of Oral Storytelling). The meetup aims to revive the Oral Storytelling culture among the adults .It's one of longest running meetups in the world and in India that began in 2013. Each meetup would carry a theme and is open to anyone interested to tell their story or just listen to one .  Read More..