Bangalore International Centre

Bangalore International Centre A Privately enabled Public purpose Institution for informed conversations, arts and culture
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📍25 Aug | Tue | 7:00PM➡️ Echoes of Strings Swaradhya is a Bangalore-based World Fusion Instrumental Band blending Indian...
20/08/2026

📍25 Aug | Tue | 7:00PM

➡️ Echoes of Strings

Swaradhya is a Bangalore-based World Fusion Instrumental Band blending Indian classical music with contemporary western genres. Their repertoire spans original raga-based compositions fused with global rhythms (latin, afro, etc.), alongside fresh adaptations of Indian thumris and folk music.

This concert blends Indian Classical influences with contemporary acoustic expression to create a truly unique soundscape.

Free and open to all. RSVP on the website.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/echoes-of-strings/

📍21 Aug | Fri | 7:00PM | BIC ELSEWHERE ➡️ Beyond Digitisation This lecture explores the study of Indic manuscripts, exa...
19/08/2026

📍21 Aug | Fri | 7:00PM | BIC ELSEWHERE

➡️ Beyond Digitisation

This lecture explores the study of Indic manuscripts, examining what it takes to turn a digitised artefact into a source for reconstructing South Asia’s religious, philosophical, and cultural history. Digital images can preserve a manuscript, but can they ever truly read it?

The session is preceded by a talk by Prof. K Ramasubramanian on “The Elusive Ratio and the Advent of Calculus in India” at 5pm.

This is a BIC Elsewhere Event at IIT Alumni Centre, Bengaluru.

Free and open to all. RSVP on the website.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/beyond-digitisation/

📍22 Aug | Sat | 11:00AM | For Ages 15+➡️ Hoovyaru Belasidare | Who Grew the Flowers?S*x workers have been seen as crimin...
19/08/2026

📍22 Aug | Sat | 11:00AM | For Ages 15+

➡️ Hoovyaru Belasidare | Who Grew the Flowers?

S*x workers have been seen as criminals, victims, survivors, and even activists, but rarely as artists and creators. This film follows the journey of Sadhana Mahila Sangha members as they tell their own stories through art. Starting with their 2014 Kannada theatre production, Hasivu Kanasu (Hunger Dreams), Sadhana members explore folk music, poetry, theatre, shadow puppetry, and film. Along the way, they examine their childhood memories, experiences of caste, encounters with police violence, friendships, and activism, offering a glimpse into their relationship with the changing city.

RSVP on the website.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/hoovyaru-belasidare-who-grew-the-flowers/

📍22 Aug | Sat | 7:00PM ➡️ How Far a Note Travels: The Nadhaswaram and a Music Built for DistanceThe nadhaswaram is a man...
18/08/2026

📍22 Aug | Sat | 7:00PM

➡️ How Far a Note Travels: The Nadhaswaram and a Music Built for Distance

The nadhaswaram is a mangala vadyam (auspicious instrument) is not merely an accompaniment, but rather an active part of what makes an occasion sacred. This session aims to help listeners hear gamaka, the sliding ornamentation that gives a raga its identity, most audible on the nadhaswaram’s fretless pipe. The instrument’s global cousins are featured, from the Turkish zurna to the Chinese suona. The session closes with Sheikh Chinna Moulana, the Muslim vidwan from a three-century lineage who became Asthana Vidwan at Srirangam and Tirupati.

Limited seats. RSVP on the website now.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/how-far-a-note-travels-the-nadhaswaram-and-a-music-built-for-distance/

📍26 Aug | Wed | 6:00PM ➡️ Playful BodyCentred on partnering, play, and humour, in this workshop participants will explor...
18/08/2026

📍26 Aug | Wed | 6:00PM

➡️ Playful Body

Centred on partnering, play, and humour, in this workshop participants will explore how to observe, listen and respond to the bodies all around.

The class opens with floor work rooted in the cranio-sacral connection and the body’s spiral, moving instinctively and fluidly. Participants explore coordination and movement quality before the work evolves into partnering: exploring gravity, counterweight, off-axis balance and sensory listening through touch.

📍Please Note: The workshop is intended for Intermediate level practitioners. Though open to all ages, participants are expected to be in good physical health with no particular physical fragilities. The session has a limited capacity of 20 participants.

Limited seats. RSVP now on the website.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/playful-body/

📍24 Aug | Mon | 6:30PM➡️ A Tale of Two Middle ClassesThis talk traces the evolution of India’s middle classes through d...
17/08/2026

📍24 Aug | Mon | 6:30PM

➡️ A Tale of Two Middle Classes

This talk traces the evolution of India’s middle classes through data from the India Human Development Survey, a study that repeatedly interviewed more than 40,000 households between 2004 and 2024. Grounded in these lived experiences, the talk examines the size and origins of both the upper and lower middle classes, exploring their lifestyles and aspirations as they navigate a changing, and at times uncertain, economy.

RSVP on the website.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/a-tale-of-two-middle-classes/

📍21 Aug | Fri | 6:30PM ➡️The Pursuit of Truth: The Kosambi LegacyFrom Buddhist philosophy and social reform to mathemati...
17/08/2026

📍21 Aug | Fri | 6:30PM

➡️The Pursuit of Truth: The Kosambi Legacy

From Buddhist philosophy and social reform to mathematics and Sanskrit literature, the Kosambis challenged inherited orthodoxies across disciplines, geographies, and public movements. This lecture explores the extraordinary intellectual legacy of Dharmanand and D.D. Kosambi, father and son, two restless twentieth-century Indian minds, drawing on Ram Ramaswamy’s double biography of the pair.

RSVP on the website.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/the-pursuit-of-truth-the-kosambi-legacy/

📍23 Aug | Sun | 11:00AM➡️ Beyond ‘I like It’ What makes an artwork meaningful? This talk journeys across cultures, time ...
16/08/2026

📍23 Aug | Sun | 11:00AM

➡️ Beyond ‘I like It’

What makes an artwork meaningful? This talk journeys across cultures, time periods, and artistic mediums to discover how artworks speak in different visual languages, leaving audiences with simple tools to look at the world around with greater curiosity, confidence, and attention.

Free and open to all. RSVP on the website.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/beyond-i-like-it/

📍23 Aug | Sun | 6:00PM ➡️ The Siachen Glacier – Managing Mountains and War Inside the world’s highest, harshest battlefi...
16/08/2026

📍23 Aug | Sun | 6:00PM

➡️ The Siachen Glacier – Managing Mountains and War

Inside the world’s highest, harshest battlefield, this talk covers not only the mountains but the war, politics, financial cost, and human toll of the ongoing conflict in Siachen. Here, India, Pakistan, and China have been engaged in hostilities for decades. The talk includes over 180 photographs documenting the Siachen Glacier and the people involved.

RSVP on the website.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/the-siachen-glacier-managing-mountains-and-war/

📍20 Aug | Thu | 7:00PM➡️ Bach to Saint-SaensThis concert by the award-winning, Italian-Egyptian pianist Francesca Khalif...
15/08/2026

📍20 Aug | Thu | 7:00PM

➡️ Bach to Saint-Saens

This concert by the award-winning, Italian-Egyptian pianist Francesca Khalifa takes the audience through a repertoire from Bach and the Baroque period to Saint-Saens in the twentieth century.

Complete schedule and RSVP on the website.

https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/bach-to-saint-saens/

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