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  • Aug 29, 2026 — Good design is invisible. Bad design is something women navigate every day. In public spaces, designers have rarely looked closely enough at how women actually move through streets, neighbourhoods, and informal gathering spaces. In digital...

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    432. Left Off the Blueprint
  • Aug 25, 2026 — Courage is not the beginning of self-knowledge. It is the constant condition of it. Courage to Be You follows two people asking that question from very different lives. Amit and Najib are a gay couple navigating not only their relationship but the...

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    430. Living Authentically
  • Aug 25, 2026 — Two questions plagued her for five years, living between Delhi, Venice, and Istanbul: how do we lose what we lose, and why do we love whom we love? Drawing on her collection of essays Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities (2026), written across 25...

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    431. Cities We Carry
  • Aug 11, 2026 — You've received the call. The scam artist trying to get your information. Perhaps you fell for it, perhaps you knew better. In either case, it becomes a story to tell over coffee. But who are the people on the other end of line? In her new book,...

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    429. Invisible Empire
  • Aug 01, 2026 — What did the architects of the Republic want our symbols to represent? Acclaimed musician and public intellectual T M Krishna launches We, the People of India: Decoding a Nation's Symbols, a rigorous exploration of the tricolour, the Preamble, the...

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    428. Citizen, Republic, Conscience
  • Jul 28, 2026 — A single family. A small village. An entire nation's story hiding inside. Tell Me A Story About Our World brings together academic and translator Vanamala Viswanatha and novelist Kavery Nambisan for a conversation about the art of fiction and...

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    427. Tell Me a Story about Our World
  • Jul 22, 2026 — A new dawn was breaking. And its light would reach far beyond its time. Rebellion in Verse unfolds a journey that goes back to the sixth century CE; a time when many yearned for a reprieve from the constraints of Vedic orthodoxy and caste hierarchies....

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    426. When Poetry Refused to Obey
  • Jul 07, 2026 — In SheThePeople's signature style, this is a session of wit and grace. Bangalore Raani is a vibrant celebration placing female voices precisely where they've always belonged: centerstage. Unapologetic and electric, this dialogue brings together women...

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    425. Bangalore Raani
  • Jul 05, 2026 — Once known as a garden city and a pensioner's paradise, Bengaluru has undergone extraordinary economic and demographic change over the past three decades. While growth has brought opportunity, it has also reshaped everyday life in ways that go far...

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    424. Does Bangalore Offer a Healthy Life to us Citizens
  • Jun 25, 2026 — Dharma is difficult to translate, and even harder to understand. In this talk, scholar Frederick Smith draws on nearly five decades of study to illuminate how the concept of dharma moves, shifts, and comes alive across the subcontinent. By tracing...

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    423. The Realms of Dharma and of the Mahabharata
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