Bangalore International Centre

1 Nov | Sun | 11:00AM | Ages 6-12 | Elli, Eke, Enu In celebration of Karnataka Rajyotsava, this interactive session asks children work together to build a map of the city on the floor until they can walk through a miniature Bengaluru inside the room!

1 Nov | Sun | 11:00AM | The Role of the Uniformed Services in India’s Constitutional Democracy How do the armed forces & police, remain answerable to the Constitution & to its citizens discussed by two senior former officers, from the air force & police.

1 Nov | Sun | 6:00PM | Temple Trails In celebration of Karnataka Rajyotsava, this concert is a musical exploration of the state’s sacred geography & the enduring traditions it has nurtured.

31 Oct | Sat | 4:00PM | Ages 16+ | We Blog This hands-on workshop brings writers together offline to draft, edit, & self-publish a blog post. Participants work alongside a small community built around in-person blogging, with help at every stage!

30 Oct | Fri | 6:30PM | A Common Ground This talk discusses the role of design and architecture in shaping positive social impact across South Asia. Can architecture and design be practices of collective care rather than individual authorship?

31 Oct | Sat | 11:30AM | Going Solo The film follows two Indian women who start cycling from short neighbourhood rides to the London-Edinburgh-London challenge: 1,500 kilometres in six days, a feat no Indian woman had completed.

31 Oct | Sat | 6:30PM | Tales of the Rupee This talk traces the rupee’s five-hundred-year journey across India & beyond, from 1538 to its modern, digital forms. What can a coin, passed across centuries, still tell us about where we come from?

28 Oct | Wed | 6:30PM | Miracle in Antarctica A film on, geophysicist & seismologist Dr. Harsh Kumar Gupta who is sent to Antarctica on an impossible mission: build Dakshin Gangotri, India’s first scientific base station, before the end of the summer.

23 Oct | Fri | 6:30PM | Diagnosed & Then? This World Mental Health Day, themed Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change, a panel brings together people living with mental health conditions & mental health professionals, some of whom are both.

25 Oct | Sun | 11:00AM | Ages 6-14 | Catch up with Kuchipudi This hands-on workshop introduces children to Kuchipudi through the basics of movement & the Natya Shastra, the ancient book of dance on which the form is built.

22 Oct | Thu | 6:30PM | Marriage Cops Marriage Cops is an intimate observational documentary that follows three couples, from everyday domestic disputes to harrowing cases of violence & neglect, & the officers who mediate between them.

21 Oct | Wed | 7:00PM | The Desert, the Mystic, the Musician This interactive session is an introduction to the musical heritage of the Mirs from Pugal, Rajasthan, beginning with an audio-visual storytelling journey followed by a musical performance.

21 Oct | Wed | 6:30PM | The Day the Chariot Moved Mindtree co-founder Subroto Bagchi returns to BIC, where he spoke in 2006 at one of the earliest programmes, to chart how his idea of the entrepreneur has changed across twenty years.

18 Oct | Sun | 5:30PM | English & Kannada | The Custodians of the Bengaluru Dose Bringing together the custodians of 2 of Bengaluru’s generational eateries, Udupi Sri Krishna Bhavan & Vidyarthi Bhavan, to reveal the challenges of staying relevant.

18 Oct | Sun | 11:30AM | South India’s Forgotten Decade of War This discussion will explore how the Carnatic Wars laid the foundations of the British empire & altered the political course of the Indian subcontinent. @HarperCollinsIN

📍Mark your calendars for 11-31 October at BIC. All events are free to attend, but RSVP required via the event page on our website. ➡️ Save the dates! Event pages will be published on our website as details are confirmed. See you at BIC!

14 Oct | Wed | 6:30PM | Breaking Rules Breaks Barriers This conversation reflects on entrepreneurship, reinvention, & the courage to challenge convention, through the story one woman who built a technology company in the United States.

14 Oct | Wed | 6:30PM | Self & Society This discussion examines the tension between personal autonomy & collective life, as explored across two novels. The authors come together to reflect the loss of spirituality within modern communes.

14 Oct | Wed | 7:00PM | Swarantar – A Mosaic of Melodies This concert explores twin ragas that differ by only a single swara, yet inhabit entirely different emotional worlds despite their near-identical scales.

13 Oct | Tue | 6:30PM | The Many Pasts of Panipat, 1761 This lecture examines how the Third Battle of Panipat's retelling, across school textbooks, Hindu nationalist historiography, & cinema, flattened a complex event into a tale of heroes & villains.