Anjana Basu and Sujit Sanyal in conversation with Avijit Dutt about his novel Gajaraj — a story of an elephant, a mahout, and the world they carry between them.

Sanghamitra Chakraborty and Poulami Bose explore the life, craft, and legacy of the incomparable Soumitra Chatterjee — actor, poet, man of letters.

A warm recollection of Shyam Benegal — the filmmaker who changed how Indian cinema told its stories — as remembered by a collaborator and friend.

Devasis Chattopadhyay in conversation with Sujit Sanyal — excavating the stories of those the city forgot, the lives that slipped between its cracks.

An intimate look at the art and challenge of translating Rituparno Ghosh's screenplay language — prose that carried an entire sensibility — into English.

The editors and four contributors of this landmark anthology on the decade gather for a live conversation — about what made the 1970s so turbulent, so generative, so unforgettable.

Prof. R. Sivakumar in conversation with Prof. Sushanta Dattagupta — on Tagore's engagement with science, nature, and the philosophy of a borderless world.

Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta returns to Tagore's economic thought and his vision of a self-sustaining village — ideas that feel startlingly current in the second episode of this series.

A relook at the Hungryalist movement in Bengali literature — its rage, its poetry, its politics — and why it still matters half a century on.

The first episode in Kahaani Koncerti's three-part series revisiting Tagore's vision — his humanism, his politics, and the restless, searching quality of his thought.

A full evening around Jaimin's album — the sounds, the stories behind each track, and a conversation about what it means to make music on your own terms.

A book discussion about belonging, identity, and what we leave unsent — a conversation about letters and the silences between them.

The third Poet's Corner explores Arun Kolatkar's bilingual world — the Bombay of Jejuri and Kala Ghoda Poems, and the modernism that made him irreplaceable.

The furious, carnivalesque world of Nabarun Bhattacharya — his Fyatarus, his rage against the establishment, his love for the marginalised.

A tribute to Tarun Majumder — the director who gave Bengali cinema its most lyrical romances — retracing the journey of a master.

The first Poet's Corner takes on the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz — his resistance, his romanticism, and why Hum Dekhenge still stops a room in its tracks.

An author chat about travel, memory, and the fragments that stick — what we carry home from the road, and what shape those experiences take when finally written down.

A century after its founding, what remains of Tagore's dream at Visva Bharati? An author chat on the university, its promise, its politics, and what was lost along the way.

An author chat on a book that grows in many directions at once — its stories branching into myth, memory, and the strange abundance of the ordinary.

The lesser-told story of Sriniketan — Tagore's rural reconstruction experiment, his attempt to bring the university to the village, and what it looked like in practice.

Sutirtha Das in conversation — waves on the surface, depths below. A book and a discussion about what lies underneath the lives we show the world.

Short fiction about women, households, and the negotiations that happen in the margins of domestic life. An author chat on a rich and overdue collection.

Fifty years on from 1971 — a conversation about the Liberation War, the literature it inspired, and how writers on both sides of the border have reckoned with that history.

A gathering in memory — keeping a beloved figure alive in the room through stories, readings, and the kind of conversation that refuses to let go.

On Bangobala — the everyday heroism and complex humanity of Bengali women across literature and life. A wide-ranging conversation about who gets written and who writes.

Narayan Debnath — who gave Bengal Handa Bhonda, Nonte Fonte, and Batul the Great — remembered and celebrated by those who grew up with his pen.

A celebration of the poet H.S. Shivaprakash's Seshadri — the enigmatic wandering poet of Mysore — and what it means to carry genius and homelessness in the same body.

On taking refuge in the Buddha — a conversation about Buddhism, literature, and the long tradition of writers who found in Dharma a language for suffering and release.

Food as archive, as memory, as politics — a book that refuses to treat recipes as merely recipes and insists on the history in every bite.

Dharam Arora leads a dramatised reading of Saadat Hasan Manto's devastating Partition story — performed at the border of reason and madness, just as Manto intended.

Dr. Aparna Vaidik and Dr. Anirban Bandopadhyay on the long wait for self-rule — what independence meant to those who struggled for it, and what it left unresolved.

Ahana Chaudhuri on Pritilata Waddedar — the revolutionary who walked into fire for her country at twenty-one — in this tribute from Kahaani Koncerti's Independence series.

A two-hour Independence Day live event — stories, readings, conversations, and reflections on 75 years of a republic still learning what it means to be free.

S Hussain Zaidi and co-author Gautam Mengle on Mumbai's underworld, the ethics of true crime, and what fiction can do that reporting cannot.

Post-pandemic, with cinemas shuttered and OTT exploding — a sharp panel debate on whether the theatrical experience is finished, or just changing.

Arunava Sinha on translating 54 Bengali poets — the impossible choices, the formal challenges, and the privilege of living inside so many voices at once.

A book that followed the narcotics trade across six years and multiple continents — about addiction, journalism, complicity, and what the war on drugs costs everyone.

Food, memory, and the passage of years — a book that uses flavour as a way of recovering the past, and recipes as a form of inheritance.

Angshu Dasgupta on a novel about place, displacement, and the strange grief of a house that no longer exists. A conversation about homes in fiction and in life.

Ray's masterpiece, sixty years on — Charulata's loneliness, her intelligence, her unfulfilled desire, and why the film still feels like it was made yesterday.

On the goddess in literature, art, and life — a conversation about Durga not as icon but as idea, and how Bengali writers have interpreted her power across the centuries.

The sound of the conch — a musical evening exploring the sacred and the ceremonial in Bengali music, where tradition and innovation find each other across time.

A cultural evening that brought together stories, songs, and remembrances to keep a tradition and a name alive in the room.

An evening in honour of Kalim Sharafi — the legendary Tagore singer whose voice defined an era — celebrating his music, his pedagogy, and his enduring influence.

On Sarbajaya — the mother in Pather Panchali, in Bibhutibhushan, in Bengali literary consciousness — and what her endurance has meant to generations of readers and viewers.

The crossroads, the deal, the music — a conversation about Robert Johnson, the Delta blues, and the mythology that grows around an artist when recordings outlast the life.

Celebrating a century of Subinoy Roy — the Rabindra Sangeet maestro whose recordings shaped how an entire generation heard Tagore. An evening of music and memory.

On Aditi — the Vedic mother of gods, and her long journey through Indian literature. Mythology, maternity, and the stories we tell about the first mother.

On Bimala — Tagore's most complex woman, the heart of Ghare Baire — her desires, her politics, her impossible choices. A conversation about the novel that haunts us still.

On Tagore's Mrinmoyee — the rebellious girl-child who refused to be tamed by marriage — and what she represents in the canon of Bengali women who dared to be difficult.

A difficult, necessary conversation about mob violence, its legal vacuum, and the literature that has tried to make sense of a cruelty hiding in plain sight.

A conversation about the Bengali film Jhuria — its world, its craft, and what it says about the lives of women in rural Bengal. Cinema as social document and human story.

The actor Tillotama Shome in conversation about the films she loves and what it means to return again and again to a work you thought you already understood.

On theatre — its politics, its economics, its survival — and the writers and directors who believe the stage is still the most immediate form of storytelling we have.

Delhi's theatre district, its golden era, and what it produced — actors, playwrights, directors, and a culture of serious performance that changed how India told stories on stage.

A live event dedicated to Dylan — his songs, his Nobel, his refusals, and whether the troubadour from Duluth is better understood as a poet or a phenomenon.

An evening in honour of the King — his music, his mythology, and his strange, complicated legacy. A Kahaani Koncerti live event that brought Elvis home on a January night in Delhi.

Seventy-five years of Premendra Mitra's Ghanashyam Das — the armchair adventurer whose tales have never stopped being read. A celebration of the man who made tall stories respectable.

The last surviving founder of the Hungryalist movement — the poet Moloy Roychowdhury — in a full live event: readings, interviews, and the untamed spirit of a movement that refused to be polite.

Anamika Bandopadhyay on the Hungryalist movement — what they were, what they wanted, and why their literary rebellion still registers as one of the most important in Bengali letters.

Anamika Bandopadhyay in conversation with Moloy Roychowdhury — the poet speaks about the Hungryalist years, the arrests, the trials, and the poetry that came out the other side.

Moloy Roychowdhury recites his landmark poem — the Hungryalist manifesto-in-verse that put him in a courtroom and put Bengali poetry on notice.

Moloy Roychowdhury recites Stark Electric Jesus — Allen Ginsberg's translation of the most notorious poem of the Hungryalist movement, heard again in the poet's own voice.

Dharam Arora on Usha Ganguly's extraordinary career in Hindi theatre in Calcutta — the plays, the politics, the courage it takes to build a theatre company on your own terms.

Syed Mujtaba Ali — the great Bengali humorist, traveller, and polyglot — remembered with the wit and warmth his work deserves. One of Kahaani Koncerti's finest evenings.

On the great Mahasweta Devi — her fiction about tribal India, her journalism, her activism — and the question of whether a writer can be too committed to the truth to be comfortable.

Vivek Mukherjee on the life and guitar of BB King — the man who named his guitar Lucille and played the blues like a conversation with God. A full live stream evening on the King of the Blues.

T.S. Satyanath on Sant Tukaram — the 17th-century Marathi poet-saint whose abhangas fused devotion with social protest — and the 1936 Prabhat Film that brought his story to the screen.

A look at BB King's anthem — its lyrics, its history, and the decades of grief and joy compressed into three minutes of guitar and voice.

Sweet Sixteen — the BB King classic — unpacked: its structure, its feeling, the way it moves between tenderness and longing. Part of Kahaani Koncerti's Lucille series on the blues.

A look at Caldonia — the jump blues classic — and what BB King made of it. Short, bright, irresistible, and part of the reason the blues never really went away.

The opening note of the Lucille series — and an introduction to why the blues is not just a genre but a way of telling the truth about living.