For 16+ years | No Holds Barred

(For 16+ years | Room No. 111) No Holds Barred: What is it like to create a show that sets out to be a tell-all of life in an elite private school in India today? Join the conversation with film-maker Ashim Ahluwalia, who created the series, and Sneha Iype Varma, co-founder, NLF and Nirvana Films, […]

For 13-18 years | Story Symbols

(For 13-18 years | Room No. 106) Story Symbols: Eminent artist Venkat Shyam delves into the significance of particular motifs in Gond art. Try your hand at some of these. (45m)

For 13-18 years | India in 25 Lives

(For 13-18 years | Room No. 105) India in 25 Lives: Find out from award-winning author Devika Cariapa how she distilled 25 lives into a few pages each for her book India through People: 25 Game-Changers. What would you process for this be like? (45m)

For 9-12 years | Familial Bonds

(For 9-12 years | Room No. 104) Familial Bonds: Give a thought to your truth, of how you would like to represent your family in a picture book, with author and publisher Richa Jha, who does this so well with books such as Giggi and Daddy, and Aai and I (45m)

For 9-12 years | Neighbourhood Depictions

(For 9-12 years | Room No. 103) Neighbourhood Depictions: What are the details that one may include in a composition to draw one’s neighbourhood and the aspects that stand out? Find out with Habib Ali, illustrator of the wordless book My Street, and Canato Jimo, Art Director, Pratham Books, the publisher of the book. (45m)

For 9-12 years | Drawing from History

(For 9-12 years | Room No. 101) Drawing from History: Understand an illustrator’s process in adapting stories from real-life into art as the illustrator Priyanka Tampi did for the book Roshan’s Road to Music (45m)

For 9-12 years | Be A Mind-Ninja with Roopa Pai

(For 9-12 years) Be A Mind-Ninja with Roopa Pai – Decode a 2000-year-old text with bestselling author Roopa Pai and the insights for children to become calmer, clear-headed and more confident versions of themselves, as she does in her new book, The Yoga Sutras for Children (45m)

Worlds Within and Apart

Worlds Within and Apart: Award-winning filmmaker and author Devashish Makhija and award-winning author Chatura Rao are in conversation about the place that the tribal holds in our lives today. What might a loss of their rights signify for the forest and concrete world? What are the efforts being made to amplify their voices? (40m)

Life in the Age of AI

Life in the Age of AI: Nidhi Sudhan, co-founder, Citizen Digital Foundation, on the essentials for young adults on the algorithms that make their way into their mindspace, and the increasing omniscience of generative AI (40m)

Inhabiting Parallel Timelines

Inhabiting Parallel Timelines – Award-winning writer Shabnam Minwalla on what it takes to get characters from two different era to speak to the reader convincingly, as she does in her new book Zen. (40m)