Nature's Wild Child

Nature's Wild Child

Talks

January 26 | 4PM

Bangalore International Centre (BIC), Bengaluru


Free

Nature's Wild Child

Talks

January 26 | 4PM

Bangalore International Centre (BIC), Bengaluru


Free

About the Event

India has a unique relationship with the mango. It is all over our cultural life and festivals. Our emotional life and our social existence. Our markets and our countryside. It is the only fruit that is a festival unto itself. Each year, cities organize their own mango festivals that are extremely popular events. No other fruit seems to have a comparable role anywhere else. The mango seems intimately familiar to almost all Indians, nay, all residents of South Asia. Yet we are unaware of the wider role of the mango fruit, leaves, flowers, trees, orchards and groves in almost every facet of our lives through our known and unknown history. In politics, economics, land ownership, infrastructure, ecological (and psychological) health, propaganda, diplomacy, ecology, festivities, funerals, weddings, seduction, poetry, the arts, architecture…


Drawing from the recently published bestseller Mangifera indica: A Biography of the Mango, this discussion will join the ubiquitous excitement around mangoes to look towards avenues untrodden, histories unconsidered, festivals abandoned. The event will take place close to the time that marked India’s myriad spring festivals, the symbol of which was the mango flower. The known mango is a bridge to a lot about us that is either unknown or goes unacknowledged.


The author, Sopan Joshi will be in conversation with Venu Madhav Govindu which will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Event Guide

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Language

English

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Duration

1.5 Hours

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Best Suited For Ages

12 yrs & above

Instructions

BIC Instructions:

1. Entry to the event is free.

2. Doors will open 15 minutes prior to the programme.

3. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

4. Entry to the hall will be closed once capacity is reached.

5. If we are over-capacity for an event, entry will be based on a first-come, first-served basis to those who have registered. Registration in such instances is not a guarantee of entry.


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Nature's Wild Child

Talks

January 26 | 4PM

Bangalore International Centre (BIC), Bengaluru


Free

Free

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