Our Flagship Festivals
We are the home for large-scale cultural celebrations, where we bring together authors, artists, and families for gatherings that feel like family. From the Bengaluru Poetry Festival to Kovai Bookalatta, this is where stories come alive.
A complete venue tour of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival 2025. This gives you a feel for the scale of the event, from the main 600-seater auditorium to the outdoor spaces for the children's festival.
The official schedule poster for the 9th Edition of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival. We organize two full days of powerful poetry, lyrical journeys, and unforgettable performances.
A look at the morning schedule for Day 1 of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, featuring sessions on love, city songs, and poetry from around the world.
The afternoon schedule for Day 1 of the festival, with sessions like 'A Poet's Journey' and 'Kaghzi Ishq', a puppetry performance.
The late afternoon schedule for Day 1, featuring interpretations of Lal Ded's Vaakhs and a session remembering Kishore Kumar.
The evening schedule for Day 1 of the poetry festival, with multilingual performances in English, Hindi, and Urdu.
The morning schedule for Day 2 of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, including an awards ceremony and a session on emerging poets.
We run a parallel Children's Fest during the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, with its own dedicated schedule of fun-filled activities.
The morning schedule for Day 1 of the Children's Fest, featuring fun tales, puppet playtime, and even a session on the 35 types of laughter.
The afternoon schedule for Day 1 of the Children's Fest, with crafty tales, stories about trees, and other engaging sessions.
About Our Flagship Festivals
It is one thing to read a book, but entirely another to be in a room with hundreds of people hanging on every word of a poem or watching a child discover the magic of a puppet show. When we host a festival, the energy changes—the venue fills with conversations, and our Indiranagar space turns into a hub where strangers become friends over a shared love for stories.
For us, a festival is not just about the schedule or the guest list. It is about the 'galatta'—the beautiful, noisy chaos of people meeting, sharing, and making a mess together.
The Bengaluru Poetry Festival
Every year, we transform the Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha into a sanctuary for words. We move beyond the bookstore to a 600-seater auditorium where the magic happens. You will find everything here: panel discussions on love and city songs, soul-stirring Ghazals, and multilingual poetry performances that span English, Hindi, and Urdu. We intentionally keep the programming accessible, running parallel Children's Fests where little ones can enjoy puppetry, storytelling, and drawing while parents attend the main sessions.
Kovai Bookalatta
This is our labor of love for the next generation of readers. We take the spirit of our Bengaluru bookstore to Coimbatore, working with local schools to create a literary wonderland. It is a festival where parents, teachers, and children meet authors, participate in hands-on workshops, and see books come to life outside of the classroom.
Whether you are looking to debate with fellow readers or just want to introduce your kids to the world of storytelling, our festivals are designed as open spaces. There are no dress codes and no entry requirements—just show up as you are. Join us to find your community and perhaps a new favorite poet.
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