December 1 - 7 The Other Festival in association with Arangham Trust December 11 & 12 "Tamil Koothu - Reassessing tradition and modernity" presentations, discussions, film, demonstration and performances November 26 & 27 "The Romila Thapar Lectures" "Perceiving the forest - early India" on 26th "Somanatha : The many voices of a History" on 27th November 25 "Archtiecture and Cultural Significance" November 13 Dark Horse - Walking Down Arun Kolatkar's Lane - A performance, using dialogue, verse and music to explore the reclusive poet's mind September 8 A Classical concert by Thierry Gergoire August 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27 and 28 "Vikalp - Films for Freedom" A festival of documentary films June 4-11 "Explorations of the Familiar" - people, patterns and places... an exhibition of photographs by Romil Sheth May 18 "Draupadi Thugil", a one hour Koothu performance by Kattaikoothu Valarchi Munnetra Sangham, Kanchipuram March 4 "Taste as limitation: The vexed relationship between Artists and Viewers in contemporary India" illustrated talk by Ranjit Hoskote February 29 A retreat on mindfulness by George Kuriyan February 28 Readings of poems and writings by K.Srilata and Anuradha Shyam February 26 "On writers and writing" a talk and discussion by Shashi Deshpande