Cumin - Jagriti Playwright in Residence Showcase Noor and Zula are cousins but they have been estranged for a long time. Now in their mid-30s, Noor, a celebrity chef in Bombay, reaches out to Zula, a struggling choreographer in Berlin, trying to create a family for herself. How do they meet after all this time, weighed down by their mothers’ legacies/unlegacies, inheriting pain and disease that seems to come in the way of their lives? How do they really meet? In this story that explores the ideas of grappling with certain inheritances, alone, finding connection to ‘family’, finding purpose and a meditation on women living alone.Read More
Devi compels a reluctant Ashok to go to Patliputra and take the reins of the Mauryan empire. In Patliputra Ashok discovers that there is a deep-seated conspiracy by Mahanand of Kaling, who is one of the descendants of Dhananand, the erstwhile king of Magadh. Mahanand is suspected of engineering the untimely deaths of princes Sushim, Ripudaman and Sukirti. Why was Mahanand relentlessly influencing and goading Kaling to attack the mighty Magadh? Was the war inevitable?Read More
Fact #1: Objects in space exert & give in to the gravity of the other, a force so strong that it even bends time around them. Fact #2: Love is measured linearly merely because we experience time linearly. Love in the Cholera of Time is the story of 2 individuals who exist in different eras but fall in love nevertheless, in the in-betweens of time. This aberration puts the jobs and lives of 4 Time Gods in danger, whose job it is to keep time in its own place. This puts into motion strategies that could change the very nature of time. The play is a sharp & funny deliberation on love, loneliness, science and the industrialised weaponisation of time. Now whether the Time Gods' efforts to keep time understandable, linear and tear free or not, you'll just have to find out for yourself, won't you?Read More
Winner of the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play - The Crucible is an exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem. It is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our contemporary society.Read More
Experience the morning raga concert series at Jagriti, presented by Sindhu K. Das, featuring timeless compositions by revered Carnatic legends. Join us for a soul-stirring showcase of Carnatic gems by composers such as Saint Thyagaraja, Muthuswamy Dikshitar, Purandaradasa, Swathi Thirunal, Dr. Balamurali Krishna, and Dr. Baby Sriram. Immerse yourself in this delightful musical journey and embrace the truly magical experience it offers.Read More
Infusing the spiritual in everyday activity has been at the core of many schools of Indic thought. But even as one attempts to travel inward, the outer world and its chaos can be dominating. How does a woman navigate these apparently contrasting worlds? Should she ask the women of the past or those that stand around her today? Should she question the Gods or ask her Goddess? Who, What and Where is her Goddess? Manoeuvring through the worlds of real and fictitious women, in questions that you or I would ask of these women are questions that we must answer ourselves. Everytime, one circles back to the very beginning, finding a newer perspective. A Goddess’ Dream is that space of awakening for each one of us.Read More
BC:AD – Before Children: After Diapers is a stand-up comedy show and one mad, brown mommy`s take on how the definitions of words change before and during motherhood. This show is an invitation to anyone that finds themselves slightly overdrawn, mostly obscure and definitely needing the sound of another voice to reason with their own challenges – be it parenting, identity or the infinite void between where we find ourselves and where we see ourselves in our daytime dreams.Read More