Bring Out The Rumi In You With The 7th Edition Of Bangalore Poetry Festival

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What Makes It Awesome

Atta Galatta is back with the 7th edition of the Bangalore Poetry Festival happening from 5 August to 6 August at Grand Mercure Bengaluru at Gopalan Mall. The two-day festival has invited over 50 poets, artists, and musicians. This year, you can catch Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in conversation with his biographer Sathya Saran, Javed Akhtar, and Shubha Mudgal. Plus you can also listen and interact with poets such as Anukrti Upadhyay, Megha Rao, Mehak Goyal Nishi Jagavat, and Maria Goretti. The festival will also bring poetry in multiple languages such as Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali.

Apart from this, there's going to be a children's fest that will be launched and will run parallelly with the main programming. Don't miss out on the workshops for kids and adults as well as the Artisanal Market that's being curated by The Paper Boat Collective. 

How's The Venue

Grand Mercure Bengaluru at Gopalan Mall is located on OMR and the property has valet parking available. 

Pro-Tip

The festival ends with a musical performance by Maalavika Sundar, Indian Idol finalist, so don't miss out on that.

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