Few places in India have given as much to the world as Bihar.

This is the land where Nalanda drew scholars from across Asia, centuries before most universities existed anywhere. Where the Buddha found enlightenment under a tree. Where Ashoka turned from conquest to compassion and changed how an empire could imagine itself. Where Vidyapati wrote verses that Maithili speakers still sing, and where Dinkar wrote lines that a whole generation carried into the streets.

And it isn't only ancient history. Bihar has been fertile ground for social change time and again, from the Champaran Satyagraha in 1917 to the JP movement of 1974, a state where young people have repeatedly decided that the world as it is isn't the world it has to be.

Then there's the everyday richness: Bhojpuri, Maithili, Magahi, Angika, each with its own literature, its own music, its own way of holding joy and grief. Folk forms like Bidesia and Launda Naach. Songs that travelled with migrant workers across oceans and seas.

We come not with answers about Bihar, but with curiosity, to sit on land that has been teaching the world for two and a half thousand years, and to let some of that seep in.

What will we actually do?

What we always do, and what we do best.

We'll gather under the trees at Tarumitra, a twelve-acre forest in the middle of Patna, planted by a group of school students in 1988. We'll sit in circles and share where we are in life. We'll eat together, walk together, play, sing, rest. We'll talk about Bihar then and now. We'll listen to Bhojpuri songs and watch regional films!

Dates: 9th, 10th & 11th October Venue: Tarumitra, Patna, Bihar