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KathaLok

Let’s time-travel to a Bharat, 2000 Years Ago.
7th 8th Feb, 12 Noon to 11 PM, Purana Qila, New Delhi
Theater | Music | Stories | Experience
Let’s time-travel to a Bharat, 2000 Years Ago.
7th 8th Feb, 12 Noon to 11 PM, Purana Qila, New Delhi
Theater|Music|stories|experience
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Kalidas Ka KathaLok

  • Sat 7 Feb 2026 - Sun 8 Feb 2026
  • 2:05 PM
  • 8 Hours
  • All Age Groups
  • English , Hindi
  • Purana Qila : Delhi
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Vaani/वाणी : The Grand Stage

Where words rise beyond dialogue and become destiny.
Vaani is KathaaLok’s dramatic soul bringing alive stories through voice, expression and emotion.

Interactive Theatrical Duel

Rooted in the ancient tradition of vaad, this live duel brings together two courtiers from Ujjayini and Pataliputra. Through verse, riddles, and sharp exchange, they debate ideas of love and society while revealing regional folklore and memory. The encounter unfolds on stage as a performed contest, with audience prompts shaping the dialogue in real time and keeping the duel fluid and alive.

Janapada Folk Narratives

These stories emerge from the everyday lives of ancient India’s many regions. Shaped by village rhythms, local beliefs, humour, and shared memory, they were passed down orally across generations. At KathaaLok, these narratives take form through storytelling, voice, and performance, speaking of ordinary people and quiet wisdom rather than royal history.

Bharat’s Trade Routes

Long before borders were drawn, Bharat was connected to the world through trade. These stories trace the journeys of merchants and travellers who carried not only goods but ideas, customs, and conversations across lands and seas. Theatrical storytelling becomes the lens through which exchange, influence, and cultural movement are explored.

Chronicles of Conflict

War in ancient India was understood as more than confrontation. These narratives explore duty, strategy, moral choice, and consequence, revealing how conflict shaped societies and individuals alike. The stories are presented through performance and dialogue, keeping the focus on thought and responsibility rather than spectacle.

Kalidas & His Leading Ladies

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Ritu Samhar

Kalidas’s celebration of seasons unfolds as a journey through time and emotion. Nature mirrors human feeling as the cycle of seasons moves from intensity to calm, longing to renewal. The enactment uses performance and verse to capture change as continuity rather than disruption.

Meghdoot: Sung Stories

Meghdoot finds a new expression through music and collective voice. The poem’s longing and hope are shared through melody, turning personal separation into a lived emotional experience. Song and performance become the medium through which the story travels.

Conversations on Love

Three classical voices come together to reflect on love across time. Bhaas, Banbhatt, and Kalidas offer differing perspectives shaped by their worlds and writings. Their imagined dialogue is staged as a live exchange, revealing love as emotion, memory, and creative force.

The Time Foretold

Set in Kalidas’s era, this story follows a Jyotishi whose predictions shape lives and choices. Through wisdom, irony, and uncertainty, it reflects on humanity’s relationship with fate and the desire to understand what lies ahead. The narrative unfolds through storytelling and performance.

Kalidas in Kashmir

This segment imagines Kalidas in the landscape of Kashmir, away from courtly life. Surrounded by nature and silence, the poet reflects on creation, beauty, and thought. The journey is presented as a performed reflection, both geographical and inward.

Interactive Theatrical Duel

Inspired by the ancient tradition of vaad, presented as a live theatrical exchange

Rooted in the ancient tradition of vaad, this live duel brings together two courtiers from Ujjayini and Pataliputra. Through verse, riddles, and sharp exchange, they debate ideas of love and society while revealing regional folklore and memory. The encounter unfolds on stage as a performed contest, with audience prompts shaping the dialogue in real time and keeping the duel fluid and alive.

Janapada Folk Narratives

Stories born from everyday life across ancient India’s regions, presented through enactment

These stories emerge from the everyday lives of ancient India’s many regions. Shaped by village rhythms, local beliefs, humour, and shared memory, they were passed down orally across generations. At KathaaLok, these narratives take form through storytelling, voice, and performance, speaking of ordinary people and quiet wisdom rather than royal history.

Bharat’s Trade Routes

How ideas, goods, and cultures travelled beyond borders, brought alive on stage

Long before borders were drawn, Bharat was connected to the world through trade. These stories trace the journeys of merchants and travellers who carried not only goods but ideas, customs, and conversations across lands and seas. Theatrical storytelling becomes the lens through which exchange, influence, and cultural movement are explored.

Chronicles of Conflict

War, duty, strategy, and consequence explored through narrative performance

War in ancient India was understood as more than confrontation. These narratives explore duty, strategy, moral choice, and consequence, revealing how conflict shaped societies and individuals alike. The stories are presented through performance and dialogue, keeping the focus on thought and responsibility rather than spectacle.

Kalidas & His Leading Ladies

Kalidas in imagined dialogue with the women of his imagination

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Ritu Samhar

A poetic journey through seasons, nature, and human emotion, performed

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Meghdoot: Sung Stories

A melodic retelling of longing, separation, and hope

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Conversations on Love

Classical voices in performed dialogue

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

The Time Foretold

Predictions, irony, wisdom, and wonder presented as a story in motion

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Kalidas in Kashmir

A poetic imagining brought alive through narrative theatre

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Interactive Theatrical Duel

Inspired by the ancient tradition of vaad, presented as a live theatrical exchange

Rooted in the ancient tradition of vaad, this live duel brings together two courtiers from Ujjayini and Pataliputra. Through verse, riddles, and sharp exchange, they debate ideas of love and society while revealing regional folklore and memory. The encounter unfolds on stage as a performed contest, with audience prompts shaping the dialogue in real time and keeping the duel fluid and alive.

Janapada Folk Narratives

Stories born from everyday life across ancient India’s regions, presented through enactment

These stories emerge from the everyday lives of ancient India’s many regions. Shaped by village rhythms, local beliefs, humour, and shared memory, they were passed down orally across generations. At KathaaLok, these narratives take form through storytelling, voice, and performance, speaking of ordinary people and quiet wisdom rather than royal history.

Bharat’s Trade Routes

How ideas, goods, and cultures travelled beyond borders, brought alive on stage

Long before borders were drawn, Bharat was connected to the world through trade. These stories trace the journeys of merchants and travellers who carried not only goods but ideas, customs, and conversations across lands and seas. Theatrical storytelling becomes the lens through which exchange, influence, and cultural movement are explored.

Chronicles of Conflict

War, duty, strategy, and consequence explored through narrative performance

War in ancient India was understood as more than confrontation. These narratives explore duty, strategy, moral choice, and consequence, revealing how conflict shaped societies and individuals alike. The stories are presented through performance and dialogue, keeping the focus on thought and responsibility rather than spectacle.

Kalidas & His Leading Ladies

Kalidas in imagined dialogue with the women of his imagination

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Ritu Samhar

A poetic journey through seasons, nature, and human emotion, performed

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Meghdoot: Sung Stories

A melodic retelling of longing, separation, and hope

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Conversations on Love

Classical voices in performed dialogue

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

The Time Foretold

Predictions, irony, wisdom, and wonder presented as a story in motion

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Kalidas in Kashmir

A poetic imagining brought alive through narrative theatre

This segment imagines Kalidas in conversation with the women who inhabit his literary world. Malavika, Urvashi, Shakuntala, Sita, and Parvati speak back to their creator, offering reflection on love, strength, longing, and identity beyond the written verse. The exchange unfolds as a theatrical conversation on stage.

Performer corner

Get in touch with us if you are a passionate or professional storyteller and have a story grounded in ancient India to share.You can be a solo storyteller, Duo or a group. Virtual or physical audition is a must to be selected for the kathalok stage.
All selected performances will be remunerated

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Experience zone

Indian Iconography

Indian art were never meant to be silent.This workshop invites participants to slow down and observe how symbolism, posture, and form create meaning in Indian iconography. A contemplative exploration into how art became carriers of philosophy, mythology, and cultural memory.

Ayurveda Experience Workshop

This workshop offers an immersive introduction to Ayurveda, exploring its core principles through guided, hands-on practices. Participants will engage with traditional sensory techniques, including smell therapy, to understand how balance, wellbeing, and awareness were cultivated in ancient Indian healing systems.

Ancient Attars to Your Signature Fragrance

This workshop takes participants into the world of ancient Indian attars revealing how flowers, resins, spices, and oils were transformed into timeless scents through traditional methods. As history unfolds through demonstration, participants are invited to blend their own personalised fragrance.

Ancient Attars to your signature fragrance

This workshop takes participants into the world of ancient Indian attars — revealing how flowers, resins, spices, and oils were transformed into timeless scents through traditional methods. As history unfolds through demonstration, participants are invited to blend their own personalised fragrance.

From royal traditions to personal expression, this workshop allows scent to travel from the past into the present.

Encounter with Brahmi

A hands-on introduction to the ancient Brahmi script, tracing the origins of Indian writing traditions. Participants learn to write Brahmi and creatively apply it on T-shirts, cups, etc. Blending history with personal expression.

Sur Samay Yaan

ताल-युद्ध
Battle of Indian Percussionists

In the ancient Indian tradition, rhythm was conversation, emotion, and power.ताल-युद्ध revives this legacy, as master percussionists engage in a live rhythmic duel, conversing through beats instead of words.

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Sa se sargam tak Journey of Indian music from the beginning of time to 1900s

From the primal sound of Nāda to the structured beauty of Sargam, Indian music has evolved as a living, breathing tradition across centuries.
Sur Samay Yaan traces this extraordinary journey, from ancient chants and Vedic intonations to the classical frameworks that shaped Indian music by the 1900s.

Surprise performance coming soon

Musicals

Shout out to fusion composers and Classical singers and musicians. You can participate in ‘bring kalidas alive through songs’ competition or perform solo. Get in touch with us at the earliest. 

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Kalidas Ka KathaLok

  • Sat 7 Feb 2026 - Sun 8 Feb 2026
  • 2:05 PM
  • 8 Hours
  • All Age Groups
  • English , Hindi
  • Purana Qila : Delhi
Book Now