Edition 01 : Who gets to desire?
Fuckability politics · Bollywood fantasy · Caste as romantic infrastructure
Three sessions on masculinity, caste, and class — June and July 2026, Bangalore
Session 01
What does a man want?
Working-class masculinity · Desire · Caste & Bumble
June 2026 · Bangalore · 2.5 hours · ₹999
We read a chapter from Meet the Savarnas that skewers the self-congratulatory liberal — the one with the right opinions, the curated bookshelf, the grammar-checked dating profile.
Then we watch a 43-minute documentary made in 1998 about four young men in a Delhi resettlement colony who have never had a relationship with a woman and have only Hindi cinema to tell them what one looks like.
Think of these texts as both a mirror and a window. Pre-reading sent a week before. Film revealed on the night.
Read: Meet the Savarnas — Kuch Kuch Savarna Hain chapter, excerpted and sent to you a week before
Watch: A 43-minute documentary film (1998)
Venue: TBA, JP Nagar
Duration: 2.5 hours
Capacity: 20 people
Ticket: ₹999
Session 02
Who gets to desire?
Fuckability politics · Bollywood fantasy · caste as romantic infrastructure
July 2026 · Bangalore · 2.5 hours · ₹999
Amia Srinivasan asks why we desire who we desire — and what it means that our desires so reliably map onto the hierarchies we claim to oppose.
We pair her essay with a documentary that follows three small-town men and their relationship with Salman Khan — and the particular fantasy of selfhood that Bollywood extends to men the new India has otherwise left with nothing.
Both texts reveal the gap between what we believe we are, and who we want. Pre-reading sent a week before. Film revealed on the night.
Read: Amia Srinivasan — Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?, excerpted from The Right to Sex, sent in advance
Watch: A documentary on masculinity and longing
Venue: TBA, Indiranagar, Bangalore
Duration: 2.5 hours
Capacity: 20 people
Ticket: ₹999
Session 03
And what about us?
PMC liberalism · cultural capital · the politics of being in this room
July 2026 · Bangalore · 2.5 hours · ₹999
Catherine Liu's Virtue Hoarders is not a comfortable book. It argues that the professional-managerial class — people with the right books on their shelves, the right opinions in their mouths — has replaced political action with cultural performance. Having correct taste has become a substitute for changing anything structural. This session points the lens at the room itself.
Pre-reading sent a week before. Film revealed on the night.
Read: Catherine Liu — Virtue Hoarders, excerpted and sent in advance
Watch: A documentary that is NSFW fr
Venue: Bangalore — TBC
Duration: 2.5 hours
Capacity: 20 people
Ticket: ₹999
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