One evening while listening to artistes al fresco at the Hyde Park in London, actor-director Roshan Abbas realised, that back home, there is not a single platform for word artistes. That was three years ago. “I wanted to create a festival where you can actually listen to performance under the sky, something that is the Holy Grail of the spoken art form, like what Coachella is to music or Edinburgh is to art,” says Abbas.

In its previous edition in October, Kalki Koechlin’s dramatic performance had garnered a lot of attention. This time, we have artistes collaborate with other artistes to come up with something, “that has never been seen before and will never be seen again — that’s our idea,” he adds. For instance, Kubra Sait and Rajshri Deshpande are coming up with a rare collab and the hip-hop-meets-jazz girl Akua Naru will have a rare performance. A blend of first and old timers, this is a gathering of personalities, people and passions where you’ll experience touching truths, comic insights, emotional ballads and fiction in English, Hindi, Urdu and Kannada.