A crowd on the Yamuna floodplain looking out over the river

Events

Work

Workshops, concerts and plays. One night at a time.

On the record

Every one of these has been run.

  1. Runs against the Yamuna

    Yamunotsav

    A festival for a river nobody celebrates. Nine Junes at the India Habitat Centre, every one of them on World Environment Day.9 editions · 2006–20145 JuneIndia Habitat Centre, New Delhi5 June is World Environment Day. The date was not a coincidence and it never moved.

  2. Cyclothon

    The city at cycling speed. Slow enough to smell it, which is the argument.

  3. Greenathon

    A day handed over to planting and to whoever will hold a spade. Endurance is the format, and the name says so.

  4. Part of We for Yamuna

    Yamuna Shramdaan

    Shramdaan means donated labour. People come to the river and do the unglamorous half of it — clearing, carrying, planting, going home dirty.

People gathered along the Yamuna below the city skyline

It happened, or it did not.

What it looks like

Events, from the archive

Volunteers serving a shared meal to a seated gathering
Volunteers serving a shared meal down a seated line in a langar hall
India Gate at dusk, its lamps lit under a hazy sky