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📅 Your August Pint of View Chennai calendar is here!One of the most common requests we’ve heard from our community is to...
24/07/2026

📅 Your August Pint of View Chennai calendar is here!

One of the most common requests we’ve heard from our community is to announce our lectures in advance, so you can plan your month around them.

So, starting this August, here’s what’s coming up. 🍻

🧬 2nd August – You Are More Virus Than You Think
🤖 16th August – How To Map A Revolution
🎨 23rd August – Why On Earth Did M.F. Husain Paint Horses? (Special Bonus Lecture)

Our regular schedule continues on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, with the occasional bonus lecture when an exceptional speaker or opportunity comes along.

🎟️ Tickets for our August 2nd lecture are now live (only few tickets left!). Tickets for the remaining lectures will be released closer to their respective dates.

Which one are you looking forward to most? 👀

You Are More Virus Than You Think: The Tiny Architects That Made Us HumanFor most of human history, we’ve thought of vir...
23/07/2026

You Are More Virus Than You Think: The Tiny Architects That Made Us Human

For most of human history, we’ve thought of viruses as enemies.

Invisible invaders that infect, spread, and make us sick.

But what if that was only part of the story?

What if viruses didn’t just threaten humanity……What if they helped create it?

Long before humans walked the Earth, viruses were quietly shaping the evolution of life itself. Today, ancient viral DNA is woven into your genome, and some of the very biological processes that make us human, including pregnancy, would not exist without them.

Join Dr. Pavithra, virologist, as she invites you to rethink everything you thought you knew about viruses. Together, we’ll explore how these microscopic entities have shaped evolution, rewritten genomes, blurred the boundaries of life itself, and are now being harnessed to fight diseases ranging from genetic disorders to cancer.

Along the way, you’ll step into the shoes of evolution itself. Working in teams, you’ll take on an interactive challenge to design the most evolutionarily successful virus, and discover why nature rarely rewards the deadliest one.

This isn’t a lecture about disease.

It’s a lecture about life!

What you’ll discover:
🧬 Why fragments of ancient viruses are part of your DNA
🦠 Whether viruses are actually alive
🧠 How viruses have quietly shaped human evolution
⚖️ Why evolution favours successful viruses
💉 How scientists are transforming viruses into powerful tools for modern medicine

Leave seeing viruses not just as pathogens, but as some of the most influential architects in the story of life.

Because perhaps the story of humanity has always been, in part, a viral one.

🍺 What to Expect
•⁠ ⁠60-minute lecture + interactive Q&A
•⁠ ⁠Interactive evolutionary challenge
•⁠ ⁠One pint of beer/mocktail with your ticket
•⁠ ⁠Post-lecture mixer

📍 No Name, Chamiers Road
🗓️ Sunday, 2nd August 2026
🕓 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

🎟️ Limited seating

Book now & develop your own Pint of View 🍻

You Are More Virus Than You Think: The Tiny Architects That Made Us HumanFor most of human history, we’ve thought of vir...
23/07/2026

You Are More Virus Than You Think: The Tiny Architects That Made Us Human

For most of human history, we’ve thought of viruses as enemies.

Invisible invaders that infect, spread, and make us sick.

But what if that was only part of the story?

What if viruses didn’t just threaten humanity……What if they helped create it?

Long before humans walked the Earth, viruses were quietly shaping the evolution of life itself. Today, ancient viral DNA is woven into your genome, and some of the very biological processes that make us human, including pregnancy, would not exist without them.

Join Dr. Pavithra, virologist, as she invites you to rethink everything you thought you knew about viruses. Together, we’ll explore how these microscopic entities have shaped evolution, rewritten genomes, blurred the boundaries of life itself, and are now being harnessed to fight diseases ranging from genetic disorders to cancer.

Along the way, you’ll step into the shoes of evolution itself. Working in teams, you’ll take on an interactive challenge to design the most evolutionarily successful virus, and discover why nature rarely rewards the deadliest one.

This isn’t a lecture about disease.

It’s a lecture about life!

What you’ll discover:
🧬 Why fragments of ancient viruses are part of your DNA
🦠 Whether viruses are actually alive
🧠 How viruses have quietly shaped human evolution
⚖️ Why evolution favours successful viruses
💉 How scientists are transforming viruses into powerful tools for modern medicine

Leave seeing viruses not just as pathogens, but as some of the most influential architects in the story of life.

Because perhaps the story of humanity has always been, in part, a viral one.

🍺 What to Expect
•⁠ ⁠60-minute lecture + interactive Q&A
•⁠ ⁠Interactive evolutionary challenge
•⁠ ⁠One pint of beer/mocktail with your ticket
•⁠ ⁠Post-lecture mixer

📍 No Name, Chamiers Road
🗓️ Sunday, 2nd August 2026
🕓 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

🎟️ Limited seating

Book now & develop your own Pint of View 🍻

Tickets available only on Kyn 🔗in our bio!

22/07/2026

Some drawings get their artists arrested. On Sunday, award winning cartoonist Biswajit Balasubramanian spent an evening showing a full house why — then handed everyone a pen.

An hour later, a room of people who “couldn’t draw” had a wall full of cartoons.
Swipe through to check out our last lecture, and join us in person for the next one!

22/07/2026

Some cartoonist get their artists arrested. On Sunday, award winning cartoonist Biswajit Balasubramanian spent an evening showing a full house why — then handed everyone a pen. An hour later, a room of people who “couldn’t draw” had a wall full of cartoons.

Swipe through to get a glimpse of the evening, and join us for the next one to experience it for yourself!

06/07/2026

There’s a particular kind of room that forms when strangers show up on a Sunday to learn something together.

This week it was 320 million years of survival with Vani Sri Damodaran from the Madras Crocodile Bank — a full house, notebooks out, and a VR headset that put everyone up close with snakes and crocodiles. But honestly, the talk is only half of it. The other half is the people who stay after, pint in hand, still arguing about what they just heard.

That’s what Pint of View is. Not a lecture you sit through, a room you’re part of.

We do this every 1st and 3rd Sunday, at bars and cafés near you. Come find your people and your next favourite subject. The next one’s announcing this week — follow along so you’re in the room for it. 🍺🐊

We’ve feared them. We’ve worshipped them. We’ve turned them into monsters and myths.But what if reptiles are among Earth...
24/06/2026

We’ve feared them. We’ve worshipped them. We’ve turned them into monsters and myths.

But what if reptiles are among Earth’s greatest success stories?

Join Vani Sri Damodaran, Zoo Biologist and Educationist at the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, as she takes us on a journey through 320 million years of evolution, revealing how crocodiles, snakes, turtles, and lizards survived where countless others disappeared.

This isn’t just a talk about reptiles. It’s a story about survival, adaptation, and resilience. Discover how these ancient creatures weathered mass extinctions, adapted to a changing planet, and became some of nature’s most successful designs. Along the way, we’ll explore what reptiles can teach us about evolution, intelligence, coexistence, and humanity’s complicated relationship with the natural world.

Through fascinating science, surprising stories from the field, and insights from one of India’s leading reptile conservation organizations, you’ll never look at reptiles, or survival itself, the same way again.

And if you’re someone who finds reptiles fascinating from a safe distance, we’ve got you covered. After the talk, experience crocodiles in their natural habitat through an immersive VR experience brought by the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. Get closer than you ever could in real life, observe these ancient creatures in their world, and perhaps leave with a very different perspective than the one you arrived with.

Because perhaps the age of dragons never really ended.

🍺 What to Expect
* 60-minute lecture + interactive Q&A
* Immersive VR crocodile experience by the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust
* One pint of beer/mocktail with your ticket
* Post-lecture mixer

📍 Bhola & Blonde, KNK Road
🗓️ Sunday, 5th July 2026
🕓4 PM – 6 PM
🎟️ Limited seating

Book now & develop your own Pint of View 🍻

Ticket available on Kyn and 🔗 in our bio!

18/06/2026

Most of us listen to music.

Few of us know why it works.

Why does a raga feel familiar after just a few notes? Why do certain rhythms make us instinctively tap our feet? And what does a handcrafted veena have to do with mathematics, design, and innovation?

At the next Pint of View, we’re exploring the hidden geometry of music with artist, researcher, and innovator Baradwaj Ramanveena from IIT Madras.

Through live demonstrations, musical experiments, and stories from one of India’s most fascinating instruments, we’ll uncover the patterns that shape how we hear, feel, and understand music.

🎶 Live veena demonstrations
🎵 Interactive listening exercises
☕ Coffee, cookies & conversation
🧠 A room full of curious people

📍 Kreate by Kraft, Nandanam
🗓️ Sunday, 21 June
🕓 4 PM – 6 PM

Limited seats available.

Ticket link in bio!

Come for the music. Stay for the patterns hidden inside it!

On popular demand, we are back with another special session for The Dopamine Diaries on Saturday 6th June 2:00-4:00 pm!W...
01/06/2026

On popular demand, we are back with another special session for The Dopamine Diaries on Saturday 6th June 2:00-4:00 pm!

We’re back with another deep-dive lecture, and this time, we’re stepping inside the storytelling brain itself.

The speaker, our very own Dr. Sumyuktha Anand, an Ivy League–trained neuroscientist, science communicator, and Curriculum Specialist at JoVE. With research spanning addiction, reward systems, neurodevelopment, and neuro-oncology, her talks blend neuroscience, internet culture, psychology, and deeply human storytelling.

🧠 What if “Main Character Syndrome” isn’t just an internet joke, but a consequence of how the human brain evolved?

Why does being perceived online feel so emotionally intense?
Why do we romanticize our lives like films?
And why does modern life increasingly feel like a performance for invisible audiences?

In this immersive session, Dr. Anand explores the neuroscience of identity, attention, and selfhood in the age of algorithms, from dopamine reward systems and social validation circuitry to parasocial attachment, emotional salience, and narrative identity.

But this won’t just be a lecture.

Through live audience experiments and interactive neuroscience experiences, you’ll feel how the brain changes when it believes it’s being watched.

Part neuroscience lecture, part cultural deep dive, part collective self-reflection, this is a session that will leave you questioning whether you’re living your life…or editing it for an audience.

🍺 What to Expect
• 60-minute lecture + interactive Q&A
• Live audience experiments & immersive experiences
• One pint of beer/mocktail with your ticket
• Post-lecture mixer

📍 Bhola & Blonde, KNK Road
🗓️ Saturday, 6 June 2026
🕓2 PM – 4 PM
🎟️ Limited seating

Book now & develop your own Pint of View 🍻

Ticket available on Kyn and 🔗 in our bio!

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