Curating the Curator: The 7th Edition of the Experimenter Curators’ Hub

Bengalis have a fiercely guarded tradition known as the adda. The exact meaning varies depending on whom you talk to, but it is largely accepted to be a freestyle intellectual conversation. Kolkata is the epicenter of the adda. It is a storied city known for being a hotbed of intellectuals of all stripes, home to a constellation of universities, coffee houses, tea stalls and sports clubs—all breeding grounds for the impromptu, free-flowing and, yes, contagious adda. Kolkata’s singular claim to this manner of debate—at times political, occasionally fiery, potentially prickly, endlessly engaging—is upheld by the title of locally revered book The Argumentative Indian (2005), by resident Nobel Prize luminary Amartya Sen.

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