A Bar, A Lecture, And The Return Of Shared Curiosity — India’s Nightlife Is Turning Brainy

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On a recent Sunday evening, the barstools at a Bandra pub weren’t packed with people debating IND vs SA, Nifty's rally, or breakups. Instead, a neuroscientist was on the mic explaining why our brains love chaos, while twenty and thirty-somethings sipped beer, took notes, and, brace yourself, asked follow-up questions. No, this wasn’t a one-off fever dream after too many cocktails. It was what Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman believed humans are wired to do, 'find things out, just for the pleasure of it.'

It’s part of a fast-growing trend: lectures in bars, a movement that has quietly swep