Kahaaniya - Living amidst a mental illness
Sun, 11 Oct
|Agatsu Foundation
Kahaaniya is a one-to-one lived-experience sharing event inspired by the Human Library. A Panna shares one 10–12 minute chapter of their experience with one listener at a time. The listener only listens—there are no questions, discussion, advice or recording.
Time & Location
11 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Agatsu Foundation, 51, Pali Village, Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050, India
Guests
About the event
Since this edition of Kahaaniya is part of Agatsu’s programming for World Mental Health Day, the theme for this edition is ‘Living amidst a mental illness’, aligning with the international theme for the year 2026 "Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change".
Kahaaniya creates space for these stories to be shared, one person at a time.
Inspired by the Human Library model, Kahaaniya invites people to be a Panna. Each Panna shares a 10–12 minute lived experience with individual listeners. These are one-on-one sharings, without interruption. Just listening, witnessing.
To make the experience thoughtful and unhurried, each listener (you) receives a set of 3 tokens on arrival. Each token allows you to “borrow” a Panna for a 10–12 minute story.
After each sharing, there is a short pause before the next rotation begins. Over the course of the evening, listeners can move between 3 different Panne.