The Friday List: From a lecture-demonstration on kalbeliya to an unrehearsed, spontaneous play, your weekly calendar of virtual events

Compiled by Aishwarya Sahasrabudhe Nearly a year ago, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic resulted in a nationwide lockdown and most of us shifted to the screen to get our everyday helping of media and entertainment. Every Friday, we’ll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar. — Talks and panel discussions An upcoming virtual session will unveil poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote’s latest collection of poems, Hunchprose, in the course of a conversation between him and the novelist and dancer Tishani Doshi. Brought about by AVID Learning, TATA Literature Live!, Kitab Khana and Penguin Random House India, the session The Power of the Poetic Word: New Directions in Poetry will explore questions around the range and power of the poetic word, the role of poetry in surviving chaos and its response to the challenges of the new normal. When: 12 March Where: Disney+Hotstar Coming up on Apple TV+ is the crime drama film, Cherry, which revolves around a retired Army medic from Ohio, suffering from PTSD, trying to adjust to civilian life.