IHC Collegiate Theatre and Music Festival 2026. Bulauwa (Hindi & English/ 50 mins) by LSR Dramsoc, Lady Shri Ram College for Women. Dirs. Ami Kushwaha, Ekta Grover, Piha Wakhare & Sneha Kundu. Set in a sangeet (colloquially called a bulauwa) inside a bustling household, the play follows Chitrangada (Chitra), a 33-year-old woman in a marriage that appears perfectly ordinary. The

house is full. The bulauwa is in full swing. Women move between gossip and ritual, song and instruction. In the middle of this familiar chaos, Chitra steps aside to take a phone call. Her husband has died in a train crash. She does not announce it. She does not collapse. She withdraws in her private space. Inside that private chamber of shock, something unexpected begins to unfold. Grief loosens its grip, giving way to an unfamiliar sensation. An intoxicating awareness of space — of possibility, of a self that exists beyond “wife.” The noise of the house continues, but Chitra hears it differently. When she returns to the bulauwa, she dances. Not in mourning, but in release. The women around her read it as a celebration and join in. But how long can a woman inhabit a freedom that arrived by accident?

Followed by 4:48 Psychosis (English/ 50 mins) by The Ariels, Miranda House. Dir. Hana Jain. Victim. Perpetrator. Bystander. The suffering empath whose screams reach deaf ears, the chronicled saviour failing to save her, and the witness silently fanning the flames of sabotage. All facets of a woman dangling at the edge of suicide. 

The clock strikes 4:47, impending doom.

Welcome to the psychotic's mind – a landscape marred by grief, depression, medications, abuse,

confessions, longing, loathing, and at it’s core, rage.

Does she survive? Or does she break? Only 4:48 can tell.

An India Habitat Centre Presentation.

Tickets at Rs.200 available online on bookmyshow.com and at the Programmes desk, IHC.