About the Lecture
Life did not emerge with intention, morality, or design. It emerged through conflict.
This lecture explores the oldest struggle on Earth- the relentless competition to persist. Drawing on evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, the session traces how life evolves not toward perfection, but through compromise, accident, and unfinished forms.
From algae to arseholes, the lecture offers a brisk and unsparing history of living beings as provisional solutions to survival problems. It examines how sex, death, desire, and identity emerge not as grand meanings, but as evolutionary by-products, useful, expendable, and often brutal.
Along the way, the session asks unsettling questions like, what it means to realise that you were never meant to exist, and why that realisation can be strangely liberating
⋆｡°✩ Flow of the Afternoon
✭ 2:00 PM - Doors open! Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
✭ 2:00 – 2:30 PM - Place your orders, and start a few conversations (we typically close food orders at the lecture start time)
✭ 2:30 PM - The learning begins
✭ 3:15 PM - An open Q&A + discussion with the speaker and the room.
✭ 3:30 PM onwards there's time for networking + more conversations
PS: Your ticket includes a 250/- coupon redeemable on F&B at the venue!
About the Speaker
Ambarish Satwik is a Delhi-based vascular and endovascular surgeon, Director of the Vascular Cath Lab at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, and Professor of Vascular Surgery at GRIPMER.
He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Perineum: Nether Parts of the Empire (2007), a subversive and deviant sexual history of the British Raj. His columns, essays, and opinion pieces have appeared across publications including India Today, The Times of India, Outlook, Open, Tehelka, Time Out, and Hindu Business Line.
About unLecture
unLecture brings experts out of classrooms and into cafés, bars and neighbourhood spaces across Delhi. Created by three friends from St. Stephen’s, Delhi who wanted learning to feel warm, social and alive. unLecture turns an otherwise ordinary evening into a conversation you may think about long after it ends.
Address : Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters | Panchsheel Park, Basement, Ground floor and First floor Building no. 12, Panchsheel Community Centre, Shahpur Jat, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi, Delhi 110017, India