Join Us for an Intellectual Experience!

Date: 11th Oct 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: The British Brewing Company, Lower Parel ( Inside mathuradas mill compund)

Cost cover food and drinks.

About the lecture

We tend to think of history as something enormous — wars, revolutions, empires rising and falling.

But history does not always announce itself.

Sometimes, it turns quietly: in a small town no one remembers, across a diplomatic table, or in the few seconds between a gun being drawn and a bullet being fired.

How did an obscure town in India become connected to the end of a world war? How did India and China arrive at five decades of peace — and what made that possible? And how did the assassination of a royal heir in a distant European city set in motion a chain of events that would engulf the world?

When the World Turns on a Single Moment explores these hidden turning points — moments that seemed insignificant when they happened, yet altered the course of nations, relationships and, ultimately, history itself.

A journey into the accidents, decisions and extraordinary individuals behind the moments when the world changed direction.

Because history is not only made by the events we remember.

Sometimes, it is made by the moments we almost forgot.

About the speaker

Probal DasGupta is an author, ideator and institution builder whose work spans military history, geopolitics, business and the world of ideas. A former army officer with 11 Gorkha Rifles with a master's from Columbia University, he has moved across the worlds of defence, global consulting, entrepreneurship and literature.

He is the author of General Brasstacks: The Sundarji Story, Watershed 1967 and Camouflaged—books that uncover forgotten battles, influential personalities and turning points in India’s strategic history. As an ideator, he is drawn to the larger questions behind events: how individuals, ideas and seemingly small episodes can alter the course of history. 

He is the founder of Birdstone Advisors, a strategic risk advisory firm, and the founder of the Max City VoW Literature Festival, creating platforms where literature, history, geopolitics and public ideas intersect. He is also a columnist with FirstPost and a visiting faculty at Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP). He is a speaker at corporate events and major literature festivals such Jaipur Literature Festival. Through his writing, conversations and institutions, DasGupta seeks to make complex ideas accessible, provocative and relevant to contemporary India.