Lamakaan

In this farce about politics in marriage, a man persuades his suicidal wife that an open marriage is politically correct and embarks on dalliances with younger women, to her dismay and fury. After deciding to be on her own, the tables are turned when she confesses to a new man, Nobel prize nominated professor and inspired singer-songwriter; it is the husband who becomes suicidal.

The Open Couple is a play by Dario Fo is a romantic play which was written with his wife Franca Rame.

In this farce about politics in marriage, a man persuades his suicidal wife that an open marriage is politically correct and embarks on dalliances with younger women, to her dismay and fury. After deciding to be on her own, the tables are turned when she confesses to a new man, Nobel prize nominated professor and inspired singer-songwriter; it is the husband who becomes suicidal.
The Open Couple is a play by Dario Fo is a romantic play which was written with his wife Franca Rame.

An evening of ghazals - some own and some known ghazals to make a summer evening pleasant.

Swar Ninad is presenting a talented artist in Hindustani Classical, Ghazal, Geet and Bhajan, Sanjeev Bhatnagar. A disciple of Pt D V Jadhav, an exponent of Jaipur Gharana, Sanjeev is known for adding emotions to his music.

Sanjeev is a B-high grade artist of All India Radio, Mumbai, since 1985.

Karnad’s Nagamandala has perhaps always been a play ahead of its time, dealing with the complex theme of female sexuality in the language of modern theatre characteristic of the 80s decade. Today, in the wake of raging debates on rape, desire, sexuality and morality, the text appears strikingly relevant.

The plot of Play With A Cobra traces the journey of a young girl called Rani from naivety to eventual womanhood in a traumatic marriage, while toiling upon the complex theme of desire. Drawing on the experiences of exclusion, confinement and the inferno of desire that abets transgression, the text revolves around the events of Rani’s mistreatment by her husband, her finding camaraderie in an old widow, to eventual fulfilment of her desires in dubious circumstances. But in fulfilment lies the germ of an impending turmoil - that of moral questioning and judgement.

This adaptation of Nagamandala takes liberties with the original script in two ways. First, it presents the inherent ambiguity of the plot in blatant words to an urban audience. Second, it attempts to shift the focus from the written text to a performative language that relies more on the use of space, lights, and visuals. Play With a Cobra hopes to be not a stage play, but an experience.

Karnad’s Nagamandala has perhaps always been a play ahead of its time, dealing with the complex theme of female sexuality in the language of modern theatre characteristic of the 80s decade. Today, in the wake of raging debates on rape, desire, sexuality and morality, the text appears strikingly relevant.

The plot of Play With A Cobra traces the journey of a young girl called Rani from naivety to eventual womanhood in a traumatic marriage, while toiling upon the complex theme of desire. Drawing on the experiences of exclusion, confinement and the inferno of desire that abets transgression, the text revolves around the events of Rani’s mistreatment by her husband, her finding camaraderie in an old widow, to eventual fulfilment of her desires in dubious circumstances. But in fulfilment lies the germ of an impending turmoil - that of moral questioning and judgement.

This adaptation of Nagamandala takes liberties with the original script in two ways. First, it presents the inherent ambiguity of the plot in blatant words to an urban audience. Second, it attempts to shift the focus from the written text to a performative language that relies more on the use of space, lights, and visuals. Play With a Cobra hopes to be not a stage play, but an experience.

Open Show is back to our spiritual home of Lamakaan for Volume 10.


Open Show is a free monthly event that provides photographers, filmmakers and multimedia producers the chance to present their work in high-profile spaces.


OPEN SHOW FORMAT
Five curated presenters have 15 minutes each to introduce one project. Both ongoing and completed work is accepted. We welcome diverse topics ranging from documentary to fine art.

FREE event and submissions FREE as well.

http://openshow.org/submissions/

Hyderabad Institute of Liberal Arts is organizing a public debate on the state of school education in the Old City region of Hyderabad.
HILA is launching a 20-week long part time liberal arts education programme from this July 1st where students will be exposed to a variety of disciplines of learning including science, maths, literature, economics and geography. The programme is open to anyone with a highschool certificate and aims to enrich the students overall life skills.

In the debate, we have six individuals who have been involved in educational activities in the Old City to share their perspectives with the audience. These are Ayesha Rubina, nominated corporator of GHMC; Mohd. Azam Khan, businessman and educationist; Shama Parveen, deputy director at Princess Esin Educational Society; Sana Hussain, principal, Princess Esin junior college; Lakshmi Sankranti, teacher trainer; and Sangeeta Kamat, researcher from University of Massachusettes. We are also inviting journalists from different media organizations who specialize in reporting on education and on the Old City, he added.
The panel discussion will focus on the state of school infrastructure, facilities for instruction in Urdu and Telugu, the efficacy of vocational training schemes. Even as Hyderabad city itself has become more tightly integrated with the global economy. While this integration goes on rapidly, parents of children of all classes are faced with tough choices in selecting and keeping their children in schools. A large number of private schools have also emerged in the Old City even as government school system has not been doing well. In a city that has a long tradition of public education system, these are matters of concern not just for residents of the Old City but for everyone who believes in a just urban society.
Open for all and ENTRY is FREE.

Fancy getting round a table with like minded photo-book lovers to leaf through a bunch of great books? Want to start on your stories, have started but need some help?

We are organizing an informal gathering of friends and fellow photographers, sharing and talking about their favorite books related to photography. Our idea is to promote and enable discussion around photography through the various printed books. In a time when photo books are in scarce supply or command very high prices, it becomes difficult for the working person to allocate the resources to find books and/or purchase them.

We also hope to find photographer's books which are not currently in vogue, or books that look at photography from an outside point of view, situating in the greater galaxy of art forms.

What you need to do: Bring and Share books of yours that would be of interest to photographers.

We would appreciate it if you could bring at least one book. If you don;t have even one then time to buy one!! Seriously just come and participate even if you don;t have any in your library.

Story Sunday

The pre-lunch session will be a documentary photography bootcamp, open to anyone with an interest in visual storytelling. Photographers wanting to start working on their first stories or those who have taken the first step will benefit the most from this session. We will talk about finding stories, doing the research, getting on ground, earning trust, finding direction and editing. A day we hope will be a precursor to many more interesting events in Hyderabad. This is in collaboration with friends at Galli Magazine.

19th Listening Post:
The Voice in Western and Indian Classical Music

Vocal traditions and stylistic use of the voice differs from region to region. Here we will explore the use of the voice as an instrument in Hindustani as well as Western classical music, and contrast these two styles with each other.
Some topics we will explore will be hearing gender, the voice as an agent of information, the use of text in significant ways and so forth.
This fortnight's Classical Listening Post presents explores some critical differences in the use of the voice in the musical genres we are closest to as Indians, and helps us see some of our historical identity through the medium of vocal music!

Presented by Tejaswinee Kelkar, who is at present doing her MS at IIIT in Hyderabad. She has studied Western Classical as well as Hindustani Classical music and is locally part of the choir group the Deccan Voices

Bible preaches us: world was created in just 6 days.

Hindu texts: The creator god Brahma emerged from the egg and created the world, while in yet another tradition the Brahma himself is the Hiranyagarbha. Then there is the Vishwakarma story. All many stories in one 'faith'!

Then we have Noah; who took one pair of each species in his arc and we have multiples of many lives now!

What rational to believe?

Hyderabad Institute of Liberal Arts (HILA) presents David Attenborough's "Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life" a 2009 BBC television documentary about Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution through natural selection, produced by the BBC to mark the bicentenary of Darwin's birth. It is part of the BBC Darwin Season. The presenter, David Attenborough, outlines the development of the theory by Darwin through his observations of animals and plants in nature and in the domesticated state, visiting sites important in Darwin's own life, including Down House, Cambridge University and the Natural History Museum, and using archive footage from Attenborough's many nature documentaries for the BBC. He reviews the development of the theory since its beginnings, and its revolutionary impact on the way in which humans view themselves - not as having dominion over the animals as The Bible says, but as part of the natural world and subject to the same controlling forces that govern all life on Earth.

Lets not get stuffed anymore! Lets learn more!! Come and watch this film for Free!!!

Fouzia Amjad a retired professor of Sociology has self published and written a book on Sociology title "Principals of Sociology and Social problems"
This is written in Urdu and is aimed at students studying in Urdu medium.
This book is written both for general reading and students.
It aims to create awareness among people on social problems by throwing light on it in various chapters.

The floor will be open for various points of view and debate.

Open to all. Entry Free.

The writing was on the wall - or shall we say - on the Dams.

Lamakaan and NAPM host a panel discusson on what happened in Uttarakhand.

When CAG rang a bell an year ago, who did not hear it? When Governor of the state tried to alert the laxity in the execution, who muzzled him?
Our state has suffered more human loss than many states. AP not only tops in the the highest number of pilgrims inflow but also the highest number of contractors and engineers who relentlessly grind those hills down.

The experts will share with us where has it all began to go wrong? They will throw light on 'dam'ning revelations and our utter disregard for the nature and environment.

The panelists include Dr. Channa Basavaiah, Dr. BabuRao, Saraswati Kavula and many environment activists.

Open for all and Entry is Free.

An Tribute to Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, the writer part of Bapu-Ramana duo. An audio visual presentation together with an open discussion will be done. Participated by his friends Mr. Sri Ramana, popular author, Mr. BNIM, artist, and Sri Ramulu, Vara Mullapudi, Mullapudi Ramana's son and film director will be present on the occasion.

Open to All and Entry is Free.

HWMF invites to "Theory Workshop for everyone"
come, learn, compose and enjoy! Music is not just an art but a language. Through this workshop you’ll be able to develop the skills to be able to read this universal language. Not only will you be able to read music but this workshop will provide you with the idea of composing simple music using basic music theory for any instrument of your choice. So come over to experience the foundation of music. Resource Person: Mikhail Fernandez, who is doing his BA Music in US. Course Duration: 6 Saturdays from 3-4.30. Start: 29.6.2013 Fee Rs. 1700, incl. material. More info on www.hydmusic.com

From the Arabian Nights' tale,This play is a hilarious take on Aladdin.The play has a very high contect of comedy,slapstick and music.The story is about Aladdin,an impoverished lad who meets an evil sorcerer,Jaafar,disguised as Aladdin's uncle.
The Sorcerer persuades Aladdin to retrieve a wonderful lamp from a magic cave.Aladdin finds himself trapped in the cave,and with the aid of the Genie of the lamp,Aladdin is able to get treasures for his family and marries the Sultan's daughter.
wait...!! thats not the end,
the evil sorcerer has other plans.He wants his lamp back....
Now lets see how all this goes about in the Isspecial Hyderabadi Version of the Arabian Night's tale with an extra dose of the fun all the more!!!

Any park.

In...just about anywhere.

With three regular benches. And three men...just any men...squabble about the choicest of seats.

Because each one's claim is the greatest, and the most fundamental.
And in.....just about anywhere, there is never enough room for everyone.

Join "Love Stories #1 to 14" author Annie Zaidi in conversation with Dr Fatima Shahnaz at Lamakaan.

Annie Zaidi is the author of ‘Love Stories # 1 to 14’, and the co-author of ‘The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl’.

Her first collection of essays, ‘Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales’ was shortlisted for the Crossword (non-fiction) book prize.
She also writes scripts and her plays ‘Jaal’ and ‘So Many Socks’ opened in Mumbai, 2012.

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz is the Artistic Director of The Globe Repertory Company( New York ). She has directed and produced not only Shakespeare but "Murder in the Cathedral" - T.S. Eliot; "Enemy of the People" - Henrik Ibsen; "The Flies" -Jean Paul Sartre, as well as Shaw, Mannesse, Elie Wiesel and others.

Reviews of Love Stories # 1 - 14

"Neither indulgent nor critical, Zaidi offers, if not liberation, at least the comfort of sharing a fraught human emotion." - Time Out.
"This book's tone is consistently hushed, reflective, shorn of hysteria — even in a description of two people arguing, with a lifetime of companionship on the line — but beneath its still surfaces there is much emotional turbulence." - Jai Arjun Singh in the Sunday Guardian.

Please participate in the open discussion and interact with the author.
Entry is Free.

The Short Film mostly concentrated on Education and its Importance. Especially in Telangana Region, rural area people not interested to encourage their children for higher education, due to the poverty problem. In this context we planned to educate those people. This short Film shows the reality of the rural people attitude about the education importance. A poor Labor son gets more marks, than the land lord's daughter. But the labor not interested to continue the studies of his son. But when he heard the land lord daughter's marks, he will realize. His Son got more than the Land Lard Daughter' marks. Than he accepts to continue his son's further studies.

Screening is followed by "Value of education for our hinterlands".

All are welcome.

This is an event to promote Startup Leadership Program (SLP) within the entrepreneur fraternity in the city. SLP is a non-profit organization that's meant to help the future CEOs understand the various building blocks of setting up a startup. It goes beyond the learning, this platform enables the participants network and get mentors, investors, industry experts, co-founders to name a few. Again its a life time network that they build. So far SLP fellows have founded 700 companies that have raised $370 million.

Puppetry Workshop for kids between 6 to 10 yrs by Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational puppetry, Art & Carft (STEPARC) a non-voluntary organisation.

STEPARC has already done a show in Lamakan which was well received and parents and children showed keen interest to learn the art of puppetry. Both Making and Performance.

This is one such workshops to teach the children the art of effective story telling using the means of puppetry.

Contact 9866081172 (Padmini Rangarajan) for registration. Fee:500/- incl. Material to be given to each student.

sphoorthitheatre@gmail.com

Samahaara Workshop Production

"Silence Please"
A comedy in Telugu.

A scientist and homeowner goes temporarily blind after an experiment goes wrong. A theif enters the house but somehow, due to mistaken identity, remains as though he is a part of the household. The wife, the maid and a friend all contribute to the scientist's troubles and the thief's sketch.

Come watch the ensuing chaos and hilarity that unfold in this Telugu comedy.


Written by Sankaramanchi Parthasaradhi
Directed by Nagaraju Pejjai

A musical evening where you get to hear folk music from different parts of India. Watch Neelkanth, Sudipto, Harinarayan and Akhil perform folk songs in various Indian languages like Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati etc. Experience the magic of traditional instruments like Ektara, Dotara and Sri Khol etc.

Entry Ticket Charges: Rs.100

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

In this farce about politics in marriage, a man persuades his suicidal wife that an open marriage is politically correct and embarks on dalliances with younger women, to her dismay and fury. After deciding to be on her own, the tables are turned when she confesses to a new man, Nobel prize nominated professor and inspired singer-songwriter; it is the husband who becomes suicidal.

The Open Couple is a play by Dario Fo is a romantic play which was written with his wife Franca Rame.

In this farce about politics in marriage, a man persuades his suicidal wife that an open marriage is politically correct and embarks on dalliances with younger women, to her dismay and fury. After deciding to be on her own, the tables are turned when she confesses to a new man, Nobel prize nominated professor and inspired singer-songwriter; it is the husband who becomes suicidal.
The Open Couple is a play by Dario Fo is a romantic play which was written with his wife Franca Rame.

An evening of ghazals - some own and some known ghazals to make a summer evening pleasant.

Swar Ninad is presenting a talented artist in Hindustani Classical, Ghazal, Geet and Bhajan, Sanjeev Bhatnagar. A disciple of Pt D V Jadhav, an exponent of Jaipur Gharana, Sanjeev is known for adding emotions to his music.

Sanjeev is a B-high grade artist of All India Radio, Mumbai, since 1985.

Karnad’s Nagamandala has perhaps always been a play ahead of its time, dealing with the complex theme of female sexuality in the language of modern theatre characteristic of the 80s decade. Today, in the wake of raging debates on rape, desire, sexuality and morality, the text appears strikingly relevant.

The plot of Play With A Cobra traces the journey of a young girl called Rani from naivety to eventual womanhood in a traumatic marriage, while toiling upon the complex theme of desire. Drawing on the experiences of exclusion, confinement and the inferno of desire that abets transgression, the text revolves around the events of Rani’s mistreatment by her husband, her finding camaraderie in an old widow, to eventual fulfilment of her desires in dubious circumstances. But in fulfilment lies the germ of an impending turmoil - that of moral questioning and judgement.

This adaptation of Nagamandala takes liberties with the original script in two ways. First, it presents the inherent ambiguity of the plot in blatant words to an urban audience. Second, it attempts to shift the focus from the written text to a performative language that relies more on the use of space, lights, and visuals. Play With a Cobra hopes to be not a stage play, but an experience.

Karnad’s Nagamandala has perhaps always been a play ahead of its time, dealing with the complex theme of female sexuality in the language of modern theatre characteristic of the 80s decade. Today, in the wake of raging debates on rape, desire, sexuality and morality, the text appears strikingly relevant.

The plot of Play With A Cobra traces the journey of a young girl called Rani from naivety to eventual womanhood in a traumatic marriage, while toiling upon the complex theme of desire. Drawing on the experiences of exclusion, confinement and the inferno of desire that abets transgression, the text revolves around the events of Rani’s mistreatment by her husband, her finding camaraderie in an old widow, to eventual fulfilment of her desires in dubious circumstances. But in fulfilment lies the germ of an impending turmoil - that of moral questioning and judgement.

This adaptation of Nagamandala takes liberties with the original script in two ways. First, it presents the inherent ambiguity of the plot in blatant words to an urban audience. Second, it attempts to shift the focus from the written text to a performative language that relies more on the use of space, lights, and visuals. Play With a Cobra hopes to be not a stage play, but an experience.

Open Show is back to our spiritual home of Lamakaan for Volume 10.


Open Show is a free monthly event that provides photographers, filmmakers and multimedia producers the chance to present their work in high-profile spaces.


OPEN SHOW FORMAT
Five curated presenters have 15 minutes each to introduce one project. Both ongoing and completed work is accepted. We welcome diverse topics ranging from documentary to fine art.

FREE event and submissions FREE as well.

http://openshow.org/submissions/

Hyderabad Institute of Liberal Arts is organizing a public debate on the state of school education in the Old City region of Hyderabad.
HILA is launching a 20-week long part time liberal arts education programme from this July 1st where students will be exposed to a variety of disciplines of learning including science, maths, literature, economics and geography. The programme is open to anyone with a highschool certificate and aims to enrich the students overall life skills.

In the debate, we have six individuals who have been involved in educational activities in the Old City to share their perspectives with the audience. These are Ayesha Rubina, nominated corporator of GHMC; Mohd. Azam Khan, businessman and educationist; Shama Parveen, deputy director at Princess Esin Educational Society; Sana Hussain, principal, Princess Esin junior college; Lakshmi Sankranti, teacher trainer; and Sangeeta Kamat, researcher from University of Massachusettes. We are also inviting journalists from different media organizations who specialize in reporting on education and on the Old City, he added.
The panel discussion will focus on the state of school infrastructure, facilities for instruction in Urdu and Telugu, the efficacy of vocational training schemes. Even as Hyderabad city itself has become more tightly integrated with the global economy. While this integration goes on rapidly, parents of children of all classes are faced with tough choices in selecting and keeping their children in schools. A large number of private schools have also emerged in the Old City even as government school system has not been doing well. In a city that has a long tradition of public education system, these are matters of concern not just for residents of the Old City but for everyone who believes in a just urban society.
Open for all and ENTRY is FREE.

Fancy getting round a table with like minded photo-book lovers to leaf through a bunch of great books? Want to start on your stories, have started but need some help?

We are organizing an informal gathering of friends and fellow photographers, sharing and talking about their favorite books related to photography. Our idea is to promote and enable discussion around photography through the various printed books. In a time when photo books are in scarce supply or command very high prices, it becomes difficult for the working person to allocate the resources to find books and/or purchase them.

We also hope to find photographer's books which are not currently in vogue, or books that look at photography from an outside point of view, situating in the greater galaxy of art forms.

What you need to do: Bring and Share books of yours that would be of interest to photographers.

We would appreciate it if you could bring at least one book. If you don;t have even one then time to buy one!! Seriously just come and participate even if you don;t have any in your library.

Story Sunday

The pre-lunch session will be a documentary photography bootcamp, open to anyone with an interest in visual storytelling. Photographers wanting to start working on their first stories or those who have taken the first step will benefit the most from this session. We will talk about finding stories, doing the research, getting on ground, earning trust, finding direction and editing. A day we hope will be a precursor to many more interesting events in Hyderabad. This is in collaboration with friends at Galli Magazine.

19th Listening Post:
The Voice in Western and Indian Classical Music

Vocal traditions and stylistic use of the voice differs from region to region. Here we will explore the use of the voice as an instrument in Hindustani as well as Western classical music, and contrast these two styles with each other.
Some topics we will explore will be hearing gender, the voice as an agent of information, the use of text in significant ways and so forth.
This fortnight's Classical Listening Post presents explores some critical differences in the use of the voice in the musical genres we are closest to as Indians, and helps us see some of our historical identity through the medium of vocal music!

Presented by Tejaswinee Kelkar, who is at present doing her MS at IIIT in Hyderabad. She has studied Western Classical as well as Hindustani Classical music and is locally part of the choir group the Deccan Voices

Bible preaches us: world was created in just 6 days.

Hindu texts: The creator god Brahma emerged from the egg and created the world, while in yet another tradition the Brahma himself is the Hiranyagarbha. Then there is the Vishwakarma story. All many stories in one 'faith'!

Then we have Noah; who took one pair of each species in his arc and we have multiples of many lives now!

What rational to believe?

Hyderabad Institute of Liberal Arts (HILA) presents David Attenborough's "Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life" a 2009 BBC television documentary about Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution through natural selection, produced by the BBC to mark the bicentenary of Darwin's birth. It is part of the BBC Darwin Season. The presenter, David Attenborough, outlines the development of the theory by Darwin through his observations of animals and plants in nature and in the domesticated state, visiting sites important in Darwin's own life, including Down House, Cambridge University and the Natural History Museum, and using archive footage from Attenborough's many nature documentaries for the BBC. He reviews the development of the theory since its beginnings, and its revolutionary impact on the way in which humans view themselves - not as having dominion over the animals as The Bible says, but as part of the natural world and subject to the same controlling forces that govern all life on Earth.

Lets not get stuffed anymore! Lets learn more!! Come and watch this film for Free!!!

Fouzia Amjad a retired professor of Sociology has self published and written a book on Sociology title "Principals of Sociology and Social problems"
This is written in Urdu and is aimed at students studying in Urdu medium.
This book is written both for general reading and students.
It aims to create awareness among people on social problems by throwing light on it in various chapters.

The floor will be open for various points of view and debate.

Open to all. Entry Free.

The writing was on the wall - or shall we say - on the Dams.

Lamakaan and NAPM host a panel discusson on what happened in Uttarakhand.

When CAG rang a bell an year ago, who did not hear it? When Governor of the state tried to alert the laxity in the execution, who muzzled him?
Our state has suffered more human loss than many states. AP not only tops in the the highest number of pilgrims inflow but also the highest number of contractors and engineers who relentlessly grind those hills down.

The experts will share with us where has it all began to go wrong? They will throw light on 'dam'ning revelations and our utter disregard for the nature and environment.

The panelists include Dr. Channa Basavaiah, Dr. BabuRao, Saraswati Kavula and many environment activists.

Open for all and Entry is Free.

An Tribute to Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, the writer part of Bapu-Ramana duo. An audio visual presentation together with an open discussion will be done. Participated by his friends Mr. Sri Ramana, popular author, Mr. BNIM, artist, and Sri Ramulu, Vara Mullapudi, Mullapudi Ramana's son and film director will be present on the occasion.

Open to All and Entry is Free.

HWMF invites to "Theory Workshop for everyone"
come, learn, compose and enjoy! Music is not just an art but a language. Through this workshop you’ll be able to develop the skills to be able to read this universal language. Not only will you be able to read music but this workshop will provide you with the idea of composing simple music using basic music theory for any instrument of your choice. So come over to experience the foundation of music. Resource Person: Mikhail Fernandez, who is doing his BA Music in US. Course Duration: 6 Saturdays from 3-4.30. Start: 29.6.2013 Fee Rs. 1700, incl. material. More info on www.hydmusic.com

From the Arabian Nights' tale,This play is a hilarious take on Aladdin.The play has a very high contect of comedy,slapstick and music.The story is about Aladdin,an impoverished lad who meets an evil sorcerer,Jaafar,disguised as Aladdin's uncle.
The Sorcerer persuades Aladdin to retrieve a wonderful lamp from a magic cave.Aladdin finds himself trapped in the cave,and with the aid of the Genie of the lamp,Aladdin is able to get treasures for his family and marries the Sultan's daughter.
wait...!! thats not the end,
the evil sorcerer has other plans.He wants his lamp back....
Now lets see how all this goes about in the Isspecial Hyderabadi Version of the Arabian Night's tale with an extra dose of the fun all the more!!!

Any park.

In...just about anywhere.

With three regular benches. And three men...just any men...squabble about the choicest of seats.

Because each one's claim is the greatest, and the most fundamental.
And in.....just about anywhere, there is never enough room for everyone.

Join "Love Stories #1 to 14" author Annie Zaidi in conversation with Dr Fatima Shahnaz at Lamakaan.

Annie Zaidi is the author of ‘Love Stories # 1 to 14’, and the co-author of ‘The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl’.

Her first collection of essays, ‘Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales’ was shortlisted for the Crossword (non-fiction) book prize.
She also writes scripts and her plays ‘Jaal’ and ‘So Many Socks’ opened in Mumbai, 2012.

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz is the Artistic Director of The Globe Repertory Company( New York ). She has directed and produced not only Shakespeare but "Murder in the Cathedral" - T.S. Eliot; "Enemy of the People" - Henrik Ibsen; "The Flies" -Jean Paul Sartre, as well as Shaw, Mannesse, Elie Wiesel and others.

Reviews of Love Stories # 1 - 14

"Neither indulgent nor critical, Zaidi offers, if not liberation, at least the comfort of sharing a fraught human emotion." - Time Out.
"This book's tone is consistently hushed, reflective, shorn of hysteria — even in a description of two people arguing, with a lifetime of companionship on the line — but beneath its still surfaces there is much emotional turbulence." - Jai Arjun Singh in the Sunday Guardian.

Please participate in the open discussion and interact with the author.
Entry is Free.

The Short Film mostly concentrated on Education and its Importance. Especially in Telangana Region, rural area people not interested to encourage their children for higher education, due to the poverty problem. In this context we planned to educate those people. This short Film shows the reality of the rural people attitude about the education importance. A poor Labor son gets more marks, than the land lord's daughter. But the labor not interested to continue the studies of his son. But when he heard the land lord daughter's marks, he will realize. His Son got more than the Land Lard Daughter' marks. Than he accepts to continue his son's further studies.

Screening is followed by "Value of education for our hinterlands".

All are welcome.

This is an event to promote Startup Leadership Program (SLP) within the entrepreneur fraternity in the city. SLP is a non-profit organization that's meant to help the future CEOs understand the various building blocks of setting up a startup. It goes beyond the learning, this platform enables the participants network and get mentors, investors, industry experts, co-founders to name a few. Again its a life time network that they build. So far SLP fellows have founded 700 companies that have raised $370 million.

Puppetry Workshop for kids between 6 to 10 yrs by Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational puppetry, Art & Carft (STEPARC) a non-voluntary organisation.

STEPARC has already done a show in Lamakan which was well received and parents and children showed keen interest to learn the art of puppetry. Both Making and Performance.

This is one such workshops to teach the children the art of effective story telling using the means of puppetry.

Contact 9866081172 (Padmini Rangarajan) for registration. Fee:500/- incl. Material to be given to each student.

sphoorthitheatre@gmail.com

Samahaara Workshop Production

"Silence Please"
A comedy in Telugu.

A scientist and homeowner goes temporarily blind after an experiment goes wrong. A theif enters the house but somehow, due to mistaken identity, remains as though he is a part of the household. The wife, the maid and a friend all contribute to the scientist's troubles and the thief's sketch.

Come watch the ensuing chaos and hilarity that unfold in this Telugu comedy.


Written by Sankaramanchi Parthasaradhi
Directed by Nagaraju Pejjai

A musical evening where you get to hear folk music from different parts of India. Watch Neelkanth, Sudipto, Harinarayan and Akhil perform folk songs in various Indian languages like Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati etc. Experience the magic of traditional instruments like Ektara, Dotara and Sri Khol etc.

Entry Ticket Charges: Rs.100