Lamakaan

Come and discover:
Wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries
Homemade Breads and other baked goods;
Organic Lunch,
Handicrafts and Handlooms,
Handmade Jewelry,
Terrace Gardening Corner,
Creative Design Spaces.
Every Sunday 10:30am - 2:30pm
For details: 9642731329.

Kahaniwala Suhas tells stories related to Gautam Buddha. This session is Free and for all adults as well as for children too.
Suhas delivered lectures and had participated in the open mic session at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2015. He have started writing in Hindi one year back and have completed the poem collections in Hindi. The one SAFARNAMA.
Suhas is available on www.speakingtree.in as a blogger. facebook ID is Suhas Bhatnagar and also available on twitter.

Entry - Free.

The Screenwriting Lab is an ongoing series of weekend workshops with writers and film makers, where we discuss and practise the craft of writing for cinema. Each session shall focus on a distinct aspect of scriptwriting in detail, with specific techniques and examples, and involving practise exercises followed by sharing/feedback.

Facebook Link : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Independent-Cinema-Space/975784255785435?fref=ts

A open discussion on gender identity. This discussion is geared towards individual development of identity and the process of gender identity discovery, to clarify misconception people have about physical attributes. This discussion is based on scientific theory- nature versus nurture.

Entry - Free

Is Kambakht Sathe Ka Kya Karen is an adaptation of the Marathi play, Sathecha Kay Karaycha, penned by the noted playwright Rajiv Naik and translated into Hindi by Jyoti Subhash.

The story focuses on the tender relationship between a husband and a wife. It tells us about the happily married life of a couple - Abhay, an ad filmmaker and Salma, a lecturer in college. Each of them face different tribulations in their professional lives, but Abhay takes his troubles far too seriously. He is of the opinion that his colleague Sathe does not deserve the recognition he gets. On the other hand, Salma loves her work and does not care about quick promotion and success. She believes that everything should be done with a pure heart. At a peak point, Salma deals with the situation and handles Abhay's frustration. At the end of the play, both build a strong trust in the relationship and create a companionship that surpasses understanding. The twists and turns and the tribulations the couple faces in balancing their married and professional lives form the rest of the story. This play tries to depict that a positive attitude can make things better.

Cast & Crew
Abhay – Saurabh Gharipurikar
Salma – Richa Jain
Lights – Krishna Shukl
Music – Ashish Megh
Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar

Date – 2nd August 2015 (Sunday) & repeat show on 9th August 2015 (Sunday)
Time – 08:00pm
Venue – Lamakaan, Opp. GVK Mall One, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01
Donor Pass – 100/-
Duration – 70 Minutes
More details contact Saurabh @ 9290013166

A children playlet (telugu)its about stop deforestation and to save animals and birds.

Entey free.

Inviting all for an evening with Harsh Mander, writer and social worker for the release of his Book “Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice And Indifference In New India”.

In the book, he takes a dig at the indifference of the privileged class about the apathy they show towards the issues of Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India. He argues that it is their very act of "looking away" that allows the present sorry state of affairs in India to persist. A frame work is created whereby such an injustices and exploitation are justified legitimized, he laments.

All are welcome.

My experiments with colors - a painting exhibition by Sunila Gollapudi. This will a painting exhibition of over 35 paintings on canvas done using acrylic and water based paints.

It will be on for 3 days on Tue-Thu 9-11th Jun 10am to 6pm.

All are welcome.

This talk showcases through an audiovisual medium the sorry state that Hyderabad’s great cultural heritage has fallen into: its historic architecture is crumbling (if not being actively torn down), and its art treasures are falling to pieces, through a lethal combination of carelessness and callousness. As Dalrymple pointed out on a recent visit, it’s tragic that while cities like Jaipur and Jodhpur have done such a great job of conserving their heritage, in Hyderabad – which had so much more to offer – nobody really gives a damn.

In light of the latest predicament we face as a city, we have organised this discussion on the need to preserve our heritage monuments. The Musi river, though in a state of ecological deterioration, strings along with it architectural marvels from the Asaf Jahi era and is testimony to the artistic brilliance and visionary planning of the erstwhile rulers of Hyderabad City. Lets meet to discus the possibility of losing one of them; The Osmania General Hospital.

Come and discover: Wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am - 2:30pm For details: 9642731329.

The Screenwriting Lab is an ongoing series of weekend workshops with writers and film makers, where we discuss and practise the craft of writing for cinema. Each session shall focus on a distinct aspect of scriptwriting in detail, with specific techniques and examples, and involving practise exercises followed by sharing/feedback.

Entry - Free

Is Kambakht Sathe Ka Kya Karen is an adaptation of the Marathi play, Sathecha Kay Karaycha, penned by the noted playwright Rajiv Naik and translated into Hindi by Jyoti Subhash.

The story focuses on the tender relationship between a husband and a wife. It tells us about the happily married life of a couple - Abhay, an ad filmmaker and Salma, a lecturer in college. Each of them face different tribulations in their professional lives, but Abhay takes his troubles far too seriously. He is of the opinion that his colleague Sathe does not deserve the recognition he gets. On the other hand, Salma loves her work and does not care about quick promotion and success. She believes that everything should be done with a pure heart. At a peak point, Salma deals with the situation and handles Abhay's frustration. At the end of the play, both build a strong trust in the relationship and create a companionship that surpasses understanding. The twists and turns and the tribulations the couple faces in balancing their married and professional lives form the rest of the story. This play tries to depict that a positive attitude can make things better.

Cast & Crew
Abhay – Saurabh Gharipurikar
Salma – Richa Jain
Lights – Krishna Shukl
Music – Ashish Megh
Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar

Date – 2nd August 2015 (Sunday) & repeat show on 9th August 2015 (Sunday)
Time – 08:00pm
Venue – Lamakaan, Opp. GVK Mall One, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01
Donor Pass – 100/-
Duration – 70 Minutes
More details contact Saurabh @ 9290013166

M P Ranjan, a pillar of Design in India whose life was always an inspiration, Left us on 9th August, 2015.

Prof M P Ranjan is a design thinker with 40 years of experience in design education and practice. He helped visualize and set up two new design schools in India, one for the crafts sector and the other for the bamboo sector. His teaching extended from design theory to inclusive design action and from rural employment to usability of information technology applications and services.

He writes a blog called “Design for India” on thoughts and initiatives for the spread of design in all sectors of the economy. With 150,000 visitors it has become a major platform for Indian design discourse.

He is on the Governing Council of the IICD, Jaipur and lives and works from Ahmedabad in India. He has been acknowledged by peers as one of the international thought leaders in Design Thinking today.

Ranjan's quote:"Design is like a potent seed that can grow if it is nurtured by society and through these collaborative processes produce huge change in the world."

A gathering to pay tribute to our favorite design guru.

A exclusive event designed for short films, to show case some serious work in the short films category. With this event the studio wants to create an eco system for filmmakers to co exist & evolve, this is forum will address practical pain points of filmmaker like production (including pre & post), casting & other important issues. After the entire list of movies is screened we have a 30-45 min focused discussion moderated by the studio to find ans to some of the current problem of film making. A bi-monthly event held to promote short films; we call for short films entries to be sent to us. We accept films below 45 mins in this type. Your work can be submitted to Octopus Studios, the set of independent curator will go through the films & select a set of films. We screen selected short films to an elite audience who are short film enthusiasts. We introduce the filmmakers as well cast & crew to the audience. The entire event is open & free of cost, it’s also held at place which has actually inspired the idea - Lamaakan-An Open Cultural Space. Entry - Free

Book launch & reading session of 'The Last Mughal Warrior in Love.' It is a historical fiction based on Emperor Aurangzeb’s passionate love story.

Sutradhar presents SIYAAH HAASHIYE written by Sa'adat Hasan Manto and directed by Deepti Girotra and Vinay Varma.

A medley of 32 short and very short stories based on the events that took place during partition. The stories illustrate the heinous and mercenary stupidity to which human beings can stoop when they get a chance. The shortness of the stories creates the impression that we are entering a war zone i.e Black Borders or Siyaah Haashiye.
Presented partly in narrative and partly as a combination of narrative and performance, Siyaah Haashiye transports us to the morbid world of loot, killing and rape being committed in the name of religion.

Entry Passes: 9848052541

Inviting all of you to the Rakshabandhan special event - "Designer Minion Rakhee Workshop" using Quilling" on the 15th of august at 10:30 am

Celebrate this rakshabandhan with specially handmade Minion rakhees (using quilling) for your loved ones. Minions are the hot craze among children this season and they would be really thrilled to wear the minion rakhees. Explore your creative side and charm your children with handmade minion rakhees.

Event: Desinger Minion Rakhee Workshop
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills
Date: Saturday, 15th August 2015
Time: 10:30 am
duration: 3 hrs
Fees: Rs. 600 (Inclusive of the quilling kit)
For further details contact: 9849820222

Organizer: Ms. Poornima KC

Ms. Poornima is a software engineer who is passionate about art and craft. She conducts classes on quilling, glass painting, decoupage. She also designs handmade cards , ear-rings and rakhees for special occasions.

Inviting all for an evening of Talk by Gail Omvedt on on Ambedkar, Dalits & Democratic Revolutions".

Gail Omvedt is an American-born Indian scholar, sociologist and human rights activist. She is a prolific writer and has published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India. Omvedt has been involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women.

Omvedt's dissertation was titled Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India.

Lamakaan invites all for a second Hasan Memorial Lecture by a leading political activist Bharat Patankar on the topic titled 'Bol, ke Lab Azaad Hain Tere: 'Cultural Freedom Curtailed'

Mr. Patankar will be delivering this lecture on the increasing intolerance by the state on cultural and political activists and institutions in India.

Bharat Patankar is an activist intellectual who has worked for almost 40 years in movements of workers, farmers, dam evictees, agricultural laborers, the drought eradication movement, alternative cultural movement, women’s liberation movement, anti-SEZ and coal-based power plant movement based on alternative energy proposals, rights of farmers on windmills, and radical anti-caste movements.

Lamakaan's Annual Hasan Memorial Lecture is mooted to engage in the current political scenario and question its deviations.

Prof Moyed Hasan in whose memory the annual lecture is named, was a scientist, a photographer, an environmentalist and a person with deep concern for the lives of ordinary people. His house, that he named Lamakaan (as in the Sufi literary tradition to mean 'an abode for those who travel without any worldly possessions') has now become an important part of Hyderabad’s cultural and political life. The once-in-a-year lecture is dedicated to foregrounding the most important political questions of our contemporary moment. Prof Hasan left behind an imaginary of what an engaged life is. From science to art, and environment to international affairs he encompassed a vision of how we must live our lives meaningfully. There is no better way to memorialize such a life than to bring it into play the liberal activists.

All are welcome to this evening's talk.

Sutradhar presents SIYAAH HAASHIYE written by Sa'adat Hasan Manto and directed by Deepti Girotra and Vinay Varma.
A medley of 32 short and very short stories based on the events that took place during partition. The stories illustrate the heinous and mercenary stupidity to which human beings can stoop when they get a chance. The shortness of the stories creates the impression that we are entering a war zone i.e Black Borders or Siyaah Haashiye. Presented partly in narrative and partly as a combination of narrative and performance, Siyaah Haashiye transports us to the morbid world of loot, killing and rape being committed in the name of religion.
Entry Passes: 9848052541

Disruptive Innovation in the Digital Era. Its on how new emerging technologies is shaking the existing technology market.
Talk by Mr. I. Vijay Kumar, MS (Public Relations), Andhra Bank - PR.
All are welcome

Inviting all for an evening of Odissi Dance By Shubhashree Pattnaik & Sanjukta Ghosh.

Shubhashree is an exponent in classical Indian dance forms of Odissi, Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam, Subhashree will be performing Odissi depicting Nabarasa, Dasavatar, Dasmahavidya.

With extensive training under the leading Gurus of Odissi, Subhahsree is today recognized for her artistry, technique, eloquence and characteristic energy that mark every performance. Her solo performances and group ensembles, in Odissi, Kuchipudi as well as Bharatanatyam have received critical acclaim at leading festivals all over the world. Her desire to dance and create dance was born out of an atmosphere of freedom, an ambiance in which ideas and imaginations were encouraged to flow and flower.

The second dancer Sanjukta Ghosh is a professionally qualified architect, she has trained in Odissi from Guru Sharmila Biswas.

She will perform some pure dance items and excerpts from Krishna Leela, a recurring theme in Odissi dance. She will perform Shankaravaranam Pallavi, a pure dance item, followed by Nachanti Range, a Krishna Tandav, and an abhinaya - Kede Chhanda Janilo Sahi.

About ODISSI dance:

Odissi is one of the seven major classical dance styles in India. It is also the oldest recorded, with stone carvings of court dancers dating back to the 2nd century caves of Orissa. It survived as a temple dance form for centuries with maidens called "Mahari" dedicated to the service of the god. Within the community, young boys known as "gotipua" dressed as women also performed a variation of the dance. In the British era, with the devadasi system being abolished, the dance form almost disappeared. Post independence, legendary gurus most of them once young gotipuas themselves, helped revive this lost form and added nuances to it from the profuse carvings on ancient temples.

Today much refined, this dance is best known for its soft feminine and exquisite postures and lyrical movements that mesmerize and captivate audiences.

All are welcome to this double billed dance evening. Entry - Free.

Play Introduction:

A Story can be found in every lifeless object too as a life would have definitely touched it somewhere somehow. And if the lifeless objects are those entrances and exits we pass through or peek through daily, then for sure they would have stories attached to their existence. Such are the stories which are always connected to houses, doors or just the windows. Some say the houses are haunted by the inhabitants, some say the doors narrates a person’s life who has passed through it and hence is our play based on the miniature of these objects, A Window.

A Window is at a position where most passersby can peek into and the inhabitants peek out. Those are the passages of connection and sometimes the expressions exchanged. Hence a story shaped out of a window for our writer, Nuzhath M Syed, he tried connecting the dots which most of the windows had given him. The most common or nearest to reality he got after connecting the dots was, “The Woman at the Window.”

Nuzhath, the writer presents his writing through his own vision and narration.He passing by a window for his regular affair finds an expressionless face on the Window. That face attracts him for why it lacked any expression. After regularly seeing that face at the Window, Nuzhath one day finds courage to ask the person who kept visiting the house often the story of that face. The Play goes into the life of an expressive woman from there on, who was a painter and something rigorous and drastic happens in her life that all her expressions are lost and gone. The Play puts in front of you some very minute understandings of patriarchy and woman’s surrender.

Group Introduction:
Maditorium, A Group founded by Nuzhath M Syed in January 2015, for his creative expressions through the medium of theatre and films brings to you their second play. The First one was a Satirical Drama on the Muslim Society and Life of Woman in a Muslim society called “Manhus Kaun”, written and presented by Nuzhath M Syed for SAFA INDIA, an NGO based in Hyderabad holding the Moto –“Educate a Girl, Empower a family.”
Slowly the Group has grown from an amateur startup to a serious affair as many new actors have joined the Group. Hoping to grow further and express more new writers through this medium, Maditorium presents to you it’s second production, “The Woman at the Window.”

Entry - Free.

Title: How do Insects Fly?
The next Sawaal-Jawaab: Conversations on Science features Prof. Sanjay Sane of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, speaking about the wonders and puzzles of insect flight. Insects are evolution's great success story. They are everywhere, and seemingly in invincible numbers. How did insects get to be so numerous? One commonly held idea is that the evolution of flight enabled insects to become masters of the aerial niche, and gain substantial advantage over their prey and predators, as well as occupy far-flung ecological niches which were out of the reach of other animals. In this world view, flight holds a central place and for good reasons, but it is almost easy to overlook that flying is a difficult task for animals which are small, because small size demands faster wing motion to stay aloft . How do insects fly given the constraints of size? This is the focus of this conversation.

We will have a short 20 minute talk by our guest scientist, during and after which the audience is invited to engage in an informal, free-flowing discussion with the speaker. Interested participants of all ages are welcome. No prior knowledge or expertise is required.

Inviting all for an evening of talk with Nandini Oza on "Oral History of the Struggles around Sardar Sarovar Narmada Project (SSP)".

The presentation: The talk will focus on Nandini Oza’s work of collection of oral histories of the people who have played a significant role in the struggle against the Sardar Sarovar project (SSP). It will highlight the reasons and importance behind collecting such histories, the process of its collection, its strengths and limitations and the work of dissemination of the material collected and future plans. The presentation highlights why the history of the struggle would be grossly incomplete without these voices and why oral history is an appropriate medium of chronicling the history of such a movement.
It will also include brief clippings from the recordings as well as some glimpses of the journey of the Narmada valley, its people and the struggle.

The talk will conclude with a session on questions and answers.

The Oral History Work: The oral histories consist of extensive interviews in audio format of around 80 leaders and activists of the struggle that began in the year 1961 when the foundation stone of the project was laid by India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and continues till date for over half a century now. The oral history is a total of over 400 hours of recordings in digital format, in seven different dialects and languages- Hindi, Marathi, English, Gujarati, Pawari, Bhilali and Nimadi.
Though the Narmada struggle has been a very well known movement, what conventional history - and the mass media - has recorded is either the issues, or prominent programs or the role of only a few well known activists. It is primarily because of the collective power of the people in the Narmada valley that the struggle against SSP has blossomed and sustained for so long. And yet, the role, the contribution and the vision of the local leaders, activists and the common people, particularly women and tribal leaders and activists who have formed the backbone of the struggle find little place in the documentation of the struggle. One of the objectives of this oral history is to attempt to address this gap.
Another issue is that the Narmada struggle is seen mainly as the NBA, a well-organized movement spread over the entire project affected area that began around the mid-1980s. While this is certainly true, what is not known well is that the earliest resistance against the project dates to 1961 when the foundation stone of the project was laid. From then onwards the Narmada valley has seen a series of protests and movements against the project, some spontaneous and unorganized, others more structured and organized. These struggles prepared the ground for the emergence of the subsequent struggle in the form of the NBA. These oral histories trace the earlier resistance against the project and its history.
The oral histories address these limitations by recording the experiences of those whose roles/experiences have not been documented so far. In doing these recordings, Nandini has been able to bring in her own experience as a full time activist of the NBA for over twelve years and another eight as the resident of the Narmada valley to weave together narratives of the hitherto less known histories of a struggle that has been going on for over half a century now.

About Nandini Oza: After completing MSW, Nandini worked in an NGO involved in soil and water conservation.  Subsequently she was a full time activist with NBA where she lived and worked among the people affected by the SSP. Her main responsibility was mobilization of the people to strengthen the NBA as well as to help coordinate programs, rallies, demonstrations, mass actions, fund raising programs and campaigns. As part of NBA, she was involved in extensive research, documentation and dissemination of information regarding several aspects of the project and its impacts both within the valley and outside. She has represented NBA nationally as well as internationally.  Later, along with teaching in the Government college in Badwani, she took up the task of recording the oral history of those involved in the NBA, particularly the tribal people and the farmers affected by the SSP.  Currently she is processing the recorded history for dissemination. Author of the book- ‘Whither Justice- Stories of Women in Prison’, Published by Rupa and Co, she is an independent researcher and writer. She is also a part of the Zindabad trust.

All are welcome.

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The word ‘Aajir’ stands for one who has sold himself into slavery for a paltry sum. In the play, ‘Aajir’, the story of a slave held by a bond signed by an ancestor – a slavery that denies him the right to love, marry and live a life of a human being – discovering that the bond has long turned to dust, but discovering it only too late, is a metaphor for the traditional constraints that bind the individual in our country long after their legal authority has given way. Exploitation operates beyond the law and with the tacit acquiescence of an exploited class held in thrall by a load of conventional role – obligations. Legal reforms or legal defences for the exploited have rarely affected the exploitative mechanism sustained by the illiteracy and ignorance of the exploited. Paatan, the bonded slave, whose ancestor had sold himself, his family and his descendant to perpetual slavery, is a supreme example of the slave suffering forever in a historical perspective that goes on and on.

Mataang, the epitome of manipulation, relegates his wife to a position of inferiority and subjugation tantamounting almost to the bonded position of Paatan. Religious traditions, under the preponderant influence of Hinduism, provide the ideological basis for patriarchy and assign women an inferior role in the family and society.

About the Author

Mahasweta Devi (b. 1926) is one of India's leading writers. She has won the country's most prestigious literary prizes for her writing including the Jnanpith Award, and the Padmashree Award for her activist work among the tribal communities of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa. She writes novels, short fiction, and plays, in Bengali, and has made a mark in all three genres. She re-creates a span of history, imbuing her narration with trenchant satire against establishment and soul-stirring poignancy for the underprivileged.

STORY: MAHASWETA DEVI
DRAMATISATION: DEBASHISH CHAKRABORTY
ADAPTATION AND DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
PRODUCTION: SHUDRAKA HYDERABAD
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: AUGUST 22, 2015
TIME: 8 PM
DURATION: 1 hour 15 minutes
LANGUAGE: BENGALI
VENUE: LAMAKAAN

Entry - Free

With India becoming the diabetes capital and with every Indian man and woman developing a paunch it's absolutely necessary to repeatedly ring the bells to eat right and live an active and fit lifestyle and to make this transition easier a Nutritionist can help in a long way.

Inviting all for a presentation on Healthy eating and life habits by Rasheeda Sadhpurwala.

To enjoy Wealth one needs to be in good Health. So it's high time one takes responsibility of nourishing and taking good care of their bodies.
Hopefully when this happens hospitals will be less crowded.

All are welcome.

Indian Startups meetup group is a community networking group for entrepreneurs across the world to help venture new startups, nurture existing startups, encourage entrepreneurship, provide incubation facilities, co-working space, seed funding, crowd funding, investor connections, co-founders, mentors, advisers. Also the group members provide wherever possible free website, legal, patent, accounting, marketing and other essential services needed to start-ups.

Indian Startups is a startup ecosystem with a community of entrepreneurs, investors and the partners throughout India and across the globe to help new startups, nurture existing startups and encourage and empower entrepreneurship

We are inviting applications for coordinators and team volunteers for in the below categories.

A.Outreach & extension activities with external organizations
B.Speaker Solicitation
C.Adviser & Mentor relations
D.Fund raising & sponsorship for Indian Startups Activities
E.Media & Press Relations
F.Blog/ Startup Articles/Magazine
G.Google Search & Research Help
H.e-Colony (Entrepreneurship Colonies)

If you are interested in being a coordinator/team member in any of the above categories, please mail us at volunteer@indianstartups.com with contact phone, email and priory experience if any or call us at +91 88978 00499 / +91 97009 21323 (India) / +1 858 877 3306 (USA).

‘Kinu Kaharer Thetar’, arguably the best play written by Manoj Mitra, an outstanding theatrical personality of West Bengal, that has been sought to be transcribed in Hindi ‘Kinu Kahar Ka Thitr’, satirically portrays the system of domination and exploitation perpetuated by different institutions and practices of the inhuman establishment in a style which absorbs the kernel of rural dramatic culture. The members of the troupe of Kinu trying to present the drama Ghantakaner Pala are now all dead but they appear again and again to present the misdeeds of the high ups only to be stopped by the establishment by force. It proves the historical continuity of the protests of the marginalized against the exploitative establishment and the latter’s forceful gagging of such protestation.

The play portrays a rural dramatic troupe back in the British rule in India staging a political satire entitled Ghantakaner Pala before a rustic audience of Putna, an imaginary village. The poor and naïve Ghantakarna who, losing his job to the quirks of the trickster Bhaanr, is getting employed under the Raja as the ‘shajakheko officer’ as his only throwback—- the self-proclaimed criminal of the crimes committed in Putna. The Raja conveniently appoints Ghantakarna for this task in order to win his political battle against Laatshaheb who shamelessly jockeys for political power and openly defies the Raja’s political maneuvers. Ghantakarna and his wife, Jagadamba enjoy the financial comforts offered by this employment. Despite the initial turmoil within her conscience, Jagadamba’s lust for wealth prevails and she lets the innocent Ghantakarna accept death sentence given by Laatshaheb to the trusted Minister of the Raja for abusing a woman– a feat that enables Jagadamba rise to the position of the queen. However, this time Ghantakarna not only refuses to shoulder the responsibility of the King’s crime but himself is going to commit the crime of murdering the King, Minister and Laatshaheb, the three arch representatives of the inhuman system. At this juncture, enters a policeman, ordered by the politically powerful men from the real world, and disallows the complete performance of Ghantakarner Pala. The masterstroke of Manoj Mitra’s satiric vision cannot be missed here for this intrusion reflects with more immediacy the dehumanization at work eating into the ugly political fabric of colonial India. And though Manoj Mitra’s play is set in a time different from ours, we feel its contemporary relevance.

About the author
An actor par excellence, Manoj Mitra (b. 1938) formed his theatre group ‘Sundaram’ way back in 1957 and has acted in, directed, organised and written many plays over the years. His works have been translated into many languages and produced by countless directors like Ratan Thiyam and Rajendar Nath. He is the recipient of many awards in the field of theatre including the Sangeet Natak Akademy Award for Best Playwright.

DRAMATISATION: MANOJ MITRA
ADAPTATION AND DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
PRODUCTION: SHUDRAKA HYDERABAD
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: AUGUST 23, 2015
TIME: 8 PM
DURATION: 1 hour 15 minutes
LANGUAGE: HINDI
VENUE: LAMAKAAN

Entry - Free.

Inviting all for a Screening of the film "Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai" (2014),
Directed by: Nakul Singh Sawhney
Duration: 136 mins.

Recently in Delhi, in yet another case of brash intolerance by the state and its violent cronies, the screening of this film was forcefully disrupted and organisers roughed up.

As a solidarity, Nation-wide screening of this film will be held across on 25th of August.

Synopsis of the movie:
"Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai"
In September, 2013, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Western Uttar Pradesh, India, witnessed their worst ever anti-Muslim pogrom since Indian Independence. More than 100 people were killed and close to 80,000 people were displaced.

In the past, the two districts have seen relative harmony between Muslims and Hindus. What happened this time? ‘Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai…’ (Muzaffarnagar eventually…) explores this question examining the many facets of the massacre- the question of women’s ‘honour’, which was used by organisations of the Hindu right, including BJP-RSS, to orchestrate communal violence, the merging of caste identity politics within the larger Hindutva fold, the breakdown of the once powerful farmers’ union, the Bhartiya Kissan Union, whose survival hinged on the unity of Hindu and Muslim peasants, the various aspects of Dalit politics in the districts, the dubious role of the Samajwadi Party, the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh and the feeling of complete alienation and marginalisation of the Muslim community. The film looks at how the massacre found its resonance in the 2014 Indian General election campaign. Finally, it tells of the continued and growing resistance in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts against the corporate- communal nexus.

Brief note about Director:
Nakul Singh Sawhney’s films include the award winning With a little help from my friends (2005), Agaurav and Undecided, (both in 2006), Once upon a time in Chheharta and the acclaimed Izzatnagari Ki Asabhya Betiyaan (2012) on “honour” crimes in Haryana.

All are welcome to this thought provoking documentary. Entry - Free.

Zinda Talisman ( or the Stuff of Life) is an Installation piece that combines Stage, Film and Sound- tied togegher by the story of a young girl from Hyderabad who goes to the busy markets of Charminar with her mother and gets spellbound by a magical object.
To get back to reality, she must answer only one question...
"Batao! Kya Seekha?

Piyush Mishra is an Indian film and theatre actor, music director, lyricist, singer, scriptwriter.

A graduate from National School of Drama, he started his career in Hindi theatre, established himself as a theatre director, actor, lyricist and singer. A screenwriter, and Lyricist he received acclaim for his acting in Maqbool (2003) and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). As a film lyricist and singer, he is noted for his songs "Arre Ruk Ja Re Bandeh" (Black Friday, 2004), "Aarambh Hai Prachand" (Gulaal, 2009), "Ik Bagal" (Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2, 2012), and "Husna" (MTV Coke Studio, 2012)

Today he is one of the sane voices in increasigly polarising culture scenario of India. Piyush ji will talk & Sing on various cultural issues.

Followed by a screening of his film The Playback Singer by Suju Vijayan.

THE PLAYBACK SINGER tells the story of an aimless, would-be, jungle-gym architect who finds his existence disrupted - and his marriage upended - when his prickly, Indian, B-movie playback singer father-in-law comes to visit and overstays his welcome.

All are welcome to this vibrant evening. Entry - Free.

Not every day will you see a man and his wife’s husband together on stage.

Come and find out who gets to keep the wife and who gets to keep the misery.

Donor Pass: Rs.100/-

http://in.bookmyshow.com/plays/my-wifes-husband/ET00014535

Contact: sifar.theatre@gmail.com|98493 31347

Written by: Miro Gavran | Indian adaptation by: Feroze

Music composed by: Amit Dasani & Suhit Chiruthapudi

Poster & Ticket designed by: Kathik Vijay V

Cast: Maya, Shravanth, Feroze

Directed by: Feroze

The play 'Badnaam Manto' is a production of Mumbai based theatre group Rangrez. The Play depicts the controversial stages of Manto's life.

Synopsis:

Badnaam Manto

‘Here lies Saadat Hassan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets of the art of storytelling in his breast. Weighed down by the earth he wonders still: Who is the greater writer, God or he?’

The play plots itself in Saadat Hasan Manto’s after life and packs a lot of untold surprises for the audience to keep them pondering on his current existence. Though considering the fact that Manto is dead.. he has not ceased living. One can still find traits of his existence in his writings, his followers and of course you and me. Based on the most primitive and the inevitable relations of mankind’s histories, his stories (in non-prejudice eyes) have proved to be valid in all the directions of time.


Play Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes.

Play Language: Hindustani.


Cast & Crew

On Sage

Pahalwaan: Ayatullah Khan
Manto: Devroop Sarma

Back stage

Lights & Music : Shivkaant Agrahari
Creative Director: Shashi Sharma
Writer Inspired from a play Written by
Rafi Sahbbir
Director: Ayatullah Khan.

For passes: at the gate on Fri & Sat 28,29 Aug at 8pm.

Presenting a two day Art Exhibition and and Interactive session with Artist Srinivas Bobbili on Sat-Sun 29, 30 Aug from 11am to 5pm.

Artists are always craving to bring out the hidden dimensions of creativity in their art, while the other are privileged to access and inquire in to the creative activity of the artist from the art exhibitions.

Art is everyone's instinct, and Srinivas Bobbili believes that people will try to reach out to art when art is reachable to them in every possible aspect.

This exhibition is primarily the artist's urge to share his art while made it reachable for the sheer joy of owning and appreciation.

This exhibition is conceptualized in all aspects to reach every art enthusiasts, to collect, and enjoy art in everyday life surrounded by art in their living environment.

The art works in this exhibition remains priceless and One can take home art of their choice and at their choice of price paid only to make both ends meet.

All are welcome to this interactive and participatory Exhibition, learn and Take home a piece of Art at the price you find suitable.

Entry - Free.

We welcome you to the screening of a documentary on Adi Ayurveda called " One day school on Health" along with interaction with the film maker - Satish K from Kerala.

Adi ayurveda advocates that the route to perfect health can only be attained through balance of structure, posture, breath and nutrition . A balance in posture can only be achieved if there is a balance in structure. A balance in structure can be achieved only if there is a balance in breath. A balance in breath can only be achieved if there is a balance in the bodily fluid and sufficient haemoglobin in the blood.

Adi ayurveda aims to create harmony in the body by correcting imbalances of structure, posture. breath and nutrition. The common cold, asthma, epilepsy, over 400 diseases, which are unseen in other living beings and found only in man can be understood and solved through the right movement-breath awareness program. To overcome the huge economic and other burdens related to these diseases, we welcome you to our One Day School program.

This month's quiz is on Bollywood. There will be a maximum of 6 teams. For more info and updates, please see www.facebook.com/groups/hydquizclub

Entry - Free

The play 'Badnaam Manto' is a production of Mumbai based theatre group Rangrez. The Play depicts the controversial stages of Manto's life.

Synopsis:

Badnaam Manto

‘Here lies Saadat Hassan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets of the art of storytelling in his breast. Weighed down by the earth he wonders still: Who is the greater writer, God or he?’

The play plots itself in Saadat Hasan Manto’s after life and packs a lot of untold surprises for the audience to keep them pondering on his current existence. Though considering the fact that Manto is dead.. he has not ceased living. One can still find traits of his existence in his writings, his followers and of course you and me. Based on the most primitive and the inevitable relations of mankind’s histories, his stories (in non-prejudice eyes) have proved to be valid in all the directions of time.


Play Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes.

Play Language: Hindustani.


Cast & Crew

On Sage

Pahalwaan: Ayatullah Khan
Manto: Devroop Sarma

Back stage

Lights & Music : Shivkaant Agrahari
Creative Director: Shashi Sharma
Writer Inspired from a play Written by
Rafi Sahbbir
Director: Ayatullah Khan.

For passes: at the gate on Fri & Sat 28,29 Aug at 8pm.

This is a one day newspaper basket weaving workshop for 3hrs.Inviting you all for the eco-friendly artwork. Neswpaper baskets can be used for different purposes.Come n join the workshop and contribute your creative side to reuse,reduce n recycle.The fee for workshop is Rs.500(including material)

IoT meeting

Inviting all for a World Kitchen Garden Day on Sun Aug 30th, 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM during our weekly Organic Bazaar where you can interact with other kitchen gardeners, and get inspired to grow your own food.

You can also Pick up seeds, compost bins, and other gardening accessories.

Entry - Free

Samahaara
presents

An adaptation of Sharad Joshi's
"Ek Tha Gadha" (A play in Hindi)

Produced by Rathna Shekar Reddy
Directed by Nagaraju Pejjai

A Samahaara Workshop Production

Ek Tha Gadha is a hilarious satire written by Sharad Joshi. It's the story of how a person in authority capitalises on someone's tragedy for their own selfish political gains - something that we as an audience are familiar with if we ever picked up a news paper.

Date: 30th August, 2015
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lamakaan

Donation Rs.100/-

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Come and discover:
Wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries
Homemade Breads and other baked goods;
Organic Lunch,
Handicrafts and Handlooms,
Handmade Jewelry,
Terrace Gardening Corner,
Creative Design Spaces.
Every Sunday 10:30am - 2:30pm
For details: 9642731329.

Kahaniwala Suhas tells stories related to Gautam Buddha. This session is Free and for all adults as well as for children too.
Suhas delivered lectures and had participated in the open mic session at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2015. He have started writing in Hindi one year back and have completed the poem collections in Hindi. The one SAFARNAMA.
Suhas is available on www.speakingtree.in as a blogger. facebook ID is Suhas Bhatnagar and also available on twitter.

Entry - Free.

The Screenwriting Lab is an ongoing series of weekend workshops with writers and film makers, where we discuss and practise the craft of writing for cinema. Each session shall focus on a distinct aspect of scriptwriting in detail, with specific techniques and examples, and involving practise exercises followed by sharing/feedback.

Facebook Link : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Independent-Cinema-Space/975784255785435?fref=ts

A open discussion on gender identity. This discussion is geared towards individual development of identity and the process of gender identity discovery, to clarify misconception people have about physical attributes. This discussion is based on scientific theory- nature versus nurture.

Entry - Free

Is Kambakht Sathe Ka Kya Karen is an adaptation of the Marathi play, Sathecha Kay Karaycha, penned by the noted playwright Rajiv Naik and translated into Hindi by Jyoti Subhash.

The story focuses on the tender relationship between a husband and a wife. It tells us about the happily married life of a couple - Abhay, an ad filmmaker and Salma, a lecturer in college. Each of them face different tribulations in their professional lives, but Abhay takes his troubles far too seriously. He is of the opinion that his colleague Sathe does not deserve the recognition he gets. On the other hand, Salma loves her work and does not care about quick promotion and success. She believes that everything should be done with a pure heart. At a peak point, Salma deals with the situation and handles Abhay's frustration. At the end of the play, both build a strong trust in the relationship and create a companionship that surpasses understanding. The twists and turns and the tribulations the couple faces in balancing their married and professional lives form the rest of the story. This play tries to depict that a positive attitude can make things better.

Cast & Crew
Abhay – Saurabh Gharipurikar
Salma – Richa Jain
Lights – Krishna Shukl
Music – Ashish Megh
Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar

Date – 2nd August 2015 (Sunday) & repeat show on 9th August 2015 (Sunday)
Time – 08:00pm
Venue – Lamakaan, Opp. GVK Mall One, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01
Donor Pass – 100/-
Duration – 70 Minutes
More details contact Saurabh @ 9290013166

A children playlet (telugu)its about stop deforestation and to save animals and birds.

Entey free.

Inviting all for an evening with Harsh Mander, writer and social worker for the release of his Book “Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice And Indifference In New India”.

In the book, he takes a dig at the indifference of the privileged class about the apathy they show towards the issues of Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India. He argues that it is their very act of "looking away" that allows the present sorry state of affairs in India to persist. A frame work is created whereby such an injustices and exploitation are justified legitimized, he laments.

All are welcome.

My experiments with colors - a painting exhibition by Sunila Gollapudi. This will a painting exhibition of over 35 paintings on canvas done using acrylic and water based paints.

It will be on for 3 days on Tue-Thu 9-11th Jun 10am to 6pm.

All are welcome.

This talk showcases through an audiovisual medium the sorry state that Hyderabad’s great cultural heritage has fallen into: its historic architecture is crumbling (if not being actively torn down), and its art treasures are falling to pieces, through a lethal combination of carelessness and callousness. As Dalrymple pointed out on a recent visit, it’s tragic that while cities like Jaipur and Jodhpur have done such a great job of conserving their heritage, in Hyderabad – which had so much more to offer – nobody really gives a damn.

In light of the latest predicament we face as a city, we have organised this discussion on the need to preserve our heritage monuments. The Musi river, though in a state of ecological deterioration, strings along with it architectural marvels from the Asaf Jahi era and is testimony to the artistic brilliance and visionary planning of the erstwhile rulers of Hyderabad City. Lets meet to discus the possibility of losing one of them; The Osmania General Hospital.

Come and discover: Wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am - 2:30pm For details: 9642731329.

The Screenwriting Lab is an ongoing series of weekend workshops with writers and film makers, where we discuss and practise the craft of writing for cinema. Each session shall focus on a distinct aspect of scriptwriting in detail, with specific techniques and examples, and involving practise exercises followed by sharing/feedback.

Entry - Free

Is Kambakht Sathe Ka Kya Karen is an adaptation of the Marathi play, Sathecha Kay Karaycha, penned by the noted playwright Rajiv Naik and translated into Hindi by Jyoti Subhash.

The story focuses on the tender relationship between a husband and a wife. It tells us about the happily married life of a couple - Abhay, an ad filmmaker and Salma, a lecturer in college. Each of them face different tribulations in their professional lives, but Abhay takes his troubles far too seriously. He is of the opinion that his colleague Sathe does not deserve the recognition he gets. On the other hand, Salma loves her work and does not care about quick promotion and success. She believes that everything should be done with a pure heart. At a peak point, Salma deals with the situation and handles Abhay's frustration. At the end of the play, both build a strong trust in the relationship and create a companionship that surpasses understanding. The twists and turns and the tribulations the couple faces in balancing their married and professional lives form the rest of the story. This play tries to depict that a positive attitude can make things better.

Cast & Crew
Abhay – Saurabh Gharipurikar
Salma – Richa Jain
Lights – Krishna Shukl
Music – Ashish Megh
Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar

Date – 2nd August 2015 (Sunday) & repeat show on 9th August 2015 (Sunday)
Time – 08:00pm
Venue – Lamakaan, Opp. GVK Mall One, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01
Donor Pass – 100/-
Duration – 70 Minutes
More details contact Saurabh @ 9290013166

M P Ranjan, a pillar of Design in India whose life was always an inspiration, Left us on 9th August, 2015.

Prof M P Ranjan is a design thinker with 40 years of experience in design education and practice. He helped visualize and set up two new design schools in India, one for the crafts sector and the other for the bamboo sector. His teaching extended from design theory to inclusive design action and from rural employment to usability of information technology applications and services.

He writes a blog called “Design for India” on thoughts and initiatives for the spread of design in all sectors of the economy. With 150,000 visitors it has become a major platform for Indian design discourse.

He is on the Governing Council of the IICD, Jaipur and lives and works from Ahmedabad in India. He has been acknowledged by peers as one of the international thought leaders in Design Thinking today.

Ranjan's quote:"Design is like a potent seed that can grow if it is nurtured by society and through these collaborative processes produce huge change in the world."

A gathering to pay tribute to our favorite design guru.

A exclusive event designed for short films, to show case some serious work in the short films category. With this event the studio wants to create an eco system for filmmakers to co exist & evolve, this is forum will address practical pain points of filmmaker like production (including pre & post), casting & other important issues. After the entire list of movies is screened we have a 30-45 min focused discussion moderated by the studio to find ans to some of the current problem of film making. A bi-monthly event held to promote short films; we call for short films entries to be sent to us. We accept films below 45 mins in this type. Your work can be submitted to Octopus Studios, the set of independent curator will go through the films & select a set of films. We screen selected short films to an elite audience who are short film enthusiasts. We introduce the filmmakers as well cast & crew to the audience. The entire event is open & free of cost, it’s also held at place which has actually inspired the idea - Lamaakan-An Open Cultural Space. Entry - Free

Book launch & reading session of 'The Last Mughal Warrior in Love.' It is a historical fiction based on Emperor Aurangzeb’s passionate love story.

Sutradhar presents SIYAAH HAASHIYE written by Sa'adat Hasan Manto and directed by Deepti Girotra and Vinay Varma.

A medley of 32 short and very short stories based on the events that took place during partition. The stories illustrate the heinous and mercenary stupidity to which human beings can stoop when they get a chance. The shortness of the stories creates the impression that we are entering a war zone i.e Black Borders or Siyaah Haashiye.
Presented partly in narrative and partly as a combination of narrative and performance, Siyaah Haashiye transports us to the morbid world of loot, killing and rape being committed in the name of religion.

Entry Passes: 9848052541

Inviting all of you to the Rakshabandhan special event - "Designer Minion Rakhee Workshop" using Quilling" on the 15th of august at 10:30 am

Celebrate this rakshabandhan with specially handmade Minion rakhees (using quilling) for your loved ones. Minions are the hot craze among children this season and they would be really thrilled to wear the minion rakhees. Explore your creative side and charm your children with handmade minion rakhees.

Event: Desinger Minion Rakhee Workshop
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills
Date: Saturday, 15th August 2015
Time: 10:30 am
duration: 3 hrs
Fees: Rs. 600 (Inclusive of the quilling kit)
For further details contact: 9849820222

Organizer: Ms. Poornima KC

Ms. Poornima is a software engineer who is passionate about art and craft. She conducts classes on quilling, glass painting, decoupage. She also designs handmade cards , ear-rings and rakhees for special occasions.

Inviting all for an evening of Talk by Gail Omvedt on on Ambedkar, Dalits & Democratic Revolutions".

Gail Omvedt is an American-born Indian scholar, sociologist and human rights activist. She is a prolific writer and has published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India. Omvedt has been involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women.

Omvedt's dissertation was titled Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India.

Lamakaan invites all for a second Hasan Memorial Lecture by a leading political activist Bharat Patankar on the topic titled 'Bol, ke Lab Azaad Hain Tere: 'Cultural Freedom Curtailed'

Mr. Patankar will be delivering this lecture on the increasing intolerance by the state on cultural and political activists and institutions in India.

Bharat Patankar is an activist intellectual who has worked for almost 40 years in movements of workers, farmers, dam evictees, agricultural laborers, the drought eradication movement, alternative cultural movement, women’s liberation movement, anti-SEZ and coal-based power plant movement based on alternative energy proposals, rights of farmers on windmills, and radical anti-caste movements.

Lamakaan's Annual Hasan Memorial Lecture is mooted to engage in the current political scenario and question its deviations.

Prof Moyed Hasan in whose memory the annual lecture is named, was a scientist, a photographer, an environmentalist and a person with deep concern for the lives of ordinary people. His house, that he named Lamakaan (as in the Sufi literary tradition to mean 'an abode for those who travel without any worldly possessions') has now become an important part of Hyderabad’s cultural and political life. The once-in-a-year lecture is dedicated to foregrounding the most important political questions of our contemporary moment. Prof Hasan left behind an imaginary of what an engaged life is. From science to art, and environment to international affairs he encompassed a vision of how we must live our lives meaningfully. There is no better way to memorialize such a life than to bring it into play the liberal activists.

All are welcome to this evening's talk.

Sutradhar presents SIYAAH HAASHIYE written by Sa'adat Hasan Manto and directed by Deepti Girotra and Vinay Varma.
A medley of 32 short and very short stories based on the events that took place during partition. The stories illustrate the heinous and mercenary stupidity to which human beings can stoop when they get a chance. The shortness of the stories creates the impression that we are entering a war zone i.e Black Borders or Siyaah Haashiye. Presented partly in narrative and partly as a combination of narrative and performance, Siyaah Haashiye transports us to the morbid world of loot, killing and rape being committed in the name of religion.
Entry Passes: 9848052541

Disruptive Innovation in the Digital Era. Its on how new emerging technologies is shaking the existing technology market.
Talk by Mr. I. Vijay Kumar, MS (Public Relations), Andhra Bank - PR.
All are welcome

Inviting all for an evening of Odissi Dance By Shubhashree Pattnaik & Sanjukta Ghosh.

Shubhashree is an exponent in classical Indian dance forms of Odissi, Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam, Subhashree will be performing Odissi depicting Nabarasa, Dasavatar, Dasmahavidya.

With extensive training under the leading Gurus of Odissi, Subhahsree is today recognized for her artistry, technique, eloquence and characteristic energy that mark every performance. Her solo performances and group ensembles, in Odissi, Kuchipudi as well as Bharatanatyam have received critical acclaim at leading festivals all over the world. Her desire to dance and create dance was born out of an atmosphere of freedom, an ambiance in which ideas and imaginations were encouraged to flow and flower.

The second dancer Sanjukta Ghosh is a professionally qualified architect, she has trained in Odissi from Guru Sharmila Biswas.

She will perform some pure dance items and excerpts from Krishna Leela, a recurring theme in Odissi dance. She will perform Shankaravaranam Pallavi, a pure dance item, followed by Nachanti Range, a Krishna Tandav, and an abhinaya - Kede Chhanda Janilo Sahi.

About ODISSI dance:

Odissi is one of the seven major classical dance styles in India. It is also the oldest recorded, with stone carvings of court dancers dating back to the 2nd century caves of Orissa. It survived as a temple dance form for centuries with maidens called "Mahari" dedicated to the service of the god. Within the community, young boys known as "gotipua" dressed as women also performed a variation of the dance. In the British era, with the devadasi system being abolished, the dance form almost disappeared. Post independence, legendary gurus most of them once young gotipuas themselves, helped revive this lost form and added nuances to it from the profuse carvings on ancient temples.

Today much refined, this dance is best known for its soft feminine and exquisite postures and lyrical movements that mesmerize and captivate audiences.

All are welcome to this double billed dance evening. Entry - Free.

Play Introduction:

A Story can be found in every lifeless object too as a life would have definitely touched it somewhere somehow. And if the lifeless objects are those entrances and exits we pass through or peek through daily, then for sure they would have stories attached to their existence. Such are the stories which are always connected to houses, doors or just the windows. Some say the houses are haunted by the inhabitants, some say the doors narrates a person’s life who has passed through it and hence is our play based on the miniature of these objects, A Window.

A Window is at a position where most passersby can peek into and the inhabitants peek out. Those are the passages of connection and sometimes the expressions exchanged. Hence a story shaped out of a window for our writer, Nuzhath M Syed, he tried connecting the dots which most of the windows had given him. The most common or nearest to reality he got after connecting the dots was, “The Woman at the Window.”

Nuzhath, the writer presents his writing through his own vision and narration.He passing by a window for his regular affair finds an expressionless face on the Window. That face attracts him for why it lacked any expression. After regularly seeing that face at the Window, Nuzhath one day finds courage to ask the person who kept visiting the house often the story of that face. The Play goes into the life of an expressive woman from there on, who was a painter and something rigorous and drastic happens in her life that all her expressions are lost and gone. The Play puts in front of you some very minute understandings of patriarchy and woman’s surrender.

Group Introduction:
Maditorium, A Group founded by Nuzhath M Syed in January 2015, for his creative expressions through the medium of theatre and films brings to you their second play. The First one was a Satirical Drama on the Muslim Society and Life of Woman in a Muslim society called “Manhus Kaun”, written and presented by Nuzhath M Syed for SAFA INDIA, an NGO based in Hyderabad holding the Moto –“Educate a Girl, Empower a family.”
Slowly the Group has grown from an amateur startup to a serious affair as many new actors have joined the Group. Hoping to grow further and express more new writers through this medium, Maditorium presents to you it’s second production, “The Woman at the Window.”

Entry - Free.

Title: How do Insects Fly?
The next Sawaal-Jawaab: Conversations on Science features Prof. Sanjay Sane of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, speaking about the wonders and puzzles of insect flight. Insects are evolution's great success story. They are everywhere, and seemingly in invincible numbers. How did insects get to be so numerous? One commonly held idea is that the evolution of flight enabled insects to become masters of the aerial niche, and gain substantial advantage over their prey and predators, as well as occupy far-flung ecological niches which were out of the reach of other animals. In this world view, flight holds a central place and for good reasons, but it is almost easy to overlook that flying is a difficult task for animals which are small, because small size demands faster wing motion to stay aloft . How do insects fly given the constraints of size? This is the focus of this conversation.

We will have a short 20 minute talk by our guest scientist, during and after which the audience is invited to engage in an informal, free-flowing discussion with the speaker. Interested participants of all ages are welcome. No prior knowledge or expertise is required.

Inviting all for an evening of talk with Nandini Oza on "Oral History of the Struggles around Sardar Sarovar Narmada Project (SSP)".

The presentation: The talk will focus on Nandini Oza’s work of collection of oral histories of the people who have played a significant role in the struggle against the Sardar Sarovar project (SSP). It will highlight the reasons and importance behind collecting such histories, the process of its collection, its strengths and limitations and the work of dissemination of the material collected and future plans. The presentation highlights why the history of the struggle would be grossly incomplete without these voices and why oral history is an appropriate medium of chronicling the history of such a movement.
It will also include brief clippings from the recordings as well as some glimpses of the journey of the Narmada valley, its people and the struggle.

The talk will conclude with a session on questions and answers.

The Oral History Work: The oral histories consist of extensive interviews in audio format of around 80 leaders and activists of the struggle that began in the year 1961 when the foundation stone of the project was laid by India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and continues till date for over half a century now. The oral history is a total of over 400 hours of recordings in digital format, in seven different dialects and languages- Hindi, Marathi, English, Gujarati, Pawari, Bhilali and Nimadi.
Though the Narmada struggle has been a very well known movement, what conventional history - and the mass media - has recorded is either the issues, or prominent programs or the role of only a few well known activists. It is primarily because of the collective power of the people in the Narmada valley that the struggle against SSP has blossomed and sustained for so long. And yet, the role, the contribution and the vision of the local leaders, activists and the common people, particularly women and tribal leaders and activists who have formed the backbone of the struggle find little place in the documentation of the struggle. One of the objectives of this oral history is to attempt to address this gap.
Another issue is that the Narmada struggle is seen mainly as the NBA, a well-organized movement spread over the entire project affected area that began around the mid-1980s. While this is certainly true, what is not known well is that the earliest resistance against the project dates to 1961 when the foundation stone of the project was laid. From then onwards the Narmada valley has seen a series of protests and movements against the project, some spontaneous and unorganized, others more structured and organized. These struggles prepared the ground for the emergence of the subsequent struggle in the form of the NBA. These oral histories trace the earlier resistance against the project and its history.
The oral histories address these limitations by recording the experiences of those whose roles/experiences have not been documented so far. In doing these recordings, Nandini has been able to bring in her own experience as a full time activist of the NBA for over twelve years and another eight as the resident of the Narmada valley to weave together narratives of the hitherto less known histories of a struggle that has been going on for over half a century now.

About Nandini Oza: After completing MSW, Nandini worked in an NGO involved in soil and water conservation.  Subsequently she was a full time activist with NBA where she lived and worked among the people affected by the SSP. Her main responsibility was mobilization of the people to strengthen the NBA as well as to help coordinate programs, rallies, demonstrations, mass actions, fund raising programs and campaigns. As part of NBA, she was involved in extensive research, documentation and dissemination of information regarding several aspects of the project and its impacts both within the valley and outside. She has represented NBA nationally as well as internationally.  Later, along with teaching in the Government college in Badwani, she took up the task of recording the oral history of those involved in the NBA, particularly the tribal people and the farmers affected by the SSP.  Currently she is processing the recorded history for dissemination. Author of the book- ‘Whither Justice- Stories of Women in Prison’, Published by Rupa and Co, she is an independent researcher and writer. She is also a part of the Zindabad trust.

All are welcome.

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The word ‘Aajir’ stands for one who has sold himself into slavery for a paltry sum. In the play, ‘Aajir’, the story of a slave held by a bond signed by an ancestor – a slavery that denies him the right to love, marry and live a life of a human being – discovering that the bond has long turned to dust, but discovering it only too late, is a metaphor for the traditional constraints that bind the individual in our country long after their legal authority has given way. Exploitation operates beyond the law and with the tacit acquiescence of an exploited class held in thrall by a load of conventional role – obligations. Legal reforms or legal defences for the exploited have rarely affected the exploitative mechanism sustained by the illiteracy and ignorance of the exploited. Paatan, the bonded slave, whose ancestor had sold himself, his family and his descendant to perpetual slavery, is a supreme example of the slave suffering forever in a historical perspective that goes on and on.

Mataang, the epitome of manipulation, relegates his wife to a position of inferiority and subjugation tantamounting almost to the bonded position of Paatan. Religious traditions, under the preponderant influence of Hinduism, provide the ideological basis for patriarchy and assign women an inferior role in the family and society.

About the Author

Mahasweta Devi (b. 1926) is one of India's leading writers. She has won the country's most prestigious literary prizes for her writing including the Jnanpith Award, and the Padmashree Award for her activist work among the tribal communities of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa. She writes novels, short fiction, and plays, in Bengali, and has made a mark in all three genres. She re-creates a span of history, imbuing her narration with trenchant satire against establishment and soul-stirring poignancy for the underprivileged.

STORY: MAHASWETA DEVI
DRAMATISATION: DEBASHISH CHAKRABORTY
ADAPTATION AND DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
PRODUCTION: SHUDRAKA HYDERABAD
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: AUGUST 22, 2015
TIME: 8 PM
DURATION: 1 hour 15 minutes
LANGUAGE: BENGALI
VENUE: LAMAKAAN

Entry - Free

With India becoming the diabetes capital and with every Indian man and woman developing a paunch it's absolutely necessary to repeatedly ring the bells to eat right and live an active and fit lifestyle and to make this transition easier a Nutritionist can help in a long way.

Inviting all for a presentation on Healthy eating and life habits by Rasheeda Sadhpurwala.

To enjoy Wealth one needs to be in good Health. So it's high time one takes responsibility of nourishing and taking good care of their bodies.
Hopefully when this happens hospitals will be less crowded.

All are welcome.

Indian Startups meetup group is a community networking group for entrepreneurs across the world to help venture new startups, nurture existing startups, encourage entrepreneurship, provide incubation facilities, co-working space, seed funding, crowd funding, investor connections, co-founders, mentors, advisers. Also the group members provide wherever possible free website, legal, patent, accounting, marketing and other essential services needed to start-ups.

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‘Kinu Kaharer Thetar’, arguably the best play written by Manoj Mitra, an outstanding theatrical personality of West Bengal, that has been sought to be transcribed in Hindi ‘Kinu Kahar Ka Thitr’, satirically portrays the system of domination and exploitation perpetuated by different institutions and practices of the inhuman establishment in a style which absorbs the kernel of rural dramatic culture. The members of the troupe of Kinu trying to present the drama Ghantakaner Pala are now all dead but they appear again and again to present the misdeeds of the high ups only to be stopped by the establishment by force. It proves the historical continuity of the protests of the marginalized against the exploitative establishment and the latter’s forceful gagging of such protestation.

The play portrays a rural dramatic troupe back in the British rule in India staging a political satire entitled Ghantakaner Pala before a rustic audience of Putna, an imaginary village. The poor and naïve Ghantakarna who, losing his job to the quirks of the trickster Bhaanr, is getting employed under the Raja as the ‘shajakheko officer’ as his only throwback—- the self-proclaimed criminal of the crimes committed in Putna. The Raja conveniently appoints Ghantakarna for this task in order to win his political battle against Laatshaheb who shamelessly jockeys for political power and openly defies the Raja’s political maneuvers. Ghantakarna and his wife, Jagadamba enjoy the financial comforts offered by this employment. Despite the initial turmoil within her conscience, Jagadamba’s lust for wealth prevails and she lets the innocent Ghantakarna accept death sentence given by Laatshaheb to the trusted Minister of the Raja for abusing a woman– a feat that enables Jagadamba rise to the position of the queen. However, this time Ghantakarna not only refuses to shoulder the responsibility of the King’s crime but himself is going to commit the crime of murdering the King, Minister and Laatshaheb, the three arch representatives of the inhuman system. At this juncture, enters a policeman, ordered by the politically powerful men from the real world, and disallows the complete performance of Ghantakarner Pala. The masterstroke of Manoj Mitra’s satiric vision cannot be missed here for this intrusion reflects with more immediacy the dehumanization at work eating into the ugly political fabric of colonial India. And though Manoj Mitra’s play is set in a time different from ours, we feel its contemporary relevance.

About the author
An actor par excellence, Manoj Mitra (b. 1938) formed his theatre group ‘Sundaram’ way back in 1957 and has acted in, directed, organised and written many plays over the years. His works have been translated into many languages and produced by countless directors like Ratan Thiyam and Rajendar Nath. He is the recipient of many awards in the field of theatre including the Sangeet Natak Akademy Award for Best Playwright.

DRAMATISATION: MANOJ MITRA
ADAPTATION AND DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
PRODUCTION: SHUDRAKA HYDERABAD
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: AUGUST 23, 2015
TIME: 8 PM
DURATION: 1 hour 15 minutes
LANGUAGE: HINDI
VENUE: LAMAKAAN

Entry - Free.

Inviting all for a Screening of the film "Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai" (2014),
Directed by: Nakul Singh Sawhney
Duration: 136 mins.

Recently in Delhi, in yet another case of brash intolerance by the state and its violent cronies, the screening of this film was forcefully disrupted and organisers roughed up.

As a solidarity, Nation-wide screening of this film will be held across on 25th of August.

Synopsis of the movie:
"Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai"
In September, 2013, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Western Uttar Pradesh, India, witnessed their worst ever anti-Muslim pogrom since Indian Independence. More than 100 people were killed and close to 80,000 people were displaced.

In the past, the two districts have seen relative harmony between Muslims and Hindus. What happened this time? ‘Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai…’ (Muzaffarnagar eventually…) explores this question examining the many facets of the massacre- the question of women’s ‘honour’, which was used by organisations of the Hindu right, including BJP-RSS, to orchestrate communal violence, the merging of caste identity politics within the larger Hindutva fold, the breakdown of the once powerful farmers’ union, the Bhartiya Kissan Union, whose survival hinged on the unity of Hindu and Muslim peasants, the various aspects of Dalit politics in the districts, the dubious role of the Samajwadi Party, the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh and the feeling of complete alienation and marginalisation of the Muslim community. The film looks at how the massacre found its resonance in the 2014 Indian General election campaign. Finally, it tells of the continued and growing resistance in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts against the corporate- communal nexus.

Brief note about Director:
Nakul Singh Sawhney’s films include the award winning With a little help from my friends (2005), Agaurav and Undecided, (both in 2006), Once upon a time in Chheharta and the acclaimed Izzatnagari Ki Asabhya Betiyaan (2012) on “honour” crimes in Haryana.

All are welcome to this thought provoking documentary. Entry - Free.

Zinda Talisman ( or the Stuff of Life) is an Installation piece that combines Stage, Film and Sound- tied togegher by the story of a young girl from Hyderabad who goes to the busy markets of Charminar with her mother and gets spellbound by a magical object.
To get back to reality, she must answer only one question...
"Batao! Kya Seekha?

Piyush Mishra is an Indian film and theatre actor, music director, lyricist, singer, scriptwriter.

A graduate from National School of Drama, he started his career in Hindi theatre, established himself as a theatre director, actor, lyricist and singer. A screenwriter, and Lyricist he received acclaim for his acting in Maqbool (2003) and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). As a film lyricist and singer, he is noted for his songs "Arre Ruk Ja Re Bandeh" (Black Friday, 2004), "Aarambh Hai Prachand" (Gulaal, 2009), "Ik Bagal" (Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2, 2012), and "Husna" (MTV Coke Studio, 2012)

Today he is one of the sane voices in increasigly polarising culture scenario of India. Piyush ji will talk & Sing on various cultural issues.

Followed by a screening of his film The Playback Singer by Suju Vijayan.

THE PLAYBACK SINGER tells the story of an aimless, would-be, jungle-gym architect who finds his existence disrupted - and his marriage upended - when his prickly, Indian, B-movie playback singer father-in-law comes to visit and overstays his welcome.

All are welcome to this vibrant evening. Entry - Free.

Not every day will you see a man and his wife’s husband together on stage.

Come and find out who gets to keep the wife and who gets to keep the misery.

Donor Pass: Rs.100/-

http://in.bookmyshow.com/plays/my-wifes-husband/ET00014535

Contact: sifar.theatre@gmail.com|98493 31347

Written by: Miro Gavran | Indian adaptation by: Feroze

Music composed by: Amit Dasani & Suhit Chiruthapudi

Poster & Ticket designed by: Kathik Vijay V

Cast: Maya, Shravanth, Feroze

Directed by: Feroze

The play 'Badnaam Manto' is a production of Mumbai based theatre group Rangrez. The Play depicts the controversial stages of Manto's life.

Synopsis:

Badnaam Manto

‘Here lies Saadat Hassan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets of the art of storytelling in his breast. Weighed down by the earth he wonders still: Who is the greater writer, God or he?’

The play plots itself in Saadat Hasan Manto’s after life and packs a lot of untold surprises for the audience to keep them pondering on his current existence. Though considering the fact that Manto is dead.. he has not ceased living. One can still find traits of his existence in his writings, his followers and of course you and me. Based on the most primitive and the inevitable relations of mankind’s histories, his stories (in non-prejudice eyes) have proved to be valid in all the directions of time.


Play Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes.

Play Language: Hindustani.


Cast & Crew

On Sage

Pahalwaan: Ayatullah Khan
Manto: Devroop Sarma

Back stage

Lights & Music : Shivkaant Agrahari
Creative Director: Shashi Sharma
Writer Inspired from a play Written by
Rafi Sahbbir
Director: Ayatullah Khan.

For passes: at the gate on Fri & Sat 28,29 Aug at 8pm.

Presenting a two day Art Exhibition and and Interactive session with Artist Srinivas Bobbili on Sat-Sun 29, 30 Aug from 11am to 5pm.

Artists are always craving to bring out the hidden dimensions of creativity in their art, while the other are privileged to access and inquire in to the creative activity of the artist from the art exhibitions.

Art is everyone's instinct, and Srinivas Bobbili believes that people will try to reach out to art when art is reachable to them in every possible aspect.

This exhibition is primarily the artist's urge to share his art while made it reachable for the sheer joy of owning and appreciation.

This exhibition is conceptualized in all aspects to reach every art enthusiasts, to collect, and enjoy art in everyday life surrounded by art in their living environment.

The art works in this exhibition remains priceless and One can take home art of their choice and at their choice of price paid only to make both ends meet.

All are welcome to this interactive and participatory Exhibition, learn and Take home a piece of Art at the price you find suitable.

Entry - Free.

We welcome you to the screening of a documentary on Adi Ayurveda called " One day school on Health" along with interaction with the film maker - Satish K from Kerala.

Adi ayurveda advocates that the route to perfect health can only be attained through balance of structure, posture, breath and nutrition . A balance in posture can only be achieved if there is a balance in structure. A balance in structure can be achieved only if there is a balance in breath. A balance in breath can only be achieved if there is a balance in the bodily fluid and sufficient haemoglobin in the blood.

Adi ayurveda aims to create harmony in the body by correcting imbalances of structure, posture. breath and nutrition. The common cold, asthma, epilepsy, over 400 diseases, which are unseen in other living beings and found only in man can be understood and solved through the right movement-breath awareness program. To overcome the huge economic and other burdens related to these diseases, we welcome you to our One Day School program.

This month's quiz is on Bollywood. There will be a maximum of 6 teams. For more info and updates, please see www.facebook.com/groups/hydquizclub

Entry - Free

The play 'Badnaam Manto' is a production of Mumbai based theatre group Rangrez. The Play depicts the controversial stages of Manto's life.

Synopsis:

Badnaam Manto

‘Here lies Saadat Hassan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets of the art of storytelling in his breast. Weighed down by the earth he wonders still: Who is the greater writer, God or he?’

The play plots itself in Saadat Hasan Manto’s after life and packs a lot of untold surprises for the audience to keep them pondering on his current existence. Though considering the fact that Manto is dead.. he has not ceased living. One can still find traits of his existence in his writings, his followers and of course you and me. Based on the most primitive and the inevitable relations of mankind’s histories, his stories (in non-prejudice eyes) have proved to be valid in all the directions of time.


Play Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes.

Play Language: Hindustani.


Cast & Crew

On Sage

Pahalwaan: Ayatullah Khan
Manto: Devroop Sarma

Back stage

Lights & Music : Shivkaant Agrahari
Creative Director: Shashi Sharma
Writer Inspired from a play Written by
Rafi Sahbbir
Director: Ayatullah Khan.

For passes: at the gate on Fri & Sat 28,29 Aug at 8pm.

This is a one day newspaper basket weaving workshop for 3hrs.Inviting you all for the eco-friendly artwork. Neswpaper baskets can be used for different purposes.Come n join the workshop and contribute your creative side to reuse,reduce n recycle.The fee for workshop is Rs.500(including material)

IoT meeting

Inviting all for a World Kitchen Garden Day on Sun Aug 30th, 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM during our weekly Organic Bazaar where you can interact with other kitchen gardeners, and get inspired to grow your own food.

You can also Pick up seeds, compost bins, and other gardening accessories.

Entry - Free

Samahaara
presents

An adaptation of Sharad Joshi's
"Ek Tha Gadha" (A play in Hindi)

Produced by Rathna Shekar Reddy
Directed by Nagaraju Pejjai

A Samahaara Workshop Production

Ek Tha Gadha is a hilarious satire written by Sharad Joshi. It's the story of how a person in authority capitalises on someone's tragedy for their own selfish political gains - something that we as an audience are familiar with if we ever picked up a news paper.

Date: 30th August, 2015
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lamakaan

Donation Rs.100/-