Lamakaan

The Centre for Development Policy and Practice (CDPP), in collaboration with the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and A-CODE, cordially invites you to a special anniversary edition of Bazm-e-Sukhan:

“Kuchh Ishq Kiya: Faiz Ahmed Faiz”

An evening celebrating the life and poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, featuring Mir Ali Hussain and musical renditions by Smita Bellur.

As the New Year 2026 dawns with fresh beginnings and renewed imagination, Lamakaan ushers in January with a festival of Federico Fellini—inviting audiences every Wednesday evening to step into his dreamlike cinema, a perfect way to start the year by celebrating creativity, fantasy, and the art of storytelling.

About the Director: Federico Fellini was born on January 20, 1920, in Rimini, Italy, and passed away on October 31, 1993, in Rome at the age of 73. His journey from a small-town boy sketching caricatures to becoming a towering figure of world cinema is itself a story of imagination. Fellini began his career as a screenwriter in post-war Italy, contributing to the neorealist movement, but soon broke away to craft a style uniquely his own—one that fused fantasy, memory, and baroque imagery with earthy human detail.

Across masterpieces like La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963), Fellini redefined cinema as a medium of dreams. His films are populated with clowns, carnivals, and surreal spectacles, yet always grounded in the emotional truths of loneliness, desire, and the search for meaning. He won four Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other director, and his influence continues to ripple across generations of filmmakers.

Film Title: LA STRADA | 1954 | 108 Mins | Italy | Italian Language with English Subtitles

About the film: La Strada, also translated into English as The Road, is a 1954 Italian tragedy film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, and Ennio Flaiano. The film tells the story of Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a simple-minded young woman sold by her mother to Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road.

Screening followed by Discussion. All are Welcome. Entry is free and open to all!

Kulhad is a student-made and independently funded short film centered on two engineering students in Hyderabad, Abeer and Vihaan, whose brief interaction brings together two very different lived realities. Abeer, living far from home, struggles with isolation and mental health, while Vihaan, who lives with his family, grapples with dissatisfaction and pressure despite being rooted in his home environment.

The film aims to be relatable to those who feel displaced as well as those who feel unsettled even while staying at home, reflecting the complicated relationships and emotional negotiations people navigate daily. Through a grounded, minimal narrative, Kulhad shows how something seemingly insignificant, a shared laugh or a moment of warmth, can offer unexpected peace.

Using the kulhad as its central motif, the film stays rooted in everyday routines, portraying how something as simple as a cup of chai can help one step out of a heavy headspace.

Özge Baykan Calafato explores the transnational histories linking the late Ottoman Empire and Hyderabad through photography. Focusing on the marriages of Ottoman princesses into the Nizam’s family, the talk examines how royal photographs shaped memory, migration, and ideas of cosmopolitan modernity across Turkey and India, and how these images continue to circulate today through nostalgia, exile, and archival afterlives.

"Vibhata Sandhyalu" is a distinctive and important Telugu literary anthology published under the editorship of C.V. Subbarao, which has provided works with a revolutionary perspective by integrating poetry, criticism, and social sciences, giving a new direction to literary criticism and making a distinguished contribution to Telugu literature.

Through "Vibhata Sandhyalu", C.V. Subbarao showed literature not only as an artistic medium but also as a tool for social change and a revolutionary perspective. This marked a significant turning point in Telugu literature.

I am gathering all traders in stock markets, they are also coming to meet me in person I am from Hyderabad Saai who have around 15k followers in Instagram. Its a free event just meetup discuss and gather have tea coffee snacks

Listen Circle is a peer-support space for queer and neurodivergent.Space for queer and neurodivergent people to come together to engage in a therapeutic discussion along with arts based therapy
Dance Movement Therapy based Listening Circle by ADHD QUEEPLE. We'll be using elements from creative movement therapy to look at social connection, self and co- regulation and then move on to sharing with each other as a community.

The facilitation will be done by Angela Melanie Rego who is a trained dance movement therapy practitioner and co-facilitated by Priyanka who is trained to provide psycho social support and support groups.

Start your 2026 with a visual conversation with your future self. In this vision board making workshop, we will be crafting personalized vision board by letting our imagination free and planning serious.The workshop is open for all age groups. All the supplies will be provided, just bring your creativity along!

Date: 18.01.2026
Time: 11am to 1pm
Fee: Rs500 per participant
DM @ 6290176108 for queries and registration

Last date to register 15.01.2026

Perhaps Zora Neale Hurston's quote "Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose," prompted the Late Jayant Pawar, a renowned Marathi playwright and critic, to meet a Crematorium keeper in the Municipal Crematorium, Worli, Mumbai, to explore the intricacies of life – and the dead - there.
Adapted as a play by Sutradhar, Hyderabad from the not so publicized 1993 interview of the late Jayant Pawar with a Worli Municipal Crematorium keeper, it offers a no-holds barred peep into the lives of those who do not merely witness mortality, but inhabit its geography—physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Hour after hour, day after day.
The interview termed as ‘mulaakhat’ and published in Marathi as PASSWALA has been translated by Vrushali Singh Bayas and devised and directed by Vinay Varma.
At the heart of the story is the crematorium keeper, K.G. Mohite, a man who’s seen thousands of bodies reduced to bone and ash, and yet wakes each morning to write a pass for another dead, have another pyre lit, and carry on with life. He’s someone who has long ceased to react, but has never ceased to observe. His presence is marked by endurance and not by emotion. His stoicism stems from a philosophy refined through years of disciplined proximity to the temporal world. He does not sentimentalize the dead, nor does he recoil from them. His silence is precise, deliberate, and functional. Surrounded by fire, grief, bureaucracy, human faeces and forgotten bodies, the keeper operates with an unflinching sense of duty. He neither resists nor embraces his environment—he inhabits it fully, as one might inhabit a vow.
Life continues for those who have made the crematorium their home. People go to work, carry their daily chores, dance and sing, argue, fall in love, and stay normal—while surrounded by death.
The story explores hard, often uncomfortable questions:
Is there a sensitive soul behind the calm and detached demeanour of the crematorium keeper?
How human rituals of joy—marriage, childbirth, and other celebrations—retain their vitality in a space designed for endings?
Are unclaimed bodies really cremated imperviously?
How does one preserve dignity and belief when surrounded by decay, stench and silence?
What mechanisms, rational or superstitious, do people devise to hold off the ‘imagined’ ghosts of the dead?
How is a burial spot identified so as to not disturb the already buried?
But underneath it all, Passwala isn’t just about death. It’s about what refuses to die: hope, absurdity, guilt, and the absurd persistence of laughter even when it shouldn't exist. Told with honesty and restraint, Passwala doesn't rely on spectacle or sentimentality. Instead, it quietly observes the rhythms of daily life in a place most people avoid. It is a story of survival, dignity, and human resilience. Of people who don’t choose to be near death, but find ways to live fully in its presence.
Come, watch how the custodians of death negotiate the fragile machinery of the living. Listen to the Philosophy of life – and death – explored through pauses, muted dialogues, resilience and routine gestures of a marginalized professional.
Although the setting of the play is Mumbai, the theme of life and death resonates across the universe. This play is particularly an eye opener for those who never visit a crematorium, for various reasons including fear!

As the New Year 2026 dawns with fresh beginnings and renewed imagination, Lamakaan ushers in January with a festival of Federico Fellini—inviting audiences every Wednesday evening to step into his dreamlike cinema, a perfect way to start the year by celebrating creativity, fantasy, and the art of storytelling.

About the Director: Federico Fellini was born on January 20, 1920, in Rimini, Italy, and passed away on October 31, 1993, in Rome at the age of 73. His journey from a small-town boy sketching caricatures to becoming a towering figure of world cinema is itself a story of imagination. Fellini began his career as a screenwriter in post-war Italy, contributing to the neorealist movement, but soon broke away to craft a style uniquely his own—one that fused fantasy, memory, and baroque imagery with earthy human detail.

Across masterpieces like La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963), Fellini redefined cinema as a medium of dreams. His films are populated with clowns, carnivals, and surreal spectacles, yet always grounded in the emotional truths of loneliness, desire, and the search for meaning. He won four Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other director, and his influence continues to ripple across generations of filmmakers.

Film Title: 8½ | 1963 | 138 Mins | Italy & France | Italian Language with English Subtitles

About the film: 8½ is a 1963 avant-garde comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), who suffers from writer's block as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film. Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, and Eddra Gale portray the various women in Guido's life. An international co-production between France and Italy, the film was shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and features a score by Nino Rota, with costume and set designs by Piero Gherardi. Fellini also employs surrealistic passages throughout the film to enhance its fantastical atmosphere.

Screening followed by Discussion. All are Welcome. Entry is free and open to all!

So Heddan So Hoddan (Like Here Like There)
52 mins, 2011, PSBT
Directed by Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar

Synopsis
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, a medieval Sufi poet, is an iconic figure in the cultural history of Sindh. Bhitai’s /Shah Ji Risalo/ is a remarkable collection of poems which are sung by many communities in Kachchh and across the border in Sindh (now in Pakistan). Many of the poems draw on the eternal love stories of /Umar-Marui/ and /Sasui-Punhu/, among others.
These songs speak of the pain of parting, of the inevitability of loss and of deep grief that
takes one to unknown and mysterious terrains.
Umar Haji Suleiman of Abdasa, in Kachchh, Gujarat, is a self-taught Sufi scholar; once a cattle herder, now a farmer, he lives his life through the poetry of Bhitai. Umar’s cousin, Mustafa Jatt sings the Beths of Bhitai. He is accompanied on the Surando, by his cousin Usman Jatt. Usman is a truck driver, who owns and plays one of the last surviving
Surandos in the region. The Surando is a peacock-shaped, five-stringed instrument from Sindh. The film explores the life worlds of the three cousins, their families and the Fakirani Jat community to which they belong.
Before the Partition the Maldhari (pastoralist) Jatts moved freely across the Rann, between Sindh (now in Pakistan) and Kutch. As pastoral ways of living have given way to settlement, borders and industrialisation, the older generation struggles to keep alive the rich syncretic legacy of Shah Bhitai, that celebrates diversity and non-difference, suffering and transcendence, transience and survival. These marginal visions of negotiating difference in creative ways resist cultural politics based on tight notions of nation-state and national
culture; they open up the windows of India’s national imaginary.

Awards
IDPA Silvers for Script, Sound Design, and Cinematography, 2011
Best Film, International Folk Film Festival, Kathmandu, 2012
Basil Wright Award, RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2013

Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar
Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar are former Professors from the School of Media and
Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. They are involved in documentary production, media teaching and research. They have played a key role in setting up the School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS and the MA and Ph.D. programmes in Media and Cultural Studies, which is a unique blend of theory and practice.
They have been commissioning editors and mentors for over 100 documentaries by students and early career filmmakers. They were awarded the Satish Bahadur Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Film Education, by the National Institute of Design,
Ahmedabad in 2022.
Their documentary films, which have been screened across the world, have won 33 national and international awards. Their most recent award is a Commendation of the Jury for A Delicate Weave at the 16th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2019. They were participating artists in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2018, with their
installation based on their film Saacha (2001).
They write in the broad areas of censorship, documentary film and media and cultural
studies. Their book A Fly in the Curry (Sage, 2016), on independent Indian documentary, won a Special Mention for the best book on cinema at the National Film Awards, 2016.
They have also co-edited the books DigiNaka: Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-
Capitalist India, (Orient Blackswan, 2020) and Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media (Sage, 2021). They have been visiting faculty and fellows at several leading media and design institutions and lectured at universities across the world. They are both involved in campaigns against censorship and are associated with various media organisations. More about their work at http://www.monteiro-
jayasankar.com/

Screening followed by a Discussion with the filmmakers!

All are Welcome!

Debverna, a vocalist and composer, has over a decade of experience as a performing artist. A recognized All India Radio artist, with a Doctorate in Indian Classical Music, Debverna is a master of her craft belonging to the Jaipur and Gwalior Gharana traditions, learning from Pt. Nishad Bakre, Vidushi Arati Ankalikar and Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar. Her performances are emotional journeys, skillfully executed, that takes the audience on a deep dive into the soul of each raga. Do not miss this captivating artist performing this Friday evening at Lamakaan where she takes you into the world of the ragas performed in the light of the sangeet shastras.

Turn your weekend slow, creative & meaningful 🌿

Join our Upcycled Fabric Fridge Magnets Workshop where you’ll create:
✨ 1 customised letter fridge magnet
🌸 1 flower pot fridge magnet
— all made from fabric scraps ♻️

What you’ll learn:
• Basics of upcycling fabric & turning waste into functional décor
• Handcrafting techniques for fabric magnets

No experience needed—anyone can join 💛
Perfect for a mindful, screen-free weekend spent creating with your hands.
Fee : ₹500 ( including all materials )

📩 DM to register @kalavithii | Limited seats

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

The Centre for Development Policy and Practice (CDPP), in collaboration with the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and A-CODE, cordially invites you to a special anniversary edition of Bazm-e-Sukhan:

“Kuchh Ishq Kiya: Faiz Ahmed Faiz”

An evening celebrating the life and poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, featuring Mir Ali Hussain and musical renditions by Smita Bellur.

As the New Year 2026 dawns with fresh beginnings and renewed imagination, Lamakaan ushers in January with a festival of Federico Fellini—inviting audiences every Wednesday evening to step into his dreamlike cinema, a perfect way to start the year by celebrating creativity, fantasy, and the art of storytelling.

About the Director: Federico Fellini was born on January 20, 1920, in Rimini, Italy, and passed away on October 31, 1993, in Rome at the age of 73. His journey from a small-town boy sketching caricatures to becoming a towering figure of world cinema is itself a story of imagination. Fellini began his career as a screenwriter in post-war Italy, contributing to the neorealist movement, but soon broke away to craft a style uniquely his own—one that fused fantasy, memory, and baroque imagery with earthy human detail.

Across masterpieces like La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963), Fellini redefined cinema as a medium of dreams. His films are populated with clowns, carnivals, and surreal spectacles, yet always grounded in the emotional truths of loneliness, desire, and the search for meaning. He won four Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other director, and his influence continues to ripple across generations of filmmakers.

Film Title: LA STRADA | 1954 | 108 Mins | Italy | Italian Language with English Subtitles

About the film: La Strada, also translated into English as The Road, is a 1954 Italian tragedy film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, and Ennio Flaiano. The film tells the story of Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a simple-minded young woman sold by her mother to Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road.

Screening followed by Discussion. All are Welcome. Entry is free and open to all!

Kulhad is a student-made and independently funded short film centered on two engineering students in Hyderabad, Abeer and Vihaan, whose brief interaction brings together two very different lived realities. Abeer, living far from home, struggles with isolation and mental health, while Vihaan, who lives with his family, grapples with dissatisfaction and pressure despite being rooted in his home environment.

The film aims to be relatable to those who feel displaced as well as those who feel unsettled even while staying at home, reflecting the complicated relationships and emotional negotiations people navigate daily. Through a grounded, minimal narrative, Kulhad shows how something seemingly insignificant, a shared laugh or a moment of warmth, can offer unexpected peace.

Using the kulhad as its central motif, the film stays rooted in everyday routines, portraying how something as simple as a cup of chai can help one step out of a heavy headspace.

Özge Baykan Calafato explores the transnational histories linking the late Ottoman Empire and Hyderabad through photography. Focusing on the marriages of Ottoman princesses into the Nizam’s family, the talk examines how royal photographs shaped memory, migration, and ideas of cosmopolitan modernity across Turkey and India, and how these images continue to circulate today through nostalgia, exile, and archival afterlives.

"Vibhata Sandhyalu" is a distinctive and important Telugu literary anthology published under the editorship of C.V. Subbarao, which has provided works with a revolutionary perspective by integrating poetry, criticism, and social sciences, giving a new direction to literary criticism and making a distinguished contribution to Telugu literature.

Through "Vibhata Sandhyalu", C.V. Subbarao showed literature not only as an artistic medium but also as a tool for social change and a revolutionary perspective. This marked a significant turning point in Telugu literature.

I am gathering all traders in stock markets, they are also coming to meet me in person I am from Hyderabad Saai who have around 15k followers in Instagram. Its a free event just meetup discuss and gather have tea coffee snacks

Listen Circle is a peer-support space for queer and neurodivergent.Space for queer and neurodivergent people to come together to engage in a therapeutic discussion along with arts based therapy
Dance Movement Therapy based Listening Circle by ADHD QUEEPLE. We'll be using elements from creative movement therapy to look at social connection, self and co- regulation and then move on to sharing with each other as a community.

The facilitation will be done by Angela Melanie Rego who is a trained dance movement therapy practitioner and co-facilitated by Priyanka who is trained to provide psycho social support and support groups.

Start your 2026 with a visual conversation with your future self. In this vision board making workshop, we will be crafting personalized vision board by letting our imagination free and planning serious.The workshop is open for all age groups. All the supplies will be provided, just bring your creativity along!

Date: 18.01.2026
Time: 11am to 1pm
Fee: Rs500 per participant
DM @ 6290176108 for queries and registration

Last date to register 15.01.2026

Perhaps Zora Neale Hurston's quote "Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose," prompted the Late Jayant Pawar, a renowned Marathi playwright and critic, to meet a Crematorium keeper in the Municipal Crematorium, Worli, Mumbai, to explore the intricacies of life – and the dead - there.
Adapted as a play by Sutradhar, Hyderabad from the not so publicized 1993 interview of the late Jayant Pawar with a Worli Municipal Crematorium keeper, it offers a no-holds barred peep into the lives of those who do not merely witness mortality, but inhabit its geography—physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Hour after hour, day after day.
The interview termed as ‘mulaakhat’ and published in Marathi as PASSWALA has been translated by Vrushali Singh Bayas and devised and directed by Vinay Varma.
At the heart of the story is the crematorium keeper, K.G. Mohite, a man who’s seen thousands of bodies reduced to bone and ash, and yet wakes each morning to write a pass for another dead, have another pyre lit, and carry on with life. He’s someone who has long ceased to react, but has never ceased to observe. His presence is marked by endurance and not by emotion. His stoicism stems from a philosophy refined through years of disciplined proximity to the temporal world. He does not sentimentalize the dead, nor does he recoil from them. His silence is precise, deliberate, and functional. Surrounded by fire, grief, bureaucracy, human faeces and forgotten bodies, the keeper operates with an unflinching sense of duty. He neither resists nor embraces his environment—he inhabits it fully, as one might inhabit a vow.
Life continues for those who have made the crematorium their home. People go to work, carry their daily chores, dance and sing, argue, fall in love, and stay normal—while surrounded by death.
The story explores hard, often uncomfortable questions:
Is there a sensitive soul behind the calm and detached demeanour of the crematorium keeper?
How human rituals of joy—marriage, childbirth, and other celebrations—retain their vitality in a space designed for endings?
Are unclaimed bodies really cremated imperviously?
How does one preserve dignity and belief when surrounded by decay, stench and silence?
What mechanisms, rational or superstitious, do people devise to hold off the ‘imagined’ ghosts of the dead?
How is a burial spot identified so as to not disturb the already buried?
But underneath it all, Passwala isn’t just about death. It’s about what refuses to die: hope, absurdity, guilt, and the absurd persistence of laughter even when it shouldn't exist. Told with honesty and restraint, Passwala doesn't rely on spectacle or sentimentality. Instead, it quietly observes the rhythms of daily life in a place most people avoid. It is a story of survival, dignity, and human resilience. Of people who don’t choose to be near death, but find ways to live fully in its presence.
Come, watch how the custodians of death negotiate the fragile machinery of the living. Listen to the Philosophy of life – and death – explored through pauses, muted dialogues, resilience and routine gestures of a marginalized professional.
Although the setting of the play is Mumbai, the theme of life and death resonates across the universe. This play is particularly an eye opener for those who never visit a crematorium, for various reasons including fear!

As the New Year 2026 dawns with fresh beginnings and renewed imagination, Lamakaan ushers in January with a festival of Federico Fellini—inviting audiences every Wednesday evening to step into his dreamlike cinema, a perfect way to start the year by celebrating creativity, fantasy, and the art of storytelling.

About the Director: Federico Fellini was born on January 20, 1920, in Rimini, Italy, and passed away on October 31, 1993, in Rome at the age of 73. His journey from a small-town boy sketching caricatures to becoming a towering figure of world cinema is itself a story of imagination. Fellini began his career as a screenwriter in post-war Italy, contributing to the neorealist movement, but soon broke away to craft a style uniquely his own—one that fused fantasy, memory, and baroque imagery with earthy human detail.

Across masterpieces like La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963), Fellini redefined cinema as a medium of dreams. His films are populated with clowns, carnivals, and surreal spectacles, yet always grounded in the emotional truths of loneliness, desire, and the search for meaning. He won four Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other director, and his influence continues to ripple across generations of filmmakers.

Film Title: 8½ | 1963 | 138 Mins | Italy & France | Italian Language with English Subtitles

About the film: 8½ is a 1963 avant-garde comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), who suffers from writer's block as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film. Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, and Eddra Gale portray the various women in Guido's life. An international co-production between France and Italy, the film was shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and features a score by Nino Rota, with costume and set designs by Piero Gherardi. Fellini also employs surrealistic passages throughout the film to enhance its fantastical atmosphere.

Screening followed by Discussion. All are Welcome. Entry is free and open to all!

So Heddan So Hoddan (Like Here Like There)
52 mins, 2011, PSBT
Directed by Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar

Synopsis
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, a medieval Sufi poet, is an iconic figure in the cultural history of Sindh. Bhitai’s /Shah Ji Risalo/ is a remarkable collection of poems which are sung by many communities in Kachchh and across the border in Sindh (now in Pakistan). Many of the poems draw on the eternal love stories of /Umar-Marui/ and /Sasui-Punhu/, among others.
These songs speak of the pain of parting, of the inevitability of loss and of deep grief that
takes one to unknown and mysterious terrains.
Umar Haji Suleiman of Abdasa, in Kachchh, Gujarat, is a self-taught Sufi scholar; once a cattle herder, now a farmer, he lives his life through the poetry of Bhitai. Umar’s cousin, Mustafa Jatt sings the Beths of Bhitai. He is accompanied on the Surando, by his cousin Usman Jatt. Usman is a truck driver, who owns and plays one of the last surviving
Surandos in the region. The Surando is a peacock-shaped, five-stringed instrument from Sindh. The film explores the life worlds of the three cousins, their families and the Fakirani Jat community to which they belong.
Before the Partition the Maldhari (pastoralist) Jatts moved freely across the Rann, between Sindh (now in Pakistan) and Kutch. As pastoral ways of living have given way to settlement, borders and industrialisation, the older generation struggles to keep alive the rich syncretic legacy of Shah Bhitai, that celebrates diversity and non-difference, suffering and transcendence, transience and survival. These marginal visions of negotiating difference in creative ways resist cultural politics based on tight notions of nation-state and national
culture; they open up the windows of India’s national imaginary.

Awards
IDPA Silvers for Script, Sound Design, and Cinematography, 2011
Best Film, International Folk Film Festival, Kathmandu, 2012
Basil Wright Award, RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2013

Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar
Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar are former Professors from the School of Media and
Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. They are involved in documentary production, media teaching and research. They have played a key role in setting up the School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS and the MA and Ph.D. programmes in Media and Cultural Studies, which is a unique blend of theory and practice.
They have been commissioning editors and mentors for over 100 documentaries by students and early career filmmakers. They were awarded the Satish Bahadur Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Film Education, by the National Institute of Design,
Ahmedabad in 2022.
Their documentary films, which have been screened across the world, have won 33 national and international awards. Their most recent award is a Commendation of the Jury for A Delicate Weave at the 16th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2019. They were participating artists in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2018, with their
installation based on their film Saacha (2001).
They write in the broad areas of censorship, documentary film and media and cultural
studies. Their book A Fly in the Curry (Sage, 2016), on independent Indian documentary, won a Special Mention for the best book on cinema at the National Film Awards, 2016.
They have also co-edited the books DigiNaka: Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-
Capitalist India, (Orient Blackswan, 2020) and Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media (Sage, 2021). They have been visiting faculty and fellows at several leading media and design institutions and lectured at universities across the world. They are both involved in campaigns against censorship and are associated with various media organisations. More about their work at http://www.monteiro-
jayasankar.com/

Screening followed by a Discussion with the filmmakers!

All are Welcome!

Debverna, a vocalist and composer, has over a decade of experience as a performing artist. A recognized All India Radio artist, with a Doctorate in Indian Classical Music, Debverna is a master of her craft belonging to the Jaipur and Gwalior Gharana traditions, learning from Pt. Nishad Bakre, Vidushi Arati Ankalikar and Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar. Her performances are emotional journeys, skillfully executed, that takes the audience on a deep dive into the soul of each raga. Do not miss this captivating artist performing this Friday evening at Lamakaan where she takes you into the world of the ragas performed in the light of the sangeet shastras.

Turn your weekend slow, creative & meaningful 🌿

Join our Upcycled Fabric Fridge Magnets Workshop where you’ll create:
✨ 1 customised letter fridge magnet
🌸 1 flower pot fridge magnet
— all made from fabric scraps ♻️

What you’ll learn:
• Basics of upcycling fabric & turning waste into functional décor
• Handcrafting techniques for fabric magnets

No experience needed—anyone can join 💛
Perfect for a mindful, screen-free weekend spent creating with your hands.
Fee : ₹500 ( including all materials )

📩 DM to register @kalavithii | Limited seats