Upcoming Events

Startup Funerals are short conferences held once a month across different cities to help the global entrepreneurship community learn lessons in failure from startups and entrepreneurs.

You must have heard, that close to 99% of startups fail! Dont you want to know why?
We do! Thats why we started Startup Funerals.
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Failure is considered a taboo in most our countries, hence people are afraid to fail and the ones that do, hate talking about it. Yet it is only through failure that we can understand the real lessons in success.
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We believe the time is now to change how people perceive failure globally!

​We want to foster a culture of innovation where people are comfortable to try out new ideas, take calculated risks, and be a little unreasonable.
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At Startup Funerals we are on a mission to celebrate failure regularly by providing you a place where you are comfortable to share the stories of your failure and commemorate your startups with others to help our global entrepreneurship community learn valuable lessons from it.

About the drug mafia in Miami in the 70's lead by a woman who was infamously called The Godmother.

In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.

MindSweep, our international solo championship, is intended as a vehicle for the things that are distinctive about the quizzing that happens in some (if not all) Indian cities.

The setters (Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani) have enjoyed taking (and bulbing at) the World Quizzing Championships, perhaps because Indian quizzing is a wee bit different from its international cousin. MindSweep is our attempt at sharing the things we enjoy about quizzing with an international audience.

So, what the devil is distinctive about Indian quizzing? A privileging of good guesswork over memory; the triumph of generalists over specialists; bombing a syllabus, rather than using one; the pleasure of parsing, or unknotting, or sometimes being pythoned by a carefully coiled question; a festive relationship with the English language; and the strange appetite for knowing joy and defeat in one instant–a mystical state known as AJM, or Goddamn-it-I-was-that-close.

After the first edition of MindSweep in Jan 2012, several embittered souls sent in their punning suggestions (not all of them were polite) for what we should actually have called the quiz. We laughed, and carried on. The first edition of a quiz, like a first kiss, must elicit some reaction, some `hubbub, babel, shindy, hullabaloo, stramash, charivari, and total contempt of repose,' or what's a contemptibly long zindagi for?

In MindSweep 2.0, the taker will meet ten sets of questions (200 in all) over two one-hour sessions–this means two installments of five sets of questions, interrupted by a short 30-minute break for answers, corrections, and worship of the bladder.

MindSweep 2.0: The Topics

The Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Design, Architecture, Installation Art, Dance, Theatre
Science and Tech: Concepts in the Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Technology, The Environment, Astronomy, Medicine, Inter-disciplinary work, Popular Science Writing
Literature: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Genre Fiction, Graphic Novels, Critics, Literary History, Translation
Social Sciences: History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies/Social History, History of Ideas, Economics,The Philosophers
Business: Brands, Fashion, Business History, Advertising
Sports and Leisure: Sporting History, Games, Television, Gaming, Sports-Writing, Sports-Coverage, Hobbies–Collecting, Gardening, Fan-communities, The Internet
Cinema: Hollywood, National Cinemas, World Cinema, Film Genres, Film-Technology, Film-language, Cinema & Society, Film-writing
Music: Instruments, Performers, Genre Music, World Music, Tech Innovations, Music-magazines, Music industry, Music-journalism
Food & Drink: From all over the world
Travel: Places, Peoples, Languages, Landmarks, Journeys, Voyages, Means of Transport

This is a quiz that is being organized all over the country for teams. It is open to all. You just need to form teams of 4 members each. Find more details at http://kqaquizzes.org and register on the site.

HYDERABAD WESTERN MUSIC FOUNDATION

Presents
THE LISTENING POST
Pure listening to Classical and Jazz music recordings
without any visual aids

At Lamakaan 4pm – 5.30pm

Sunday 9th December – Jazz

LISTENING POST
Open up our senses to new musical experiences.
Heighten and expand musical awareness and ability.
Develop a keen ear to hear every bit of music in all its beauty.
Listen along with others who are like-minded.

Second Sundays - Jazz
Fourth Sundays - Western Classical

Open to all. No entrance fee

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.

Police and social welfare orgaisations need to work together for attainment of children and women's rights. This collaborative effort has gained more visibility in the state of andhra pradesh with anti trafficking units established in the state with civil society organisations, support centres in the police station for women facing domestic violence being run by women's organisations, child welfare committees playing a crucial role in getting rights for vulnuerable children. But there are many problems in the functionig of these institutions.The meeting would focus on this colloborative and positive results of the same.Shri Dinesh Reddy, Director General of police,Shri Krishna Prasad,Additional Director (P& L) Shri Umapati (former IG CID) will be the guest speakers for the occasion

LEAVING HOME: The Life and Music of Indian Ocean

Language: English, Hindi and Bengali (with English Subtitles)
Duration: 1 Hour 55 Minutes

7.00 pm at LAMAKAAN on Wed, 12 Dec 2012

Writer-Director: Jaideep Varma
Producer: D. Ramakrishna, Jaideep Varma

Beyond Indian Ocean, I don’t see anyone…I see brown-wannabe whites. - Rabbi Shergill
INDIAN OCEAN.

Based in Delhi, the band has been in existence for 18 years. It has released less than 30 songs during this time, with not a filler amidst them. Every single one of them refuses to age and more than half of those are bona fide classics.

They conform to no music industry norms. Their songs (and instrumental pieces) have an average length of more than eight minutes (some go beyond ten), and none of them are love songs in the conventional sense. They sing in many different Indian languages, sometimes in dialects not easily understood; their most famous song is in the ancient language of Aramaic.

And yet, with their acoustic guitar-bass-tabla-drums-vocals format, their fluid jazzy vibe and rock intensity, they sound more urgently contemporary than most music does anywhere in the world. The strong influence of Indian Classical and the time-honoured earthiness of folk root their music more than most contemporary music anywhere in the world. All resulting in an absolutely unique sound, but accessible to anyone, anywhere.

All four have given up conventional earning careers to pursue their calling, without even a respectful nod to the commerce of their times. This abstinence has cost them mainstream presence and the backing of a premier music company.

And yet they have a following that is growing week after week. Their volume of concerts is growing all around the world (an average of 70 concerts a year now, over five continents).

Urdu shayari meiN tasavvur-e-Gham



The idea of sorrow has fascinated almost every single Urdu poet, be it the grief of unrequited love ( Gham-e-jaanaaN) or sorrow that arises from other circumstances (Gham-e-duniya). The sorrows of existence have no cure other than death, according to Ghalib:

Gham-e-hasti ka Asad kis se ho juz marg a'ilaaj 
sham'a har rang meiN jalti hai seHer hone tak
(the grief of existence has no cure save death, Asad/the candle of life burns in all hues till daybreak )
In the words of Meer Taqui Meer, there is no respite from sorrow:
Gham raha jab tak ke dum meiN dum raha 
dum ke jaane ka nihaayat Gham raha 

Hafeez Jullunduri says :
zamaane bhar ke Gham, ya ik tera Gham
yeh Gham hoga tau kitne Gham na honge
(the griefs of the world or the sorrow you gave me
this one sorrow outweighs so many others...)
This concept of sorrow in traditional Urdu poetry will form the central idea of the talk.

Wikipedia is an active volunteer run online encyclopedia, aimed at providing free knowledge to all.
Hyderabad and Telugu have their own SIGs for wikipedia.
This meet tries to bring people working on wikipedia together.

Eco-Planet event is based on sustainability of planet. purpose of this event is to get all cooperate people for cooperate social responsibility & regarding sustainability of planet how we can help our planet.

Jamathon, a Hyderabad based live music and jamming platform presents 'Songs of the Balladeer', an evening of storytelling through music. The artiste, Sanjo, takes the audience on a journey through songs that have a story to tell. At times the story isn't just in the song. It's also about the song, the singer or the songwriter. The entire set has a distinctly retro flavor with a focus on evocative lyrics, stirring melodies and emotions that underline the human condition. This performance is brought to you by Blue Butterfly Entertainment.

Cosmic Fingerprints: The Spectra of Stars & Galaxies. An Astronomy Workshop on Spectroscopy: 2 Talks on Spectra of Stars and Galaxies, followed by a hands-on activity to make your Spectroscope.
By Drs Priya & Najam Hasan at Lamakaan on the 16 th December 2012 from 10:00am -1pm for children above 12 years of age & curious adults! The Event is free but prior registration (email: priya.hasan@gmail.com, najam_hasan@yahoo.com) is required.

An afternoon of jamming, musical collaborations and bonding over music.Watch as artists perform not only their own sets but also participate in impromptu jams with other artists.

JOURNEY WITH POETRY

An intimate evening of Poetry over samosas, chai and conversation
with eminent Telugu poet K Siva Reddy.

Listening to Siva Reddy read and talk on poetry is always an intense experience.
But there will be lot more.
Reading of selected poems in Telugu, English and Hindi;
brief overviews in English and Hindi of his 50 years of unceasing engagement with poetry and people;
a photo-slide presentation;
and interaction with the poet himself.

Soak urself in the experience.
Bring all lovers of words and poetry.

at the very cosy Lamakaan (a house with no boundaries) - Hyderabad's Open Cultural Space


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K SIVA REDDY's is a powerful and uniquely resonant voice in the annals of modern Telugu poetry. The personal, the political and the public have been welded so thoroughly in his determinedly revolutionary poetic journey, that his words never fail to stir a reader or listener from the bottom of his or her being.

A tireless traveller and a mesmerising speaker and fantastic reader of poetry at literary and other meetings throughout the length and breadth of Andhra Pradesh and outside, his influence on the youth, on aspiring and young writers and his strong bonding with fellow literary personalities and artistes have been legendary.

Recipient of the Central Sahitya Akademi award in 1990 for his sixth book, Mohana! O Mohana!, the translations of Siva Reddy's poetry have also been extremely popular.

The complete works of Siva Reddy (comprising of 14 volumes of poetry published since 1973) have just been released in a finely produced set of 3 volumes. AN EVENING with SIVA REDDY celebrates this important literary event with a reading by the poet himself of some 20 handpicked poems encapsulating the range and breadth of his nearly five decades of writing.

Please look out for more details and complete programme.

Come and discover the poetry and magic of Siva Reddy on the evening of Saturday, December the 16th! Over steaming Hyderabadi chai and hot samosas at Lamakaan!

An Evening with Poet | Cheran ~ Cheran Rudhramoorthy is currently Associate professor in the Department of Sociology,Anthropology,and Criminology at the University of Windsor,Canada. His publications include Empowering Diasporas :Dynamics of post-wartamil Transnational politics(2011),Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka(2010),New Demarcations : Essays in Tamil Studies (2009),and History and Imagination : Tamil Culture in the Global Context(2007). Cheran is considered one of the finest contemporary poets in Tamil,and his poetry is read widely in North America,Europe,and South Asia.Both modernist and unfailingly lyrical,his work is a remarkable blend traditionand inovation.Poetry Anthologies in English ~The Second Sunrise (2012) and You cannot Turn Away(2011).

NISHUMBITA PRESENTS - H.K.MADHAV’S –
“AMANUSH”
(A CHILDREN’S PLAY IN HINDI)
ON 22nd DEC, 2012 SATURDAY, 7:30PM – LAMAKAAN – DONOR PASS – RS: 100.
FOR DETAILS CONTACT 09849256440.

“Give me youth with muscles of iron and nerves of steel and I
shall change the destiny of the nation”

said Swami Vivekananda, but the children of today, the so called citizens of tomorrow, burdened as they are with heavy loads of work both at school and home end up drained physically, psychologically as well as intellectually. The present play looks at children who are pressurized into total and abject surrender to the whims and fancies of the parents who try to force them to do things which they could not achieve. A child who is supposed to educate himself enjoying the process, today as result of the system and untenable educational policies finds himself at the wits end and the consequences of this could in long term be disastrous. Unrelenting parents, more concerned of their social status than of the child’s welfare, coupled with teachers and schools furthering their commercial objectives, today literally squeeze the life out of the child. The day of an average child is made so busy with endless lessons, tuitions, music classes and what not that the child is not left even with a little time to talk to himself. The end result of all this busy busy lifestyle could lead to dysfunctional tendencies in the child and is actually reflected in the rising numbers of juvenile crimes and juvenile delinquents and more importantly juvenile suicides

The child’s efforts to achieve success in the limited parameters are mocked at by the parents and comparisons are drawn to the vaguest of relatives. The child is pressurized to such an extent that he sees devils in the subjects. The child thus becomes a flower nipped in the bud, even before he could bloom. The strangulated fragrance comes across as an unbearable stench of false parental pride and indulgence. The play tries to show how a child’s life is a never ending cycle of struggles to survive in this world of make believe competition (more in the minds of the parents than actually) and is no less than a dangerous circus feat. But the ironical question is, What do the children achieve after all this . Do they get to study what they want? Do they have a say in the running of their lives? Is their innocence a thing of past? Is their childhood lost somewhere behind the unending and unconquerable heaps of books? These and lot more hard-hitting questions of this sort are sought to be asked of the audience through this play. Just prick your ears and listen to the faint cries of help, listen carefully … they are growing into a crescendo.


CHARACTERS:

ELDER BROTHER (BHAIYA) MASTER SAMEER PATWARI

YOUNGER BROTHER (CHOTU) MASTER VIVEK PAWAR


MUSIC OPERATION: KESHAV DEEPAK

MAKE UP: VIKRAM GANGAPURAM.

TECH SUPPORT: SWATHI, SWETHA, HARI, JOSHI, ARJUN, SOWMYA, AILA, K.PRIYA, ANUPA, NIKHIL, CHARAN, RAJEEV, KRUSHNA & OTHERS.

LIGHTS, SETS & DIRECTION: RAMMOHAN HOLAGUNDI.

A proposal to organize a monthly / bi-monthly handloom bazaar to promote the work of the handloom weavers and help them to have direct interaction with consumers and sale. An effort to help and bring back Handloom into mainstream and popular culture, that would help the handloom weavers to survive and continue with their ancient heritage and skills. Also to encourage people to take up weaving also as an activity of livelihood.

Not only to showcase the work of the artisans but also have talks regarding the imporatance of handloom for ecological conservation, sale of fabrics and also demonstration of weaving skills. Invite children to participate and learn skills like "Charkha" etc.

A hilarious take on a hysterical Hyderabadi mother who sets out to get her 24 year old (Very Old!) educated daughter married and the worthy (NOT!) young men they encounter while on this pursuit. Interspersed with the colorful Hyderabadi/Deccani dialect..this is sure to keep the Hyderabadi aficionados entertained!

Khichdi Khatta Kheema Productions (K3) comprises of a bunch of young Hyderabadis who are passionate about the Deccani/Hyderabadi dialect and the humour and satire inherently present in it and also aim to revive theatre in this genre.

Cast:
Danish Zubairy
Neha Deshpande
Anjum Jaffery
Abu
Mujeeb
&
Faraaz Zubairy

Written& Directed by: Anjum Jaffery & Danish Zubairy

RDBO stands for Rang De Box Office. It is an intiative of the Rang De Hyderabad Chapter.
The aim of Rang De Hyderabad Chapter is to screen a documentary that deals with social issues that India faces today. These films are made by filmmakers of all nationalities who want to shine a spotlight on social issues ranging from gender injustices, the climate change to the suicide of farmers in rural areas of India. Our will is two-fold: to screen these films for free (the audience is not charged)& then to have a discussion about the topic of the documentary among the audience after the screening.

SEXUAL ASSAULT & WOMEN’S SAFETY: CAUSES, SOLUTIONS & WAY AHEAD

Men and women from all over India responded with exceptional empathy and solidarity with the young student who was brutalized and gang raped in a moving bus in Delhi and who is now battling for her life. The incident has ignited young people to come out and demonstrate in big numbers in different cities, including Hyderabad, in the hopes of sending a strong message to the country’s law makers that this is not an isolated incident and that rape and grievous injury is an ever present danger for women all over the country today.

The youth forum is to take the mobilization and awareness forward and share our experiences and understandings of the causes of sexual violence against women today, to educate ourselves on legal, political and social solutions, and to exchange ideas on effective public actions that will have an impact.

We will have an interactive forum with active participation of youth members and four panelists who will respond to different aspects of the issue and will help clarify the causes, solutions and the way ahead.

Panelists/Commentators:
A.Suneetha, Senior Fellow, Anveshi, Research Centre on Women’s Studies, Hyderabad

Vasudha Nagaraj, Advocate, High Court, Hyderabad with expertise on the Sexual Assault Bill

Tejaswini Madabhushi, Organizer of the ‘Midnite March’ in Hyderabad

Natha Wahlang, PhD student, Hyderabad Central University

Jointly sponsored by Lamakaan and Anveshi( http://www.anveshi.org/)

Immerse yourself in Sufi Music composed and performed by Mohamad Nooran in English - Persian - Hindi; swaying to the Mystical verse of Rumi.

khezeli (Nooran) in 2003. In its 9 year history, the Kian has produced fourteen original theatre productions, international tours, Launched a Theatre magazine(pose), established Theatre Laboratory.