Lamakaan

SUTRADHAR
Presents
ISMAT – EK AURAT
(A collage of Ismat Chugtai’s three short works)
Directed by
Vinay Varma
At
Lamakaan
On
19th December, 2013, 7.30 pm
Entry ₹ 100/-
Available @ Sutradhar (9848052541), and online with www.bookmyshow.com
 This is a seventy minute performance.
 It’s a dramatized performance of three short stories as vignettes.
 The author of the stories is Ismat Chughtai, the legendary Urdu writer.
 Each story is narrated by one of the three artistes in a sequence.
 A letter by Manto on his view of Ismat as a woman is read out as a prelude.
 Permission for the performances has been obtained from Ismat Chughtai’s grandson Mr Ashish Sawhny.


Ismat Chughtai, was a veritable tour de force of women's writing in India, a woman who was a feminist by instinct, long before it became fashionable to flash the badge of feminism.

She brought to the fore the modernity inherent in the actions of the poorest of rural Indian women as well as the stagnation in the minds of the so called urban elite.

Ruthlessly honest and deeply perceptive, she presented the truth of society and its women in the same nakedness in which she saw them. She wrote with a rare courage, truth and good humour which endear her to everyone who comes across her writings.
The performance begins with Guftagu (Tete-e-tete), a monologue by Ismat herself where she muses and talks about her early life, family relationships and her writings.
The second story, Saas (Mother-in-law), is about a unique saas-bahu pair and adds a new dimension to this perceived notorious relationship.
The third and the last is Chidi Ki Dukki (The Second Card of Clubs) which speaks volumes about how wit and attitude in a woman can be more attractive than the supposed good looks.
 Guftagu by Deepti Girotra
 Saas by Babli Yadav
 Chidi Ki Dukki by Pallavi Varma

Samahaara Weekend Theatre Workshop

Dates: December 21st - February 09th 2014
Duration: 8 Weekends
Time: 10.00am to 12.00pm, Saturday & Sunday
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.
Ages : 14 Yrs and Above

Workshop Director: Rathna Shekar Reddy

Samahaara Weekend Theatre Workshop is for everybody from professionals to students and serious actors to beginners.

If you can find time on the weekends and want to learn the basics of stagecraft and acting, our Weekend Workshop is ideal for you. Refresh yourself from your daily grind, learn something new and unique you can use in any aspect of your life, meet likeminded people and bring out the creative side of you.

Spread over 8 weekends (16 sessions), start from essentials of story-development, playwriting, stage-management, design and direction and move on to focus on the Actor in you. Apart from acting, the workshop offers a rich mix of outdoor theatre activities, readings, analysis, discussions, & performances every weekend.

Learn about theatre’s evolution to contemporary craft, develop imagination, evaluate material and together bring out a workshop performance at the end of the program.

For participation,
Contact us at 8341120303
Email info@samahaara.org

An all day bazaar where creative entrepreneurs would exhibit their goods.A bazaar open to every age group. A family deal. With live music by extremly talented young artists and bands who lack promotion and ears to listen to their song playing all day.With corners of comfort to just relax and enjoy the environment.THC caters to not just entrepreneurs but to people who support such passion and zeal in others, for those who have never been given opportunities to go after their talents. FLEA af 'FAIR' will be a family affair. After years of education and putting our selves through assignments, proposals, experiments and extra courses just to attain fancy degrees, we live with not a single implementation of all that we have learnt and all the years of rat race seems to be taxing in more than one way.After being corporate professionals and not doing anything that we were taught, after losing zeal and enthusiasm to prove to others our skills where they weren't needed, we give up to grab our life and our passion while we still can. "TREE HUGGERS CLUB" THC is a community for like minded people, entrepreneurs who have given up the montony of main stream work, to chase their passion by being brave and for those who start companies on talent and skill. We salute all the brave women and men who have had the might to step out of ordinary lives and comfortable lifestyles, to follow their dreams and implement them. We at THC are trying to do our bit for such passionate, young and driven entrepreneurs and establish a platform for them. A platform that will give them that little extra help and push to showcase their products and talents. THC will hold a monthly fair and affair.An all day bazaar any one suitable day of the weekend in a month where such entrepreneurs would exhibit their goods.A bazaar open to every age group. A family deal. With live music by extremly. • stalls • food • fun • live music • pottery • caricature • lounging area • free dose of passion and eccentricities Note for entrepreneurs :If you are one to chase your dreams and make them come true, THC will help promote your product, and pay your passion in full. To exhibit your products and showcase your company and be a part of THC, all you have to do is contact us and buy your stall space.There is no profit sharing and no fine print.Like everyone of you, THC is a brain child of ours and what we say is all there is to it. Entry - Free

On 11 December 2013, the Supreme Court of India ruled homosexuality to be a criminal offence setting aside the 2009 judgement given by the Delhi High Court.

This is an interactive open discussion on understanding Chapter XVI, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code dating back to 1861, introduced during the British rule of India, that criminalises sexual activities "against the order of nature", including homosexual acts.
The section was earlier declared unconstitutional with respect to sex between consenting adults by the High Court of Delhi on 2 July 2009. That judgement was overturned by the Supreme Court of India on 11 December 2013, with the Court holding that amending or repealing Section 377 should be a matter left to Parliament, not the judiciary.

Joining us among various other panelists is Greeshma Rai, Lawyer and activists & people from LBGT community.

Open for all

Entry - Free

A talk about creative learning strategies for the future by Mr. Partho Sanyal.

This session is a dialogue on learner-centred education and discusses methods of independent creative learning as the emerging mode of learning in progressive schools the world over.

It also discusses how this kind of learning differs from traditional classroom teaching and how it is best suited to the needs of the students in today’s day and age.

This talk will benefit educators, teachers and parents from all walks of life who are interested in meaningful education and schooling.

Speaker: Partho works with schools and independent groups of teachers, parents and students through workshops, camps and short-term courses based on learner-centered education. He also works as consultant and advisor to progressive and alternative schools in India and the US.

This program is free entry and open to all.

The Makers of "Sex,Likes & Pokes", "Love,Sex & Mocha", "WHats up with Indian Men??","!2 inches" present "Finding Nemo's LIBIDO.This is a story of a man who finds himself at a loss. His libido runs rampant but he doesn`t get the chance to do the same. Nemo has found that his life is full of troubles, most of the time this revolves around his lack of sex. So he takes a drastic decision to kill his ``LIBIDO``. In search of Nemo`s Libido his roommates, Vicky and Sid, are faced with dilemma whether their lives would be better with or without LIBIDO. Nemo and his roommates go on a misadventure in search of the answer which puts them in `awkward` but hilarious situations.

For entry passes - 9908113113

The Makers of "Sex,Likes & Pokes", "Love,Sex & Mocha", "WHats up with Indian Men??","!2 inches" present "Finding Nemo's LIBIDO.This is a story of a man who finds himself at a loss. His libido runs rampant but he doesnt get the chance to do the same. Nemo has found that his life is full of troubles, most of the time this revolves around his lack of sex. So he takes a drastic decision to kill his ``LIBIDO``. In search of Nemos Libido his roommates, Vicky and Sid, are faced with dilemma whether their lives would be better with or without LIBIDO. Nemo and his roommates go on a misadventure in search of the answer which puts them in awkward but hilarious situations.

For entry passes - 9908113113

A fun, interactive 3 day FREE workshop for anyone interested in learning more about languages and creative writing. Whether you are a seasoned translator or someone who simply enjoys reading and engaging other cultures, this workshop will expose you to poems and very short stories translated from other languages, help you develop your sensitivity to language through reading and writing activities, and open up your creative energy. We will look at and translate (yes!) works from Polish, Chinese, French, Spanish, Hindi/Urdu, Telugu and more! Note: the workshop will be conducted in English but you do not need to have several languages or experience in translation to attend. Come prepared to read, write, share and enjoy.

Workshop from 10:30 to 12noon on 22, 25 and 29th Dec.
Entry - Free
Registration Required. To register please send an email to Madhu Kaza at mhk4@nyu.edu

Limited seats. firsts come first registered basis.

Proposed division of AP has raised many issues. One of the keenly Proposed division of AP has raised many issues. One of the keenly contested issues is river water sharing. How will future states share water resources in Andhra Pradesh? How do we understand how to share river waters? Will new states be on a collision course?

Listen to Uma Maheswari who is an independent journalist, researcher with a doctorate in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has done extensive work on Polavaram project and brings with her perspectives from interactions with the people who depend on these rivers and the rivers themselves.contested issues is river water sharing. How will future states share water resources in Andhra Pradesh? How do we understand how to share river waters? Will new states be on a collision course?

All are invited. Entry - Free

Bangalore stand up comedian Vamsidhar and stand up comics from Hyderabad come together to give you one hour of funny this Sunday noon. Pick up your brunch, sit back & See them talk about corporate, lingerie, relationships, Hyderabad men and other things.

For entry - 09908113113

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation invites you to

Workshop on Community Singing
Sharing Music – Creating Harmony

What is Community Music? How can we use music as a tool to connect people together and create the sense of a community?
We will explore how different communities have made used the simple act of singing together to boost their morale, bring each other together, and gain motivation.

HWMF is starting a Community singing project with bi-weekly sessions, from January.
The motivation behind these sessions of community singing is not singing for a prayer or singing for the country or patriotism - although we might take songs from religious / patriotic repertoire sometimes. But the motivation is simply to feel each others' energy and understand what it is like to sing with a room full of people.
We will sing songs from different languages each time, from all over the world. The songs will come from a variety of sources such as: Sea shanties from sailors, Folk songs from folk poets of India, Simplified classical songs / poems, Folk poems from around the world, Round Songs.

So if you are fond of singing just for the sheer joy of it, this is the place to be!

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

Sunday, 22nd Dec. 4 - 5.30 pm
Venue: Lamakaan www.lamakaan.com

Opps. GVK One Mall, Road No.1, Banjara Hills
Free event.
This course is for “everyone” who likes singing and wants to develop his/her voice-skills.
Interested persons can directly register (after the workshop) for this Community singing project (Start 12th Jan.).

www.hydmusic.com
info@hydmusic.com
www.facebook.com/TheHyderabadWesternMusicFoundation

Mooki is a dance-theatre production incorporating dialogue, dance, music, movement, sign language and silence.

Mooki, the kannada word for mute is the title of the piece that is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's short story Subha. The story revolves around a dumb girl who is ironically named Subhashini (which in sanskrit means one with the ability to speak beautifully). This dynamics in the story is used as a metaphor in the piece to address the idea of freedom of speech that democracy claims to bestow upon its people.
The movement vocabulary explores sign language and is also inspired by entities like trees, animals and humans that are not bestowed with the ability to speak.
It looks at how language creates hierarchy within the framework of society with freedom of expression often being reserved to those with power. It looks at how the voice of those communities that are often misinterpreted, translated or seldom heard are often categorized as being marginalized. The piece draws from the experiences of the performers themselves and primarily focuses on how we
have all endured discrimination based on gender and sexuality in silence.
The piece is devised and performed by individuals hailing from diverse fields
and aims to expand the limiting definition of dance and theatre by incorporating text, live music, personal experience and movement. The piece is directed by Veena Basavarajaiah.

Entry - bookmyshow.com or sms 09535671631

B.Vittala Acharya was a popular director and producer of Telugu and Kannada movies. He is called Janapada Brahma in the Telugu Film Arena.

In 1954, he produced and directed Kanya Daana a revolutionary film for that time. Wishing to Remake the same in Telugu, he moved to then Madras and settled there till his death. After making two more Kannada Movies, he concentrated in Producing and Directing only Telugu Movies. He directed movies for other producers also. He has totally Directed 15 Movies of Sri. N. T. Rama Rao then the leading Hero of Andhra Pradesh. Though he did not get any awards most of his Films were Box Office Success and he was fondly called by his fans as "Janapada Brahma".

On the eve of 100 years of cinema, Lamakan showcases a documentary on B Vittalacharya by Saichand T.
Entry - Free

Grim Pumpkin Theater brings to you four contemporary absurd plays. They are funny, they are sarcastic, sometimes inclusive, at times isolated. They make you laugh, and they laugh back at you. And they definitely went wrong at some point. Three of them are by Alex Broun, and one by Eric Fergusson.

Entry passes - 9966903264

Lamakaan invites you to an evening of unearthing RAGA ELEMENTS IN HINDI FILM MUSIC - A presentation by sri K.L.Pandey who wrote a book aptly titled HINDI CINE-SANGEET RAGOPAEDIA.

With the first Hindi talkie movie ‘Alam Ara’ in 1931, songs were introduced in Hindi films and after that they have become an integral part of them for all the times to come. With a variety of songs of different moods and for all the occasions , they have subconsciously found place in our minds and have become a part of life for almost every class of the society in some form or the other.
In music, there are 7 Shuddha Swaras (Pure notes) , 4 Komal Swaras (flat notes) and one Teevra Swar i.e. 12 Swaras when put together. We have an equivalent 12 notes in western system as well. The well defined structure of these Notes to create a melody makes Ragas, which are an important part of the grammar of singing or playing instruments in any form of music. In Hindi film songs also therefore, there cannot be any composition which does not follow the grammar of one or more than one Ragas. Although, in initial movies, all the songs were based on pure Ragas but to create melodies for the masses and to suit the requirements of the film, more than one Ragas have been used subsequently.

In this analytical research, the Mr. Pandey has worked with a team of experts and scholars of Hindustani classical music and the Ragas have been identified only after complete listening to the songs and also playing them on various instruments. The eminent professors and musicians in classical music and from the film industry have also been consulted wherever required.
The purpose of this effort by him is to make the music lovers understand our heritage of Hindustani Music through the examples of easily accessible and understandable Hindi film music and in a way, to bridge the gap between Hindustani Classical and Hindi film music.

Entry - Free

An Evening of Reunion - The Tankbund Blues Band is getting back On The Road.
Remember when we had so much fun, out at those happy trails? It's that time again.
The Tankbund Blues Band - it's a whisper from the past in a way, but the nth harmonics continue on.
And, evolving from there, it’s quite a morphogenetic entity now. Some of the deck hands are ghosts, yes, but the fleet has a few material schooners as well, to accompany the Flying Dutchman.

When did it all begin? Some proto-vibrations were there in the late eighties, but essentially, it would tag back to one point in the early nineties.
There was an open stage event at the YMCA in Secunderabad, India, where local performers were given time slots to do their stuff. Several pop acts did their thing, with due dosages of flash and pizzazz, but the crowd wasn't tuned in, somehow.
Next, these guys came up, a drummer who was totally spooked, and probably looked like he’d just stepped out of a morgue, and a trio of nerds on the guitars who asked for folding chairs to sit down on.
Then they announced something to the effect of "We're going to do a song called Hidden Treasure by a band called Traffic".
And the sound technician at the side of the stage, he spontaneously erupted in whoops of joy, like as though an oxygen cylinder had been thrown at a drowning man.
And the audience caught on as well.
Well, that day the band didn't shake any trees or much else, what with the drummer coming down with frozen calf and ankle muscles, even for such a basic beat. But they did do a couple of originals following Traffic. And the audiences opened their hearts to them, gave them rope, and room to grow.
That was the night The Tankbund Blues Band was born. They were not even called that yet, but the concept of triggering "Back o' Town Blues" where it was totally unexpected, it sealed the fate of that name.
It was unexpected because, out there, there wasn’t much of a context for taking up classic rock as a medium. The only name that was heard of in India back then who were doing this stuff, was Rock Machine, later known as Indus Creed. But other than them, it was a few bands strewn around the country (many of them extremely gifted and talented no doubt, but essentially cover bands with maybe some original work in their back-pockets but nothing that reached out to the wider audiences), and pretty much no one else who was ready to make classic rock their primary thing in life.
To be sure lots of really great stuff was going on in India around that time in other fronts, fusion, jazz etc., but not classic rock per se.
Today the scene is quite different though, but that was the deal back then.
In such a context, calling themselves a Blues Band was, so to speak, a brown man’s adaptation of the equation which the black man had with the white man run world. Inter-positioned with that were the South Asian aspects of the love/hate relationship with the Caucasian ethos, arising from out of the turmoil and travails of British occupation. Adopting classic rock was the “love” side of the coin, for there is no denying the power it possesses – and what the other side of the coin would do to the inside of the person, was one of the drivers of their blues.
They had no real exposure to the original blues (the cotton pickin’ and Chitlin circuit based music), but these kinds of considerations were what led to a brown man’s take on classic rock to go by the name of a blues band.

Meanwhile, the drummer continued to deal with the demons in his muscles and the rest of the guys had their own demons, and over the next few years they had a few more such shows that inexorably shaped out to be abject misery.
And then somewhere in the mid-Nineties they had one magic night at The Black Cadillac. That helped keep the torch alive.
For years the drummer plowed on in true pig headed fashion, trying maybe to be a tragedy act, doomed by fate to keep attempting impossible tasks, and by the constraints of his muscles.
But he wasn't really cut out to be a tragic figure. So gradually he made peace with his demons, to some extent at least. And eventually he was able to hold the beat.
Some of his current work can be seen, with buddies from The Long Shot, out at
www.youtube.com/user/duhalchi
Now, back then, why did he persist with his tragedy act for so many years, so very recalcitrant? Why did he not drop it and go do something else?
Well, he was following the instructions of the root genius of the band, the guy who is now at happier hunting grounds, who had laid out the dictat, "dude, you're the drummer and that's that. Now make it happen". And so it was.

To many of the guys from the band from back then (affectionately known now as VPs of SFOTO), here's hoping you'll tune in again more actively. And of course this event at Lamakaan is the opportunity to do so 
🙂
The Band now aims to channel the fervor to the cause and glory of Brihan Dasht, which is explained further below.
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Koi veerani si veerani hai,
Dasht ko dekhke ghar yaad aaya
-Ghalib
Translation:
There is some kind of desolation in my head,
Looking at the wilderness, I thought of home.
Dasht means wilderness. And Brihan Dasht means wilderness in a larger sense. Or in other words, a superset of what it means in a local context. Sort of like how you have Toronto, and then there is GTA, which is the Greater Toronto Area. In the same way, Brihan Mumbai is the Greater Mumbai Area.
So, if you extrapolate out from our world out to all existence, and look at the sum total of order and chaos and everything therein within totality that is wilderness, then that would be Brihan Dasht.
Brihan Dasht is raw spirit. The Tankbund Blues Band songs speak to this. Think Steppenwolf - they used to be known as Sparrow, and then they renamed themselves, and came up with Born to be Wild.
And so it is with Dasht.
In Indian lore, tales are told of King Janaka who while being well adjusted to what was known as "bhog" based life (the equivalent modern term is consumerism) and to his kingly duties, was simultaneously able to maintain his inner dwellings in rarefied regimes of transcendent being.
In like manner, someone who is in a state of Dasht, is reasonably at peace with the evolution of the corporate cubicles based lifestyle, and regulated suburban mode "civilized" human existence - but the essential spirit remains raw.
And thus is the music of The Tankbund Blues Band.
Entry - Free

Koshish Theatre Group presents Two Award Winning Comedies with a Serious Message! "Rickshaw Wale ka Sapna" deals with issues of Speeding, Drunken Driving and Breaking Traffic Rules viewed from Parlok in the company of Yama and "Praja Nahi Nagrik Hai Hum" Another Award Winning Play that lifts the awareness levels of the audience on issues of governance from grass roots while bringing the house down with sheer humour!
Entry passes - 9948725564

Basic Theatre and Acting. Weekend Workshop

Stage Shastra conducts theatre workshops over a period of five weekends on Saturdays & Sundays. This workshop culminates in an informal show by the participants. After the workshop and the show, the participants join as a member and continue performing and getting trained on advanced acting techniques for stage and screen.

Dates : Every saturday and Sunday starting from 28th December.

Venue : Lamakaan, Banjara Hills.

For more details, please contact
Gaurav Sarkar : 09533501871
email us at : stageshastra@gmail.com

Pain Relief Care or Palliative Care – A means to end the suffering -

Living with, life-limiting illnesses such as cancer, paralysis, dementia, Alzheimer's, stroke, AIDS, heart and kidney failure is usually a devastating experience. The pain and trauma, both physical and psychological, of such illness are immense, shattering the lives of children, young adults and elderly people alike. Palliative care is an emerging specialty of medicine catering specifically to the needs of patients with such chronic illnesses.

Palliative care is aimed at improving quality of life, by employing what is called "Active Total Care", treating pain and other symptoms, at the same time offering social, emotional and spiritual support as mentioned below.


The NGO selected for this time is "Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society - Hyderabad".

website: http://www.palliativecarepartners.in/index.html

RangDe Talks : Conducted by RangDe Hyderabad Chapter, it provides a platform for NGOs to talk about them.
The Objective is to get more people aware about the work done by the NGO, as well as about RangDe.

All are welcome. entry - free

On October 12, 2013 a bus from Bangalore to Hyderabad caught fire and 45 passengers were killed in the burning inferno. This play tells the story of few passengers in that bus. It also looks into the story of chirag who was supposed to be in that bus but missed it and how this changes his life. A play about being grateful and Near death experience.

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Blood Bonation Camp in association with NTR blood bank. We are the students of street cause risbm(https://www.facebook.com/StreetCauseRisbm) a branch of street cause hyderabad (streetcause.org. we have done many events in various places, now we were really interested in doing a blood camp. location was the only issue. the blood bank people will provide everything, we street cause people will provide the members and chairs.

All are welcome to participate and donate.

Porayathu Leela, better known as P. Leela, was a popular Indian playback singer. She was awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2006.

Starting at the age of 13, she has sung about 5000 film songs in all the South Indian languages Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. She also sang in one Bengali film and in Sinhala movies. Her songs are known for their emotional touch and classical discipline. She made a name for herself by singing in her mellifluous voice both for the film industry and in carnatic music She considered it an honour to have sung in the same period as M S Subbulakshmi, M L Vasanthakumari and D K Pattammal - three giants of Carnatic music. She has worked under all great music directors and has sung with all the major singers of the South Indian film industry.

In the 1950s Leela was busy singing in all the South Indian languages. Her songs in films like Patala Bhairavi, Missamma, Pelli Chesi Choodu, Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu, Gundamma Katha, Lava kusa are the greatest melodies and remembered even today after many decades.
Vijaya productions' first movie, Shaukaru, did not fare well at the box office. However, the film had great melodies by Ghantasala and Leela.
In the film Missamma ( made asMissiyamma in Tamil), the songs by S. Rajeswara rao combined with voices of A.M. Raja, P. Leela and P. Susheela have become immortal, casting a magical spell over the listeners.
Vijaya productions sixth film made in the 1957, Maya Bazaar (directed by K.V.Reddy) is a true classic. The song "kalyana samaiyal satham (vivaha bhojanammu)" in the film still stands the test of time..
In one of the interviews Leela recalled that while recording the songs of `Maya Bazar, the composer took 28 takes of a song and they used the fifth take.
She worked as a music director for a film called ‘Chinnari Pappulu’ (Telugu) in 1968. The film was produced exclusively by women.

Saichand T made this tribute docuentaty on this legendary singer and being shown as a part of 100 years of Indian Cinema.

Entry - Free

Adapted from the original Marathi Play ``Shri Tashi Sau``, written by Yogesh Soman into Hindustani by Saurabh Gharipurikar. This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time.

Stick to your chairs as this play will take you on a laughter ride. During the course of funny incidents, they finally realize that even after so many fights they cannot live without each other. This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time. Make sure you watch this play as this one will surely tickle your funny bone! Go and watch the play at Lamakaan

Susarla Dakshinamurthi was an Indian film music director, playback singer, producer and an eminent carnatic musician, known for his works in South Indian film industry. He has worked for 135 films in different South Indian languages. He is noted for his works in the films Laila Majnu, Samsaram and Narthanasala.

He was born on 11 November 1921 in Pedakallepalli, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India to Susarla Krishnabrahma Sastry, who was a musician and teacher and Smt Annapurnamma. His paternal grandfather was Susarla Dakshinamurthi Sastri, a classical Carnatic music pioneer. During the childhood, his home used to feed many students from far away places who came to learn Music under his grandfather. He was a child prodigy, who at the age of 9 played the violin with great finesse accompanying all the singers during the 9 day Navarathri Celebration at Machilipatnam.
He has worked as Harmonium player in His Master's Voice in 1938. He has worked in different stations of All India Radio as A-grade artist in the late 1930s. He was invited to New Delhi station as Director for South Indian music.

He had moved to the Madras film industry and worked as an assistant to Music Director, C. R. Subburaman. He made Lata Mangeshkar sing the ever popular song 'Nidurapora Thammuda', in his movie Santhanam.
Samsaram (1950) movie is a musical hit film with ever popular song Samsaram Samsaram by Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao and A. M. Rajah in Telugu and Tamil languages respectively.
Ilavelpu (1956) is the next major hit film by L. V. Prasad. The famous song Challani Raja O Chandamama by Raghunath Panigrahi. He sang Challani Punnami Vennelalone casting Relangi Venkataramaiah in the film.
His score for Narthanasala (1963) songs particularly Evari Kosam Ee Mandhahasam, Naravara Kuruvara (S.Janaki),Janani Siva Kaamini (P. Susheela), Salalitha Raga Sudharasa Saaram (singer: Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna) and Sakhiya Vivarinchave are forever memorable.
He had produced two films Mohini Rukmangada (1960) and Rama Sundari (1962) under the banner of Anuradha Movies.

Saichand Tripuraneni pays tributes to the master film maker with his documentary on Singitam in this 100th year of Telugu Cinema.

All are welcome. Entry - Free

An Interactive and Transformative Session on:

"The Secret of Staying Healthy "

Conducted by:
Dhiraj Kaveri
Health Promoter

@ Lamakaan
Date: Saturday 4th January 2014
Time: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm


This session will discover and demystify Health through simple and easy ways and means.

Entry: Free

Call: Dhiraj Kaveri 8096573173

School children creates a theatre installation performance of Tagore-meets-Hamlet using works of both Tagore and Shakespeare using body as a tool.

Created from installation videos and body movement and spoken word to create a 50 minute performance called no holds bard,....this is dedicated to 100 years of tagore's gitanjali receiving the nobel prize and 450th birth commemoration of Shakespeare.

Entry - Free

DIPLOMA IN CORRUPTION, A social satire in Hindustani language on Corruption in high places is a burning topic of today, but corruption in the life of a common man is a matter of equally grave concern.

This is part Month-long theatre festival by Rangdhara, Sutradhar at Lamakaan over Sat & Sun weekends at 7:30pm in January.

The play voices these concern in form of a satire in which a middle class retired school teacher places an advertisement in local newspaper about coaching classes for etiquettes and manners (Shishtachar). The advertisement is wrongly published as "coaching classes for Bhrashtachar (Corruption)". This leads to visits by a policeman, an officer from Municipal Corporation, and the education department who bully him. The hapless teacher ends up paying bribes to keep them quiet and not take any action against him. To top this, an ex-chief engineer from mining department offers himself as a faculty member. The exasperated teacher seriously decides to drop his idea of coaching classes for Shishtachar. Entry of a eunuch looking for any degree or diploma, hoping to achieve some sort of status in the society changes the tone of the play from sarcastic to serious. The teacher rejects the eunuch for enrollment and the eunuch lashes out and ridicules the teacher for paying bribes to save his skin. "He who gives bribes is more responsible for corruption than he who receives them.” This scourge of corruption is like Bhishmacharya of Mahabharat, who is unconquerable, and cannot be killed” bemoans the teacher. “Do not be afraid of consequences. Fight this war, become Arjun. We the descendents of Shikhandi will join hands with you” declares the eunuch as the play draws curtain.

The play is writter by Surender Chaturvedi and directed by Prakash Phadnis.

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Adapted from the original Marathi play Shri Tashi Sau written by Yogesh Soman into Hindustani by Saurabh Gharipurikar.
This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time. During the course of funny incidents, they realize that after so many fights they cannot live without each other.
Stick to your chairs as this play will take you on a laughter ride. Make sure you watch this play as this one will surely tickle your funny bone!

Inviting students of all ages from 13 years onwards of all schools and colleges for the Hyderabad regional round of Verba Maximus 2014 - the annual literary festival of BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus.

The event will take place at Lamakaan on Sunday,5th January at 12 noon, featuring a Debate - which will be held for teams of two - and a Spell Bee. Winners get prizes and a direct entry to the finals of the respective events at Verba Maximus.

There is no entry fee. Do turn up and spread the word!

PARTNERS, A play originally by SANDESH KULKARNI and translated and adapted into Hindi by SHANTA KULKARNI.

This is part Month-long theatre festival by Rangdhara, Sutradhar at Lamakaan over Sat & Sun weekends at 7:30pm in January.

`Partners' depicts the bonding among the girls in the hostel. The play revolves around three girls staying in a hostel, one pursuing a job and the other two being students.

Though all the three have different attitudes, they have a good rapport and address each other as partner.

The play written by Sandesh Kulkarni and directed by Prakash Phadnis looks at the change of attitudes when they have to deal with a problem.

Vrushali is a sincere hard-working girl, who is systematic and is also religious. Her roommate Madhavi is tomboyish and cannot tolerate injustice in society especially to women. She is bold and frank. The other girl Priyanka is naive and simple. She is in her own world of imagination, smitten by a boy in the locality.

Vrushali, while attending an interview for a job is raped by the employers and she returns to the room shattered.

Madhavi insists on lodging a complaint with the police and making it an issue by informing the press, but the other two do not agree as it would lead to tarnishing the image of the girl and her family. A dejected Vrushali plans to leave the city, without intimating the partners.

However, a defiant Madhavi cajoles her and makes her change the decision, to fight injustice and move on in life.

The play showcases how women and girls who stay away from their homes need to stay united and share their problems and overcome the same.
Directed by VAISHALI KELKAR.

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Dramatic Circle Hyderabad
Presents
five Theatrical pieces bound by Music 'WINTER MELODIES, SPRING NOTES'' Plays : 1. 'A New Year's Requeim' - by :Dr Vithal Rajan - Dir : Pranava Singhal ( 15mts) : The New Year’s Eve reminiscences of a couple in their eighties, about a lifetime of joy, and the parallel dark underbelly of old age. 2. 'Outsourced' - by : Laura Cunningham - Dir : Pranava Singhal (15mts) A late night encounter across the seas between a desperate man seeking a credit limit increase on his Card and a 'gorgeous Indian BPO Associate'. 3. 'Chocolate with Wine' - by : Fredrick Stoppel - Dir : Pranava Singhal (15mts) A tale of two women, a Detective and a murder suspect,and the passionate delights of chocolate and wine.
4. 'The Three Monkey Trio' - by : Vijay Marur - Dir : BS Prakash (15mts)
The Three Monkey Trio
Three aging gentlemen. Shankar, Prakash and Vijay are musicians and part of a classical music band. Vijay plays the saxophone, but can’t hear. Shankar plays the flute, but can’t speak. And Prakash plays the piano but can’t see. All of them have just proposed to their individual girlfriends and all of them have been rejected. How they cope with this and plan on going ahead with their lives is the theme of a short 15 minute playlet.
Dramatised Reading : 'A Venetian Spring' : by : Gerald Durrell ( 45 mts) - Dir : Pranava Singhal A dramatisation of Durrell's hilarious short story " A Public School Education", is a tribute to the great conservationist, zoologist, and best-selling author on his 89th birth anniversary.
Entry - 9966315828, , 9966315828.

Dramatic Circle Hyderabad
Presents
five Theatrical pieces bound by Music
'WINTER MELODIES, SPRING NOTES''
Plays :
1. 'A New Year's Requeim' - by :Dr Vithal Rajan - Dir : Pranava Singhal ( 15mts) :
The New Year’s Eve reminiscences of a couple in their eighties, about a lifetime of joy, and the parallel dark underbelly of old age.
2. 'Outsourced' - by : Laura Cunningham - Dir : Pranava Singhal (15mts)
A late night encounter across the seas between a desperate man seeking a credit limit increase on his Card and a 'gorgeous Indian BPO Associate'.
3. 'Chocolate with Wine' - by : Fredrick Stoppel - Dir : Pranava Singhal (15mts)
A tale of two women, a Detective and a murder suspect,and the passionate delights of chocolate and wine.
4. 'The Three Monkey Trio' - by : Vijay Marur - Dir : BS Prakash (15mts)

The Three Monkey Trio

Three aging gentlemen. Shankar, Prakash and Vijay are musicians and part of a classical music band. Vijay plays the saxophone, but can’t hear. Shankar plays the flute, but can’t speak. And Prakash plays the piano but can’t see. All of them have just proposed to their individual girlfriends and all of them have been rejected. How they cope with this and plan on going ahead with their lives is the theme of a short 15 minute playlet.

Dramatised Reading :
'A Venetian Spring' : by : Gerald Durrell ( 45 mts) - Dir : Pranava Singhal
A dramatisation of Durrell's hilarious short story " A Public School Education", is a tribute to the great conservationist, zoologist, and best-selling author on his 89th birth anniversary.

Entry - 9966315828, , 9966315828.

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.

This is a monthly Start-Up meet by entreprenuers, companies, partnership or temporary organisation to share their Ideas, successes and Failure with like-minded people in the industry. Held at Lamakaan every second Saturday at 10-1pm, it has an agenda set for every meetUp.

This month's Theme: 'Women Entreperneurs in Technology'

Recent news feature discussed women entrepreneurs in cited there not being enough tech startups led by women. We all know that Is not true J. This SS, a discovery format, to uncover new technology startups started by women entrepreneurs.

Pls refer women led start-ups that can share their experiences and journey at this SS. Send email to Arpita Soma- arp.soma@gmail.com (or reach out to volunteer team- hyderabad@headstart.in ).


Date: Jan 11, Saturday. 10am
Venue: LaMakaan, Near GVK One, Banjara Hills

Program:

Program
10:00 Kickoff
10:10 Intros

StartupsSpeak
Discovery format. Products being created, market opportunity sought, and technology in use.
10: 30 Anuradha Thota [anuradha.thota@theblackbucks.com]
10: 45 SafeScream
11:00 DataPub
11:15 Modak Analytics, Arti Joshi
11:30 TBD
11:45 TBD

ExpertSpeak
Experts that can help mobility start-ups with technology, platforms, models
12:00 A successful women entrepreneur

Investorspeak
12:20 Investor withHyderabad Angels

12:50 Open Networking


Any start-ups interested in speaking or a lightning pitch (very early stage start-ups working on first prototype), pls reach out to volunteer team- hyderabad@headstart.in





Ramesh Loganathan
VP (Products) & Center Head, Progress Software, Hyderabad
Tel: +91-98490-42997 | +91-40-45106000 | http://jroller.com/rameshl

Walk in and participate with no entry fee. Open to All.

Lamakaan - the Election Series Lectures.
Sat 11th Jan - 2pm to 5:30pm
Sun 12th Jan - 11am to 4pm (with an hour lunch break)

LAMAKAAN ELECTION SPECIALS - SERIES OPENER

Hindutva and Other Fundamentalisms: Fault-lines of Indian Democracy

3 part lecture and discussion with Biju Mathew. A Lamakaan Night School Primer.

The 2014 election season has seen the re-emergence of Hindutva as a defining feature of Indian politics all over again with Narendra Modi and his brand of communal politics. This three part lecture/discussion will excavate the 1920s origins of Hindutva, its founding influences and its role in the nationalist movement, followed by a brief outline of its withering in the immediate post independence era. The lectures will then track the re-emergence of the Hindutva movement in post Emergency India and argue for the political economic and cultural crisis that marks its most recent re-emergence under the tutelage of Narendra Modi. This is a must for those seeking a solid and well grounded understanding of Hindutva and the struggle around secularism.

The lecture by Biju will be majorly in English but participants are welcome to take up discussions in English, Urdu, Hindi and Telugu too.

All are invited, entry is free.

This is the third installment of a new series of conversation sessions with the public on
issues of current interest in Science. We will have a short 20 minute talk by a
prominent scientist, 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.

This conversation will feature Professor D. Balasubramanian, Director of Research at the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. A biophysical chemist by training, and a Padma Shri awardee for his many contributions to society, Prof. Balasubramanian is known to many for his regular column: "Speaking of Science" published in The Hindu. This Science conversation will be on "Cloning and the Uses of Stem Cells", a hot topic today both in scientific research and ethics.

Lamakaan hosts a Handloom Bazaar for Sale and exhibit the Fabric of Freedom.

Woven in to the wonderful tapestry that is India, handloom weaving is a 4000 year old tradition. Handloom weaving is one of India’s predominant rural economic activities.This unique tradition has surpassed ages solely because of the magnificence of its craft, the mastery of its makers and patronizing consumers. Handlooms had a glorious past and o a penurious present. The handloom weavers used to live in a life of comfort and complacence in the past. They were respected for their invaluable craft that symbolized the essence of our rich culture and tradition. However, as time wheeled by machines began to exude dominance over human labour. In the state of Andhra Pradesh alone, there are about 320,000 handlooms on which about 500,000 families directly and 20,00,000 families indirectly depend for livelihoods. The recent years have witnessed migrations to cities in large numbers by handloom cotton weavers, taking up of alternative employment in rural industrial units and in extreme cases even starvation deaths or suicide deaths. The monthly handloom bazaar is one of the initiatives we are undertaking to bring back the wonder of handloom into mainstream popular culture, thus increasing the market for these products. In addition the exhibition cum sale hopes to educate the people at large on the issues of handloom weavers, and also on how to recognize the "real handloom" from fakes and "powerloom products". The bazaar will also include talks from time to time, display of weaving skills, and also will encourage children to learn these skills in an interactive way - like learning to use the "charkha" etc

Arunjyothi Lokhanday will be conducting a Kite-making workshop for kids using household material on the eve of this Sankranthi.

Bring your children and let them make your own kites. Please carry your own newspaper/colour paper and thread.

Entry - Free

Seed Exchange
Intipanta - Organic Terrace/Kitchen Gardening group encourages organically grown vegetables. Our aim is to help facilitate meets for the member to exchange information and also facilitate the exchange of open pollinated seeds saved by the group members.

This will be an informal gathering to say hello, have come chai, exchange some information and more importantly share the seeds we all have saved. Spread the diversity of seeds among others!

Who should attend: those interested in meeting others kitchen gardeners and exchange seeds. (even if you have no seeds please come and get some)

What to bring: Open pollinated seeds of vegetables, flowers and fruits that you might have. Any saplings to give away.

When: 12th Jan Sunday 3-5pm

Where : Lamakaan terrace

Entry: free.

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation invites you to "Music Course on Community Singing".

What is Community Music? How can we use music as a tool to connect people together and create the sense of a community?
Communities around the world have made used the simple act of singing together to boost their morale, bring each other together, and gain motivation.
HWMF is starting a Community singing project with bi-monthly sessions, from January.
The motivation is simply to feel each others' energy and understand what it is like to sing with a room full of people. It is expected that participants have a basic interest in learning songs from all over the world in different languages and historical contexts! For this reason, we have set the minimum age to 12 years.
The songs come from a variety of sources such as: Sea shanties from sailors, Folk songs from folk poets of India, Simplified classical songs / poems, Folk poems from around the world, Round Songs.
So if you are fond of singing just for the sheer joy of it, this is the place to be!
Once you register, new rep will be mailed to you for preparing in advance, and so that we can all enjoy singing these songs! Our first session will contain for ex. the famous “Banana Boat Song” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9angh4KdQ

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

Sunday, 12th Jan. 4 - 5.30 pm

Venue: Lamakaan www.lamakaan.com Opps. GVK One Mall, Road No.1, Banjara Hills

Course fee: Rs. 100 for each session. Pl. register directly at the venue on 12th Jan. For more info: 9849451794 info@hydmusic.com or tejaswineek@gmail.com

In the year 100 years of Telugu Cinema, we pay tributes to various doyens of the cinema. In this series, today we show a documentary on Rahman, cinematographer who pioneered many tricks with the camera when the technology was at its infancy. Rahman was one cameraman who worked most on NT Ramarao's Mythological, social and folk genre films like Tyagayya, Suvarnasundari, Narthanasala, Manadesam. These series of documetaries are made by Saichand Tripuraneni.

We will also recap another episode on Marcus Bartley, the fampus cinematographer for Vijaya movies like Gundamma Katha, Maya Bazaar etc.

Open for all. Entry - Free

Abhaas ya bhaas is a play that depicts the problems and wishes of street boys who are deprived of minimum needs like food clothing and shelter and how do they react when they are about to die but are suddenly blessed with some more life are told that their wishes can come true.
What is it that they wish for and how much it matters to them. The play tells us the story of two boys who are spared and given a chance by yamraaj by granting them bonus of six hours and six wishes where each wish will last for just an hour. The baffled boys wish for the same every time they do.
The play is a satirical take on the destitute, politicians, and the ‘mango people’. Find out what happens in the climax. Whether, either of them die, both dies or both remain alive at the end of the sixth hour.


Rangadhara & Sutradhar are the oldest & most renowned theatre groups in the twin cities staging the shows at regular intervals. Lamkaan is also associated with Ranga-Sutra for Ranga-Sutra festival.

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A Very Cool Short Film Festival
Only for Fun Loving Hyderabadis

Unlike most short films that focus on themes of social concern and environmental consciousness etc., here is a festival of films that are unabashedly and unpretentiously light hearted.

Light hearted about life, light hearted about living. Films that don’t care for a six pack or a bikini bod, Films that celebrate the times when people used to live without the shackles of well intentioned do’s and don’t’s. When living was just a series of licks of life.

Entry - Free.

SLEEPLESS..
....a site-specific spoken installation tribute to Albert Camus on his birth centenary with extracts from his path-breaking book on pacifism called "Neither Victims Nor Executioners"

Synopsis:

“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
― Albert Camus

“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Do we really sleep? Or do we close our eyes and run away like an escapist from the world that burns from the lessons of the past that refuses to heal.


"What with the general fear of a war now being prepared by all nations and the specific fear of murderous ideologies, who can deny that we live in a state of terror? We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible; because man has been wholly submerged in History; because he can no longer tap that part of his nature, as real as the historical part, which he recaptures contemplating the beauty of nature and of human faces; because we live in a world of abstractions, of bureaus and machines, of absolute ideas and of crude messiahnism. We suffocate among people who think they are absolutely right, whether in their machines or in their ideas. And for all who can live only
an atmosphere of human dialogue and sociability, silence is the end of the world."

Directed and Designed by Parnab Mukherjee

Performers: Bhavana Nissima, Sandeep Raj, Nayantara Nanda Kumar

Duration: 40 minutes without any intermission

Entry - Free

'Book Buzzers', a literary and book lovers are conducting their monthly literary meeting this month over a couple of documentary films on Legends from Telugu film industry.

Bookbuzz has been meeting every third Wednesday (or the next working day) at a pre-determined venue from noon to 3 pm over books and meal and the cost of lunch is shared by all the attendees. There is no compulsion of regular attending and there is no membership fee. However, a small fine is collected from late comers and members who miss consecutive meetings.The total amount collected is used to donate books to school libraries of under privileged children.

All are welcome.

The emergence of AAP: a Symptom or Solution?
The political scenario in India witnessed a new wave of change with the emergence of Aam Admi Party winning the Delhi Election. Everyone is talking about it and the talk has penetrated to almost every city/ towns and maybe village. People associate a lot of hope with the party. One must ask where this hope and change in political scenario take us? What is the ideology of AAP that adheres to? Does it resonate with the ideals that constitutional forefathers have laid? What is the current strategy of AAP and its implication for democratic India? Why do people believe in the party as a promising hope? Or other way round? Are these promises realistic? And are these promises what people actually want?

To discuss this youth and experts from Hyderabad are coming together as a panel to put across their thoughts.

Uma Shankari- AAP member, Prof.Biju Mathew, Tejaswani M, Eashan- President of Young Orators club of Secunderabad

Ope for all. Entry - Free

Beer, Smoke and a "Lovely" Tale is a collection of 3 short comedy plays. (12 minutes each)

1. Beer Chic.
a comedy play about a frustrated husband when he creates an imaginary "perfect girl" out of beer cans.

2.Can i have a smoke? (Improvised comedy)
a fast paced comedy, about Martha, Lewis and a smoke.

3.The perfect wedding.
a slapstick comedy about a story teller trying to tell a story about the perfect couple and the couple creep onto the stage and mess it all up.

Directed by Nikhil Heerekar.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

SUTRADHAR
Presents
ISMAT – EK AURAT
(A collage of Ismat Chugtai’s three short works)
Directed by
Vinay Varma
At
Lamakaan
On
19th December, 2013, 7.30 pm
Entry ₹ 100/-
Available @ Sutradhar (9848052541), and online with www.bookmyshow.com
 This is a seventy minute performance.
 It’s a dramatized performance of three short stories as vignettes.
 The author of the stories is Ismat Chughtai, the legendary Urdu writer.
 Each story is narrated by one of the three artistes in a sequence.
 A letter by Manto on his view of Ismat as a woman is read out as a prelude.
 Permission for the performances has been obtained from Ismat Chughtai’s grandson Mr Ashish Sawhny.


Ismat Chughtai, was a veritable tour de force of women's writing in India, a woman who was a feminist by instinct, long before it became fashionable to flash the badge of feminism.

She brought to the fore the modernity inherent in the actions of the poorest of rural Indian women as well as the stagnation in the minds of the so called urban elite.

Ruthlessly honest and deeply perceptive, she presented the truth of society and its women in the same nakedness in which she saw them. She wrote with a rare courage, truth and good humour which endear her to everyone who comes across her writings.
The performance begins with Guftagu (Tete-e-tete), a monologue by Ismat herself where she muses and talks about her early life, family relationships and her writings.
The second story, Saas (Mother-in-law), is about a unique saas-bahu pair and adds a new dimension to this perceived notorious relationship.
The third and the last is Chidi Ki Dukki (The Second Card of Clubs) which speaks volumes about how wit and attitude in a woman can be more attractive than the supposed good looks.
 Guftagu by Deepti Girotra
 Saas by Babli Yadav
 Chidi Ki Dukki by Pallavi Varma

Samahaara Weekend Theatre Workshop

Dates: December 21st - February 09th 2014
Duration: 8 Weekends
Time: 10.00am to 12.00pm, Saturday & Sunday
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.
Ages : 14 Yrs and Above

Workshop Director: Rathna Shekar Reddy

Samahaara Weekend Theatre Workshop is for everybody from professionals to students and serious actors to beginners.

If you can find time on the weekends and want to learn the basics of stagecraft and acting, our Weekend Workshop is ideal for you. Refresh yourself from your daily grind, learn something new and unique you can use in any aspect of your life, meet likeminded people and bring out the creative side of you.

Spread over 8 weekends (16 sessions), start from essentials of story-development, playwriting, stage-management, design and direction and move on to focus on the Actor in you. Apart from acting, the workshop offers a rich mix of outdoor theatre activities, readings, analysis, discussions, & performances every weekend.

Learn about theatre’s evolution to contemporary craft, develop imagination, evaluate material and together bring out a workshop performance at the end of the program.

For participation,
Contact us at 8341120303
Email info@samahaara.org

An all day bazaar where creative entrepreneurs would exhibit their goods.A bazaar open to every age group. A family deal. With live music by extremly talented young artists and bands who lack promotion and ears to listen to their song playing all day.With corners of comfort to just relax and enjoy the environment.THC caters to not just entrepreneurs but to people who support such passion and zeal in others, for those who have never been given opportunities to go after their talents. FLEA af 'FAIR' will be a family affair. After years of education and putting our selves through assignments, proposals, experiments and extra courses just to attain fancy degrees, we live with not a single implementation of all that we have learnt and all the years of rat race seems to be taxing in more than one way.After being corporate professionals and not doing anything that we were taught, after losing zeal and enthusiasm to prove to others our skills where they weren't needed, we give up to grab our life and our passion while we still can. "TREE HUGGERS CLUB" THC is a community for like minded people, entrepreneurs who have given up the montony of main stream work, to chase their passion by being brave and for those who start companies on talent and skill. We salute all the brave women and men who have had the might to step out of ordinary lives and comfortable lifestyles, to follow their dreams and implement them. We at THC are trying to do our bit for such passionate, young and driven entrepreneurs and establish a platform for them. A platform that will give them that little extra help and push to showcase their products and talents. THC will hold a monthly fair and affair.An all day bazaar any one suitable day of the weekend in a month where such entrepreneurs would exhibit their goods.A bazaar open to every age group. A family deal. With live music by extremly. • stalls • food • fun • live music • pottery • caricature • lounging area • free dose of passion and eccentricities Note for entrepreneurs :If you are one to chase your dreams and make them come true, THC will help promote your product, and pay your passion in full. To exhibit your products and showcase your company and be a part of THC, all you have to do is contact us and buy your stall space.There is no profit sharing and no fine print.Like everyone of you, THC is a brain child of ours and what we say is all there is to it. Entry - Free

On 11 December 2013, the Supreme Court of India ruled homosexuality to be a criminal offence setting aside the 2009 judgement given by the Delhi High Court.

This is an interactive open discussion on understanding Chapter XVI, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code dating back to 1861, introduced during the British rule of India, that criminalises sexual activities "against the order of nature", including homosexual acts.
The section was earlier declared unconstitutional with respect to sex between consenting adults by the High Court of Delhi on 2 July 2009. That judgement was overturned by the Supreme Court of India on 11 December 2013, with the Court holding that amending or repealing Section 377 should be a matter left to Parliament, not the judiciary.

Joining us among various other panelists is Greeshma Rai, Lawyer and activists & people from LBGT community.

Open for all

Entry - Free

A talk about creative learning strategies for the future by Mr. Partho Sanyal.

This session is a dialogue on learner-centred education and discusses methods of independent creative learning as the emerging mode of learning in progressive schools the world over.

It also discusses how this kind of learning differs from traditional classroom teaching and how it is best suited to the needs of the students in today’s day and age.

This talk will benefit educators, teachers and parents from all walks of life who are interested in meaningful education and schooling.

Speaker: Partho works with schools and independent groups of teachers, parents and students through workshops, camps and short-term courses based on learner-centered education. He also works as consultant and advisor to progressive and alternative schools in India and the US.

This program is free entry and open to all.

The Makers of "Sex,Likes & Pokes", "Love,Sex & Mocha", "WHats up with Indian Men??","!2 inches" present "Finding Nemo's LIBIDO.This is a story of a man who finds himself at a loss. His libido runs rampant but he doesn`t get the chance to do the same. Nemo has found that his life is full of troubles, most of the time this revolves around his lack of sex. So he takes a drastic decision to kill his ``LIBIDO``. In search of Nemo`s Libido his roommates, Vicky and Sid, are faced with dilemma whether their lives would be better with or without LIBIDO. Nemo and his roommates go on a misadventure in search of the answer which puts them in `awkward` but hilarious situations.

For entry passes - 9908113113

The Makers of "Sex,Likes & Pokes", "Love,Sex & Mocha", "WHats up with Indian Men??","!2 inches" present "Finding Nemo's LIBIDO.This is a story of a man who finds himself at a loss. His libido runs rampant but he doesnt get the chance to do the same. Nemo has found that his life is full of troubles, most of the time this revolves around his lack of sex. So he takes a drastic decision to kill his ``LIBIDO``. In search of Nemos Libido his roommates, Vicky and Sid, are faced with dilemma whether their lives would be better with or without LIBIDO. Nemo and his roommates go on a misadventure in search of the answer which puts them in awkward but hilarious situations.

For entry passes - 9908113113

A fun, interactive 3 day FREE workshop for anyone interested in learning more about languages and creative writing. Whether you are a seasoned translator or someone who simply enjoys reading and engaging other cultures, this workshop will expose you to poems and very short stories translated from other languages, help you develop your sensitivity to language through reading and writing activities, and open up your creative energy. We will look at and translate (yes!) works from Polish, Chinese, French, Spanish, Hindi/Urdu, Telugu and more! Note: the workshop will be conducted in English but you do not need to have several languages or experience in translation to attend. Come prepared to read, write, share and enjoy.

Workshop from 10:30 to 12noon on 22, 25 and 29th Dec.
Entry - Free
Registration Required. To register please send an email to Madhu Kaza at mhk4@nyu.edu

Limited seats. firsts come first registered basis.

Proposed division of AP has raised many issues. One of the keenly Proposed division of AP has raised many issues. One of the keenly contested issues is river water sharing. How will future states share water resources in Andhra Pradesh? How do we understand how to share river waters? Will new states be on a collision course?

Listen to Uma Maheswari who is an independent journalist, researcher with a doctorate in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has done extensive work on Polavaram project and brings with her perspectives from interactions with the people who depend on these rivers and the rivers themselves.contested issues is river water sharing. How will future states share water resources in Andhra Pradesh? How do we understand how to share river waters? Will new states be on a collision course?

All are invited. Entry - Free

Bangalore stand up comedian Vamsidhar and stand up comics from Hyderabad come together to give you one hour of funny this Sunday noon. Pick up your brunch, sit back & See them talk about corporate, lingerie, relationships, Hyderabad men and other things.

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Hyderabad Western Music Foundation invites you to

Workshop on Community Singing
Sharing Music – Creating Harmony

What is Community Music? How can we use music as a tool to connect people together and create the sense of a community?
We will explore how different communities have made used the simple act of singing together to boost their morale, bring each other together, and gain motivation.

HWMF is starting a Community singing project with bi-weekly sessions, from January.
The motivation behind these sessions of community singing is not singing for a prayer or singing for the country or patriotism - although we might take songs from religious / patriotic repertoire sometimes. But the motivation is simply to feel each others' energy and understand what it is like to sing with a room full of people.
We will sing songs from different languages each time, from all over the world. The songs will come from a variety of sources such as: Sea shanties from sailors, Folk songs from folk poets of India, Simplified classical songs / poems, Folk poems from around the world, Round Songs.

So if you are fond of singing just for the sheer joy of it, this is the place to be!

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

Sunday, 22nd Dec. 4 - 5.30 pm
Venue: Lamakaan www.lamakaan.com

Opps. GVK One Mall, Road No.1, Banjara Hills
Free event.
This course is for “everyone” who likes singing and wants to develop his/her voice-skills.
Interested persons can directly register (after the workshop) for this Community singing project (Start 12th Jan.).

www.hydmusic.com
info@hydmusic.com
www.facebook.com/TheHyderabadWesternMusicFoundation

Mooki is a dance-theatre production incorporating dialogue, dance, music, movement, sign language and silence.

Mooki, the kannada word for mute is the title of the piece that is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's short story Subha. The story revolves around a dumb girl who is ironically named Subhashini (which in sanskrit means one with the ability to speak beautifully). This dynamics in the story is used as a metaphor in the piece to address the idea of freedom of speech that democracy claims to bestow upon its people.
The movement vocabulary explores sign language and is also inspired by entities like trees, animals and humans that are not bestowed with the ability to speak.
It looks at how language creates hierarchy within the framework of society with freedom of expression often being reserved to those with power. It looks at how the voice of those communities that are often misinterpreted, translated or seldom heard are often categorized as being marginalized. The piece draws from the experiences of the performers themselves and primarily focuses on how we
have all endured discrimination based on gender and sexuality in silence.
The piece is devised and performed by individuals hailing from diverse fields
and aims to expand the limiting definition of dance and theatre by incorporating text, live music, personal experience and movement. The piece is directed by Veena Basavarajaiah.

Entry - bookmyshow.com or sms 09535671631

B.Vittala Acharya was a popular director and producer of Telugu and Kannada movies. He is called Janapada Brahma in the Telugu Film Arena.

In 1954, he produced and directed Kanya Daana a revolutionary film for that time. Wishing to Remake the same in Telugu, he moved to then Madras and settled there till his death. After making two more Kannada Movies, he concentrated in Producing and Directing only Telugu Movies. He directed movies for other producers also. He has totally Directed 15 Movies of Sri. N. T. Rama Rao then the leading Hero of Andhra Pradesh. Though he did not get any awards most of his Films were Box Office Success and he was fondly called by his fans as "Janapada Brahma".

On the eve of 100 years of cinema, Lamakan showcases a documentary on B Vittalacharya by Saichand T.
Entry - Free

Grim Pumpkin Theater brings to you four contemporary absurd plays. They are funny, they are sarcastic, sometimes inclusive, at times isolated. They make you laugh, and they laugh back at you. And they definitely went wrong at some point. Three of them are by Alex Broun, and one by Eric Fergusson.

Entry passes - 9966903264

Lamakaan invites you to an evening of unearthing RAGA ELEMENTS IN HINDI FILM MUSIC - A presentation by sri K.L.Pandey who wrote a book aptly titled HINDI CINE-SANGEET RAGOPAEDIA.

With the first Hindi talkie movie ‘Alam Ara’ in 1931, songs were introduced in Hindi films and after that they have become an integral part of them for all the times to come. With a variety of songs of different moods and for all the occasions , they have subconsciously found place in our minds and have become a part of life for almost every class of the society in some form or the other.
In music, there are 7 Shuddha Swaras (Pure notes) , 4 Komal Swaras (flat notes) and one Teevra Swar i.e. 12 Swaras when put together. We have an equivalent 12 notes in western system as well. The well defined structure of these Notes to create a melody makes Ragas, which are an important part of the grammar of singing or playing instruments in any form of music. In Hindi film songs also therefore, there cannot be any composition which does not follow the grammar of one or more than one Ragas. Although, in initial movies, all the songs were based on pure Ragas but to create melodies for the masses and to suit the requirements of the film, more than one Ragas have been used subsequently.

In this analytical research, the Mr. Pandey has worked with a team of experts and scholars of Hindustani classical music and the Ragas have been identified only after complete listening to the songs and also playing them on various instruments. The eminent professors and musicians in classical music and from the film industry have also been consulted wherever required.
The purpose of this effort by him is to make the music lovers understand our heritage of Hindustani Music through the examples of easily accessible and understandable Hindi film music and in a way, to bridge the gap between Hindustani Classical and Hindi film music.

Entry - Free

An Evening of Reunion - The Tankbund Blues Band is getting back On The Road.
Remember when we had so much fun, out at those happy trails? It's that time again.
The Tankbund Blues Band - it's a whisper from the past in a way, but the nth harmonics continue on.
And, evolving from there, it’s quite a morphogenetic entity now. Some of the deck hands are ghosts, yes, but the fleet has a few material schooners as well, to accompany the Flying Dutchman.

When did it all begin? Some proto-vibrations were there in the late eighties, but essentially, it would tag back to one point in the early nineties.
There was an open stage event at the YMCA in Secunderabad, India, where local performers were given time slots to do their stuff. Several pop acts did their thing, with due dosages of flash and pizzazz, but the crowd wasn't tuned in, somehow.
Next, these guys came up, a drummer who was totally spooked, and probably looked like he’d just stepped out of a morgue, and a trio of nerds on the guitars who asked for folding chairs to sit down on.
Then they announced something to the effect of "We're going to do a song called Hidden Treasure by a band called Traffic".
And the sound technician at the side of the stage, he spontaneously erupted in whoops of joy, like as though an oxygen cylinder had been thrown at a drowning man.
And the audience caught on as well.
Well, that day the band didn't shake any trees or much else, what with the drummer coming down with frozen calf and ankle muscles, even for such a basic beat. But they did do a couple of originals following Traffic. And the audiences opened their hearts to them, gave them rope, and room to grow.
That was the night The Tankbund Blues Band was born. They were not even called that yet, but the concept of triggering "Back o' Town Blues" where it was totally unexpected, it sealed the fate of that name.
It was unexpected because, out there, there wasn’t much of a context for taking up classic rock as a medium. The only name that was heard of in India back then who were doing this stuff, was Rock Machine, later known as Indus Creed. But other than them, it was a few bands strewn around the country (many of them extremely gifted and talented no doubt, but essentially cover bands with maybe some original work in their back-pockets but nothing that reached out to the wider audiences), and pretty much no one else who was ready to make classic rock their primary thing in life.
To be sure lots of really great stuff was going on in India around that time in other fronts, fusion, jazz etc., but not classic rock per se.
Today the scene is quite different though, but that was the deal back then.
In such a context, calling themselves a Blues Band was, so to speak, a brown man’s adaptation of the equation which the black man had with the white man run world. Inter-positioned with that were the South Asian aspects of the love/hate relationship with the Caucasian ethos, arising from out of the turmoil and travails of British occupation. Adopting classic rock was the “love” side of the coin, for there is no denying the power it possesses – and what the other side of the coin would do to the inside of the person, was one of the drivers of their blues.
They had no real exposure to the original blues (the cotton pickin’ and Chitlin circuit based music), but these kinds of considerations were what led to a brown man’s take on classic rock to go by the name of a blues band.

Meanwhile, the drummer continued to deal with the demons in his muscles and the rest of the guys had their own demons, and over the next few years they had a few more such shows that inexorably shaped out to be abject misery.
And then somewhere in the mid-Nineties they had one magic night at The Black Cadillac. That helped keep the torch alive.
For years the drummer plowed on in true pig headed fashion, trying maybe to be a tragedy act, doomed by fate to keep attempting impossible tasks, and by the constraints of his muscles.
But he wasn't really cut out to be a tragic figure. So gradually he made peace with his demons, to some extent at least. And eventually he was able to hold the beat.
Some of his current work can be seen, with buddies from The Long Shot, out at
www.youtube.com/user/duhalchi
Now, back then, why did he persist with his tragedy act for so many years, so very recalcitrant? Why did he not drop it and go do something else?
Well, he was following the instructions of the root genius of the band, the guy who is now at happier hunting grounds, who had laid out the dictat, "dude, you're the drummer and that's that. Now make it happen". And so it was.

To many of the guys from the band from back then (affectionately known now as VPs of SFOTO), here's hoping you'll tune in again more actively. And of course this event at Lamakaan is the opportunity to do so 
🙂
The Band now aims to channel the fervor to the cause and glory of Brihan Dasht, which is explained further below.
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Koi veerani si veerani hai,
Dasht ko dekhke ghar yaad aaya
-Ghalib
Translation:
There is some kind of desolation in my head,
Looking at the wilderness, I thought of home.
Dasht means wilderness. And Brihan Dasht means wilderness in a larger sense. Or in other words, a superset of what it means in a local context. Sort of like how you have Toronto, and then there is GTA, which is the Greater Toronto Area. In the same way, Brihan Mumbai is the Greater Mumbai Area.
So, if you extrapolate out from our world out to all existence, and look at the sum total of order and chaos and everything therein within totality that is wilderness, then that would be Brihan Dasht.
Brihan Dasht is raw spirit. The Tankbund Blues Band songs speak to this. Think Steppenwolf - they used to be known as Sparrow, and then they renamed themselves, and came up with Born to be Wild.
And so it is with Dasht.
In Indian lore, tales are told of King Janaka who while being well adjusted to what was known as "bhog" based life (the equivalent modern term is consumerism) and to his kingly duties, was simultaneously able to maintain his inner dwellings in rarefied regimes of transcendent being.
In like manner, someone who is in a state of Dasht, is reasonably at peace with the evolution of the corporate cubicles based lifestyle, and regulated suburban mode "civilized" human existence - but the essential spirit remains raw.
And thus is the music of The Tankbund Blues Band.
Entry - Free

Koshish Theatre Group presents Two Award Winning Comedies with a Serious Message! "Rickshaw Wale ka Sapna" deals with issues of Speeding, Drunken Driving and Breaking Traffic Rules viewed from Parlok in the company of Yama and "Praja Nahi Nagrik Hai Hum" Another Award Winning Play that lifts the awareness levels of the audience on issues of governance from grass roots while bringing the house down with sheer humour!
Entry passes - 9948725564

Basic Theatre and Acting. Weekend Workshop

Stage Shastra conducts theatre workshops over a period of five weekends on Saturdays & Sundays. This workshop culminates in an informal show by the participants. After the workshop and the show, the participants join as a member and continue performing and getting trained on advanced acting techniques for stage and screen.

Dates : Every saturday and Sunday starting from 28th December.

Venue : Lamakaan, Banjara Hills.

For more details, please contact
Gaurav Sarkar : 09533501871
email us at : stageshastra@gmail.com

Pain Relief Care or Palliative Care – A means to end the suffering -

Living with, life-limiting illnesses such as cancer, paralysis, dementia, Alzheimer's, stroke, AIDS, heart and kidney failure is usually a devastating experience. The pain and trauma, both physical and psychological, of such illness are immense, shattering the lives of children, young adults and elderly people alike. Palliative care is an emerging specialty of medicine catering specifically to the needs of patients with such chronic illnesses.

Palliative care is aimed at improving quality of life, by employing what is called "Active Total Care", treating pain and other symptoms, at the same time offering social, emotional and spiritual support as mentioned below.


The NGO selected for this time is "Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society - Hyderabad".

website: http://www.palliativecarepartners.in/index.html

RangDe Talks : Conducted by RangDe Hyderabad Chapter, it provides a platform for NGOs to talk about them.
The Objective is to get more people aware about the work done by the NGO, as well as about RangDe.

All are welcome. entry - free

On October 12, 2013 a bus from Bangalore to Hyderabad caught fire and 45 passengers were killed in the burning inferno. This play tells the story of few passengers in that bus. It also looks into the story of chirag who was supposed to be in that bus but missed it and how this changes his life. A play about being grateful and Near death experience.

for entry passes: 9908113113

Blood Bonation Camp in association with NTR blood bank. We are the students of street cause risbm(https://www.facebook.com/StreetCauseRisbm) a branch of street cause hyderabad (streetcause.org. we have done many events in various places, now we were really interested in doing a blood camp. location was the only issue. the blood bank people will provide everything, we street cause people will provide the members and chairs.

All are welcome to participate and donate.

Porayathu Leela, better known as P. Leela, was a popular Indian playback singer. She was awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2006.

Starting at the age of 13, she has sung about 5000 film songs in all the South Indian languages Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. She also sang in one Bengali film and in Sinhala movies. Her songs are known for their emotional touch and classical discipline. She made a name for herself by singing in her mellifluous voice both for the film industry and in carnatic music She considered it an honour to have sung in the same period as M S Subbulakshmi, M L Vasanthakumari and D K Pattammal - three giants of Carnatic music. She has worked under all great music directors and has sung with all the major singers of the South Indian film industry.

In the 1950s Leela was busy singing in all the South Indian languages. Her songs in films like Patala Bhairavi, Missamma, Pelli Chesi Choodu, Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu, Gundamma Katha, Lava kusa are the greatest melodies and remembered even today after many decades.
Vijaya productions' first movie, Shaukaru, did not fare well at the box office. However, the film had great melodies by Ghantasala and Leela.
In the film Missamma ( made asMissiyamma in Tamil), the songs by S. Rajeswara rao combined with voices of A.M. Raja, P. Leela and P. Susheela have become immortal, casting a magical spell over the listeners.
Vijaya productions sixth film made in the 1957, Maya Bazaar (directed by K.V.Reddy) is a true classic. The song "kalyana samaiyal satham (vivaha bhojanammu)" in the film still stands the test of time..
In one of the interviews Leela recalled that while recording the songs of `Maya Bazar, the composer took 28 takes of a song and they used the fifth take.
She worked as a music director for a film called ‘Chinnari Pappulu’ (Telugu) in 1968. The film was produced exclusively by women.

Saichand T made this tribute docuentaty on this legendary singer and being shown as a part of 100 years of Indian Cinema.

Entry - Free

Adapted from the original Marathi Play ``Shri Tashi Sau``, written by Yogesh Soman into Hindustani by Saurabh Gharipurikar. This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time.

Stick to your chairs as this play will take you on a laughter ride. During the course of funny incidents, they finally realize that even after so many fights they cannot live without each other. This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time. Make sure you watch this play as this one will surely tickle your funny bone! Go and watch the play at Lamakaan

Susarla Dakshinamurthi was an Indian film music director, playback singer, producer and an eminent carnatic musician, known for his works in South Indian film industry. He has worked for 135 films in different South Indian languages. He is noted for his works in the films Laila Majnu, Samsaram and Narthanasala.

He was born on 11 November 1921 in Pedakallepalli, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India to Susarla Krishnabrahma Sastry, who was a musician and teacher and Smt Annapurnamma. His paternal grandfather was Susarla Dakshinamurthi Sastri, a classical Carnatic music pioneer. During the childhood, his home used to feed many students from far away places who came to learn Music under his grandfather. He was a child prodigy, who at the age of 9 played the violin with great finesse accompanying all the singers during the 9 day Navarathri Celebration at Machilipatnam.
He has worked as Harmonium player in His Master's Voice in 1938. He has worked in different stations of All India Radio as A-grade artist in the late 1930s. He was invited to New Delhi station as Director for South Indian music.

He had moved to the Madras film industry and worked as an assistant to Music Director, C. R. Subburaman. He made Lata Mangeshkar sing the ever popular song 'Nidurapora Thammuda', in his movie Santhanam.
Samsaram (1950) movie is a musical hit film with ever popular song Samsaram Samsaram by Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao and A. M. Rajah in Telugu and Tamil languages respectively.
Ilavelpu (1956) is the next major hit film by L. V. Prasad. The famous song Challani Raja O Chandamama by Raghunath Panigrahi. He sang Challani Punnami Vennelalone casting Relangi Venkataramaiah in the film.
His score for Narthanasala (1963) songs particularly Evari Kosam Ee Mandhahasam, Naravara Kuruvara (S.Janaki),Janani Siva Kaamini (P. Susheela), Salalitha Raga Sudharasa Saaram (singer: Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna) and Sakhiya Vivarinchave are forever memorable.
He had produced two films Mohini Rukmangada (1960) and Rama Sundari (1962) under the banner of Anuradha Movies.

Saichand Tripuraneni pays tributes to the master film maker with his documentary on Singitam in this 100th year of Telugu Cinema.

All are welcome. Entry - Free

An Interactive and Transformative Session on:

"The Secret of Staying Healthy "

Conducted by:
Dhiraj Kaveri
Health Promoter

@ Lamakaan
Date: Saturday 4th January 2014
Time: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm


This session will discover and demystify Health through simple and easy ways and means.

Entry: Free

Call: Dhiraj Kaveri 8096573173

School children creates a theatre installation performance of Tagore-meets-Hamlet using works of both Tagore and Shakespeare using body as a tool.

Created from installation videos and body movement and spoken word to create a 50 minute performance called no holds bard,....this is dedicated to 100 years of tagore's gitanjali receiving the nobel prize and 450th birth commemoration of Shakespeare.

Entry - Free

DIPLOMA IN CORRUPTION, A social satire in Hindustani language on Corruption in high places is a burning topic of today, but corruption in the life of a common man is a matter of equally grave concern.

This is part Month-long theatre festival by Rangdhara, Sutradhar at Lamakaan over Sat & Sun weekends at 7:30pm in January.

The play voices these concern in form of a satire in which a middle class retired school teacher places an advertisement in local newspaper about coaching classes for etiquettes and manners (Shishtachar). The advertisement is wrongly published as "coaching classes for Bhrashtachar (Corruption)". This leads to visits by a policeman, an officer from Municipal Corporation, and the education department who bully him. The hapless teacher ends up paying bribes to keep them quiet and not take any action against him. To top this, an ex-chief engineer from mining department offers himself as a faculty member. The exasperated teacher seriously decides to drop his idea of coaching classes for Shishtachar. Entry of a eunuch looking for any degree or diploma, hoping to achieve some sort of status in the society changes the tone of the play from sarcastic to serious. The teacher rejects the eunuch for enrollment and the eunuch lashes out and ridicules the teacher for paying bribes to save his skin. "He who gives bribes is more responsible for corruption than he who receives them.” This scourge of corruption is like Bhishmacharya of Mahabharat, who is unconquerable, and cannot be killed” bemoans the teacher. “Do not be afraid of consequences. Fight this war, become Arjun. We the descendents of Shikhandi will join hands with you” declares the eunuch as the play draws curtain.

The play is writter by Surender Chaturvedi and directed by Prakash Phadnis.

For Entry passes or seasonal passes - 9985874393 or book online with www.bookmyshow.com

Adapted from the original Marathi play Shri Tashi Sau written by Yogesh Soman into Hindustani by Saurabh Gharipurikar.
This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time. During the course of funny incidents, they realize that after so many fights they cannot live without each other.
Stick to your chairs as this play will take you on a laughter ride. Make sure you watch this play as this one will surely tickle your funny bone!

Inviting students of all ages from 13 years onwards of all schools and colleges for the Hyderabad regional round of Verba Maximus 2014 - the annual literary festival of BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus.

The event will take place at Lamakaan on Sunday,5th January at 12 noon, featuring a Debate - which will be held for teams of two - and a Spell Bee. Winners get prizes and a direct entry to the finals of the respective events at Verba Maximus.

There is no entry fee. Do turn up and spread the word!

PARTNERS, A play originally by SANDESH KULKARNI and translated and adapted into Hindi by SHANTA KULKARNI.

This is part Month-long theatre festival by Rangdhara, Sutradhar at Lamakaan over Sat & Sun weekends at 7:30pm in January.

`Partners' depicts the bonding among the girls in the hostel. The play revolves around three girls staying in a hostel, one pursuing a job and the other two being students.

Though all the three have different attitudes, they have a good rapport and address each other as partner.

The play written by Sandesh Kulkarni and directed by Prakash Phadnis looks at the change of attitudes when they have to deal with a problem.

Vrushali is a sincere hard-working girl, who is systematic and is also religious. Her roommate Madhavi is tomboyish and cannot tolerate injustice in society especially to women. She is bold and frank. The other girl Priyanka is naive and simple. She is in her own world of imagination, smitten by a boy in the locality.

Vrushali, while attending an interview for a job is raped by the employers and she returns to the room shattered.

Madhavi insists on lodging a complaint with the police and making it an issue by informing the press, but the other two do not agree as it would lead to tarnishing the image of the girl and her family. A dejected Vrushali plans to leave the city, without intimating the partners.

However, a defiant Madhavi cajoles her and makes her change the decision, to fight injustice and move on in life.

The play showcases how women and girls who stay away from their homes need to stay united and share their problems and overcome the same.
Directed by VAISHALI KELKAR.

For Entry passes or seasonal passes - 9985874393 or book online with www.bookmyshow.com

Dramatic Circle Hyderabad
Presents
five Theatrical pieces bound by Music 'WINTER MELODIES, SPRING NOTES'' Plays : 1. 'A New Year's Requeim' - by :Dr Vithal Rajan - Dir : Pranava Singhal ( 15mts) : The New Year’s Eve reminiscences of a couple in their eighties, about a lifetime of joy, and the parallel dark underbelly of old age. 2. 'Outsourced' - by : Laura Cunningham - Dir : Pranava Singhal (15mts) A late night encounter across the seas between a desperate man seeking a credit limit increase on his Card and a 'gorgeous Indian BPO Associate'. 3. 'Chocolate with Wine' - by : Fredrick Stoppel - Dir : Pranava Singhal (15mts) A tale of two women, a Detective and a murder suspect,and the passionate delights of chocolate and wine.
4. 'The Three Monkey Trio' - by : Vijay Marur - Dir : BS Prakash (15mts)
The Three Monkey Trio
Three aging gentlemen. Shankar, Prakash and Vijay are musicians and part of a classical music band. Vijay plays the saxophone, but can’t hear. Shankar plays the flute, but can’t speak. And Prakash plays the piano but can’t see. All of them have just proposed to their individual girlfriends and all of them have been rejected. How they cope with this and plan on going ahead with their lives is the theme of a short 15 minute playlet.
Dramatised Reading : 'A Venetian Spring' : by : Gerald Durrell ( 45 mts) - Dir : Pranava Singhal A dramatisation of Durrell's hilarious short story " A Public School Education", is a tribute to the great conservationist, zoologist, and best-selling author on his 89th birth anniversary.
Entry - 9966315828, , 9966315828.

Dramatic Circle Hyderabad
Presents
five Theatrical pieces bound by Music
'WINTER MELODIES, SPRING NOTES''
Plays :
1. 'A New Year's Requeim' - by :Dr Vithal Rajan - Dir : Pranava Singhal ( 15mts) :
The New Year’s Eve reminiscences of a couple in their eighties, about a lifetime of joy, and the parallel dark underbelly of old age.
2. 'Outsourced' - by : Laura Cunningham - Dir : Pranava Singhal (15mts)
A late night encounter across the seas between a desperate man seeking a credit limit increase on his Card and a 'gorgeous Indian BPO Associate'.
3. 'Chocolate with Wine' - by : Fredrick Stoppel - Dir : Pranava Singhal (15mts)
A tale of two women, a Detective and a murder suspect,and the passionate delights of chocolate and wine.
4. 'The Three Monkey Trio' - by : Vijay Marur - Dir : BS Prakash (15mts)

The Three Monkey Trio

Three aging gentlemen. Shankar, Prakash and Vijay are musicians and part of a classical music band. Vijay plays the saxophone, but can’t hear. Shankar plays the flute, but can’t speak. And Prakash plays the piano but can’t see. All of them have just proposed to their individual girlfriends and all of them have been rejected. How they cope with this and plan on going ahead with their lives is the theme of a short 15 minute playlet.

Dramatised Reading :
'A Venetian Spring' : by : Gerald Durrell ( 45 mts) - Dir : Pranava Singhal
A dramatisation of Durrell's hilarious short story " A Public School Education", is a tribute to the great conservationist, zoologist, and best-selling author on his 89th birth anniversary.

Entry - 9966315828, , 9966315828.

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.

This is a monthly Start-Up meet by entreprenuers, companies, partnership or temporary organisation to share their Ideas, successes and Failure with like-minded people in the industry. Held at Lamakaan every second Saturday at 10-1pm, it has an agenda set for every meetUp.

This month's Theme: 'Women Entreperneurs in Technology'

Recent news feature discussed women entrepreneurs in cited there not being enough tech startups led by women. We all know that Is not true J. This SS, a discovery format, to uncover new technology startups started by women entrepreneurs.

Pls refer women led start-ups that can share their experiences and journey at this SS. Send email to Arpita Soma- arp.soma@gmail.com (or reach out to volunteer team- hyderabad@headstart.in ).


Date: Jan 11, Saturday. 10am
Venue: LaMakaan, Near GVK One, Banjara Hills

Program:

Program
10:00 Kickoff
10:10 Intros

StartupsSpeak
Discovery format. Products being created, market opportunity sought, and technology in use.
10: 30 Anuradha Thota [anuradha.thota@theblackbucks.com]
10: 45 SafeScream
11:00 DataPub
11:15 Modak Analytics, Arti Joshi
11:30 TBD
11:45 TBD

ExpertSpeak
Experts that can help mobility start-ups with technology, platforms, models
12:00 A successful women entrepreneur

Investorspeak
12:20 Investor withHyderabad Angels

12:50 Open Networking


Any start-ups interested in speaking or a lightning pitch (very early stage start-ups working on first prototype), pls reach out to volunteer team- hyderabad@headstart.in





Ramesh Loganathan
VP (Products) & Center Head, Progress Software, Hyderabad
Tel: +91-98490-42997 | +91-40-45106000 | http://jroller.com/rameshl

Walk in and participate with no entry fee. Open to All.

Lamakaan - the Election Series Lectures.
Sat 11th Jan - 2pm to 5:30pm
Sun 12th Jan - 11am to 4pm (with an hour lunch break)

LAMAKAAN ELECTION SPECIALS - SERIES OPENER

Hindutva and Other Fundamentalisms: Fault-lines of Indian Democracy

3 part lecture and discussion with Biju Mathew. A Lamakaan Night School Primer.

The 2014 election season has seen the re-emergence of Hindutva as a defining feature of Indian politics all over again with Narendra Modi and his brand of communal politics. This three part lecture/discussion will excavate the 1920s origins of Hindutva, its founding influences and its role in the nationalist movement, followed by a brief outline of its withering in the immediate post independence era. The lectures will then track the re-emergence of the Hindutva movement in post Emergency India and argue for the political economic and cultural crisis that marks its most recent re-emergence under the tutelage of Narendra Modi. This is a must for those seeking a solid and well grounded understanding of Hindutva and the struggle around secularism.

The lecture by Biju will be majorly in English but participants are welcome to take up discussions in English, Urdu, Hindi and Telugu too.

All are invited, entry is free.

This is the third installment of a new series of conversation sessions with the public on
issues of current interest in Science. We will have a short 20 minute talk by a
prominent scientist, 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.

This conversation will feature Professor D. Balasubramanian, Director of Research at the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. A biophysical chemist by training, and a Padma Shri awardee for his many contributions to society, Prof. Balasubramanian is known to many for his regular column: "Speaking of Science" published in The Hindu. This Science conversation will be on "Cloning and the Uses of Stem Cells", a hot topic today both in scientific research and ethics.

Lamakaan hosts a Handloom Bazaar for Sale and exhibit the Fabric of Freedom.

Woven in to the wonderful tapestry that is India, handloom weaving is a 4000 year old tradition. Handloom weaving is one of India’s predominant rural economic activities.This unique tradition has surpassed ages solely because of the magnificence of its craft, the mastery of its makers and patronizing consumers. Handlooms had a glorious past and o a penurious present. The handloom weavers used to live in a life of comfort and complacence in the past. They were respected for their invaluable craft that symbolized the essence of our rich culture and tradition. However, as time wheeled by machines began to exude dominance over human labour. In the state of Andhra Pradesh alone, there are about 320,000 handlooms on which about 500,000 families directly and 20,00,000 families indirectly depend for livelihoods. The recent years have witnessed migrations to cities in large numbers by handloom cotton weavers, taking up of alternative employment in rural industrial units and in extreme cases even starvation deaths or suicide deaths. The monthly handloom bazaar is one of the initiatives we are undertaking to bring back the wonder of handloom into mainstream popular culture, thus increasing the market for these products. In addition the exhibition cum sale hopes to educate the people at large on the issues of handloom weavers, and also on how to recognize the "real handloom" from fakes and "powerloom products". The bazaar will also include talks from time to time, display of weaving skills, and also will encourage children to learn these skills in an interactive way - like learning to use the "charkha" etc

Arunjyothi Lokhanday will be conducting a Kite-making workshop for kids using household material on the eve of this Sankranthi.

Bring your children and let them make your own kites. Please carry your own newspaper/colour paper and thread.

Entry - Free

Seed Exchange
Intipanta - Organic Terrace/Kitchen Gardening group encourages organically grown vegetables. Our aim is to help facilitate meets for the member to exchange information and also facilitate the exchange of open pollinated seeds saved by the group members.

This will be an informal gathering to say hello, have come chai, exchange some information and more importantly share the seeds we all have saved. Spread the diversity of seeds among others!

Who should attend: those interested in meeting others kitchen gardeners and exchange seeds. (even if you have no seeds please come and get some)

What to bring: Open pollinated seeds of vegetables, flowers and fruits that you might have. Any saplings to give away.

When: 12th Jan Sunday 3-5pm

Where : Lamakaan terrace

Entry: free.

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation invites you to "Music Course on Community Singing".

What is Community Music? How can we use music as a tool to connect people together and create the sense of a community?
Communities around the world have made used the simple act of singing together to boost their morale, bring each other together, and gain motivation.
HWMF is starting a Community singing project with bi-monthly sessions, from January.
The motivation is simply to feel each others' energy and understand what it is like to sing with a room full of people. It is expected that participants have a basic interest in learning songs from all over the world in different languages and historical contexts! For this reason, we have set the minimum age to 12 years.
The songs come from a variety of sources such as: Sea shanties from sailors, Folk songs from folk poets of India, Simplified classical songs / poems, Folk poems from around the world, Round Songs.
So if you are fond of singing just for the sheer joy of it, this is the place to be!
Once you register, new rep will be mailed to you for preparing in advance, and so that we can all enjoy singing these songs! Our first session will contain for ex. the famous “Banana Boat Song” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9angh4KdQ

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

Sunday, 12th Jan. 4 - 5.30 pm

Venue: Lamakaan www.lamakaan.com Opps. GVK One Mall, Road No.1, Banjara Hills

Course fee: Rs. 100 for each session. Pl. register directly at the venue on 12th Jan. For more info: 9849451794 info@hydmusic.com or tejaswineek@gmail.com

In the year 100 years of Telugu Cinema, we pay tributes to various doyens of the cinema. In this series, today we show a documentary on Rahman, cinematographer who pioneered many tricks with the camera when the technology was at its infancy. Rahman was one cameraman who worked most on NT Ramarao's Mythological, social and folk genre films like Tyagayya, Suvarnasundari, Narthanasala, Manadesam. These series of documetaries are made by Saichand Tripuraneni.

We will also recap another episode on Marcus Bartley, the fampus cinematographer for Vijaya movies like Gundamma Katha, Maya Bazaar etc.

Open for all. Entry - Free

Abhaas ya bhaas is a play that depicts the problems and wishes of street boys who are deprived of minimum needs like food clothing and shelter and how do they react when they are about to die but are suddenly blessed with some more life are told that their wishes can come true.
What is it that they wish for and how much it matters to them. The play tells us the story of two boys who are spared and given a chance by yamraaj by granting them bonus of six hours and six wishes where each wish will last for just an hour. The baffled boys wish for the same every time they do.
The play is a satirical take on the destitute, politicians, and the ‘mango people’. Find out what happens in the climax. Whether, either of them die, both dies or both remain alive at the end of the sixth hour.


Rangadhara & Sutradhar are the oldest & most renowned theatre groups in the twin cities staging the shows at regular intervals. Lamkaan is also associated with Ranga-Sutra for Ranga-Sutra festival.

For Entry passes or seasonal passes - 9985874393 or book online with www.bookmyshow.com

A Very Cool Short Film Festival
Only for Fun Loving Hyderabadis

Unlike most short films that focus on themes of social concern and environmental consciousness etc., here is a festival of films that are unabashedly and unpretentiously light hearted.

Light hearted about life, light hearted about living. Films that don’t care for a six pack or a bikini bod, Films that celebrate the times when people used to live without the shackles of well intentioned do’s and don’t’s. When living was just a series of licks of life.

Entry - Free.

SLEEPLESS..
....a site-specific spoken installation tribute to Albert Camus on his birth centenary with extracts from his path-breaking book on pacifism called "Neither Victims Nor Executioners"

Synopsis:

“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
― Albert Camus

“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Do we really sleep? Or do we close our eyes and run away like an escapist from the world that burns from the lessons of the past that refuses to heal.


"What with the general fear of a war now being prepared by all nations and the specific fear of murderous ideologies, who can deny that we live in a state of terror? We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible; because man has been wholly submerged in History; because he can no longer tap that part of his nature, as real as the historical part, which he recaptures contemplating the beauty of nature and of human faces; because we live in a world of abstractions, of bureaus and machines, of absolute ideas and of crude messiahnism. We suffocate among people who think they are absolutely right, whether in their machines or in their ideas. And for all who can live only
an atmosphere of human dialogue and sociability, silence is the end of the world."

Directed and Designed by Parnab Mukherjee

Performers: Bhavana Nissima, Sandeep Raj, Nayantara Nanda Kumar

Duration: 40 minutes without any intermission

Entry - Free

'Book Buzzers', a literary and book lovers are conducting their monthly literary meeting this month over a couple of documentary films on Legends from Telugu film industry.

Bookbuzz has been meeting every third Wednesday (or the next working day) at a pre-determined venue from noon to 3 pm over books and meal and the cost of lunch is shared by all the attendees. There is no compulsion of regular attending and there is no membership fee. However, a small fine is collected from late comers and members who miss consecutive meetings.The total amount collected is used to donate books to school libraries of under privileged children.

All are welcome.

The emergence of AAP: a Symptom or Solution?
The political scenario in India witnessed a new wave of change with the emergence of Aam Admi Party winning the Delhi Election. Everyone is talking about it and the talk has penetrated to almost every city/ towns and maybe village. People associate a lot of hope with the party. One must ask where this hope and change in political scenario take us? What is the ideology of AAP that adheres to? Does it resonate with the ideals that constitutional forefathers have laid? What is the current strategy of AAP and its implication for democratic India? Why do people believe in the party as a promising hope? Or other way round? Are these promises realistic? And are these promises what people actually want?

To discuss this youth and experts from Hyderabad are coming together as a panel to put across their thoughts.

Uma Shankari- AAP member, Prof.Biju Mathew, Tejaswani M, Eashan- President of Young Orators club of Secunderabad

Ope for all. Entry - Free

Beer, Smoke and a "Lovely" Tale is a collection of 3 short comedy plays. (12 minutes each)

1. Beer Chic.
a comedy play about a frustrated husband when he creates an imaginary "perfect girl" out of beer cans.

2.Can i have a smoke? (Improvised comedy)
a fast paced comedy, about Martha, Lewis and a smoke.

3.The perfect wedding.
a slapstick comedy about a story teller trying to tell a story about the perfect couple and the couple creep onto the stage and mess it all up.

Directed by Nikhil Heerekar.