Lamakaan

A UN mandated DAY(10 Sept) which is celebrated world wide, We (ROSHNI) plan to stage a play on creating awareness to prevent SUICIDES and about our services.

GM Food in your daily tadka or avakaya - Are you Worried

Talk and Discussion on Genetically Modified Mustard

Led by Dr.Ramanjaneyulu from Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.

September 10th(Saturday), 5-7 pm

Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Globally people have serious concerns about effects on health and environment over Genetically Modified Food crops and not many have been approved so far. In India, an attempt to commercialise Bt Brinjal faced with a moratorium in 2009 after public consultation. But now, GM Mustard is coming up for approval in September/October! It is shrouded in secrecy, with the government keeping data away from public domain. Mustard is a very important food crop consumed in many forms - oil, seed, mustard paste, pickles like avakaya, and as a leafy vegetable.

Will you be worried and act on it now? Or will you wait until it is too late? Should we not question the faulty and flawed process of the regulators ? These and many more, are the questions being asked by many people across India right now. Dr. G.V Ramanjaneyulu will make a presentation on GM crops, particularly mustard, and speak about the concerns. This will be followed by an interactive discussion.

All are Welcome!

Come and listen to some of finest poems of Laltu and analysis by Dr Ashutosh this weekend at Lamakaan.

Entry Free and Open to All.

Laltu is a Hindi poet and writer. He has published five poetry collections and a short story collection, and a few works for children and translations. He also writes commentaries on contemporary affairs and is associated with grassroots movements. He is a scientist and he teaches at IIIT-H.

शीर्षक - लाल्टू का काव्यपाठ और उनकी कविता पर चर्चा सानिध्य आशुतोष कुमार/के साथ ,

आयोजक- प्रतिरोध का सिनेमा और लामाकान

आशुतोष कुमार का परिचय -
आशुतोष कुमार की आलोचना -पुस्तक 'समकालीन हिन्दी कविता और मार्क्सवाद ' समकालीन हिंदी कविता के बहाने मार्क्सवादी आलोचना की दश और दिशा की जांच पड़ताल करती है .यह मार्क्सवादी आलोचना को समकालीन विमर्शों से मिलने वाली चुनौतियों की सन्दर्भ में पुनरीक्षित करने का आलोचनात्मक उद्यम है .
पत्र -पत्रिकाओं और ई-पत्रिकाओं में यशपाल , भगवती चरण वर्मा , भीष्म साहनी , हजारी प्रसाद द्विवेदी ,वीरेन डंगवाल ,गोरख पाण्डेय , अदम गोंडवी , मुक्तिबोध और युवा -कविता आदि पर आलोचनात्मक लेख और सामाजिक -राजनीतिक मुद्दों पर टिप्पणियाँ प्रकाशित हैं .
पत्रिका ' आशय ' के विशेषांक ' प्रेम का स्त्री -अर्थ ' और अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय की शोध पत्रिका 'अभिनव भारती' विशेषांक ' उपन्यास और प्रतिरोध ' का अतिथि -सम्पादन किया . पुनर्विचार नाम के ब्लॉग पर कुछ चीजें मौजूद हैं .
दो दशकों से हिंदी का अध्यापक . राजस्थान , अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय और दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय में .
जन संस्कृति मंच के साथ सक्रिय जुड़ाव . इंडिया हैबिटेट सेंटर के ' कवि के साथ ' कार्यक्रम श्रृंखला के साथ.
शिक्षादीक्षा नेतरहाट , पटना , इलाहाबाद और दिल्ली (जे एन यू) में हुई.
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लाल्टू का परिचय :
कविता, कहानी, पत्रकारिता, अनुवाद, नाटक, बाल साहित्य, नवसाक्षर साहित्य आदि विधाओं में सक्रिय।

कविता संग्रह: एक झील थी बर्फ की (आधार:1990); डायरी में तेईस अक्तूबर (रामकृष्ण:2004); लोग ही चुनेंगे रंग (शिल्पायन: 2010); सुंदर लोग और अन्य कविताएँ (वाणी: 2012); नहा कर नहीं लौटा है बुद्ध (वाग्देवी: 2013); कोई लकीर सच नहीं होती (वाग्देवी: 2016)

कहानी संग्रह: घुघनी (1996)
कई समकालीन संग्रहों में रचनाएँ शामिल।
अनुवादः हावर्ड ज़िन की पुस्तक 'A People's History of the United States' के बारह अध्यायों
का अनुवाद प्रतिष्ठित पत्रिकाओं में प्रकाशित; जोसेफ कोनरॉड के उपन्यास 'Heart of Darkness' का अनुवाद (वाग्देवी: 2015)
बाल साहित्यः भैया ज़िंदाबाद (बाल कविताएँ 1992);
बांग्ला से अनूदितः अगड़म बगड़म (आबोल ताबोल);
ह य व र ल; गोपी गवैया बाघा बजैया;
अंग्रेज़ी से अनूदितः लोग उड़ेंगे; नकलू नडलू बुरे फँसे
नवसाक्षरों के लिएः कविता संग्रह: देश बड़ा कब होता है;
नाटकः भाप ताप और आप

बांग्ला, पंजाबी, अंग्रेज़ी से कहानियाँ कविताएँ अनूदित - प्रतिष्ठित पत्रिकाओं में प्रकाशित
पत्रकारिताः हिंदी, पंजाबी और अंग्रेज़ी में कई अखबारों और पत्रिकाओं में समसामयिक विषयों और विज्ञान पर सौ से अधिक आलेख और पुस्तक समीक्षाएँ प्रकाशित; शिक्षा आदि विषयों पर कई शोध-आलेख पुस्तकों में शामिल।

विज्ञान : सैद्धांतिक रसायन (आणविक भौतिकी) में 60 से अधिक शोधपत्र अंतर्राष्ट्रीय पत्रिकाओं में प्रकाशित;
शिक्षाः पी एच डी (केमिस्ट्री) - प्रिंस्टन विश्वविद्यालय, यू एस ए
एम एस सी (केमिस्ट्री)- आई आई टी - कानपुब्लागः आइए हाथ उठाएँ हम भी - laltu.blogspot.com
Entry Free. Open to All.

Collection of 3 Monologues:
About the plays :
1. Borys The Rottweiler
A dog is forced to save face in the most dramatic way when a new neighbour threatens his status. Drama, by Christopher Johnson.

2. A Psychopath
Heard the one about a good guy with a dark past? This monologue is about a bad man with a bright past. Theo Carter tried his best to do the right thing by his fellow man, but he suffers from an acute lack of human empathy and a few years back he just stopped trying.

3. Lucifer
Lucifer, The Satan woos the humans to embrace hell post their death. He makes fun of god and his powers,convincing humans to believe that Heaven isn't as good as it sounds.

Venue: LamaKaan
Time : 7:30 PM
Date : 10th Sep
Contact : 9700074079

On this Sunday morning through afternoon come and explore wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am - 1.30pm For details: 9642731329. Entry Free. All are Welcome.

On the anniversary of 9/11 Lamakaan invites to the screening of this revealing documentary on the whole issue of

Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Big cities in India have big dreams. The dream to be called a global city. The images about India's economic growth and development invariably are the images of big cities. Big Indian cities are complex. What you see is not usually what you get.

The 'booming' big cities like Hyderabad are filled with paradoxes and contradictions. There is so much incomprehensible about big Indian cities. They have to be understood to understand cities and the people.

The talk covers the not-so-easily comprehensible and visible developments and systems that are involved behind a big city. It covers the contradictions and paradoxes by taking the case of a 'global city' called Hyderabad.

Hyderabad quiz club's monthly quiz.

Interested in telling stories or listening to others stories? Want to perfect the art of telling a story?
Then look no further. This is the event you have been looking for 🙂
Free to join, free to participate.

Aapki kahani. Aaphiki zubaani!

For queries whatsapp 7680993179 (Santosh Mohan Veeranki)

A full fledged Bharatanatyam Dance recital by Samasutra team and students of Saine Nrityalaya

TASTE OF CHERRY
TA'M E GUILASS
TRAILER
Directed by ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Iran, 1997
Drama
95 mins

Palme d’Or-winning account of an Iranian man who drives around in his truck in search of anyone who bury him beneath a cherry tree after he commits suicide beneath it.

Samahaara
presents

"ACHARYA TARTUFFE"(A play in Hindi)
an adaptation of Moliere's TARTUFFE

Produced by Rathna Shekar Reddy

Directed by Nasreen Ishaque


Acharya Tartuffe
“Acharya Tartuffe” is a Hindi adaptation of Moliere’s controversial play ‘Le Tartuffe’, meaning the impostor, or the hypocrite. Written in 1664 the play sheds light on hypocrisy prevailing in the society, especially on the matters of religion and morality.

Omkaar, a wealthy businessman, gets influenced by a mysterious godman named Tartuffe and brings him home. Reeling under the spell of Tartuffe, he grows eccentric to an alarming level. His hapless victims are his own son and daughter. The son gets disowned and the daughter is to be married to the godman. The whole household gets caught in this whirlwind generated by the shrewd maneuvering of the holy man. Any reasoning on part of his family members proves futile. The loud mouth servants are the only ones who could voice their opinions on the fanatical events taking place in the house. Emboldened, Tartuffe slyly creeps closer to Kaamini, Omkaar’s wife, to quench his lustful cravings. Gripped with religious fervor, Omkaar has become too ridiculous to sense the impending threats. Eventually his incessant farcical antics lead him to lose his property to Tartuffe. However a timely tell a tale by Tartuffe’s disciple Chunni Lal brings to light the dark and evil past of the godman.

CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name “CITIZENFOUR,” in January 2013. He reached out to her because he knew she had long been a target of government surveillance, stopped at airports numerous times, and had refused to be intimidated. When Snowden revealed he was a high-level analyst driven to expose the massive surveillance of Americans by the NSA, Poitras persuaded him to let her film.

CITIZENFOUR places you in the room with Poitras, Greenwald, and Snowden as they attempt to manage the media storm raging outside, forced to make quick decisions that will impact their lives and all of those around them.

CITIZENFOUR not only shows you the dangers of governmental surveillance—it makes you feel them. After seeing the film, you will never think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser, or profile, ever again.

Write Club, Hyderabad is a platform for all the writers of Hyderabad (aspiring or published) to gather at one place and write. The whole idea of write club is for the writers to come out of the closet and cut down the tag.

What we do, basically:
One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring with them a theme, a writing plan and exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. We read out our write-ups, based on the writer’s discretion and obtain feedback and critique on them.

Any pre-requisites:
Entry is free, open and welcomed. We advise writers to bring in their writing devices and we’re all set.

When do we have Write Club:
Every Saturday afternoon – 4PM to 7PM

Hii Guys..! The Most Requested & Most Awaited Get together's are here from HDPC.
How to Make Your Photography Hobby a Small Business...Lets Start earning. Yes...! Soon we will form as Team-HDPC to offer commercial services, as we have lot of enquirers. Before that we need to have series of Photography Get Together's to Know each other about the Capabilities. Also we will have support sessions by commercial photographers to over come difficulties.
Not only this...Lot more...Coming your way.
What type of Photography you do? Why ?
What kind of commercial photography inspires you?
What are your Client requirements ?
Is your equipment good enough to Compete ?
How to you get networked or referrals
How can you build up your portfolio before you have clients?
What has been the greatest lesson you have learned since
shooting ?
How did you find the time to work on this career reboot?
What promotional tools do you use to reach out to clients you’d like to work for?
Hmmmm..Many Questions to be discussed soon... 🙂
Many successful small businesses start out as hobbies that eventually become profitable endeavors. If you've got a knack for photography, you might opt to work as a part-time freelancer or special events photographer, or you might open your own full-scale photo business. Consider what you need to get started. We will try to discuss everything related towards the First Step in to Commercial Photography.
Urs... Ram... 🙂

Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008 |documentary| 89 mins)

Directed by :Sam Bozzo

Blue Gold: World Water Wars examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water.[4] The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world.

On this Sunday morning through afternoon come and explore wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am - 1.30pm For details: 9642731329. Entry Free. All are Welcome.

City based youth formed Amma eye, organ and body donation promotion organization (AEOBDPO) to bring awareness among the public about the importance of donation of eye, organ and body.
“There are 500 deaths approximately everyday in the Hyderabad city alone. Hardly anyone donates eye, organ or body to the eye banks, Jeevandaan, medical colleges due to various superstitious reasons. With a sole purpose to eliminate superstitious beliefs, AEOBDPO is formed on 12th June 2016 (Sunday).

Once in every three months the members meet to discuss about the course of action.

Entry only to the members!

A full fledged Kuchipudi dance recital by Smt. Rajinimai Chakilam and students of Nrityanjali dance academy - Ameerpet.

Nabarun is the exclamation mark in Bengali literature. He is the emphatic interjector. His characters shamelessly hustle, behave atrociously, and try to exist in a violently hostile world. The film tries to get into the noisy, grimy, scratchy insides of his mind. Bouncing between pure documentary and fiction, just like Nabarun.

Credits

Director: Q
Producer: Q, Celine Loop
Screenwriter: Q
Cinematographer: Q
Editor: Q, Supratim
Music: Ankit Gandhi Lall
Production Company: Overdose Joint
Cast: Rii, Joyraj, Tanaji, Nitai, Satrajit

Miss Lovely (Hindi |2012| 113mins)
A Hindi feature film set in the lower depths of Bombay's "C" grade film industry. Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s.
Director: Ashim Ahluwalia

Lajwanti (2014| Rajasthan |103 mins)

“Lajwanti / The Honour Keeper” is a love story set in a village in the Thar desert in Rajasthan, India. A group of women in their daily long walk to collect water recite songs and exchange words that reveal their hidden desires. But one day when a crazy dreamer whose only passion is collecting doves crosses their path, one of them, Lajwanti, starts a journey that will take her out of this closed world. She, who initially seems to be the most radical in her beliefs and for whom the sanctity of marriage is supreme cannot accept the group’s behavior towards her and abandons it. A new journey begins for her when she starts walking the long distance alone.

Cast And Crew:
Cast: Sanghmitra Hitaishi, Pushpendra Singh,Gaurav Lavaniya, Sugna Devi, Nirmal Sapera
Directed & Produced by Pushpendra Singh
Cinematography: Ravi Kiran Ayyagari
Editing: Shweta Rai
Sound: Amala Popuri
Story: Late Vijaydan Detha
Art, Costumes, Screenplay: Pushpendra Singh

An exhibition cum sale of art work - water color and sketches and digital abstract art and photography.
This is aimed mainly for exhibition and the sale will ideally be voluntary contribution for charity in return for any art work a patron/viewer likes.

ABHAAS YA BHAAS is a play that depicts the problems and wishes of street boys who are deprived of daily life minimum needs. The play tells us the story of two boys who are spared and given a chance by Yamdoot by granting them bonus of additional life for six hours and six wishes where each wish will last for just an hour. Things to look out here is, what do the baffled boys wish for and what happens at the end of the sixth hour. The play is a satirical take on the destitute, politicians and the mango people.

An exhibition cum sale of art work - water color and sketches and digital abstract art and photography.
This is aimed mainly for exhibition and the sale will ideally be voluntary contribution for charity in return for any art work a patron/viewer likes

An exhibition cum sale of art work - water color and sketches and digital abstract art and photography.
This is aimed mainly for exhibition and the sale will ideally be voluntary contribution for charity in return for any art work a patron/viewer likes.

Barsaati Baatein: A cultural jam under the rains

Inviting all Hyderabadis to gather at Lamakaan to celebrate the rains. With hot chai and samosa, we will sing, read, recite, dance, joke and talk about rains. Every one is invited to perform or spectate or both!

Call 994866133 for more details.

Photography Exhibition

The Happy Book Club is proud to present Padmashree Ileana Citaristi and her autobiography titled " A Tale of Two Births" where she talks of her transformation from rebel and hippie to a conservative, rigorous exponent of a classical Indian dance Odissi and Chau. It's a tale of a visionary Guru who could look beyond the wild hair and the defiance to the extraordinary talent inside.

Entry Free.

Labour of Love/ Asha Jaor Majhe( 84mins| Bengali| 2014)

Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, LABOUR OF LOVE is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession. They are married to a cycle of work and domestic routine, and long stretches of waiting in the silence of an empty house. They share each other's solitude in pursuit of a distant dream that visits them briefly every morning.

Incorporating poignant political undertones, director Aditya Vikram Sengupta creates a stylistically beautiful film that depicts the challenges of sustaining love in a fast transitioning world via a simultaneous sensation of breathlessness and space.

Awards

National Film Awards – Indira Gandhi Award for Best Film by a Debut Director

National Film Awards – Best Sound Designer

FEDEORA Award for Best Film by a Debut Director – Venice International Film

Festival

Best Director – Marrakech International Film Festival

Jury Special Mention – Abu Dhabi Film Festival

Honourable Mention – BFI London Film Festival

Jury Award – Eurasia International Film Festival

Best Film – New York Indian Film Festival

Best Director – New York Indian Film Festival

Best Screenplay – New York Indian Film Festival

Grand Jury Honourable Mention – IFFLA (Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles)

NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film – Bangalore International Film Festival

Best Film – Jaipur International Film Festival

Best Sound – Jagran Film Festival

Critics Award ­ Hyderabad BFF


Credits

LABOUR OF LOVE

a FOR FILMS production

a film by ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA

"LABOUR OF LOVE" with RITWICK CHAKRABORTY & BASABDUTTA CHATTERJEE

production designer JONAKI BHATTACHARYA

sound designer ANISH JOHN

editor ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA

cinematography MAHENDRA J. SHETTY | ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA

line producers RITOBRATA PAUL | TRIDIB KUMAR SENGUPTA

business & marketing VIKRAM MOHINTA

produced by ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA | JONAKI BHATTACHARYA

written and directed by ADITYA VIKRAM SEGUPTA

Professor Venkat Dhulipala author of the critically acclaimed Creating a New Medina will be in conversation about this book with Dr. Dilip Simeon, historian, social activist, and novelist, and Dr. Sumanta Bannerjee, Cultural Historian and Political Commentator

Bio:
Prof. Venkat Dhulipala is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he teaches courses on South Asian and Global History. He is also currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi. Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India (Cambridge University Press, 2015) was cited by Newsweek as the Best Book in Global Non-Fiction in 2015 and described as "a masterpiece, arguably the most important work of History published in 2015". [http://www.newsweek.com/most-important-international-nonfiction-books-2015-409800]

Dr. Dhulipala is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he teaches courses on South Asian and Global History. He is also currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi.

Lamakaan, Navayana and Juggernaut

invite you to the launch of the book
Finding My Way
by Venkat Raman Singh Shyam and S. Anand

on Friday 30 September 2016, 6.30 p.m.
at Lamakaan: 8-2-467/2/1, Road No. 5, Off Road to
GVK Mall, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034

Publisher and wrtiter Gita Ramaswamy and artist Koeli Mukherjee Ghose will be in conversation with Venkat and Anand

Please help us post this for Saturday 1st October 2016 - 4 to 7 PM

Write Club, Hyderabad is a hangout place for all the writers of Hyderabad to sit together and spend a lazy Saturday afternoon in the best possible way - Writing!
What we do, basically:
One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring with them a theme, a writing plan and exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. We read out our write-ups, based on the writer’s discretion and obtain feedback and critique on them.
Any pre-requisites:
Entry is free, open and welcomed. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation.
When do we have Write Club:
Every Saturday afternoon – 4PM to 7PM

"Asuddha Bharath" is a translated version of UNSEEN-the truth about India's Manual scavengers written by Ms. Basha Singh and translated by K.Sajaya and published by Hyderabad Book Trust in 2016. Basha Singh is a journalist, activist and writer. Born in New Delhi, she grew up in Lucknow and received her MA and LLB degrees from Lucknow University. Journalis brought her to Delhi once again in 1996, after whchi she has worked with Amar Ujala Karobar, Amar Ujala, Navbharath times, Outlook weekly, Nai Duniya and then back with Outlook. She has written extensively on the issues of manual scaveninging and farmer suicides in north India. she received the Prabhadutt fellowship i 2005 for working on the issue of manual scavenging. She received the Ramnath Goenka Award for best Hindi journalist in 2007 for her story on manual scavenging women, especially the' baltiwalis' of Kanpur and the 'dabbu walis' of West Bengal. In 2008 she received a fellowship from Panos for her study on the health of female manual scavengers. The National Foundation of India (NFI) gave her a fellowship in 2006-07 for her study on farmer suicides in north India. She also writes stories and poems in Hindi, a few of which have been published.

About the Book: In many parts of the country, the inhuman practice of manual scavenging continues to thrive in spite of a law banning it. Moreover, the people forced to carry out this degrading work remain invisible to the rest of us, pushed to the margins of society without any recourse to help or hope. UNSEEN, based on over a decade of research unveils the horrific plight of manual scavengers across 12 states in the country and also recording their ongoing ftruggle for self empowerment.

It is Heartrending....will deeply unsettle those who value equality and respect for human beings. Written with sypathy, insight, humour, and overwhelming humanity.

About the film
In the documentary Living Without Money we meet Heidemarie Schwermer, a former teacher and psychoterapist from Germany, who one day decided to stop using money and live a life based on exchanging favors.

After the Film we'll have a discussion and a short presentation on the possibility of a moneyless economic system.

About The Play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published. If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request.
In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’ . As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.



Written by - Manav Kaul
Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar
Lights by – Krishna Shukl
Performance by - Siddhesh Dharmadhikari



Date – 1st & 2nd October 2016

Time - 08:00pm

Venue - Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01

Donor Pass - 100/-

Duration - 80 minutes.

For more details contact Saurabh # 9290013166

Phonetics is an important aspect of beginning to read. In this basic workshop the kids will have fun with language where reading and writing will be fun with dance, music and story time.
Age - 6+
Fee - 200/- per child

On this Sunday morning through afternoon come and explore wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am - 1.30pm For details: 9642731329. Entry Free. All are Welcome.

ECOLOGISE HYDERABAD

Workshops for Sustainability and Equality in the City

WORKSHOP ON

FUTURE OF TRANSPORT FOR HYDERABAD

Lamakaan, Sunday, October 2, 2016, 12:30 PM. To 6:00 PM.

WORKSHOP DESIGN

12:00 – 12:30 Registration

12:30 – 12:45 Introduction to Ecologise Hyderabad
T. Vijayendra, Ecologise Hyderabad
Queen’s Band - Song on Bicycle

12:45 - 01:00 Peak Oil and Future of Urban Transport
Soujanya, Ecologise Hyderabad
Peak Oil film

01:00 - 01:30 An overview of Transport in Hyderabad
Anant Maringanti, Hyderabad Urban Lab

01:30 - 02:00 Motorized Transport – Public Transport – RTC Buses
Sai Chaitanya Ratna, Urban Fellow, IIHS, Bangalore

02:00 - 02:30 Break – Lunch

02:30 - 02:45 Introduction of participants

02:45 - 03:00 Open Forum / Q & A / Story / Song / Short Film

03:00 - 03:30 Fly-overs and Traffic-jams
Namith Nayak, Research Fellow, Hyderabad Urban Lab

03:30 – 04:00 Mass Transport – Access Audit to Hyderabad Metro Rail
Madhu Divakar, Architect and Urban Designer, CARC

04:00 - 04:30 Non-Motorized Road Transport - Pedestrians & Cycling
Dhiraj Kaveri, Health Promoter, Stay Active Program
Visuals of Bicycle as livelihood / Cycle Rickshaws

04:30 - 04:45 Break – Tea

04:45 - 05:00 Open Forum / Q & A / Stories from Participants

05:00– 5:15 Conclusion, Anant Maringanti, Hyderabad Urban Lab

05:15 - 05:30 Feedback, Soujanya, Ecologise Hyderabad

Hope to see you all at the workshop...Please share with your friends about the same...

For those who have not yet registered please use the link below:

https://goo.gl/forms/T72i5FU4DVyhgcPk1

For any queries please contact:
Dhiraj Kaveri
Coordinator
Transport Workshop
9490797405 / 8096573173

The 101 collected poems of Hoshang Merchant, called My Sunset Marriage published by S Anand of Navayana will be released at Lamakaan.

About The Play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published. If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request. In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’ . As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.
Written by - Manav Kaul Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Lights by – Krishna Shukl Performance by - Siddhesh Dharmadhikari
Date – 1st & 2nd October 2016
Time - 08:00pm
Venue - Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01
Donor Pass - 100/-
Duration - 80 minutes.
For more details contact Saurabh # 9290013166

It is a 10 minute Poi dancing( LED spinning balls) show. This is a dancing prop from New Zealand.

Saving the Internet, to save Everything. A talk on net neutrality and activism by Holmes Wilson of Fight for the Future.

Holmes is the co-founder and co-director of Fight for the Future, an online activism group best known for its role in winning Net Neutrality in the US in 2015 and defeating the American Internet censorship bills SOPA & PIPA in 2012. This will be a casual and open talk on how net neutrality was won in the US, India and Europe, and what these victories mean for the future of activism—on any and every important issue facing the world.

If you participated in the fight for net neutrality in India—or any other successful activism campaign—come ready to tell your story.

Our goal—always—is to build tech-enhanced campaigns that resonate with millions of people, enabling them to consolidate their power and win historic changes thought to be impossible. In 2012 we organized the largest online protest in history, an internet-wide strike against web censorship which defeated the SOPA and PIPA bills. More recently, our Battle for the Net campaign drove nearly four million people to contact the FCC resulting in the game-changing passage of net neutrality rules (a “First Amendment” for the Internet).

Artist Talk & Slideshows by photographers

Musical night for fund raising for Daan Utssav

Please help us post this for Saturday 8th October 2016 - 4 to 7 PM

Write Club, Hyderabad is a hangout place for all the writers of Hyderabad to sit together and spend a lazy Saturday afternoon in the best possible way - Writing!
What we do, basically:
One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring with them a theme, a writing plan and exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. We read out our write-ups, based on the writer’s discretion and obtain feedback and critique on them.
Any pre-requisites:
Entry is free, open and welcomed. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation.
When do we have Write Club:
Every Saturday afternoon – 4PM to 7PM

Recitation of Hindi/Urdu Poetry by Milan Shrivastava with a presentation about the modern trends of Urdu/Hindi poetry world

Samahaara
presents

"ACHARYA TARTUFFE"
a hilarious adaptation of Moliere's Le TARTUFFE in Hindi

Produced by Rathna Shekar Reddy

Directed by Nasreen Ishaque

Date: 08th October 2016
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lamakaan, Hyderabad.


Acharya Tartuffe

“Acharya Tartuffe” is a Hindi adaptation of Moliere’s controversial play ‘Le Tartuffe’, meaning the impostor, or the hypocrite. Written in 1664 the play sheds light on hypocrisy prevailing in the society, especially on the matters of religion and morality.

Omkaar, a wealthy businessman, gets influenced by a mysterious godman named Tartuffe and brings him home. Reeling under the spell of Tartuffe, he grows eccentric to an alarming level. His hapless victims are his own son and daughter. The son gets disowned and the daughter is to be married to the godman. The whole household gets caught in this whirlwind generated by the shrewd maneuvering of the holy man. Any reasoning on part of his family members proves futile. The loud mouth servants are the only ones who could voice their opinions on the fanatical events taking place in the house. Emboldened, Tartuffe slyly creeps closer to Kaamini, Omkaar’s wife, to quench his lustful cravings. Gripped with religious fervor, Omkaar has become too ridiculous to sense the impending threats. Eventually his incessant farcical antics lead him to lose his property to Tartuffe. However a timely tell a tale by Tartuffe’s disciple Chunni Lal brings to light the dark and evil past of the godman.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

A UN mandated DAY(10 Sept) which is celebrated world wide, We (ROSHNI) plan to stage a play on creating awareness to prevent SUICIDES and about our services.

GM Food in your daily tadka or avakaya - Are you Worried

Talk and Discussion on Genetically Modified Mustard

Led by Dr.Ramanjaneyulu from Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.

September 10th(Saturday), 5-7 pm

Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Globally people have serious concerns about effects on health and environment over Genetically Modified Food crops and not many have been approved so far. In India, an attempt to commercialise Bt Brinjal faced with a moratorium in 2009 after public consultation. But now, GM Mustard is coming up for approval in September/October! It is shrouded in secrecy, with the government keeping data away from public domain. Mustard is a very important food crop consumed in many forms - oil, seed, mustard paste, pickles like avakaya, and as a leafy vegetable.

Will you be worried and act on it now? Or will you wait until it is too late? Should we not question the faulty and flawed process of the regulators ? These and many more, are the questions being asked by many people across India right now. Dr. G.V Ramanjaneyulu will make a presentation on GM crops, particularly mustard, and speak about the concerns. This will be followed by an interactive discussion.

All are Welcome!

Come and listen to some of finest poems of Laltu and analysis by Dr Ashutosh this weekend at Lamakaan.

Entry Free and Open to All.

Laltu is a Hindi poet and writer. He has published five poetry collections and a short story collection, and a few works for children and translations. He also writes commentaries on contemporary affairs and is associated with grassroots movements. He is a scientist and he teaches at IIIT-H.

शीर्षक - लाल्टू का काव्यपाठ और उनकी कविता पर चर्चा सानिध्य आशुतोष कुमार/के साथ ,

आयोजक- प्रतिरोध का सिनेमा और लामाकान

आशुतोष कुमार का परिचय -
आशुतोष कुमार की आलोचना -पुस्तक 'समकालीन हिन्दी कविता और मार्क्सवाद ' समकालीन हिंदी कविता के बहाने मार्क्सवादी आलोचना की दश और दिशा की जांच पड़ताल करती है .यह मार्क्सवादी आलोचना को समकालीन विमर्शों से मिलने वाली चुनौतियों की सन्दर्भ में पुनरीक्षित करने का आलोचनात्मक उद्यम है .
पत्र -पत्रिकाओं और ई-पत्रिकाओं में यशपाल , भगवती चरण वर्मा , भीष्म साहनी , हजारी प्रसाद द्विवेदी ,वीरेन डंगवाल ,गोरख पाण्डेय , अदम गोंडवी , मुक्तिबोध और युवा -कविता आदि पर आलोचनात्मक लेख और सामाजिक -राजनीतिक मुद्दों पर टिप्पणियाँ प्रकाशित हैं .
पत्रिका ' आशय ' के विशेषांक ' प्रेम का स्त्री -अर्थ ' और अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय की शोध पत्रिका 'अभिनव भारती' विशेषांक ' उपन्यास और प्रतिरोध ' का अतिथि -सम्पादन किया . पुनर्विचार नाम के ब्लॉग पर कुछ चीजें मौजूद हैं .
दो दशकों से हिंदी का अध्यापक . राजस्थान , अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय और दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय में .
जन संस्कृति मंच के साथ सक्रिय जुड़ाव . इंडिया हैबिटेट सेंटर के ' कवि के साथ ' कार्यक्रम श्रृंखला के साथ.
शिक्षादीक्षा नेतरहाट , पटना , इलाहाबाद और दिल्ली (जे एन यू) में हुई.
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लाल्टू का परिचय :
कविता, कहानी, पत्रकारिता, अनुवाद, नाटक, बाल साहित्य, नवसाक्षर साहित्य आदि विधाओं में सक्रिय।

कविता संग्रह: एक झील थी बर्फ की (आधार:1990); डायरी में तेईस अक्तूबर (रामकृष्ण:2004); लोग ही चुनेंगे रंग (शिल्पायन: 2010); सुंदर लोग और अन्य कविताएँ (वाणी: 2012); नहा कर नहीं लौटा है बुद्ध (वाग्देवी: 2013); कोई लकीर सच नहीं होती (वाग्देवी: 2016)

कहानी संग्रह: घुघनी (1996)
कई समकालीन संग्रहों में रचनाएँ शामिल।
अनुवादः हावर्ड ज़िन की पुस्तक 'A People's History of the United States' के बारह अध्यायों
का अनुवाद प्रतिष्ठित पत्रिकाओं में प्रकाशित; जोसेफ कोनरॉड के उपन्यास 'Heart of Darkness' का अनुवाद (वाग्देवी: 2015)
बाल साहित्यः भैया ज़िंदाबाद (बाल कविताएँ 1992);
बांग्ला से अनूदितः अगड़म बगड़म (आबोल ताबोल);
ह य व र ल; गोपी गवैया बाघा बजैया;
अंग्रेज़ी से अनूदितः लोग उड़ेंगे; नकलू नडलू बुरे फँसे
नवसाक्षरों के लिएः कविता संग्रह: देश बड़ा कब होता है;
नाटकः भाप ताप और आप

बांग्ला, पंजाबी, अंग्रेज़ी से कहानियाँ कविताएँ अनूदित - प्रतिष्ठित पत्रिकाओं में प्रकाशित
पत्रकारिताः हिंदी, पंजाबी और अंग्रेज़ी में कई अखबारों और पत्रिकाओं में समसामयिक विषयों और विज्ञान पर सौ से अधिक आलेख और पुस्तक समीक्षाएँ प्रकाशित; शिक्षा आदि विषयों पर कई शोध-आलेख पुस्तकों में शामिल।

विज्ञान : सैद्धांतिक रसायन (आणविक भौतिकी) में 60 से अधिक शोधपत्र अंतर्राष्ट्रीय पत्रिकाओं में प्रकाशित;
शिक्षाः पी एच डी (केमिस्ट्री) - प्रिंस्टन विश्वविद्यालय, यू एस ए
एम एस सी (केमिस्ट्री)- आई आई टी - कानपुब्लागः आइए हाथ उठाएँ हम भी - laltu.blogspot.com
Entry Free. Open to All.

Collection of 3 Monologues:
About the plays :
1. Borys The Rottweiler
A dog is forced to save face in the most dramatic way when a new neighbour threatens his status. Drama, by Christopher Johnson.

2. A Psychopath
Heard the one about a good guy with a dark past? This monologue is about a bad man with a bright past. Theo Carter tried his best to do the right thing by his fellow man, but he suffers from an acute lack of human empathy and a few years back he just stopped trying.

3. Lucifer
Lucifer, The Satan woos the humans to embrace hell post their death. He makes fun of god and his powers,convincing humans to believe that Heaven isn't as good as it sounds.

Venue: LamaKaan
Time : 7:30 PM
Date : 10th Sep
Contact : 9700074079

On this Sunday morning through afternoon come and explore wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am - 1.30pm For details: 9642731329. Entry Free. All are Welcome.

On the anniversary of 9/11 Lamakaan invites to the screening of this revealing documentary on the whole issue of

Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Big cities in India have big dreams. The dream to be called a global city. The images about India's economic growth and development invariably are the images of big cities. Big Indian cities are complex. What you see is not usually what you get.

The 'booming' big cities like Hyderabad are filled with paradoxes and contradictions. There is so much incomprehensible about big Indian cities. They have to be understood to understand cities and the people.

The talk covers the not-so-easily comprehensible and visible developments and systems that are involved behind a big city. It covers the contradictions and paradoxes by taking the case of a 'global city' called Hyderabad.

Hyderabad quiz club's monthly quiz.

Interested in telling stories or listening to others stories? Want to perfect the art of telling a story?
Then look no further. This is the event you have been looking for 🙂
Free to join, free to participate.

Aapki kahani. Aaphiki zubaani!

For queries whatsapp 7680993179 (Santosh Mohan Veeranki)

A full fledged Bharatanatyam Dance recital by Samasutra team and students of Saine Nrityalaya

TASTE OF CHERRY
TA'M E GUILASS
TRAILER
Directed by ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Iran, 1997
Drama
95 mins

Palme d’Or-winning account of an Iranian man who drives around in his truck in search of anyone who bury him beneath a cherry tree after he commits suicide beneath it.

Samahaara
presents

"ACHARYA TARTUFFE"(A play in Hindi)
an adaptation of Moliere's TARTUFFE

Produced by Rathna Shekar Reddy

Directed by Nasreen Ishaque


Acharya Tartuffe
“Acharya Tartuffe” is a Hindi adaptation of Moliere’s controversial play ‘Le Tartuffe’, meaning the impostor, or the hypocrite. Written in 1664 the play sheds light on hypocrisy prevailing in the society, especially on the matters of religion and morality.

Omkaar, a wealthy businessman, gets influenced by a mysterious godman named Tartuffe and brings him home. Reeling under the spell of Tartuffe, he grows eccentric to an alarming level. His hapless victims are his own son and daughter. The son gets disowned and the daughter is to be married to the godman. The whole household gets caught in this whirlwind generated by the shrewd maneuvering of the holy man. Any reasoning on part of his family members proves futile. The loud mouth servants are the only ones who could voice their opinions on the fanatical events taking place in the house. Emboldened, Tartuffe slyly creeps closer to Kaamini, Omkaar’s wife, to quench his lustful cravings. Gripped with religious fervor, Omkaar has become too ridiculous to sense the impending threats. Eventually his incessant farcical antics lead him to lose his property to Tartuffe. However a timely tell a tale by Tartuffe’s disciple Chunni Lal brings to light the dark and evil past of the godman.

CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name “CITIZENFOUR,” in January 2013. He reached out to her because he knew she had long been a target of government surveillance, stopped at airports numerous times, and had refused to be intimidated. When Snowden revealed he was a high-level analyst driven to expose the massive surveillance of Americans by the NSA, Poitras persuaded him to let her film.

CITIZENFOUR places you in the room with Poitras, Greenwald, and Snowden as they attempt to manage the media storm raging outside, forced to make quick decisions that will impact their lives and all of those around them.

CITIZENFOUR not only shows you the dangers of governmental surveillance—it makes you feel them. After seeing the film, you will never think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser, or profile, ever again.

Write Club, Hyderabad is a platform for all the writers of Hyderabad (aspiring or published) to gather at one place and write. The whole idea of write club is for the writers to come out of the closet and cut down the tag.

What we do, basically:
One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring with them a theme, a writing plan and exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. We read out our write-ups, based on the writer’s discretion and obtain feedback and critique on them.

Any pre-requisites:
Entry is free, open and welcomed. We advise writers to bring in their writing devices and we’re all set.

When do we have Write Club:
Every Saturday afternoon – 4PM to 7PM

Hii Guys..! The Most Requested & Most Awaited Get together's are here from HDPC.
How to Make Your Photography Hobby a Small Business...Lets Start earning. Yes...! Soon we will form as Team-HDPC to offer commercial services, as we have lot of enquirers. Before that we need to have series of Photography Get Together's to Know each other about the Capabilities. Also we will have support sessions by commercial photographers to over come difficulties.
Not only this...Lot more...Coming your way.
What type of Photography you do? Why ?
What kind of commercial photography inspires you?
What are your Client requirements ?
Is your equipment good enough to Compete ?
How to you get networked or referrals
How can you build up your portfolio before you have clients?
What has been the greatest lesson you have learned since
shooting ?
How did you find the time to work on this career reboot?
What promotional tools do you use to reach out to clients you’d like to work for?
Hmmmm..Many Questions to be discussed soon... 🙂
Many successful small businesses start out as hobbies that eventually become profitable endeavors. If you've got a knack for photography, you might opt to work as a part-time freelancer or special events photographer, or you might open your own full-scale photo business. Consider what you need to get started. We will try to discuss everything related towards the First Step in to Commercial Photography.
Urs... Ram... 🙂

Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008 |documentary| 89 mins)

Directed by :Sam Bozzo

Blue Gold: World Water Wars examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water.[4] The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world.

On this Sunday morning through afternoon come and explore wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am - 1.30pm For details: 9642731329. Entry Free. All are Welcome.

City based youth formed Amma eye, organ and body donation promotion organization (AEOBDPO) to bring awareness among the public about the importance of donation of eye, organ and body.
“There are 500 deaths approximately everyday in the Hyderabad city alone. Hardly anyone donates eye, organ or body to the eye banks, Jeevandaan, medical colleges due to various superstitious reasons. With a sole purpose to eliminate superstitious beliefs, AEOBDPO is formed on 12th June 2016 (Sunday).

Once in every three months the members meet to discuss about the course of action.

Entry only to the members!

A full fledged Kuchipudi dance recital by Smt. Rajinimai Chakilam and students of Nrityanjali dance academy - Ameerpet.

Nabarun is the exclamation mark in Bengali literature. He is the emphatic interjector. His characters shamelessly hustle, behave atrociously, and try to exist in a violently hostile world. The film tries to get into the noisy, grimy, scratchy insides of his mind. Bouncing between pure documentary and fiction, just like Nabarun.

Credits

Director: Q
Producer: Q, Celine Loop
Screenwriter: Q
Cinematographer: Q
Editor: Q, Supratim
Music: Ankit Gandhi Lall
Production Company: Overdose Joint
Cast: Rii, Joyraj, Tanaji, Nitai, Satrajit

Miss Lovely (Hindi |2012| 113mins)
A Hindi feature film set in the lower depths of Bombay's "C" grade film industry. Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s.
Director: Ashim Ahluwalia

Lajwanti (2014| Rajasthan |103 mins)

“Lajwanti / The Honour Keeper” is a love story set in a village in the Thar desert in Rajasthan, India. A group of women in their daily long walk to collect water recite songs and exchange words that reveal their hidden desires. But one day when a crazy dreamer whose only passion is collecting doves crosses their path, one of them, Lajwanti, starts a journey that will take her out of this closed world. She, who initially seems to be the most radical in her beliefs and for whom the sanctity of marriage is supreme cannot accept the group’s behavior towards her and abandons it. A new journey begins for her when she starts walking the long distance alone.

Cast And Crew:
Cast: Sanghmitra Hitaishi, Pushpendra Singh,Gaurav Lavaniya, Sugna Devi, Nirmal Sapera
Directed & Produced by Pushpendra Singh
Cinematography: Ravi Kiran Ayyagari
Editing: Shweta Rai
Sound: Amala Popuri
Story: Late Vijaydan Detha
Art, Costumes, Screenplay: Pushpendra Singh

An exhibition cum sale of art work - water color and sketches and digital abstract art and photography.
This is aimed mainly for exhibition and the sale will ideally be voluntary contribution for charity in return for any art work a patron/viewer likes.

ABHAAS YA BHAAS is a play that depicts the problems and wishes of street boys who are deprived of daily life minimum needs. The play tells us the story of two boys who are spared and given a chance by Yamdoot by granting them bonus of additional life for six hours and six wishes where each wish will last for just an hour. Things to look out here is, what do the baffled boys wish for and what happens at the end of the sixth hour. The play is a satirical take on the destitute, politicians and the mango people.

An exhibition cum sale of art work - water color and sketches and digital abstract art and photography.
This is aimed mainly for exhibition and the sale will ideally be voluntary contribution for charity in return for any art work a patron/viewer likes

An exhibition cum sale of art work - water color and sketches and digital abstract art and photography.
This is aimed mainly for exhibition and the sale will ideally be voluntary contribution for charity in return for any art work a patron/viewer likes.

Barsaati Baatein: A cultural jam under the rains

Inviting all Hyderabadis to gather at Lamakaan to celebrate the rains. With hot chai and samosa, we will sing, read, recite, dance, joke and talk about rains. Every one is invited to perform or spectate or both!

Call 994866133 for more details.

Photography Exhibition

The Happy Book Club is proud to present Padmashree Ileana Citaristi and her autobiography titled " A Tale of Two Births" where she talks of her transformation from rebel and hippie to a conservative, rigorous exponent of a classical Indian dance Odissi and Chau. It's a tale of a visionary Guru who could look beyond the wild hair and the defiance to the extraordinary talent inside.

Entry Free.

Labour of Love/ Asha Jaor Majhe( 84mins| Bengali| 2014)

Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, LABOUR OF LOVE is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession. They are married to a cycle of work and domestic routine, and long stretches of waiting in the silence of an empty house. They share each other's solitude in pursuit of a distant dream that visits them briefly every morning.

Incorporating poignant political undertones, director Aditya Vikram Sengupta creates a stylistically beautiful film that depicts the challenges of sustaining love in a fast transitioning world via a simultaneous sensation of breathlessness and space.

Awards

National Film Awards – Indira Gandhi Award for Best Film by a Debut Director

National Film Awards – Best Sound Designer

FEDEORA Award for Best Film by a Debut Director – Venice International Film

Festival

Best Director – Marrakech International Film Festival

Jury Special Mention – Abu Dhabi Film Festival

Honourable Mention – BFI London Film Festival

Jury Award – Eurasia International Film Festival

Best Film – New York Indian Film Festival

Best Director – New York Indian Film Festival

Best Screenplay – New York Indian Film Festival

Grand Jury Honourable Mention – IFFLA (Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles)

NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film – Bangalore International Film Festival

Best Film – Jaipur International Film Festival

Best Sound – Jagran Film Festival

Critics Award ­ Hyderabad BFF


Credits

LABOUR OF LOVE

a FOR FILMS production

a film by ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA

"LABOUR OF LOVE" with RITWICK CHAKRABORTY & BASABDUTTA CHATTERJEE

production designer JONAKI BHATTACHARYA

sound designer ANISH JOHN

editor ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA

cinematography MAHENDRA J. SHETTY | ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA

line producers RITOBRATA PAUL | TRIDIB KUMAR SENGUPTA

business & marketing VIKRAM MOHINTA

produced by ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA | JONAKI BHATTACHARYA

written and directed by ADITYA VIKRAM SEGUPTA

Professor Venkat Dhulipala author of the critically acclaimed Creating a New Medina will be in conversation about this book with Dr. Dilip Simeon, historian, social activist, and novelist, and Dr. Sumanta Bannerjee, Cultural Historian and Political Commentator

Bio:
Prof. Venkat Dhulipala is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he teaches courses on South Asian and Global History. He is also currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi. Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India (Cambridge University Press, 2015) was cited by Newsweek as the Best Book in Global Non-Fiction in 2015 and described as "a masterpiece, arguably the most important work of History published in 2015". [http://www.newsweek.com/most-important-international-nonfiction-books-2015-409800]

Dr. Dhulipala is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he teaches courses on South Asian and Global History. He is also currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi.

Lamakaan, Navayana and Juggernaut

invite you to the launch of the book
Finding My Way
by Venkat Raman Singh Shyam and S. Anand

on Friday 30 September 2016, 6.30 p.m.
at Lamakaan: 8-2-467/2/1, Road No. 5, Off Road to
GVK Mall, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034

Publisher and wrtiter Gita Ramaswamy and artist Koeli Mukherjee Ghose will be in conversation with Venkat and Anand

Please help us post this for Saturday 1st October 2016 - 4 to 7 PM

Write Club, Hyderabad is a hangout place for all the writers of Hyderabad to sit together and spend a lazy Saturday afternoon in the best possible way - Writing!
What we do, basically:
One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring with them a theme, a writing plan and exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. We read out our write-ups, based on the writer’s discretion and obtain feedback and critique on them.
Any pre-requisites:
Entry is free, open and welcomed. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation.
When do we have Write Club:
Every Saturday afternoon – 4PM to 7PM

"Asuddha Bharath" is a translated version of UNSEEN-the truth about India's Manual scavengers written by Ms. Basha Singh and translated by K.Sajaya and published by Hyderabad Book Trust in 2016. Basha Singh is a journalist, activist and writer. Born in New Delhi, she grew up in Lucknow and received her MA and LLB degrees from Lucknow University. Journalis brought her to Delhi once again in 1996, after whchi she has worked with Amar Ujala Karobar, Amar Ujala, Navbharath times, Outlook weekly, Nai Duniya and then back with Outlook. She has written extensively on the issues of manual scaveninging and farmer suicides in north India. she received the Prabhadutt fellowship i 2005 for working on the issue of manual scavenging. She received the Ramnath Goenka Award for best Hindi journalist in 2007 for her story on manual scavenging women, especially the' baltiwalis' of Kanpur and the 'dabbu walis' of West Bengal. In 2008 she received a fellowship from Panos for her study on the health of female manual scavengers. The National Foundation of India (NFI) gave her a fellowship in 2006-07 for her study on farmer suicides in north India. She also writes stories and poems in Hindi, a few of which have been published.

About the Book: In many parts of the country, the inhuman practice of manual scavenging continues to thrive in spite of a law banning it. Moreover, the people forced to carry out this degrading work remain invisible to the rest of us, pushed to the margins of society without any recourse to help or hope. UNSEEN, based on over a decade of research unveils the horrific plight of manual scavengers across 12 states in the country and also recording their ongoing ftruggle for self empowerment.

It is Heartrending....will deeply unsettle those who value equality and respect for human beings. Written with sypathy, insight, humour, and overwhelming humanity.

About the film
In the documentary Living Without Money we meet Heidemarie Schwermer, a former teacher and psychoterapist from Germany, who one day decided to stop using money and live a life based on exchanging favors.

After the Film we'll have a discussion and a short presentation on the possibility of a moneyless economic system.

About The Play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published. If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request.
In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’ . As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.



Written by - Manav Kaul
Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar
Lights by – Krishna Shukl
Performance by - Siddhesh Dharmadhikari



Date – 1st & 2nd October 2016

Time - 08:00pm

Venue - Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01

Donor Pass - 100/-

Duration - 80 minutes.

For more details contact Saurabh # 9290013166

Phonetics is an important aspect of beginning to read. In this basic workshop the kids will have fun with language where reading and writing will be fun with dance, music and story time.
Age - 6+
Fee - 200/- per child

On this Sunday morning through afternoon come and explore wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am - 1.30pm For details: 9642731329. Entry Free. All are Welcome.

ECOLOGISE HYDERABAD

Workshops for Sustainability and Equality in the City

WORKSHOP ON

FUTURE OF TRANSPORT FOR HYDERABAD

Lamakaan, Sunday, October 2, 2016, 12:30 PM. To 6:00 PM.

WORKSHOP DESIGN

12:00 – 12:30 Registration

12:30 – 12:45 Introduction to Ecologise Hyderabad
T. Vijayendra, Ecologise Hyderabad
Queen’s Band - Song on Bicycle

12:45 - 01:00 Peak Oil and Future of Urban Transport
Soujanya, Ecologise Hyderabad
Peak Oil film

01:00 - 01:30 An overview of Transport in Hyderabad
Anant Maringanti, Hyderabad Urban Lab

01:30 - 02:00 Motorized Transport – Public Transport – RTC Buses
Sai Chaitanya Ratna, Urban Fellow, IIHS, Bangalore

02:00 - 02:30 Break – Lunch

02:30 - 02:45 Introduction of participants

02:45 - 03:00 Open Forum / Q & A / Story / Song / Short Film

03:00 - 03:30 Fly-overs and Traffic-jams
Namith Nayak, Research Fellow, Hyderabad Urban Lab

03:30 – 04:00 Mass Transport – Access Audit to Hyderabad Metro Rail
Madhu Divakar, Architect and Urban Designer, CARC

04:00 - 04:30 Non-Motorized Road Transport - Pedestrians & Cycling
Dhiraj Kaveri, Health Promoter, Stay Active Program
Visuals of Bicycle as livelihood / Cycle Rickshaws

04:30 - 04:45 Break – Tea

04:45 - 05:00 Open Forum / Q & A / Stories from Participants

05:00– 5:15 Conclusion, Anant Maringanti, Hyderabad Urban Lab

05:15 - 05:30 Feedback, Soujanya, Ecologise Hyderabad

Hope to see you all at the workshop...Please share with your friends about the same...

For those who have not yet registered please use the link below:

https://goo.gl/forms/T72i5FU4DVyhgcPk1

For any queries please contact:
Dhiraj Kaveri
Coordinator
Transport Workshop
9490797405 / 8096573173

The 101 collected poems of Hoshang Merchant, called My Sunset Marriage published by S Anand of Navayana will be released at Lamakaan.

About The Play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published. If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request. In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’ . As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.
Written by - Manav Kaul Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Lights by – Krishna Shukl Performance by - Siddhesh Dharmadhikari
Date – 1st & 2nd October 2016
Time - 08:00pm
Venue - Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01
Donor Pass - 100/-
Duration - 80 minutes.
For more details contact Saurabh # 9290013166

It is a 10 minute Poi dancing( LED spinning balls) show. This is a dancing prop from New Zealand.

Saving the Internet, to save Everything. A talk on net neutrality and activism by Holmes Wilson of Fight for the Future.

Holmes is the co-founder and co-director of Fight for the Future, an online activism group best known for its role in winning Net Neutrality in the US in 2015 and defeating the American Internet censorship bills SOPA & PIPA in 2012. This will be a casual and open talk on how net neutrality was won in the US, India and Europe, and what these victories mean for the future of activism—on any and every important issue facing the world.

If you participated in the fight for net neutrality in India—or any other successful activism campaign—come ready to tell your story.

Our goal—always—is to build tech-enhanced campaigns that resonate with millions of people, enabling them to consolidate their power and win historic changes thought to be impossible. In 2012 we organized the largest online protest in history, an internet-wide strike against web censorship which defeated the SOPA and PIPA bills. More recently, our Battle for the Net campaign drove nearly four million people to contact the FCC resulting in the game-changing passage of net neutrality rules (a “First Amendment” for the Internet).

Artist Talk & Slideshows by photographers

Musical night for fund raising for Daan Utssav

Please help us post this for Saturday 8th October 2016 - 4 to 7 PM

Write Club, Hyderabad is a hangout place for all the writers of Hyderabad to sit together and spend a lazy Saturday afternoon in the best possible way - Writing!
What we do, basically:
One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring with them a theme, a writing plan and exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. We read out our write-ups, based on the writer’s discretion and obtain feedback and critique on them.
Any pre-requisites:
Entry is free, open and welcomed. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation.
When do we have Write Club:
Every Saturday afternoon – 4PM to 7PM

Recitation of Hindi/Urdu Poetry by Milan Shrivastava with a presentation about the modern trends of Urdu/Hindi poetry world

Samahaara
presents

"ACHARYA TARTUFFE"
a hilarious adaptation of Moliere's Le TARTUFFE in Hindi

Produced by Rathna Shekar Reddy

Directed by Nasreen Ishaque

Date: 08th October 2016
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lamakaan, Hyderabad.


Acharya Tartuffe

“Acharya Tartuffe” is a Hindi adaptation of Moliere’s controversial play ‘Le Tartuffe’, meaning the impostor, or the hypocrite. Written in 1664 the play sheds light on hypocrisy prevailing in the society, especially on the matters of religion and morality.

Omkaar, a wealthy businessman, gets influenced by a mysterious godman named Tartuffe and brings him home. Reeling under the spell of Tartuffe, he grows eccentric to an alarming level. His hapless victims are his own son and daughter. The son gets disowned and the daughter is to be married to the godman. The whole household gets caught in this whirlwind generated by the shrewd maneuvering of the holy man. Any reasoning on part of his family members proves futile. The loud mouth servants are the only ones who could voice their opinions on the fanatical events taking place in the house. Emboldened, Tartuffe slyly creeps closer to Kaamini, Omkaar’s wife, to quench his lustful cravings. Gripped with religious fervor, Omkaar has become too ridiculous to sense the impending threats. Eventually his incessant farcical antics lead him to lose his property to Tartuffe. However a timely tell a tale by Tartuffe’s disciple Chunni Lal brings to light the dark and evil past of the godman.