Lamakaan

We are organising a short film festival quarterly which is an international fest.All are invited

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. 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 forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

These is a play about the people who had became mental by killing there brothers and siters in the time partition of India and Pakistan

Kathakali dance demo and workshop by shri Prabal Gupta from Bengaluru.The event organised by ICCR Hyderabad
Mr prabal is a A graded artist of television and ICCR empanelled and Outstanding artist from Ministry of culture.performing and researching on art of kathakali since 30yrs traveled world wide especially USA

Workshop on how to make hyperrealism drawing using charcoal and graphite pencils

Let’s talk about Women* in Public Spaces.

We want to invite you to join us in an open discussion at Lamakaan on the 2nd Dec at 2-4 pm. As part of the exhibition ‘Women* in Public Spaces in Hyderabad’ which will open on the 30th Nov, 6.30 pm at Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, we want to come together, exchange experiences and ideas, reflect on internalized gender norms, self-regulation and social power structures shaped by patriarchy.

Information about the exhibition:
In the context of the uprising #metoo movement in India, the exhibition ‘Women* in Public Spaces in Hyderabad’ wants to give an impulse to think about the way women* experience the city. The multimedia exhibition pursues the issue of how women* experience Hyderabad in their daily lives, which strategies they develop to navigate public spaces, what restricts their access and hence their social participation and how they fight to (re)claim their city as should be their fundamental right as citizens.

The visitor is introduced to the portraits of various young women* from Hyderabad who are talking about their struggles and concerns navigating the city as well as their visions for a future Hyderabad where they can exist as human beings, exactly the way they want to be. These individual perspectives are embedded in a broader social context by a short film which brings together the thoughts of different local activists and professionals on the issue of women* in public spaces in Hyderabad.

The exhibition is held at Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad from 30th Nov – 6th Dec 2018.

Please bring headphones if possible.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Country Drive is a dialogue, a conversation, a meditation on lives lived, a journey across time and space between two poets, Sukrita and Yasmin Ladha who bring in their unique sensibilities to the subjects they tackle. Yet, their differences are undercut by their familiarity, their love for the country they were born, Kenya, and their travels to each others’ homelands, India and Canada. The result is a unique collection of poems, at once, illuminating, life-affirming and provocative.

ABOUT THE POETS
SUKRITA is an honorary fellow of the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa. A recipient of the Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship, in addition to many other fellowships and residencies, she has published extensively on Partition literature, cultural diversity and women’s literature. Her latest collection of poems is Dream Catcher (2015). Her poetry has been widely translated and she is herself a known translator.

YASMIN LADHA is a poet, novelist and an essayist from Alberta, Canada. Blue Sunflower Startle, a novel, her most recent work, was published by Freehand Books, in 2010.

Kathakali is an art form from Kerala .Shri prabal gupta is an exponent performing teaching and researching in this field past 30yrs.he is from kolkata settled at Bengaluru who is also specialised in english literature

Learn the Art of dancing ChEraw. A traditional folk form of Mizoram. Stakes of Bamboos are clapped to produce a sound which forms rhythm for the dance.
Age: 12+
Seats available: 24
Fees: INR 400

For further details,
Mail us at-virajithavarma@gmail.com
or contact- 8985356138

Bhumika (1977) - Celebrating Biopics and Autobiographies month based on real life personalities.

FREE EVENT

The film is broadly based on the Marathi-language memoirs, Sangtye Aika of the well-known Marathi stage and screen actress of the 1940s Hansa Wadkar.

Director: Shyam Benegal

Awards: The film won two National Film Awards and Filmfare Best Movie Award.
It was invited to Carthage Film Festival 1978, Chicago Film Festival, where it was awarded the Golden Plaque 1978, and in 1986 it was invited to Festival of Images, Algeria.

Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion

A consoling tale of my life and my journey through bipolar disorder, a suicide attempt, chronic depression and high-functioning anxiety.

Informal Hyderabad Bloggers meet up

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. 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 forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

Experience the unique style of painting with Hyderabad's first glow in the dark painting Artist herself. Though pleasing to look in the day it gives a glowy and magical sight at night.

The painting itself glows in different colours and amazes one and another

Come and try your hands in this beautiful Art and take home a masterpiece!!

Samahaara Theatre Co-operative
presents

A double bill of two Telugu Comedies

Tanikella Bharini's "GARDABHANDAM"
&
S. Partha Saradhi's "ABBEY EMLEYDU"

Directed by Rathna Shekar

Date: 09th Dec 2018
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: LAMAKAAN, Hyderabad.

"GARDABHANDAM"

Written by eminent playwright, actor, director Shri.Tanikella Bharani garu, Gardabhandam ( Donkey’s egg) is a rib tickling political satire that talks about inherited political power. The play is mix of fictional mythology and contemporary social issues. Come grab your seats and enjoy the fun.

"ABBEY EMLEYDU"

Abbe emleydu is a hilarious farce written by Shankaramanchi Partha Saradhi. A laid back husband, a forgetful wife and a deaf servant. To this mix add a colorful boss who has an exciting plan for the weekend with his subordinates, two strangers who walk into the house for a free meal and a missing ring. What happens when all these colourful characters meet in a situation like this ? Lets find out.

The Elephant Man (1980) - Celebrating Biopics and Autobiographies month based on real life personalities.

FREE EVENT

The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak.
Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Director: David Lynch

Awards: The Elephant Man was a critical and commercial success with eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor.

Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion

The University as a Site of Resistance analyses massive protests that emerged in the aftermath of Rohith Vemula's death in Hyderabad Central University as well as the Azadi Campaign started by Jawaharlal Nehru University students in Delhi in 2016. Taking Osmania University in Hyderabad as a case study, the book provides an ethnographic account of the emergence of one of India's longest student movements - the movement for Telangana statehood. Since its inception in the 1960s to its culmination in the formation of Telangana state in 2014, students at Osmania University played a decisive role. The book discusses protest strategies, methods and networks among students. It also examines the role played by various caste and sub-caste groups and civil society in making the movement a success. The author argues that contemporary identity based student movements are primarily cultural movements as the traditional caste and class analysis becomes redundant to explain such contemporary collective action. The book establishes these unique resistances as New Social Movements and claim that these movements contribute to the democratization of institutional spaces. In this context, the volume provides a conceptual debate on contemporary cultural politics among university students.

Master key: Uttar Pradeshlo noorella Dalit Rajakiya charitra (Master key: One hundred years of the history of Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh, Telugu translation of Dalit Politics in Contemporary India) by Gundimeda Sambaiah, translated by Ashalatha, published by the Hyderabad Book Trust.
Sambaiah’s first book released in August 2018 was Telugunaata Dalit rajakiyalu. Both this and Master key are ground-breaking interventions on Dalit politics in India. Master key goes into Dalit mobilisations for political power, social equality and justice in the important state of Uttar Pradesh, particularly the Bahujan Samaj Party. It examines the debate regarding core themes such as the Hindu–Muslim cleavage in the north and caste in the south; the extent to which Dalits and other backward castes (OBC) base their anti-Brahminism on similar ideologies; and why Dalits in Uttar Pradesh (north India) succeeded in gaining power while they did not do so in the region of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh (south India), where Dalit consciousness is more evolved.

“Having been part of Gundimeda's intellectual journey, I wholeheartedly concur with him in this moment (or, rather, endeavour) of translation. The book makes possible a 'real' debate about the trajectories of Dalit politics across the North India - South India divide. The only critiques worth conducting of socio-political processes in India or elsewhere are immanent ones; and Gundimeda's work, I need add, lends a further worthwhile comparative focus to this dimension. A most promising and productive work for any scholar examining socio-political processes in contemporary India, and for the proponents of a Dalit politics across locales and regional contexts.”

Sasheej Hegde, Professor of Sociology, University of Hyderabad



Sambaiah Gundimeda holds degrees in Political Science from Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada, University of Hyderabad and School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Sam writes both in English and Telugu and has published widely that includes books, research papers, book chapters and essays in learned journals. He has been with the School of Policy and Governance at Azim Premji University since July 2014.

Panellists Dr A. Srivatsan, Dr. Jilukara Srinivas, Dr Gundimeda Sambaiah

FB event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1927497697346503/

Firstly, new comers are more than welcome. (We can even skip the awkward round of introductions in the beginning)
Secondly, here is the link to this session's reading: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oLGqFPDwEew_GhqrXi0EgDJ8bHhwLzrv/view?usp=sharing

A third session. Who would have thought?

The last session was a small group of people, but the discussion was rich and beautiful. Peculiarly though, most people who showed up last time were Law students. Inspired by their company, this session's reading is a classic text from Feminist legal theory: Lucie White's "Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes: Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G". It is a dazzling piece of legal theory that most Feminist law professors add to their students' required reading list.

But, what's the reading about? It's about how cultural representations and legal norms create a universe where the language of socially subordinated groups is seen as inherently inferior to those of dominant groups. A part of the paper, which I find the most interesting, is about how subordination itself leads the members of that group to employ verbal strategies that mark their speech as different from that of dominant style. She does all this through the story of one "Mrs. G" - a woman subordinated by race, gender and class who is trying to make herself heard in a hearing.

Its a pretty long paper, so we'll only have this one reading for the next session. Although honestly, it only appears long. Much of the text is long footnotes - and all most of the footnotes are doing is referencing to texts with long titles.

Like always, please try and make notes while you do the reading - especially the stuff you found difficult to grasp, or didn't agree with. Then, bring the notes to session so it makes for a spicier session.

Also for the next session, there's some stuff to discuss after we're done with text:
1. Should we change to doing this weekly? Folks in the last session wanted this.
2. Lets come up with a better name for the group.

Finally, if you'd like to keep receiving updates about sessions in the future, please join this FB group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1451288351669247/
We'll try to keep it free of any post apart from ones about the reading group.

You can reach me on FB message if you need any more information: facebook.com/tarungidwani

See you on 16th in the morning? <3

PS: Lets also have samosas this time.

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. 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 forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

It's a socio-political satire which involves a conversation between three crazy men who are talking about different social aspects directly/indirectly and suddenly a stranger enters and that is when story begins, according to this forth person he is not an insane rather very educated even then also he is in mental asylum.
As they interact and talk further, they discuss every possible topic in very different and insane style to watch yourself giggling throughout the evening come and enjoy the play.

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.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words!

Learn the basics of Photography in 2 hours. Learn how to compose, frame and light your shot to tell your story in the most vivid and effective way.

On account of the events like throwing two female students outside their hostels in sybiosis law school for expressing their outrage on the mismanagement by the college management, closing the indira park road for any dharnas, arresting human rights activists for aiding their voice for voiceless. All these show us how there has been systematic approach to end the culture of dissent. Therefore we want to discuss how we can keep dissent alive and save this safety valve of democracy.

This play will revolve around the funny family members with Hyderabadi dialect and how they keep themselves busy with crazy and mad things. It will take you on the laughter ride through the funny Nok-Jhok between the Husband, wife and a servant. Beauty of the play will come out from the secret in last which will be revealed by the Servant.

We would be working on promoting a student film namely Naan Devru, a film questioning the ritual-Bhoota Kola, a ritual very religiously followed by scheduled tribe caste in the rural areas. The film will pose a question mark to the myth as well as talk about the element of trust between a married couple

Hotel Rwanda (2004) - Celebrating Biopics and Autobiographies month based on real life personalities.

FREE EVENT

Based on the Rwandan genocide, which occurred during the spring of 1994, the film, which has been called an African Schindler's List, documents Rusesabagina's acts to save the lives of his family and more than a thousand other refugees by providing them with shelter in the besieged Hôtel des Mille Collines.

- Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

Director: Terry George

Accolades: The film was nominated and won several awards in 2004–06. Various critics included the film on their lists of the top 10 best films of 2004.

Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion

With the results of the 5 state elections declared on 11th December, there is already the bugle sounded for the 2019 General Elections

The Discussion will revolve around the expected near future impact in terms of political alignments, policy and law and order. It will also cover repercussion on the forthcoming general elections.

This will be followed by Q & A session.

The Discussants include:

Prof Kodanram - Prof. Kodandaram is a political activist and political leader. He is the founder of political party Telangana Jana Samithi, which was formed in March 2018. He was also the Chairman of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (T-JAC), which was formed with the goal of achieving a separate Telangana state in India. He retired as a Professor of Political Science from Osmania University.

Prof Vinod Jairath - Prof Jairath has carried out and supervised research in several areas such as Agrarian Structure and Change, Sociology of Science (Scientific Communities), Sociology of Development (Nature of Participation), Popular Culture, and more recently, Muslim Diversity.

Prof K. Srinivasulu - Prof Srinivasulu is an intellect and social activist. He retired as a professor of Political Science, Osmania University.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!! ENTRY FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!!!

art-display of small dimension artworks mainly abstract figures, acrylic/mixed media on canvas.
Name of Artist : dollzie, anuradha bhalla and raksha jesrani. Dates 22 and 23 DEC 2108 . Just placement of art-works for 2 days -no inaugration drama.

Butoh (舞踏 Butō) is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo.

GET READY FOR THE SEASON WITH HAND DRAWN WREATHS
Learn how to draw WREATH in simple step by step process in a 2 hour workshop,at the end of the workshop participants will walk away with their beautiful hand drawn wreaths, which can be used as greeting card or as display piece.
please note :- participants will have to bring materials (color pencils/sketch pens card stock or thick paper. of their choice).
Fee - 600 rupees per person, for registration contact nsharmila2014@gmail.com/ whatsapp on 8332062137

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. 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 forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

Verba Maximus is South India's largest literary fest organized solely by the students of BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. We aim to improve the overall literary culture among students across the nation. With Regionals, we aim to increase awareness about our fest in the city. This year we'll be having competitive events in writing, debate and slam poetry during the Regionals.

Panel Discussion - #RedraftTraffickingBill, #StopTransBill2018

Sunday 23rd Dec 2.30pm to 5:00pm, Organized by coalition of human rights groups. Presented by Lamakaan.

Ahead of the Rajya Sabha deliberation on the Anti-Trafficking Bill 2018 and the Transgender Bill 2018 on Dec 27th, we the coalition of human rights groups - viz. child rights groups for trafficked/orphaned and run away children, women's groups working with survivors of sexual violence, trafficking survivors and survivors of “rescue and rehabilitation” model of trafficking into bonded labour, networks of CBOs and collectives of people who exert their agency to do consensual sex work as a livelihood, organizations working with families of farmers who committed suicide, Domestic Workers Unions that organize domestic workers and those migrating to Gulf, activists working with brick kiln migrant labour, transgender, cisgender allies, queer, gender non-binary, gender non-conforming transgender and LGBTIAHQ people and women, lawyers, social scientists, students etc through the panel discussion want to understand the firm opposition to both the bills and put forth our comprehensive detailed demands to all our parliamentarians, to the Prime Minister of India, to Minister of Women and Child Development, Government of India and most importantly to the people of India!!

Zeeshan Hasan Akhtar’s solo performance Gobhi ke Patte ki Chutney is a quiet meditation on what it means to be Muslim in India. Starting with that founding moment of post-Independence communal violence that in many ways inaugurated the Hindutva project, the Bhagalpur riots in Bihar in 1989, without so much as mentioning the place or the forces behind the violence then or today, Akhtar builds a menacing and moving account of a subjectivity formed in that crucible. In a remarkable refusal of the production of the Muslim as the othered product of an anthropological gaze or the victim of secular pity and compassion as much as of communal violence, Gobhi ke Patte ki Chutney is a subtle and deeply disturbing account of the more primal components of human subjectivity told in a theatrical language that eschews spectacle and settles for a record of the tremors of a heartbeat.

Stand up comedy. Original marathi one act play "Vyatha Sansarachi" now translated in hindi

In this performance i am symbolically going to represent some major issues in todays families.in so many families People live in same house ,under same roof but they don't even talk to each other,so that suffocation , we always blame others, always throw mud on each other. So all this aspects i am going to show in this small act.

A Trick of Light (1995) - Celebrating Biopics and Autobiographies month based on real life personalities.

FREE EVENT

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema.

- The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.

Director: Wim Wenders

* Its original German title is Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky, the film made with the students of the Munich Film Academy.

Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion

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An Interfaith discussion about human rights and democracy in India

Purpose of gathering would be to explore interfaith efforts to secure democracy and human rights in India, and in particular, the role of faith-based activists.

Format: 5 minute presentations by several faith-based activists/advocates for human rights and secular democracy in India followed by open discussion among all gathered.

Speaker:
SUNITA will speak about progressive Hinduism which is devoted to the human rights of all faights.

Some of the questions to explore during the discussion are:
Does the "left" in India collaborate with faith-base efforts for human rights?
Do such collaborations and interfaith efforts in India that stand for minority rights include Hindus?
Are there Hindus who connect their activism against Hindu nationalism to the teachings of the Gita and Vedas etc.
Of course we know of Swami Agnvesh, Shashi Tharoor, KP Ramanunni -- but these are individuals. Are such views and efforts present in broader interfaith organizing in India?
How can Sadhana support such efforts in India, from so far away?

ENTRY IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!!!

David Mamet’s “Oleanna” is a powerful two-character drama on various aspects of the student-teacher relationship, revolving around its insecurities, institutional politics, hypocrisies of higher education, student influences and sexual harassment. A power struggle and miscommunication between the professor and his student, who accuses him of sexual harassment. Who is right? And who is wrong? Which side do we take? In the power play of institutional politics, which side will win? The grades that you get, are they more important than your understanding? Is it okay to cross yet another line to get some grades?

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

We are organising a short film festival quarterly which is an international fest.All are invited

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. 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 forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

These is a play about the people who had became mental by killing there brothers and siters in the time partition of India and Pakistan

Kathakali dance demo and workshop by shri Prabal Gupta from Bengaluru.The event organised by ICCR Hyderabad
Mr prabal is a A graded artist of television and ICCR empanelled and Outstanding artist from Ministry of culture.performing and researching on art of kathakali since 30yrs traveled world wide especially USA

Workshop on how to make hyperrealism drawing using charcoal and graphite pencils

Let’s talk about Women* in Public Spaces.

We want to invite you to join us in an open discussion at Lamakaan on the 2nd Dec at 2-4 pm. As part of the exhibition ‘Women* in Public Spaces in Hyderabad’ which will open on the 30th Nov, 6.30 pm at Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, we want to come together, exchange experiences and ideas, reflect on internalized gender norms, self-regulation and social power structures shaped by patriarchy.

Information about the exhibition:
In the context of the uprising #metoo movement in India, the exhibition ‘Women* in Public Spaces in Hyderabad’ wants to give an impulse to think about the way women* experience the city. The multimedia exhibition pursues the issue of how women* experience Hyderabad in their daily lives, which strategies they develop to navigate public spaces, what restricts their access and hence their social participation and how they fight to (re)claim their city as should be their fundamental right as citizens.

The visitor is introduced to the portraits of various young women* from Hyderabad who are talking about their struggles and concerns navigating the city as well as their visions for a future Hyderabad where they can exist as human beings, exactly the way they want to be. These individual perspectives are embedded in a broader social context by a short film which brings together the thoughts of different local activists and professionals on the issue of women* in public spaces in Hyderabad.

The exhibition is held at Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad from 30th Nov – 6th Dec 2018.

Please bring headphones if possible.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Country Drive is a dialogue, a conversation, a meditation on lives lived, a journey across time and space between two poets, Sukrita and Yasmin Ladha who bring in their unique sensibilities to the subjects they tackle. Yet, their differences are undercut by their familiarity, their love for the country they were born, Kenya, and their travels to each others’ homelands, India and Canada. The result is a unique collection of poems, at once, illuminating, life-affirming and provocative.

ABOUT THE POETS
SUKRITA is an honorary fellow of the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa. A recipient of the Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship, in addition to many other fellowships and residencies, she has published extensively on Partition literature, cultural diversity and women’s literature. Her latest collection of poems is Dream Catcher (2015). Her poetry has been widely translated and she is herself a known translator.

YASMIN LADHA is a poet, novelist and an essayist from Alberta, Canada. Blue Sunflower Startle, a novel, her most recent work, was published by Freehand Books, in 2010.

Kathakali is an art form from Kerala .Shri prabal gupta is an exponent performing teaching and researching in this field past 30yrs.he is from kolkata settled at Bengaluru who is also specialised in english literature

Learn the Art of dancing ChEraw. A traditional folk form of Mizoram. Stakes of Bamboos are clapped to produce a sound which forms rhythm for the dance.
Age: 12+
Seats available: 24
Fees: INR 400

For further details,
Mail us at-virajithavarma@gmail.com
or contact- 8985356138

Bhumika (1977) - Celebrating Biopics and Autobiographies month based on real life personalities.

FREE EVENT

The film is broadly based on the Marathi-language memoirs, Sangtye Aika of the well-known Marathi stage and screen actress of the 1940s Hansa Wadkar.

Director: Shyam Benegal

Awards: The film won two National Film Awards and Filmfare Best Movie Award.
It was invited to Carthage Film Festival 1978, Chicago Film Festival, where it was awarded the Golden Plaque 1978, and in 1986 it was invited to Festival of Images, Algeria.

Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion

A consoling tale of my life and my journey through bipolar disorder, a suicide attempt, chronic depression and high-functioning anxiety.

Informal Hyderabad Bloggers meet up

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. 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 forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

Experience the unique style of painting with Hyderabad's first glow in the dark painting Artist herself. Though pleasing to look in the day it gives a glowy and magical sight at night.

The painting itself glows in different colours and amazes one and another

Come and try your hands in this beautiful Art and take home a masterpiece!!

Samahaara Theatre Co-operative
presents

A double bill of two Telugu Comedies

Tanikella Bharini's "GARDABHANDAM"
&
S. Partha Saradhi's "ABBEY EMLEYDU"

Directed by Rathna Shekar

Date: 09th Dec 2018
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: LAMAKAAN, Hyderabad.

"GARDABHANDAM"

Written by eminent playwright, actor, director Shri.Tanikella Bharani garu, Gardabhandam ( Donkey’s egg) is a rib tickling political satire that talks about inherited political power. The play is mix of fictional mythology and contemporary social issues. Come grab your seats and enjoy the fun.

"ABBEY EMLEYDU"

Abbe emleydu is a hilarious farce written by Shankaramanchi Partha Saradhi. A laid back husband, a forgetful wife and a deaf servant. To this mix add a colorful boss who has an exciting plan for the weekend with his subordinates, two strangers who walk into the house for a free meal and a missing ring. What happens when all these colourful characters meet in a situation like this ? Lets find out.

The Elephant Man (1980) - Celebrating Biopics and Autobiographies month based on real life personalities.

FREE EVENT

The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak.
Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Director: David Lynch

Awards: The Elephant Man was a critical and commercial success with eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor.

Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion

The University as a Site of Resistance analyses massive protests that emerged in the aftermath of Rohith Vemula's death in Hyderabad Central University as well as the Azadi Campaign started by Jawaharlal Nehru University students in Delhi in 2016. Taking Osmania University in Hyderabad as a case study, the book provides an ethnographic account of the emergence of one of India's longest student movements - the movement for Telangana statehood. Since its inception in the 1960s to its culmination in the formation of Telangana state in 2014, students at Osmania University played a decisive role. The book discusses protest strategies, methods and networks among students. It also examines the role played by various caste and sub-caste groups and civil society in making the movement a success. The author argues that contemporary identity based student movements are primarily cultural movements as the traditional caste and class analysis becomes redundant to explain such contemporary collective action. The book establishes these unique resistances as New Social Movements and claim that these movements contribute to the democratization of institutional spaces. In this context, the volume provides a conceptual debate on contemporary cultural politics among university students.

Master key: Uttar Pradeshlo noorella Dalit Rajakiya charitra (Master key: One hundred years of the history of Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh, Telugu translation of Dalit Politics in Contemporary India) by Gundimeda Sambaiah, translated by Ashalatha, published by the Hyderabad Book Trust.
Sambaiah’s first book released in August 2018 was Telugunaata Dalit rajakiyalu. Both this and Master key are ground-breaking interventions on Dalit politics in India. Master key goes into Dalit mobilisations for political power, social equality and justice in the important state of Uttar Pradesh, particularly the Bahujan Samaj Party. It examines the debate regarding core themes such as the Hindu–Muslim cleavage in the north and caste in the south; the extent to which Dalits and other backward castes (OBC) base their anti-Brahminism on similar ideologies; and why Dalits in Uttar Pradesh (north India) succeeded in gaining power while they did not do so in the region of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh (south India), where Dalit consciousness is more evolved.

“Having been part of Gundimeda's intellectual journey, I wholeheartedly concur with him in this moment (or, rather, endeavour) of translation. The book makes possible a 'real' debate about the trajectories of Dalit politics across the North India - South India divide. The only critiques worth conducting of socio-political processes in India or elsewhere are immanent ones; and Gundimeda's work, I need add, lends a further worthwhile comparative focus to this dimension. A most promising and productive work for any scholar examining socio-political processes in contemporary India, and for the proponents of a Dalit politics across locales and regional contexts.”

Sasheej Hegde, Professor of Sociology, University of Hyderabad



Sambaiah Gundimeda holds degrees in Political Science from Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada, University of Hyderabad and School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Sam writes both in English and Telugu and has published widely that includes books, research papers, book chapters and essays in learned journals. He has been with the School of Policy and Governance at Azim Premji University since July 2014.

Panellists Dr A. Srivatsan, Dr. Jilukara Srinivas, Dr Gundimeda Sambaiah

FB event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1927497697346503/

Firstly, new comers are more than welcome. (We can even skip the awkward round of introductions in the beginning)
Secondly, here is the link to this session's reading: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oLGqFPDwEew_GhqrXi0EgDJ8bHhwLzrv/view?usp=sharing

A third session. Who would have thought?

The last session was a small group of people, but the discussion was rich and beautiful. Peculiarly though, most people who showed up last time were Law students. Inspired by their company, this session's reading is a classic text from Feminist legal theory: Lucie White's "Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes: Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G". It is a dazzling piece of legal theory that most Feminist law professors add to their students' required reading list.

But, what's the reading about? It's about how cultural representations and legal norms create a universe where the language of socially subordinated groups is seen as inherently inferior to those of dominant groups. A part of the paper, which I find the most interesting, is about how subordination itself leads the members of that group to employ verbal strategies that mark their speech as different from that of dominant style. She does all this through the story of one "Mrs. G" - a woman subordinated by race, gender and class who is trying to make herself heard in a hearing.

Its a pretty long paper, so we'll only have this one reading for the next session. Although honestly, it only appears long. Much of the text is long footnotes - and all most of the footnotes are doing is referencing to texts with long titles.

Like always, please try and make notes while you do the reading - especially the stuff you found difficult to grasp, or didn't agree with. Then, bring the notes to session so it makes for a spicier session.

Also for the next session, there's some stuff to discuss after we're done with text:
1. Should we change to doing this weekly? Folks in the last session wanted this.
2. Lets come up with a better name for the group.

Finally, if you'd like to keep receiving updates about sessions in the future, please join this FB group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1451288351669247/
We'll try to keep it free of any post apart from ones about the reading group.

You can reach me on FB message if you need any more information: facebook.com/tarungidwani

See you on 16th in the morning? <3

PS: Lets also have samosas this time.

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. 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 forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

It's a socio-political satire which involves a conversation between three crazy men who are talking about different social aspects directly/indirectly and suddenly a stranger enters and that is when story begins, according to this forth person he is not an insane rather very educated even then also he is in mental asylum.
As they interact and talk further, they discuss every possible topic in very different and insane style to watch yourself giggling throughout the evening come and enjoy the play.

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.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words!

Learn the basics of Photography in 2 hours. Learn how to compose, frame and light your shot to tell your story in the most vivid and effective way.

On account of the events like throwing two female students outside their hostels in sybiosis law school for expressing their outrage on the mismanagement by the college management, closing the indira park road for any dharnas, arresting human rights activists for aiding their voice for voiceless. All these show us how there has been systematic approach to end the culture of dissent. Therefore we want to discuss how we can keep dissent alive and save this safety valve of democracy.

This play will revolve around the funny family members with Hyderabadi dialect and how they keep themselves busy with crazy and mad things. It will take you on the laughter ride through the funny Nok-Jhok between the Husband, wife and a servant. Beauty of the play will come out from the secret in last which will be revealed by the Servant.

We would be working on promoting a student film namely Naan Devru, a film questioning the ritual-Bhoota Kola, a ritual very religiously followed by scheduled tribe caste in the rural areas. The film will pose a question mark to the myth as well as talk about the element of trust between a married couple

Hotel Rwanda (2004) - Celebrating Biopics and Autobiographies month based on real life personalities.

FREE EVENT

Based on the Rwandan genocide, which occurred during the spring of 1994, the film, which has been called an African Schindler's List, documents Rusesabagina's acts to save the lives of his family and more than a thousand other refugees by providing them with shelter in the besieged Hôtel des Mille Collines.

- Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

Director: Terry George

Accolades: The film was nominated and won several awards in 2004–06. Various critics included the film on their lists of the top 10 best films of 2004.

Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion

With the results of the 5 state elections declared on 11th December, there is already the bugle sounded for the 2019 General Elections

The Discussion will revolve around the expected near future impact in terms of political alignments, policy and law and order. It will also cover repercussion on the forthcoming general elections.

This will be followed by Q & A session.

The Discussants include:

Prof Kodanram - Prof. Kodandaram is a political activist and political leader. He is the founder of political party Telangana Jana Samithi, which was formed in March 2018. He was also the Chairman of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (T-JAC), which was formed with the goal of achieving a separate Telangana state in India. He retired as a Professor of Political Science from Osmania University.

Prof Vinod Jairath - Prof Jairath has carried out and supervised research in several areas such as Agrarian Structure and Change, Sociology of Science (Scientific Communities), Sociology of Development (Nature of Participation), Popular Culture, and more recently, Muslim Diversity.

Prof K. Srinivasulu - Prof Srinivasulu is an intellect and social activist. He retired as a professor of Political Science, Osmania University.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!! ENTRY FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!!!

art-display of small dimension artworks mainly abstract figures, acrylic/mixed media on canvas.
Name of Artist : dollzie, anuradha bhalla and raksha jesrani. Dates 22 and 23 DEC 2108 . Just placement of art-works for 2 days -no inaugration drama.

Butoh (舞踏 Butō) is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo.

GET READY FOR THE SEASON WITH HAND DRAWN WREATHS
Learn how to draw WREATH in simple step by step process in a 2 hour workshop,at the end of the workshop participants will walk away with their beautiful hand drawn wreaths, which can be used as greeting card or as display piece.
please note :- participants will have to bring materials (color pencils/sketch pens card stock or thick paper. of their choice).
Fee - 600 rupees per person, for registration contact nsharmila2014@gmail.com/ whatsapp on 8332062137

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. 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 forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

Verba Maximus is South India's largest literary fest organized solely by the students of BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. We aim to improve the overall literary culture among students across the nation. With Regionals, we aim to increase awareness about our fest in the city. This year we'll be having competitive events in writing, debate and slam poetry during the Regionals.

Panel Discussion - #RedraftTraffickingBill, #StopTransBill2018

Sunday 23rd Dec 2.30pm to 5:00pm, Organized by coalition of human rights groups. Presented by Lamakaan.

Ahead of the Rajya Sabha deliberation on the Anti-Trafficking Bill 2018 and the Transgender Bill 2018 on Dec 27th, we the coalition of human rights groups - viz. child rights groups for trafficked/orphaned and run away children, women's groups working with survivors of sexual violence, trafficking survivors and survivors of “rescue and rehabilitation” model of trafficking into bonded labour, networks of CBOs and collectives of people who exert their agency to do consensual sex work as a livelihood, organizations working with families of farmers who committed suicide, Domestic Workers Unions that organize domestic workers and those migrating to Gulf, activists working with brick kiln migrant labour, transgender, cisgender allies, queer, gender non-binary, gender non-conforming transgender and LGBTIAHQ people and women, lawyers, social scientists, students etc through the panel discussion want to understand the firm opposition to both the bills and put forth our comprehensive detailed demands to all our parliamentarians, to the Prime Minister of India, to Minister of Women and Child Development, Government of India and most importantly to the people of India!!

Zeeshan Hasan Akhtar’s solo performance Gobhi ke Patte ki Chutney is a quiet meditation on what it means to be Muslim in India. Starting with that founding moment of post-Independence communal violence that in many ways inaugurated the Hindutva project, the Bhagalpur riots in Bihar in 1989, without so much as mentioning the place or the forces behind the violence then or today, Akhtar builds a menacing and moving account of a subjectivity formed in that crucible. In a remarkable refusal of the production of the Muslim as the othered product of an anthropological gaze or the victim of secular pity and compassion as much as of communal violence, Gobhi ke Patte ki Chutney is a subtle and deeply disturbing account of the more primal components of human subjectivity told in a theatrical language that eschews spectacle and settles for a record of the tremors of a heartbeat.

Stand up comedy. Original marathi one act play "Vyatha Sansarachi" now translated in hindi

In this performance i am symbolically going to represent some major issues in todays families.in so many families People live in same house ,under same roof but they don't even talk to each other,so that suffocation , we always blame others, always throw mud on each other. So all this aspects i am going to show in this small act.

A Trick of Light (1995) - Celebrating Biopics and Autobiographies month based on real life personalities.

FREE EVENT

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema.

- The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.

Director: Wim Wenders

* Its original German title is Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky, the film made with the students of the Munich Film Academy.

Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion

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An Interfaith discussion about human rights and democracy in India

Purpose of gathering would be to explore interfaith efforts to secure democracy and human rights in India, and in particular, the role of faith-based activists.

Format: 5 minute presentations by several faith-based activists/advocates for human rights and secular democracy in India followed by open discussion among all gathered.

Speaker:
SUNITA will speak about progressive Hinduism which is devoted to the human rights of all faights.

Some of the questions to explore during the discussion are:
Does the "left" in India collaborate with faith-base efforts for human rights?
Do such collaborations and interfaith efforts in India that stand for minority rights include Hindus?
Are there Hindus who connect their activism against Hindu nationalism to the teachings of the Gita and Vedas etc.
Of course we know of Swami Agnvesh, Shashi Tharoor, KP Ramanunni -- but these are individuals. Are such views and efforts present in broader interfaith organizing in India?
How can Sadhana support such efforts in India, from so far away?

ENTRY IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!!!

David Mamet’s “Oleanna” is a powerful two-character drama on various aspects of the student-teacher relationship, revolving around its insecurities, institutional politics, hypocrisies of higher education, student influences and sexual harassment. A power struggle and miscommunication between the professor and his student, who accuses him of sexual harassment. Who is right? And who is wrong? Which side do we take? In the power play of institutional politics, which side will win? The grades that you get, are they more important than your understanding? Is it okay to cross yet another line to get some grades?