She has conducted several Death cafes in colleges,trains,cemeteries, railway stations.She uses art based practices to help people critique about sexuality and Menstruation through her organisation Orikalankini.
In this talk she presents her journey so far-the railway compartment stories friends she met on her way,the documentary video in the making and all the times her plans have fallen flat.
This is an exercise in recentering and opening up to suggestions from the audiences on making Death,sex and Menstruation a subject of change in India.
Cinematographer - Sven Nyquist
FREE EVENT
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion
Lamakaan invites you to a book launch and discussion on the most tumultuous lives of young people in India.
About the book:
From JNU to Jadavpur, anti-national movement spreads!’—Zee News
‘Activism or anti-nationalism?’—Times Now
‘Dalit students on warpath after Vemula suicide’—FirstPost
‘Violence on Ramjas campus: no room for free, peaceful political debate’—NDTV
‘Kashmir University students protest anti-free speech circular’—The Quint
These are but a tiny sample of headlines that have become commonplace in India in recent years. What is it about the present moment in the life of our nation that has stirred so many thousands of young citizens into political action? And what is it about the nature of their protests that is threatening enough for the establishment to brand it ‘anti-national’?
The wave of youth protests, agitations and marches that gripped India in the last few years were not, Nikhila Henry argues, sporadic, isolated or piecemeal. Rather, they were an organized effort against a fractured, unforgiving and deeply discriminatory society. The participants, despite differences, often found convergence and empathy for each other and fought not just their own but each other’s battles: battles of the Dalit, of the Adivasi, of the Kashmiri, of the rape victim, of the Muslim.
In so doing, it was not simply entrenched discrimination they highlighted. In so doing, they questioned fundamental ideas of public morality and the very essence that makes us a united nation.
About the Author:
NIKHILA HENRY is a Special Correspondent with The Hindu in Hyderabad, reporting on education, student politics, civic administration and social welfare. An alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Programme on Investigative Journalism of the United States’ State Department, Nikhila worked as a Principal Correspondent for The Times of India in Hyderabad for eight years, covering education, youth agitations, gender struggles and politics. She also compiled and edited Rohith Vemula’s online diary, Caste is Not a Rumour. The Ferment is her first book.
There will be a panel discussion on the book with the author by:
Prof Padmaja Shaw
Malini Subramaniam
ENTRY IS FREE & OPEN TO ALL!!!
Here is another innovative session in the FunShop Series which teaches the basics of circuits and conduction with the help of art/drawing! The kids can carry away their LED lit paintings which are drawn entirely with ink/paints.
Note: pre-registration is mandatory. Cost of the session (including conducting painting making kits) is INR 500.
She says, ‘Each of us (the non-farming folks) have our plates full of food at the cost of farmers. It is time to raise our voice in solidarity, march in solidarity. Agricultural crisis is no longer the crisis of the farmer alone, it is a national crisis.’
Recently the central government declared the MSP for 22 mandated crops. Firstly, the declared MSP is not in line with recommendations of the Swaminathan committee of weighted average cost of production + 50%. Farmers had a short-lived smile on their face with the announcement. What is the point of declaring an MSP, when the government has expressed no intention of opening up procurement centres.
In August and September this year, farmers sold green gram (moong dal) anywhere from ₹3,900 to ₹5,300 per quintal in the open market. The MSP for moong was declared ₹6,975 per quintal, but no procurement centre was opened. Unable to hold on to their produce, many small and marginal farmers dumped moong in market yards bearing losses. Some medium and large farmers believed that the centres would open and held on to their produce. As more and more moong reached markets, the price stumbled further, procurement centres were not opened and farmers finally realized that it was not worth the wait.
Declaring MSP turned out to be an election stunt, with no results, or even genuine productive intentions behind it.
Even in cases where procurement centres were opened, like in the case of Karnataka, the government declared that it will only procure a small amount which meant that many farmers were left out and resorted to selling in open markets at low prices, paying exploitative commissions to traders, getting cheated in weighing etc.
To quote another instance, black gram which we buy at ₹80 to ₹90 per kilo in Hyderabad is sold by farmers at ₹25 per kilo in Narayanpet.
The event will discuss these issues in the context of the futility of only enhancing and increasing loan waivers. The aim of this discussion is to spread awareness of the angst of small and marginal land holding farmers, and the need to participate in the march for justice.
ALL ARE WELCOME!!!
Cinematographer - Roger Deakins
FREE EVENT
A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (uncredited)
Writers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion
The movement has helped de-stigmatize the act of surviving sexual assault, primarily by bringing out the breadth and impact of it. It is still imperative to expand the conversation to speak to the needs of a broader spectrum of survivors. It is also essential to hold the perpetrators accountable and have a long term, sustainable strategy in place to disrupt the system that allows for sexual violence.
While the movement did make the issue of sexual violence an important topic, it is important to discuss the issues being brought out and the future of the movement itself. We invite the victims, allies and all those who care about the movement, to join a conversation on what the movement in India is doing and what is the possible future for it.
"YAAD-E-RAFTAGAAN... ALLAMA HYRATH BUDAUNI"a memoir of Ustaad-ul-Asatiza Hazrath Allama Hyrath Budauni...
on 26th October Friday, 7pm at LAMAKAAN,cultural center,Rd.no 1, Banjara Hills,Hyderabad...after Adabi Ijlas Mushaira will follow in which 10 renowned poets will participate.....
WHAT WILL BE COVERED IN THIS WORKSHOP:
1. How to create stories on the fly (make it up while you are narrating it)
2. How to deal with Stage Fear
3. Techniques to narrate the story you created effectively and in an engaging manner
4. How to effectively communicate in daily conversations
First Half - you will learn to create your own story
<15 Minute Break>
Second Half - you will learn to effectively narrate this story using various techniques.
TALE TELLERS TROUPE INDIA'S storytelling workshop provides students with an encouraging, constructive environment in which to practice storytelling techniques. Exercises in class focus on classic story structuring, building suspense, eliciting emotion, recreating drama, digging deeper into a story’s meaning, and using your voice and body to add levels to your listeners’ experience, so that your story stays with them.
The class size will be limited to allow maximum individual attention and storytelling practice time for each student in each class session
Expect to challenge yourself, participate actively and have a lot of fun and laughs along the way.
This is the first step towards being a POWERFUL ORATOR and a LEADER in life!
Entry Fee: Rs.500
Register on the spot or PAYTM/TEZ to mobile number 7680993179
(Please message your full name to the same number once you are done with the payment)
Book Release-cum-Discussion
‘Alternative Futures: India Unshackled’
Editors - Ashish Kothari and K. J. Joy
Publisher – AuthorsUpFront
A remarkable, first-ever collection of 35 essays on India’s future, by a diverse set of authors – activists, researchers, media practitioners, those who have influenced policies and those working at the grassroots. This book brings together scenarios of an India that is politically and socially egalitarian, radically democratic, economically sustainable and equitable, and socio-culturally diverse and harmonious.
Alternative Futures: India Unshackled covers a wide range of issues, organized under four sections. It explores ecological futures including environmental governance, biodiversity conservation, water and energy. Next, it envisions political futures including those of democracy and power, law, ideology, and India’s role in the globe. A number of essays then look at economic futures, including agriculture, pastoralism, industry, crafts, villages and cities, localization, markets, transportation and technology. Finally, it explores socio-cultural futures, encompassing languages, learning and education, knowledge, health, sexuality and gender, and marginalized sections like dalits, adivasis, and religious minorities.
Introductory and concluding essays tie these diverse visions together. Most essays include both futuristic scenarios and present initiatives that demonstrate the possibility of such futures. t a time when India faces increasing polarization along parochial, physical and mental boundaries, these essays provide a breath of fresh air and hope in the grounded possibilities for an alternative, decentralized, eco-culturally centred future. The essays range from the dreamy-eyed to the hard-headed, from the provocative to the gently persuasive.
EDITORS:
ASHISH KOTHARI coordinates the Alternatives programme of Kalpavriksh, has taught at Indian Institute of Public Administration, and chairs the Board of Greenpeace India.
K. J. JOY is Senior Fellow with Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Pune and has been an activist-researcher for more than 30 years.
Apparently comedy but realistic comment on middle class working woman ,beautifully sketched by Nobal Prize Winner Playwright, Actor, Director Dario Fo ,equally good adapted in Indian atmosphere by Maya Pandit.
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, Italy)
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
This film is a product of Karthik's agile philosophy of low budget filmmaking to shoot in 48 hours, edit and release in 2 weeks, and it has been pulled off in an extremely frugal budget of under INR 5,500. The film was shot mainly in the coal mines in the state of Telangana, India.
After the screening of the film, there will be an interactive session with the director and the team behind the film, in which relevant topics that are covered in the film will be discussed, along with the talk on the journey of making of the film.
Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/296805702
A Talk by Rachana Reddy
We hear stories of agrarian crisis and farmers’ suicides almost every day. On one hand, farmers are fighting livelihood issues due to anti-farmers policies adopted by the government, on the other hand, farmers’ lands are illegally acquired by MNCs and government. The farmers are uprooted from their agricultural land and displaced. The recent attack on the farmers in Delhi on 2nd October tells a sorry state of affairs and the treatment meted out to them. The Dilli Chalo call is a protest march against the anti farmers’ policies and to tell the government that farmers are in turmoil and seek justice.
In this talk Rachana Reddy will focus on the issues of farmers’ displacement battles and what are the legal avenues available to them to fight out these perennial battles. Can the farmers challenge the government legally or otherwise on this? Come and listen to Rachana Reddy this Saturday, 3rd November 2018 at 7.00pm at Lamakaan.
ALL ARE WELCOME!!!
ABOUT RACHANA REDDY:
Mrs. Rachna Reddy is currently a practising advocate at High Court of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with 11 years of legal experience
She did her Masters in International Law & Human Rights from School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles.
· Served as faculty at NALSAR University of Law.
· Served as an Appellate brief writer for human rights project.
· She has taken on Government of Telangana for its hasty attempts to acquire lands under various government schemes such as Mallanasagar Reservoir project and Palamuru Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation Project etc.
·She has been fighting the cause of farmers who have been wronged by the State Government - the administrative order issued by the Telangana Government was in violation of the Central Land Acquisition Act, 2013.
·Thanks to Rachna’s initiatives High Court has quashed the GO 123 - the controversial order of Telangana Government.
·Mixing social activism with the legal profession she has been guiding many farmers to knock the HC doors against hasty land acquisition by Telangana Government.
This play uses ironic humour as a powerful resource to uncover the absurdities of India’s social and political systems: political corruption, exploitation and historical manipulation. In a tense environment where humour might not seem appropriate, Bharatendu masterfully uses and critically examines it as a means to ridicule bureaucracy and the establishment, questioning in a caustic way people's conformity and passivity.
This script, though constructed on Bharatendu’s play, takes support of Tagore’s songs, poems of Sukumar Ray - the king of nonsense rhymes in Bengali, and Telugu folktales. The play appeals to audiences of all ages
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy
The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.
The organizers encourage only the people who have experienced harassment or professionals who are willing to support them to participate in the event. It is not a space to discuss the “me too” movement or the implications of it, rather it is a space to support each other in a difficult phase of life. Participants are strongly recommended to follow confidentiality and those who wish to do so, can stay anonymous.
The discussions will happen on the terrace of the building ensuring that whatever is said in the group will stay within.
During the interaction, Harish Sadani and his team at Men Against Violence & Abuse - MAVA would deliberate on the prevailing toxic masculinity and male entitlement to privilege and power, which is at the core of gender discrimination and violence in society. Through powerful compelling stories of MAVAs work among adolescent boys and young men in interrogating Masculinity as depicted in the film, Harish and Altamash will stimulate the gathered audience on the various tools and methodologies used to engage boys and young men on gender issues. Citing examples of the organization's journey in the past 25 years, insights would be provided on the out-of-the box methods used by the organization to reach out to young men and how these could be adapted by others including individuals wanting to work on Masculinities. The gathered crowd would be then stimulated on specifically discussing steps which every man and woman could take to engage men and boys into healthy conversations on contemporary gender topics and help promote gender equality and diversity.
In this discussion Dr GV Rao, Former Chief Staff Scientist, DNA Fingerprinting Lab, CDFD, Govt of India will talk on the science of Forensic science and its path breaking contribution in solving some most difficult crime stories.
Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.
Forensic scientists collect, preserve, and analyze scientific evidence during the course of an investigation. While some forensic scientists travel to the scene of the crime to collect the evidence themselves, others occupy a laboratory role, performing analysis on objects brought to them by other individuals.
About Dr GV Rao:
Dr G V Rao was a Scientist, is an Advocate, also an passionate Consumer Protection Campaigner, Leads Civil Society movement at Alwal & RTI Activist was the first Chief Scientist of Laboratory of DNA Testing appointed by Government of India at CDFD. He graduated from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Further he was a Gold medalist in M.Sc. in Criminology and Forensic Science from Central University of Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
He joined the illustrious laboratory, CCMB, Hyderabad for his Ph D in “Forensic Aspects of DNA Testing” and was awarded Ph D in 1993. His passion for knowledge made him to do a Post doctoral Fellowship in DNA Testing. He is the only person in India, till dated to hold a Doctoral and Post doctoral degree in DNA testing.
Dr Rao has been the first Indian Forensic Expert to have examined and reported DNA cases from all over India, USA, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh. His contribution of new technology in Species identification in wildlife poaching cases got the famous film star Mr Salman Khan convicted and you are well aware of. This work in forensic wildlife was awarded as the best paper in the Conference of the International Association of Forensic Academy, New York in 1999.
Incidentally Dr Rao was mentioned as SCIENTIST OF REPUTE IN DNA TESTING by the Supreme Court of India while disposing of the famous Matoo case.
Some cases where his knowledge, expertise and skill in DNA Testing had been appreciated by Hon Supreme Court of India were:
Naina Sahni or the Tandoor case (New Delhi),
Actress Prathyusha rape and murder case (Hyderabad, A.P.),
Swami Shraddananda (Bangalore, Karnataka),
Swaminarayan Ashram (Nadiad, Gujarat),
Jharkhand Mukthi Morcha (JMM) Case, (New Delhi), where former Prime Minister Mr P V Narasimha Rao was main accused.
Chattisinghpora False encounter Case (Jammu & Kashmir),
Beanth Singh Assassination Case (Punjab) etc.
Ayesha Meera Case (Vijayawada., AP),
Aarushi Case (Delhi).
ALL ARE WELCOME!!!