Aao ke koi khwaab bunen :- Mir Ali Husain duration 90 min
Husain is a writer and is currently working on a theatrical project based on the life of Sahir Ludhianvi.
Sameena Begum would speak on Dholak ke Geet
Sameena Begum is researcher and published author with focus on Hyderabadi culture and Urdu. Her latest work "Hyderabadi Dholak Ke Geet" is a rigorous study of about 10 years. She studied MA, M.Phil in MANUU, and currently pursuing PhD in Urdu from Osmania University.
Reading Jeelani Bano's short stories
By Elahe Hiptoola , Rajaa Farhan and Ramsha Farhan.
Elahé Hiptoola is a Film Producer with award winning films like Iqbal, Dor and Dhanak to her credit. She is also one of the founders of Lamakaan.
Rajaa is a young photographer and Assistant Manager at Lamakaan.
Ramsha studies liberal arts at the Azim Premji University in Bangalore.
Ashhar Farhan will read from Anees Ayesha's new book. "Main ne yeh jaana" - is an unprecedented transliterated introduction to Urdu poetry
The next edition of HLF is scheduled for 24-26th Jan 2020. Nearly 200 speakers, of whom 25-30% from outside India, are expected to participate in the Festival. HLF 2020 is the 10th Edition and is special. It is planned to further add to the scope and scale of the festival, increase in activities, and create interest across a wider target audiences.
To celebrate the 10th year, a new segment has been proposed to be introduced, starting ten weeks before. Every Friday the Festival itself - called
Festival Fridays: Countdown to Ten Years of HLF
27th Dec 2019 is the 6th Festival Friday event in collaboration with Lamakaan.
2. Joy of painting.
3. step-by-step guided instructions will be provided.
4. All the required materials are provided.
5. No past painting experience is not required.
6. People of all age can participate.
7 It's also an opening to meet and interact with like minded people and make new friends.
About the Book:
The legend of Bhagmati, the supposed lover of Mohammed Quli Qutb Shah, Hyderabad's founder, has been a matter of intense discussion from years, if not decades. Journalist Serish Nanisetti, who has been writing about Hyderabad's heritage from years, and who has done enough research to now be an authority on Golconda history, answers some of these questions in his latest book, which has been built on information gathered from several sources over a matter of 10 years. So come join us for a talk and learn about the history of Golconda, which is important to understand the core culture of our city. The talk will be moderated by Yunus Y. Lasania, Serish's former colleague and fellow journalist. Both of them together run The Hyderabad History Project, a blog (more active on Instagram), to dig out the lesser-known aspects of Hyderabad's history.
About the author:
Serish Nanisetti is author of ‘Golconda Bagnagar Hyderabad – Rise and fall of a global metropolis in medieval India’, which is a narrative chronicle of the city during the Qutb Shahi era. A journalist with The Hindu in Hyderabad, he has extensively researched, written and photographed the city.
ALL ARE WELCOME!!!
Time - 6:30 pm, 3rd January, Friday.
Hyderabadi Poets will recite Protest Poems written about the NRC and CAA.
Witty, bittersweet and heartbreaking poetry in Hyderabadi language by the city's most irreverent and fun poets. Come along for the solidarity and protest, like only the Hyderabadis know.
1. Train Friends - A collection of essays by Ranjani Rao and Nandini Patwardhan
2. Dangling Gandhi and other stories - a collection of short stories by Jayanthi Sankar
There will be readings from the books and discussion. Authors will their books.
MAIN RAHI MASOOM, a solo performance enacted by Vinay Varma and directed by Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar is a biographical sketch of the famous Hindi and Urdu writer, the Late Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza. This performance is first of its kind on Rahi.
This 70-minute poignant monologue shows how Rahi detested communal and vote-bank politics, and how he fought against the divisive forces in the country through his writings. He was a strong nationalist first and a Muslim next. He also staunchly opposed pseudo-secularism. Sample this: “main ek Hindustani musalman hoon aur iske siva meri aur koee pehchaan naheen hai” or “vatan mazhab nahin jo badla ja sake”. He was upfront against the fundamentalists on both sides of the divide. He was brutally honest regarding politics of hatred, and felt that the interest of communal elements among both Hindus and Muslims lies in keeping the two communities aloof from each other and to create distrust among them”…sampradaaikta(communalism) ka koee dharm nain hota” or “zahid-e-tang nazar ne mujhe kaafir jaana aur kaafir ye samajhta hai ki musalman hoon main……”
The monologue ends with Rahi’s rare nazm Vaseeyat.
Rahi’s journey begins on 1st September, 1927 in Gangauli, a small village in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh and ends with his vaseeyat in which he wills that he be laid to rest in the lap of Ganga, whom he considered his second mother. He passed away on 15 March 1992.
During his illustrious career, Rahi Masoom Raza has written lyrics, dialogues and stories for various movies and television series. His high came with the telecast of TV series 'Mahabharat' that was based on the Hindu epic Mahabharat. Rahi, a Muslim, wrote the screenplay and dialogue of the TV series that went on to become the most watched TV series in India. At one time, its TRP was a staggering 86 %. This was a triumph for Rahi as some Hindu zealots had criticized his inclusion in the team. Terms of address like “Matashri”, “Pitashri”, “Bhratashri”, and “Jijashri” etc. were brought into the popular realm by Rahi.
Speaker: Srinivas Kodali
ARE MPs and MLAs USING THEIR EXISTING POWERS TO SAVE CONSTITUTION AND ETHICS?
CONTEXT: Statements made by the Hon'ble PM and the HM
ETHICS COMMITTEE OF LOK SABHA; STATE ASSEMBLY RESOLUTIONS'
Discussion organized by : United India Action Committee(a movement of individuals, organizations, and political parties)
Date: 5 January 2020 Time: 7.30pm to 8.30pm Discussion with Magsaysay Awardee Prof Sandeep Pandey, Dr Lubna Sarwath, Maqbool Mateen, (consent awaited from Justice Chandrakumar, Dr Jasveen Jairath, Janab Ahmad Khan and others)
EVERY CITIZEN IS REQUESTED TO PARTICIPATE
This screening session is going to be a delectable treat for film lovers.
It features three short films directed by K. GOVINDA RAJU (hailing from Mancheriyal in Telanagana) and another film scripted by him, but directed by SAKSHI GULATI (from Delhi). The films were made as part of their Film Direction courses at Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and have been highly appreciated.
1. GOLDEN MANGO (Marathi/ 10min/ 2013) // Director : K. GOVINDARAJU
A little boy throws a tantrum for mangoes and gets ticked off by his mother. He is mollified by his grandmother who tells him the story of golden mangoes reaped by a villager.
Midway through the story, the boy slips into a dream in which he touches the golden mango and turns it into an ordinary one.
Awards and Nominations :
o MIFF. IDPA award for Best student film(2014) – Winner
o Berlinale Film Festival (2013) (Competition)
o HFF Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Germany 2014
o Student Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy, China.(2012) (Nominated)
o International Film Festival of India (2012) (Screened)
o Pune International Short Film Festival(2013) (Nominated)
o International Short & Independent Film Festival, Dhaka(2013) (Nominated)
2. SARUS (Marathi/ 20 min/ 2016) // Director : K. GOVINDARAJU
Vishnu (14) lives an idyllic life in a small fishing village. Vishnu is skilled at hand fishing but he, as a rule never fishes in excess. He is attracted to Meenakshi(14) but her proximity to another boy compels Vishnu to act in a way that will forever crease his fabric of innocence.
Awards and Nominations :
o Winner (2nd) : Alpavirama South Asian Short and Documentary Film Festival -NID - 2016
o Student Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy, China.(2016) (Nominated)
o CMS Vatavaran Film Festival, India (2017) Nominated)
3. SNAKES (music video/ 5 min/ 2015 // Director : K. GOVINDARAJU
4. NEON (Marathi/ 27 min/ 2018) // Director : SAKSHI GULATI
Synopsis :
Having recently moved to Mumbai, a working class family rents out their balcony to an advertising company in order to supplement their meager income. A gigantic billboard that reads “Add value to your life” now blocks all natural sunlight to their cramped apartment, disturbing the family’s natural rhythms and forcing them to adjust to life suspended in a permanent evening illuminated by a strange neon glow. As the parents struggle to bear their compromised present in hopes for a better future that appears increasingly elusive, the children, hopeful and resilient, find comfort in each other and look for cracks through which the light creeps in.
Awards and Nominations :
o Winner (2nd) : Alpavirama South Asian Short and Documentary Film Festival -NID 2016
o Student Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy, China.(2016) (Nominated)
K. GOVINDA RAJU
His passion for storytelling led him to do a course in fine arts followed by film making training from Film and Television Institute of india (FTII Pune).
His short film 'Golden Mango' was screened in 17 different countries and won many awards, including the Prestigious Berlinale -Germany.
His film school graduation film Sarus was screened in ISFVF Beijing-china, and won Silver Comma Awards 2017.
A minimalist aesthetic, relying on fine detailing and pre-visualization allows him to be appropriately communicative and efficient during execution.
Culturally rooted reality and a magical allegorical realism find an unusual confluence in the stories he works with.
SAKSHI GULATI
Sakshi Gulati is a Filmmaker & Media Educator.
She has worked with grass root initiatives, fiction and non-fiction films, documentation of Folk
Cultures & Media literacy initiatives, producing documentaries & a series of shorts made by
children & young adults before joining film school.
Her films have been screened at various platforms.
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On Sunday night,masked ABVP goons with sticks, lathis and stones, attacked students and teachers of JNU. This happened after the home minister asked people to take revenge from anti nationals and urban naxals. Such state supported attack has never happened for any University in past. These are challenging times for people who are opposing the governments anti constitutional and anti people moves. All progressive people should come out and extend solidarity with those who are standing against this state tyranny. Lamakaan is organising a solidarity event to extend support to JNU students and to all those who are fighting for civil and democratic rights of people. All are welcome to attend this event on 9.1.2020 at lamakaan at 7:00 PM
Topic 1: Subsidized Education - A Social Contract between students and government.
Topic 2: Discussion on CAA, NRC and NPR - issues and Implementation.
Entry: Free
ElectroFor#Truth is a platform that gives the sexual assault survivors and predators to share their experiences anonymously for the common audience to develop an awareness to tackle the stressing issues.
Why do I do the things, which I do? I think rubbish. I feel rubbish... Who am I? I am not a hardcore rightist, nor a leftist. Not even a orthodox brahmin nor a suppressed dalit. Not a gay nor a part of the minority, not a lefty, or mentally ill.. Who the hell am I? Just a oversensitive guy.. confused.. trapped! Where do I go.. ? What do I do? Will drugs help? Or should turn a blind eye? That wont help, I have tried.. I have tried everything.. Everybody has tried everything..” Straight out of the minds of 21 year olds. The story of a youngster who finally goes to a reality show which is there to create an extremist, terrorist young force..
Is it fundamentalist? Religious? Regional? Certainly not! Exactly what happened with the young parents, involved in liberal, leftist, socialist movements in and after the 1975 Emergency? What happened with the concept of a free, secular, liberal and ideal nation worth to give a birth to a child?? What happened with the values and ethics which they expected from their previous generation of freedom fighters?
What exactly did happen in the last 21 years...
Why do I do the things, which I do? I think rubbish. I feel rubbish... Who am I? I am not a hardcore rightist, nor a leftist. Not even a orthodox brahmin nor a suppressed dalit. Not a gay nor a part of the minority, not a lefty, or mentally ill.. Who the hell am I? Just a oversensitive guy.. confused.. trapped! Where do I go.. ? What do I do? Will drugs help? Or should turn a blind eye? That wont help, I have tried.. I have tried everything.. Everybody has tried everything..” Straight out of the minds of 21 year olds. The story of a youngster who finally goes to a reality show which is there to create an extremist, terrorist young force..
Is it fundamentalist? Religious? Regional? Certainly not! Exactly what happened with the young parents, involved in liberal, leftist, socialist movements in and after the 1975 Emergency? What happened with the concept of a free, secular, liberal and ideal nation worth to give a birth to a child?? What happened with the values and ethics which they expected from their previous generation of freedom fighters?
What exactly did happen in the last 21 years...
*Marking 4th Shaheed Rohith Vemula Smriti Divas*
*WE THE PEOPLE | हम भारत के लोग | ہم بھارت کے عوام*
&
*Citizens Against CAA-NRC-NPR*
Invite You for a Talk on
*Citizenship, Constitutionality and Social Justice: CAA-NRC-NPR & Beyond*
*Speakers:*
*Radhika Vemula*
(Anti-Caste Activist and Leader, Justice for Rohith Movement)
*Yogendra Yadav*
(Political and Social Activist, Swaraj Abhiyan)
*Asma Rasheed*
(Faculty, EFLU & Hyderabad Muslim Women's Forum - HMWF)
*P. Shankar*
(Dalit Bahujan Front-DBF)
Date: *17th Jan | Friday| 10 am to 1 pm*
Venue: *Lamakaan*, Opp GVK, Banjara Hills, Rd. No. 1, Hyderabad
*All Are Welcome*
There is a unique thinking each one is having about Kashmir. Some see it as the Paradise, some say it was. For some, it maybe seen as a state that seen a load of bloodshed while some will see it as oppressed one.
The Urban Kashmir Project tries to capture a webbed compilation of your mind to create a collective Urban picture of Kashmir as we see. At the end, we would want to see how Hyderabad sees Kashmir it as of today. A mixture of realities
For more details, contact Chetan (+91-9515125320)
if u have a story,poem or any piece that you would like to share with us,come and participate in open mice event at lamakaan.
A discussion in context with the recent encounter and death penalty to rape convicts.
Revenge begets revenge, anger leads to anger, hate leads to more hate and blood lust has no end. People are seen believing and demanding capital punishment as the solution for henious crimes including cases of Nirbhaya and Disha.
Retributive justice punishment makes the offender pay his debt for the sin committed whereas reformative justice is about forgiveness, healing and reintegration of offender. Criminal law has moved from retributive to reformative as historically we have understood former theory only looks at the crime and the fitting punishment, on the other hand latter theory delves into various aspects of crime like the social environment, pyschogical, therapeutic rehabilitation, etc with understanding that punishment should benefit the society as a whole and produce more good to society than the harm of the crime.
It's very painful and disturbing to witness the most henious crimes occuring around us especially sexual offences against women. The way how these crimes are dealt with is more important as we have to check how helpful is the present system in curbing the crime and preventing it in future.
In the context of growing demand for killing of offenders we invite you to participate in a 'dialogue' on whether 'Rigorous punishments reduce crime' at Lamakaan on 18th January at 6pm.
When communal crisis arises, people open their mouths and scream and shout and say this is not what they want from Indian society. But we don’t have enough people discussing what it really means to be a secular society.
Eventually secularism has become a curse word today. Fascists refer to it as sickular and people claiming themselves as secular are called anti nationals too. In order to discuss the real meaning of secularism and the way it is being distorted, In Defense of Reason and Lamakaan prog council is organising a discussion on 19th January 2020. All are welcome !!
This gives us a sense of who we are related to what we are aware of. This documentary reveals that awareness itself is not what you think.
National Register Of Citizens.
Uniform Civil Code
Poverty
Talk by:-
Dr Saxena on poverty and the Muslim minorities.
Prof Kundu on Citizenship.
Dr Sharif on NPR and Prof Shaban on UCC.
A star studded galaxy.
All are welcome.
A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor, Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attmpt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
Directed by Shola Lynch
Duration: 1 Hour 42 minutes
Film screening followed by a Discussion.
ALL ARE WELCOME
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.