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The soil story.. Mitti ki kahani mitti ki zabani.

Soil is considered a mineral matter and as a substratum to grow crops… This lecture throws light on the soil as a living organism and the ways and means to restore soil health through appropriate manures, sprays, seeds, pest repellents and growth promoters.

Sultan Ahmed Ismail is an Indian soil biologist and ecologist. One of the pioneers of earthworm research in India

Making Our Cities Safe For Women: What’s going Wrong?

7:00 pm, Lamakaan on Friday, 6th December

The rape and murder of a 26 year old,now renamed Disha, has stirred the conscience of the nation. For us as Hyderabadis it is more painful as this dehumanising crime was committed in our city. To take a holistic view of how such crimes can be prevented we are organizing a discussion at Lamakaan at 7 pm on Friday November 6. Please come in large numbers to lend your support to the effort.

The panel will be moderated by Kingshuk Nag, (Author and Journalist). The participants include Rema Rajeshwari (Police Chief, Mahboobnagar), Seeta Murthy (Director at Silver Oak Schools), Ishaani Sharma (Entreprenuer and Founder at Grarri), Kalpana Kannabiran (Sociologist and Lawyer).

As technology becomes more and more integral to everything we do, it can sometimes distract us from the things that matter most to us.

‘Managing screens for healthy tech: life balance’ ‘Screens and mental health: how much is too much?’

and Finally

‘Is it time for a digital detox?’ & ‘Time to log off?

The Motorcycle Diaries is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla commander and revolutionary Che Guevara.

Event:

The historic Golconda fort is one of Hyderabad’s most well-known tourist spots, often drawing people from across the country to see it. However, the medieval-era monument has also been the most lacerated in terms of preservation, as constant encroachments have today damaged the fort in many ways.

Most people, especially from Hyderabad, are even not aware that the Golconda fort, which is 500 years old (2018 marked 500 years since the Qutb Shahi dynasty was founded by Sultan Quli Qutb Shahm who established his kingdom in the fort) has eight gates and an extension called the Naya Qila, which houses a Baobab tree that is about 400 years old.

In view of its importance to the city’s heritage and to also understand the actual contours of the fort, come join us for a talk by Mr. Milan Kumar Chauley, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), at Lamakaan on 3 December, on the fort and its history. The talk will be followed by a session of Q&A.

About the speaker: Mr. Milan Kumar Chauley first joined service as a Documentation Officer with Delhi government’s archaeology department in 2002. He joined the ASI in 2003, working for its excavation branch in Bhubaneshwar and Delhi. In 2012, Mr. Chauley became a Superintending Archaeologist directly after writing the UPSC exam, following which he was appointed to the Telangana circle as the same in 2017

Art and literature can be seen as extensions of the human mind. Very often they can reveal what lies within, sometimes visibly, and, sometimes, not quite so visibly. The movie club is (we hope) a fun way of looking deeper into the emotions, perceptions and thoughts that weave human relationships together or tear them apart. A movie may be treated as a true story or, alternatively, can be used as a tool to try and figure out what went on in the directors head when the movie was made. Either way, it’s a different way of understanding human behavior and relationships. In the end, by looking deeper into another’s story, we hope, perchance, to understand ourselves better.

“MinMon” is the abbreviation for ‘Mini Monologues’. Every weekend, we present the written verse in its spoken form with the flavor of theatric, in the form of short monologue performances. This is the second production of Unmasked Theatre Collective after ‘An Evening with Chekov’. Come watch our actors dabble with their favorite writers and see them add a twist to the words, only at the theater

In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace.

Screening of Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho

An old couple, Mohan Joshi and his wife decides to sue their landlord, Kundan Kapadia for not maintaining their ‘collapsing’ chawl. For this, they hire two lawyers. The landlord is least bothered as he wants to drive the tenants out and tear down the chawl. The court case drags on for years and the lawyers in cahoots with the opposition lawyer milk the old couple dry, while they become rich. In the end when the judge comes to check the condition of the chawl, Kapadia’s men prop up the place thus convincing the judge that all is well with the chawl. Finally, Joshi gathers all his strength and pulls down the temporary supports put up by the men causing the building to collapse on himself…

Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! is one of the best satires ever made on the Indian screen and one of Saeed Akhtar Mirza’s best work. The film is a brilliant take off on the housing problems faced by lower middle-class chawl living tenants in Bombay, while at the same time making a dig at the archaic Indian judicial system where cases drag on and on and on and on…

The film beautifully highlights the ineffectuality of the ordinary man faced with an abuse of his very basic rights

All are invited for the screening of the movie “Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho”

Entry Free !!

Screening will be followed by a discussion on the movie