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SADHANA CAFE

Sapthagiri “Giri” Iyengar will give a presentation about the work of Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus to mobilize Hindu Americans to connect their faith to social justice values, engage in community seva, and speak out against all injustice, bigotry and violence. Giri will then facilitate a discussion and brainstorming about how to create a platform like Sadhana in India, and what it’s priorities and activities might be.

Giri is from Mysore, and is a Masters in Social Work student at Hunter College, New York. Giri has been an active member of Sadhana, particularly in the “sanctuary” movement for immigrants’ rights.

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As part of World Music Day being celebrated in Hyderabad at various venues/places, Lamakaan invites one and all to this year’s WMD celebrations.

The Fête de la Musique, also known as Music Day, Make Music Day or World Music Day, is an annual music celebration that takes place on 21 June. On Music Day the citizens of a city or country are allowed and urged to play music outside in their neighborhoods or in public spaces and parks. Free concerts are also organized, where musicians play for fun and not for payment.

Ashrita DSouza and troupe will be performing Western Music Genres (Classical, Jazz, Broadway and Show tunes) on Singing, Piano and Guitar. We are a part of ‘Strings &Tunes’, an institute which nurtures and educates young musicians to develop their musicality in a worldwide spectrum.

About the Performing Artistes: Ashrita D’souza – A Music Educator and artist will perform along with her students. Kids Choir – Medhini, Angela, Riya, Simar, Yazhini Khyathi Khsiteissh Joanna Akhil Siddharth Sanjeev Ashrita

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Samahaara Workshop Productions

presents

A Double Bill of Badal Sircar’s “SAARI RAAT” (Hindi) & N. Taraka Ramarao’s “BAKASURA” (Telugu)

Performed by the participants of the Samahaara Production Oriented Theatre Workshop (April – June 2019)

Directed by Nagaraju Pejjai

SAARI RAAT Who are you? Only the face you show this world, or something more? What lies in the deepest depths of your desires? Samahaara Workshop Productions presents a play based on Badal Sircar’s SAARI RAAT, a psychological drama that revolves around 3 characters: a young couple and an old man, stuck to spend the night together. It talks about the possibilities we are afraid of considering and the lives we deny ourselves through the story of a woman trapped in a given world symbolized by her marriage to a man who will not see her for what she really is.

BAKASURA An unfit and unworthy King rules a kingdom with the help of his cunning and selfish minister. An evil called ‘Bakasura’ attacks the people in the kingdom. The King and his council of ministers are clueless as to how to handle Bakasura. Who will solve this problem ? Who will save the poor villagers?

Takita Takita Takita Taam Takita Takita Takita Taam…. Story time, its story time….. SaiNe Nrityalaya presents Story telling through Dance (Bharatanatyam) Narrating stories and keeping the aesthetics of the dance form Bharatanatyam grounded to imbibe in each person the love and value towards the art form through the innovative way of story telling.

Girish Karnad, one of the versatile artistes of our times left this mortal world on 10th June 2019 after battling with illness for some time.

As a tribute to the doyen of cinema and theatre, Lamakaan is holding a remembrance meet and followed by the screening of ‘Nishant (1975).”

Mr. Sajid Mehmood, a film enthusiast will talk about Karnad’s art and contributions to the creative world and also introduce the film.

About Girish Karnad: Girish Raghunath Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019 was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s, marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi. He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.

For four decades Karnad composed plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. He translated his plays into English and received acclaim. His plays have been translated into some Indian languages and directed by directors like Ebrahim Alkazi, B. V. Karanth, Alyque Padamsee, Prasanna, Arvind Gaur, Satyadev Dubey, Vijaya Mehta, Shyamanand Jalan, Amal Allana and Zafer Mohiuddin. He was active in the world of Indian cinema working as an actor, director and screenwriter, in Hindi and Kannada cinema, and has earned awards. He was conferred Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India and won four Filmfare Awards, of which three are Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada and the fourth a Filmfare Best Screenplay Award. His famous novel is “Yayathi”. He was a presenter for a weekly science magazine programme called “Turning Point” that aired on Doordarshan in 1991.

After suffering from poor health, he was admitted to a hospital in Bengaluru, India, and ultimately died 10 June 2019

About Nishant film: Nishant (English: Night’s End) is a 1975 Hindi drama film directed by Shyam Benegal, based on an original screenplay by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar, with dialogues by Satyadev Dubey.

The film features an ensemble of parallel cinema actors including Girish Karnad, Amrish Puri, Shabana Azmi, Anant Nag and Sadhu Meher with Smita Patil and Naseeruddin Shah (In his film debut). This film focuses on the power of the rural elite and the sexual exploitation of women, during the time of feudalism in India.

Duration: 143 Minutes

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Ennio Morricone Month – Cinema Paradiso

A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema’s projectionist.

Movie Starts @7PM Post Screening Discussion – 15 mins

Let’s Discuss “Casteism – Institutionalised Murders”

The suicide of Dr Payal Tadvi from Maharashtra has sparked the discussion of ” caste discrimination” all over the nation. This incident particularly shows how a bold, brave girl can be broken through casteism. The three senior female doctors who harrased her don’t even acknoeledge their mistake or recognise their caste privilege. More recently a guy named Bakki Srinivas was beaten to death for eating a fallen mango from the mango plantagion of a savarna landlord. In Alwar, Rajasthan a heterosexual bahujan couple were stripped naked and girls were gang raped by a mob of sarvarna men. Many such incidents of caste-based harassment have been surfacing from time to time. All these incidents are proof that even after 70 years of criminalising caste discrimination the urban and rural India suffers from everyday casteism which leads to institutionalised murders of people like Payal, Rohith Vemula etc., Rohit vemula student of UOH who committed suicide wrote ” The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote, to a number to a thing. Never was a man treated as a mind” in his letter. His death marked the uprising of a movement that asked for “ROHIT ACT” which would strain the present SC, ST atrocities act / POA ACT. Instead, the present savarna dominant Hindutva government has been trying to dilute the POA ACT.

At this juncture, it’s important that all of us understand the effects and forms of casteism in these contemporary times and find ways to END CASTEISM.

Ambekar said ” Educate- Agitate- Organise” Therefore let us all discuss and educate ourselves casteism, it’s effects and the way ahead to end casteism.

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the protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue, which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, designated 5 June as World Environment Day.

Most of us agree that childhood days were the best days of life. And we all carry memories of childhood across ages. One of the prominent memories to rekindle our childhood would be the song, “Taa naa naa tana naanaa naa…” of Malgudi days. XpressionZ brings to you, a piece of 3 short plays based on RK narayan’s Malgudi days, which most of have witnessed and have enjoyed a lot. The beauty of these stories lies in the simplicity and unconventional endings with a small piece of message to the society, all in a humorous way. Well, then, let’s get back to our childhood for some time and enjoy the innocence.