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This Valentine’s Day Weekend 16 February 2020 we gather to celebrate INDIA MY VALENTINE

Joining us Faye D’Souza in conversation with Mohan Guruswami.

And

Aditi S Mittal.

Faye D’Souza is a Senior journalist and she anchored on subjects of corruption, communal violence and independent press.

Aditi Mittal is a stand-up comedian, actress and writer.One of the first women to do stand-up comedy in India, Mittal has been rated amongst India’s top 10 stand-up comedians by The Times of India. CNNIBN.com named her as one of the top 30 “witty, intelligent and incredibly funny” Indian women to follow on Twitter.

Open for all, Entry Free.

Dastan-e-Tamanna-e-Sarfaroshi is based on the Kakori Revolution, also known as Kakori Episode that happened on August 9, 1925. This musical Dastan brings to life the political beliefs, courage and the struggle for freedom of the revolutionaries of that time. The Dastan primarily focuses on Ashfaqulla Khan and Ram Prasad Bismil. Although these revolutionaries came a generation before Bhagat Singh, and greatly inspired him, not much has been done to keep them alive in our history. Ashfaq and Bismil, were not only the main thinkers behind the Kakori Episode, but also shared a deep friendship. In India’s National Movement, their friendship was a great example of Hindu-Muslim unity. Both of them were born in the same city and became close friends. Together, they fought the battle for freedom and sacrificed their lives for it. They both dreamt of an India where every one was treated equally and no one was discriminated against on the basis of caste or religion. Passionately written and narrated by Himashu Bajpai and woven together with the poetry by Ashfaq and Bismil that has been beautifully set to music and sung by Vedanth Bharadwaj. Saurabh Joshi will be accompanying them on percussions.

In solidarity with the resistance against CAA & NRC, artists of Hyderabad come together to voice their opinion. Come and join us at Lamakaan on Friday,14 February 2020 at 7:30pm

All The Wrong Turns -Book Launch and Discussion.

Coming on the heels of one of the most critical budgets to be presented and in a situation where the Indian economy is fighting steep decline, this event brings together some of our best minds.

The panel will discuss the contours of economic policy that the authors analyse in detail in one of the most exciting books to come out recently.

Y V Reddy was Governor of the RBI and successfully ran it during it’s most difficult days. He also Chaired the 14th Finance Comission.

V Bhaskar retired as Special Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh. He also served as Chairperson of the AP Electricity Regulatory Comission and as Joint Secretary to the 13th Finance Comission.

Amir Ullah Khan is Professor of Economics at MCRHRDI and visiting Professor at NALSAR, TISS and ISB. He is a former head of strategic planning at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and was earlier Executive Director and Editor at Encyclopedia Britannica.

T. C. A. RANGANATHAN was a career banker for close to four decades and retired as the Chairman of the Export Import Bank of India (Exim Bank). In 2006, he set up SBI Shanghai, the first Indian bank in China. Africa. He was later the Managing Director of State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, an associate of the SBI, which was his last assignment within the SBI system prior to appointment as Chairman of Export Import Bank of India in April 2010.

T.C.A. SRINIVASA RAGHAVAN began his career in 1975 as the Economics Editor at Macmillan India. Over the next thirty-three years he worked at the Free Press Journal, Eastern Economist, Financial Express, Indian Express, The Economic Times, Business Standard and The Hindu Business Line. He is currently a columnist and writes on economics, politics and books.

Free for all.

Bazm e Sukhan is a weekly gathering of those interested in Urdu literature. A bunch of 20 odd people meet every Wednesday at 5 pm at Lamakaan and discuss Urdu poetry and prose. Each session usually focuses on one poet, or writer or a particular aspect of the form, structure or grammar of Urdu writing

Bheem is a Telugu Patriotic play written by Harsha Chakilam based on the life story of Komaram Bheem.

Komaram Bheem was a Telugu Indian tribal leader who fought against the Asaf Jahi Dynasty for the liberation of Hyderabad. Komaram Bheem openly fought against the ruling Nizam government in a guerrilla campaign. He defied courts, laws, and any other form of Nizam authority, living off the sustenance of the forest. He took up arms against Nizam Nawab’s soldiers and fought Babi Jhari until his last breath.

He gave the slogan of “Jal, Jungle, Zameen” (Water, Forest, Land). It means that the people who live in forests should have rights on all the resources of the forest.

Khud ki Khushi is a Hindi playlet that revolves around the life a girl named Kushi who wins all the obstacles in her life and finally attains happiness. The play relates to every house and gives positive energy and hope to attain happiness in our lives.

Mushairah to be organised by Anjuman e Fannan in rememberance of Hazrat Riyasath Ali Taaj, where reputed Urdu poets of the city will present their work.

The Budget 2020 comes at a time when the Indian economy is struggling on alll fronts. What does the Union budget offer as a set of solutions? Of special interest this year is the precarious situation with respect to Jobs, inflation, agriculture, taxation and exports. On the 6th of February, join us at Lamakaan for our annual session with Prof Amir Ullah Khan

Bazm e Sukhan is a weekly gathering of those interested in Urdu literature. A bunch of 20 odd people meet every Wednesday at 5 pm at Lamakaan and discuss Urdu poetry and prose. Each session usually focuses on one poet, or writer or a particular aspect of the form, structure or grammar of Urdu writing