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Art has always has been and still continues to be an integral part of people’s struggles around the world. Any form of art can convey the artist’s feelings to the audience with ease. Art can also be a form of Dissent to respond to social issues and voice out to the struggles we face in our society.

Poetry is one of the most significant form of art. Also it is most significant form of dissent. Like Faiz said ” a society without meaningful poetry is a society in the last legs of its wretched existence, a society bereft of dreams and thus a society bereft of hope.”

In a time of political and economic uncertainty, the role of art and expression has never been more important. India is going through this phase now. The space for dissent is shrinking. Cultural leaders – from filmmakers to cartoonists around the world are under threat, with many arrested or even killed for expressing their ideas and showing any signs of dissent.

At this difficult times , it is important that our dissent in any form is expressed. To send a strong message to our rulers in authority that we have right To defy To disagree To debate To dissent

To Express To enquire And To Exist As dialogue towards an alternative has crossed one year, come let’s be a part of this journey and sing songs of dissent. On 12. 11.2019, 7pm at lamakaan

Emotions are an intrinsic part of human nature and play a pivotal role in shaping our personality and behaviour. Art has played an integral role in helping humans get a deeper insight into their emotional self.

With episodes from the Ramayana and Mahabaratha and compositions of great poets, this lec-dem aims to explore the “Navarasas” or the 9 basic human emotions through Bharathanatyam.

KINAARA- A Student Film Festival (DAY 1) : Stories from the Fringe

A word that means ‘corner’ or ‘bank’, KINAARA is a space occupied by people forgotten by society’s grander narratives, existing on the margins of the dominant discourses. It is their stories we would like to showcase at this film festival, with the two main areas being gender and sexual identity, and territorial identity.

As soon as the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published on 31 August 2019 at 10 AM on completion of the updating the NRC,1951 at all the local, tehsil & district level offices created for the purpose, controversy regarding its correctness set in and even some lawmakers openly came out criticizing the document.

More than 19 lakh people in Assam have been excluded from the final version. What about their citizenship status?

The short documentaries (two parts) made by The Quint focus on the grim issue of citizenship rights and questions the authenticity of the data collection and declaring some citizens as illegal and possible deportation to all such people.

The film will be followed by a discussion.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

Synopsis: Siblings Ali and Zahra make an intricate arrangement to conceal the loss of Zahra’s pair of shoes. However, when it becomes difficult to do so, Ali decides to participate in a race to win new shoes.

Director: Majid Majidi

Chhayanat (Kolkata) plans to organise a two-day long cultural programme to reach the cultural enthusiasts in Hyderabad. Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet of Bangladesh, was prolific in his literary and musical creations. The programme will consist of his songs, poetries, other literary works and a documentary film screening on the poet.

The play revolves around a clinic that is run by a lady doctor who is a smart business woman with only one or two regular patients yet making a comfortable living. The patients on the other hand who visits has a different motive and end up coming injured and don’t mind spending heavily on her fees. The compounder to add up the spice is a hopeless romantic and a roadside shayar, who makes continuous efforts to win the lady love or to be precise “any lady’s love”. Will the compounder succeeds or the Cop from opposite police station will have a upper hand or patient wins the heart will be hilarious to watch. The play is a compilation of jokes put together in a story form adding music and dance to spice it up. OlLolomatta is a word that is commonly used by Core Hyderbadis which means “don’t mind, its a joke”

TSRTC strike – the why, what, who and how? The indefinite strike announced by the unions of TSRTC has taken the state of Telangana and the rest of the country but shock. The demands made by the striking employees were discussed and debated extensively but the confusion still remains. While a number of individuals, organisations and other unions have come out in support of the TSRTC unions, the ruling government remains adamant on not addressing the demands. In this back ground, Sai Ratna Chaitanya, known to everyone as Ratnam will be talking about what the demands are, how strikes in the past have actually impacted and why state transport undertakings need to be financed in a better way. Ratnam is a bus fan and a public transport enthusiast who, along with his friends runs the love of Z blog. Having been a bus fan for many many years, he has also extensively worked on public transportation.

TSRTC strike – the why, what, who and how? The indefinite strike announced by the unions of TSRTC has taken the state of Telangana and the rest of the country but shock. The demands made by the striking employees were discussed and debated extensively but the confusion still remains. While a number of individuals, organisations and other unions have come out in support of the TSRTC unions, the ruling government remains adamant on not addressing the demands. In this back ground, Sai Ratna Chaitanya, known to everyone as Ratnam will be talking about what the demands are, how strikes in the past have actually impacted and why state transport undertakings need to be financed in a better way. Ratnam is a bus fan and a public transport enthusiast who, along with his friends runs the love of Z blog. Having been a bus fan for many many years, he has also extensively worked on public transportation.

The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films.

Chaplin’s film advanced a stirring condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. This makes it all the more relevant for us to watch it, read it, learn from it in the current India regime. The Great Dictator was popular with audiences, becoming Chaplin’s most commercially successful film.Modern critics have also praised it as an historically significant film and an important work of satire, and in 1997, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.