The Open Cultural Center
February 03, 2019 10:30 am Sunday
On this Sunday morning through afternoon come and explore wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am – 1.30pm For details: 9642731329. Entry Free. All are Welcome.
January 24, 2019 7:30 pm Thursday
In light of the latest developments of the Triple Talaq Bill, society is in dire need of a conversation questioning the criminlisation of Triple Talaq. Jameelaji will be giving us an understanding of the implication of a possible ordinance in Hyderabad, and Hasinaji will be talking about the national perspective, and its role in the women’s movement.
Lamakaan invites one and all to join this discussion, as two fierce feminists will answer our questions and deliberate on the way forward.
THE COLOUR OF MY HOME|Yeh Mera Ghar.
Screening on 19th January @ 04:00 PM.
Language: Hindustani (with English subtitles) Duration: 48 mins
ABOUT THE FILM
What happens to people when they are violently displaced? Buffeted by winds of hate and forced out of their homes and ancestral villages. Scattered like human debris in relief camps; never able to return. How do they rebuild a new home and a new life, with hearts unable to erase the memories of all that has been left behind?
The film is set in a town in north India, where targetted violence in 2013 forced over 60,000 people to flee their homes in fear. Many could never return. The Colour of My Home is about rebuilding broken lives. It is about the effect of losing home and identity on strong women like Momina, men like Kallu, Anis, and Allahmer Chacha, and the choices that now face a young woman like Rani. The film is about scars that hate and violence leave on the human soul. It is about remembering and loss. It is also about the power of hope and the will to survive.
Directors| Farah Naqvi & Sanjay Barnela Music| Shantanu Moitra
Executive Producers| Madhavi Kuckreja, Geetha Narayanan, Sandeep Virmani
Camera| Janvi Karwal and Sanjay Barnela
Producers© 2017|
Sadbhavna Trust, Hunnarshala Foundation, Srishti Films – Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
Supported by| Misereor
Additional Support| Oxfam India ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Sanjay Barnela, based in India, is founder of Moving Images, a team of documentary filmmakers and academics, making a range of award winning films over the last twenty years; many are in the niche area of rights-based conservation, at the political interface between the environment, livelihoods and local communities. His body of work was recognized by the CMS VATAVARAN Prithvi Ratna Award (2014). In 2012, Sanjay joined the Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology in Bangalore, where he heads Srishti Films, a center dedicated to teaching professional non-fiction film making.
Farah Naqvi, an alumnus of Columbia University, is a feminist, writer and activist from India. Her work spans a range of media and locations – from remote villages to public policy spaces (including India’s National Advisory Council, 2010-2014). She has authored two books – Waves in the Hinterland (2007) about Dalit women journalists and Working with Muslims: Beyond Burqa and Triple Talaq (2017) about how the voluntary sector engages with India’s largest minority. She works on gender, caste, and minority issues, towards justice, democratic rights and freedom from violence. For nearly two decades, she has worked on hate-based violence and internal displacement.
On this Sunday morning through afternoon come and explore wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am – 1.30pm For details: 9642731329. Entry Free. All are Welcome.
Telangana Elections: What Happened and What Did Not?
In the recently concluded Telangana elections, while mainstream media was unmindful of the contest and electoral debacle of a large number of candidates from the marginalized communities, it was also caught unawares by the thumping majority of the ruling TRS party. As soon as the Telangana Assembly elections were announced, many political pundits from the two Telugu states and outside, predicted the success of some candidates from the marginalized communities who had given voice to the victims of KCR’s rule in Telangana. They also predicted the electoral debacle of the ruling TRS party under the leadership of KCR and his family members. Contrary to these predictions, the voices of the people of Telangana were defeated in the electoral battle-field while the TRS won the elections with a thumping majority. How did the TRS win? What has been its electoral strategies in the game of electioneering? Why did candidates from the marginalized take to the ballot battle in the first place and why did they miserably fail?
Come and hear What Happened and What Did Not Happen in the Telangana elections from the electoral contestants themselves at Lamakaan on 05 Jan. Speakers:- Prof. Sujatha Surepally Dr. Jilukara Srinivas Mr Ibram Shekar Dr Emmadi Kiran Mr Goji Dayakar Mr Chandrasekhar Mr Dunna Ambedkar Ms Komali and Ms Mercy Margaret and others.
Time: 2-5 PM All are welcome
December 29, 2018 7:30 pm Saturday
David Mamet’s “Oleanna” is a powerful two-character drama on various aspects of the student-teacher relationship, revolving around its insecurities, institutional politics, hypocrisies of higher education, student influences and sexual harassment. A power struggle and miscommunication between the professor and his student, who accuses him of sexual harassment. Who is right? And who is wrong? Which side do we take? In the power play of institutional politics, which side will win? The grades that you get, are they more important than your understanding? Is it okay to cross yet another line to get some grades?
Sutradhar is one of Country’s well-respected theatre groups having performed over 50 plays with more than 200 performances all over India. Besides doing theatre Sutradhar also doubles up as a Casting House for films and also runs Voice and Acting Workshops.
Panel Discussion – #RedraftTraffickingBill, #StopTransBill2018
Sunday 23rd Dec 2.30pm to 5:00pm, Organized by coalition of human rights groups. Presented by Lamakaan.
Ahead of the Rajya Sabha deliberation on the Anti-Trafficking Bill 2018 and the Transgender Bill 2018 on Dec 27th, we the coalition of human rights groups – viz. child rights groups for trafficked/orphaned and run away children, women’s groups working with survivors of sexual violence, trafficking survivors and survivors of “rescue and rehabilitation” model of trafficking into bonded labour, networks of CBOs and collectives of people who exert their agency to do consensual sex work as a livelihood, organizations working with families of farmers who committed suicide, Domestic Workers Unions that organize domestic workers and those migrating to Gulf, activists working with brick kiln migrant labour, transgender, cisgender allies, queer, gender non-binary, gender non-conforming transgender and LGBTIAHQ people and women, lawyers, social scientists, students etc through the panel discussion want to understand the firm opposition to both the bills and put forth our comprehensive detailed demands to all our parliamentarians, to the Prime Minister of India, to Minister of Women and Child Development, Government of India and most importantly to the people of India!!
- Post Poll Analysis
December202018 7:00 pm Thursday
With the results of the 5 state elections declared on 11th December, there is already the bugle sounded for the 2019 General Elections
The Discussion will revolve around the expected near future impact in terms of political alignments, policy and law and order. It will also cover repercussion on the forthcoming general elections.
This will be followed by Q & A session.
The Discussants include:
Prof Kodanram – Prof. Kodandaram is a political activist and political leader. He is the founder of political party Telangana Jana Samithi, which was formed in March 2018. He was also the Chairman of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (T-JAC), which was formed with the goal of achieving a separate Telangana state in India. He retired as a Professor of Political Science from Osmania University.
Prof Vinod Jairath – Prof Jairath has carried out and supervised research in several areas such as Agrarian Structure and Change, Sociology of Science (Scientific Communities), Sociology of Development (Nature of Participation), Popular Culture, and more recently, Muslim Diversity.
Prof K. Srinivasulu – Prof Srinivasulu is an intellect and social activist. He retired as a professor of Political Science, Osmania University.
ALL ARE WELCOME!!! ENTRY FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!!
Master key: Uttar Pradeshlo noorella Dalit Rajakiya charitra (Master key: One hundred years of the history of Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh, Telugu translation of Dalit Politics in Contemporary India) by Gundimeda Sambaiah, translated by Ashalatha, published by the Hyderabad Book Trust. Sambaiah’s first book released in August 2018 was Telugunaata Dalit rajakiyalu. Both this and Master key are ground-breaking interventions on Dalit politics in India. Master key goes into Dalit mobilisations for political power, social equality and justice in the important state of Uttar Pradesh, particularly the Bahujan Samaj Party. It examines the debate regarding core themes such as the Hindu–Muslim cleavage in the north and caste in the south; the extent to which Dalits and other backward castes (OBC) base their anti-Brahminism on similar ideologies; and why Dalits in Uttar Pradesh (north India) succeeded in gaining power while they did not do so in the region of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh (south India), where Dalit consciousness is more evolved.
“Having been part of Gundimeda’s intellectual journey, I wholeheartedly concur with him in this moment (or, rather, endeavour) of translation. The book makes possible a ‘real’ debate about the trajectories of Dalit politics across the North India – South India divide. The only critiques worth conducting of socio-political processes in India or elsewhere are immanent ones; and Gundimeda’s work, I need add, lends a further worthwhile comparative focus to this dimension. A most promising and productive work for any scholar examining socio-political processes in contemporary India, and for the proponents of a Dalit politics across locales and regional contexts.”
Sasheej Hegde, Professor of Sociology, University of Hyderabad
Sambaiah Gundimeda holds degrees in Political Science from Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada, University of Hyderabad and School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Sam writes both in English and Telugu and has published widely that includes books, research papers, book chapters and essays in learned journals. He has been with the School of Policy and Governance at Azim Premji University since July 2014.
Panellists Dr A. Srivatsan, Dr. Jilukara Srinivas, Dr Gundimeda Sambaiah
Lamakaan Organic Bazaar
On this Sunday morning through afternoon come and explore wide range of Organic Fruits, veggies & groceries Homemade Breads and other baked goods; Organic Lunch, Handicrafts and Handlooms, Handmade Jewelry, Terrace Gardening Corner, Creative Design Spaces. Every Sunday 10:30am – 1.30pm For details: 9642731329. Entry Free. All are Welcome.