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Mere Paas Maa Hai
Fri Aug 7, 6:30 PM
Lamakaan
Mere Paas Maa Hai : Ten years. Two hundred forwards. One argument India cannot stop having by RAJU.
Brief on the author and the book:
Rajendra Prasad Boddapati, writing as *RAJU*, is a Hyderabadi through and through — raised in Mehdipatnam, shaped by this city's gift for holding humour and history in the same sentence. For ten years he did what most of us do: got forwarded things, argued about them, forwarded some back. Unlike most of us, he kept notes.
If your family WhatsApp group has ever gone silent-then-explosive over a forward... if you've typed out a fact-check reply and deleted it before sending... if you grew up on Dakhni one-liners and Hyderabadi wit and still wince at how flattened our politics has gotten — this one's for you.
_Mere Paas Maa Hai_ is what those notes became — six Acts on Indian politics, cinema, religion, nationalism, geopolitics, and Hyderabad itself, told with the city's own tehzeeb and its refusal to take anything, including itself, too seriously.
Foreword by *Mir Ali Husain* — academic, cultural historian, and a familiar face to anyone who's spent an evening at Lamakaan talking about things that matter.
This isn't a lecture on misinformation. It's an argument, told the way Hyderabad tells its arguments — with an edge, with warmth, and the expectation that you'll talk back.
The event will be followed with Tea/ Coffee and snacks (like we usually have-please confirm the details for this.)
Please let me/ Rizwan know in case you need any further details.
Brief on the author and the book:
Rajendra Prasad Boddapati, writing as *RAJU*, is a Hyderabadi through and through — raised in Mehdipatnam, shaped by this city's gift for holding humour and history in the same sentence. For ten years he did what most of us do: got forwarded things, argued about them, forwarded some back. Unlike most of us, he kept notes.
If your family WhatsApp group has ever gone silent-then-explosive over a forward... if you've typed out a fact-check reply and deleted it before sending... if you grew up on Dakhni one-liners and Hyderabadi wit and still wince at how flattened our politics has gotten — this one's for you.
_Mere Paas Maa Hai_ is what those notes became — six Acts on Indian politics, cinema, religion, nationalism, geopolitics, and Hyderabad itself, told with the city's own tehzeeb and its refusal to take anything, including itself, too seriously.
Foreword by *Mir Ali Husain* — academic, cultural historian, and a familiar face to anyone who's spent an evening at Lamakaan talking about things that matter.
This isn't a lecture on misinformation. It's an argument, told the way Hyderabad tells its arguments — with an edge, with warmth, and the expectation that you'll talk back.
The event will be followed with Tea/ Coffee and snacks (like we usually have-please confirm the details for this.)
Please let me/ Rizwan know in case you need any further details.