Lamakaan

Screening of Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho

An old couple, Mohan Joshi and his wife decides to sue their landlord, Kundan Kapadia for not maintaining their ‘collapsing’ chawl. For this, they hire two lawyers. The landlord is least bothered as he wants to drive the tenants out and tear down the chawl. The court case drags on for years and the lawyers in cahoots with the opposition lawyer milk the old couple dry, while they become rich. In the end when the judge comes to check the condition of the chawl, Kapadia’s men prop up the place thus convincing the judge that all is well with the chawl. Finally, Joshi gathers all his strength and pulls down the temporary supports put up by the men causing the building to collapse on himself…

Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! is one of the best satires ever made on the Indian screen and one of Saeed Akhtar Mirza’s best work. The film is a brilliant take off on the housing problems faced by lower middle-class chawl living tenants in Bombay, while at the same time making a dig at the archaic Indian judicial system where cases drag on and on and on and on…

The film beautifully highlights the ineffectuality of the ordinary man faced with an abuse of his very basic rights

All are invited for the screening of the movie "Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho"

Entry Free !!

Screening will be followed by a discussion on the movie

In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace.

R S Krafts (Mr. RAMESH RAMANADHAM an expert in Handlooms n Handicrafts with 30 years of experience)in association with LAMAKAAN are proud to announce the start of a series of workshops, every month from November 2019, to promote Exclusive Handicrafts which are on the verge of extinction. Please do join.
Date: Saturday, 30 Nov. 2019
Time: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm
Fee : ₹ 500.00
Topic: Hand painting on pepal leaf by PRASAD
Admission is limited to 30 members on first come first basis.
The proceedings will go to the benefit of the craftsman.

100 Years of Industrial Design and Production: Hyderabad 1919 to 2019

An exhibition compiled and curated by Hyderabad Urban Lab to showcase the city region's legacy of production, design and technology.
Visuals, models, maps, artifacts and stories trace Hyderabad's growth as a hub of ideas and technological innovations through different phases of industrial activity. The exhibition foregrounds the role of communities, places, infrastructure, and people's aspirations in sustaining economic activity in the city. Design and production are powerful tools that offer rich possibilities to address the socioeconomic, and environmental challenges confronting us today. The exhibition highlights the resources and opportunities already existing in the city and those that can be restored and repurposed effectively. Our industrial past may hold the key to envisioning a more equitable present.

Art and literature can be seen as extensions of the human mind. Very often they can reveal what lies within, sometimes visibly, and, sometimes, not quite so visibly. The movie club is (we hope) a fun way of looking deeper into the emotions, perceptions and thoughts that weave human relationships together or tear them apart. A movie may be treated as a true story or, alternatively, can be used as a tool to try and figure out what went on in the directors head when the movie was made. Either way, it’s a different way of understanding human behavior and relationships. In the end, by looking deeper into another’s story, we hope, perchance, to understand ourselves better.

Jod Tod hindi comedy play presented by Kalayan Theatre group Bengaluru

Jod Tod is a funfilled crackling comedy play about quintessential relationships and its complications, presented in a subtle and quirky manner, this light hearted funfilled laughter riot for 120 mins will keep you in splits

It’s short sci-fi short film , it’s about Sheaker CEO of browse solutions and small scale software company . He has a OCD , his disorder becomes severe when his Neighbour dies in accident . Who is Sheaker and why his situation becomes horrible after accident is what my short film

Event is organised by Mobbera Foundation and drag queen Hyderabad

It has acts of transgender struggle played by drags of Hyderabad and other performances following with a panel discussion

Jod Tod hindi comedy play presented by Kalayan Theatre group Bengaluru

Jod Tod is a funfilled crackling comedy play about quintessential relationships and its complications, presented in a subtle and quirky manner, this light hearted funfilled laughter riot for 120 mins will keep you in splits

Event:

The historic Golconda fort is one of Hyderabad's most well-known tourist spots, often drawing people from across the country to see it. However, the medieval-era monument has also been the most lacerated in terms of preservation, as constant encroachments have today damaged the fort in many ways.

Most people, especially from Hyderabad, are even not aware that the Golconda fort, which is 500 years old (2018 marked 500 years since the Qutb Shahi dynasty was founded by Sultan Quli Qutb Shahm who established his kingdom in the fort) has eight gates and an extension called the Naya Qila, which houses a Baobab tree that is about 400 years old.

In view of its importance to the city's heritage and to also understand the actual contours of the fort, come join us for a talk by Mr. Milan Kumar Chauley, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), at Lamakaan on 3 December, on the fort and its history. The talk will be followed by a session of Q&A.


About the speaker:
Mr. Milan Kumar Chauley first joined service as a Documentation Officer with Delhi government's archaeology department in 2002. He joined the ASI in 2003, working for its excavation branch in Bhubaneshwar and Delhi. In 2012, Mr. Chauley became a Superintending Archaeologist directly after writing the UPSC exam, following which he was appointed to the Telangana circle as the same in 2017.

The Motorcycle Diaries is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla commander and revolutionary Che Guevara.

As technology becomes more and more integral to everything we do, it can sometimes distract us from the things that matter most to us.

'Managing screens for healthy tech: life balance’
'Screens and mental health: how much is too much?’

and Finally

'Is it time for a digital detox?’ & ‘Time to log off?

A soldier named Vijay is coming to see his father who is in the edge of death and knew about bomb blast was planned in a train in which he is traveling with so many passengers. And he saved the people in the train and sacrificed his life for that. Vijay friend who is also solider come to see Vijay’s father as his own son to make him happy in his final movements of the life.

Making Our Cities Safe For Women: What's going Wrong?

7:00 pm, Lamakaan on Friday, 6th December

The rape and murder of a 26 year old,now renamed Disha, has stirred the conscience of the nation. For us as Hyderabadis it is more painful as this dehumanising crime was committed in our city. To take a holistic view of how such crimes can be prevented we are organizing a discussion at Lamakaan at 7 pm on Friday November 6. Please come in large numbers to lend your support to the effort.

The panel will be moderated by Kingshuk Nag, (Author and Journalist). The participants include Rema Rajeshwari (Police Chief, Mahboobnagar), Seeta Murthy (Director at Silver Oak Schools), Ishaani Sharma (Entreprenuer and Founder at Grarri), Kalpana Kannabiran (Sociologist and Lawyer).

Non competitive quiz required for every first Saturday of the month.
Capacity ~ 50 members

The soil story.. Mitti ki kahani mitti ki zabani.

Soil is considered a mineral matter and as a substratum to grow crops... This lecture throws light on the soil as a living organism and the ways and means to restore soil health through appropriate manures, sprays, seeds, pest repellents and growth promoters.

Sultan Ahmed Ismail is an Indian soil biologist and ecologist. One of the pioneers of earthworm research in India

RAMESH RAMANADHAM of KS Krafts in association with LAMAKAAN are proud to announce the 2nd workshop - Tatting Lace Making,as part of series of workshops, every month from November 2019, to promote Exclusive Handicrafts which are on the verge of extinction. Please do join.

8th December 2019 Time: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm Fee : ₹ 500.00.

A monologue contest for children from age group 10-12 years for boys and 15-17 years for girls

Rubaroo is a Hyderabad based organization that facilitates shared learning among adolescents and young people, empowering spaces co-created by the young to understand their own selves, society and social issues, to become socially conscious leaders in their own capacity. Our vision is to bring young people together on various issues. Since 2013, it has been an adventurous journey, learning about what it means to set up an organisation, learning about impact and scale, learning about people, management, finance, fundraising, and most importantly learning with each of the young people who have been a part of this journey with us.As we take this opportunity to reflect on our journey for the last 5 years, we look forward to your participation in our event: '5 Days for 5 Years - Nurturing Stories for Social Change'. We want to celebrate you and invite you to be part of Rubaroo with Gender - Play and we hope for this to be a meeting-together of all our friends, family, partners, from the last 5 years.Keeping all of these in mind, we look forward to partner with you to use Lamakaan Space for a Play on Gender advocating for a gender just society marking the last day of 16 days of activism on 10.12.2019. For the last 5 years, Rubaroo has been advocating for Gender issues as part of the 16 Days of Activism on 10th December in partnership with Lamakaan as its venue which also marks as International Human Rights Day.

A family decide to travel across the country when their daughter wants to participate in a beauty pageant, unaware of what the journey has in store for them.

It is Shortfilm which is in thriller zoner directed by an enthusiastic Director funded by group of friends

Kathak dance solo performance by Katerina.

She is studying in Hyderabad from gurus Mangala Bhatt and Raghav Raj Bhatt.

Revealing the rapist's mindset.

ElectroFor#Truth is a platform that gives the sexual assault survivors and predators to share their experiences anonymously for the common audience to develop an awareness to tackle the stressing issues.

What do we usually talk when we talk about rape? More security. More surveillance. IFs and Buts on where the girl should be, shouldn't be, where she is and with whom, what she's wearing, more laws and rules to bring instant justice and so on.

We want to bring the focus to a different narrative, that lies beneath these outcomes and tries to explore deep rooted attitudes and systems that perpetuate violence against women.

With this approach, we believe that preventing rape is the best form of justice to victims of rape.

Please help schedule this for this Saturday: 14th December 2019. Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. What we do, basically: One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every alternate Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

How many of you enjoy animated films ? Be it TV shows like Tom & Jerry, Chota Bheem or Modern feature length films like Minions, Frozen etc. Have you ever thought about the process of making animated films ? How much time and effort are put into every single frame you see on screen ? Lets come and know about process involved in making animations and some fun facts.


A little bit about organizer,
I'm Dharma, a software developer in field of Visual effects and Animation by profession. Personally, I love art and one of the art medium I am particularly focusing is visual story telling. I made and published one animated short film till date and another one is in production at the time of writing. To know more about my works, visit https://www.dtrmediaworks.com

Docu Circle of Hyderabad and Lamakaan invites one and all to the screening of the documentary film:

Title - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Duration - 1hr 30mins
Director - Alison Klayman

Synopsis
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is about the internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. In recent years, Ai has garnered international attention as much for his ambitious artwork as his political provocations. AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY examines this complex intersection of artistic practice and social activism as seen through the life and art of China's preeminent contemporary artist. Klayman documented Ai's artistic process in preparation for major museum exhibitions, his intimate exchanges with family members and his increasingly public clashes with the Chinese government. Klayman's detailed portrait of the artist provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

Awards
Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize - U.S. Documentary
Alfred I. DuPont–Columbia University Award

All are welcome. Entry Free & Open to All!!!

Barking Dog is a Hindi sit-com written by Vishal Vijay, inspired by The Zoo Story by American playwright Edward Albee. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a materialistic world. The story, in simplest terms, is about how a man who is consumed with loneliness starts up a conversation with another man on a bench in a Park and eventually forces him to participate in an act of violence.

Passes – 200/- Contact # 9700074079

The Final Cut, an original play written by Hyderabad based writer - Krishna Ahir, revolves around the theme of bullying as a student and its impact on the mental health of the student. The play is a unique blend of drama, poetry and live painting. This will be the Premiere show of the play.
Cast: Harshad Fad, Devika Das, Arun Kumar, Kastury, Akanksha, Prajwal
Playwright: Krishna Ahir
Backstage: Sindhuja, Chandra

Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian (Mia Wasikowska) satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.

TM POTLE stands for The Missing Pieces of Your Tiny Little Egos. The play revolves around a theatre actor who is frustrated about her director being very strict. In this monologue, Simran Kaur, who is playing the lead, will have various shifts of emotions. She is struggling with the dialogues that her director has thrown at her, which are entirely absurd. She is constantly dealing with her inner turmoil. As the play progresses, we see that Simran is losing her mind. She sits and a sudden shift into the inner mind would reveal that she is not only the actor but also the director who has issues with her other-self. The play has explicit content (profanity).

Discussion with Public and Press on Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 & Joint Parliamentary Committee Report January 2019'

Open to All. Discourse

Invited by:
Socialist Party(India) &
Vote Needs Guarantee Organization VNGO

Sutradhar presents 'Kisi Aur Ka Sapna'- It is the story of five actors rehearsing a script found in a garbage bin. The play traverses through different eras in history and politics, using the journey to display the various shades of a theatre actor's life. The conflict between acting and reality, different interpretations of an idea, 'does a script really need an actor?' etc are just some of the issues the play deals with.

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill which says that any HIndu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, anyone except a Muslim who can't produce their ancestral documents will not be treated as an illegal immigrant.

Whereas if a Muslim cant, say, produce his grandmother's ration card, despite holding a passport, he'll be stamped an illegal immigrant and thrown in a detention camp.

Prof Faizan Mustafa is Vice Chancellor at NALSAR. He is a widely read public intellectual who has written extensively on Constitutional issues.

Aamis – The Ravening, is an Assamese film (with English subtitles) directed by National Award Winner Bhaskar Hazarika, has premiered in the renowned Tribeca Film Festival and opened to a packed house at all the subsequent international film festivals where it was screened. It has been loved and accepted and appreciated by audiences wherever it has played and many filmmakers from across the world have openly supported the indie film including Sriram Ragavan, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwani and many more. Anurag Kashyap is now the presenter of Aamis. The film premiered in India at the prestigious MAMI Film fest, Mumbai and released in Assam on November 22nd. The film is rated 8.5/10 by IMDb and almost all the critics have given it a rave review. The film has been doing well in non-Assamese market too and people have been writing to us to screen the film in their city and that is why we are looking forward to screen it in Hyderabad.
Synopsis of the film: Nirmali, a middle-aged doctor, living a joyless married life, finds solace in the company of Suman, a University Research Scholar, who takes her out on platonic dates of exotic non-vegetarian cuisines found in North Eastern India. But does their relationship limit itself to traditional food and confirmative bond or does it cross the social boundaries and go beyond?
Use the link below to book tickets for Aamis movie screening

http://bit.ly/2RxnSNR

Revealing the rapist's mindset. ElectroFor#Truth is a platform that gives the sexual assault survivors and predators to share their experiences anonymously for the common audience to develop an awareness to tackle the stressing issues.

A lot can happen over a cup of tea! Masala Chai by 'KissaGo' revolves around the concept tea being a form of social network. People get together for tea and build long term friendships with tea being the binding factor in many relationships. Masala Chai will be a presentation of Divya Prakash Dubey's Hindi Monologues - Jeevanshaadi.com, Hum Do Humara Ek and Love You Forever and Fill in the blanks. Cast - Sunjit Akkinepally, Shailja Chaturvedi, Jay Jha Directed By - Krishna Shukla Passes - 200 Contact # 9700074079

"TRAILS OF DISSENT " BOOK RELEASE on 22nd Dec at 4pm
Dialogue - Towards an alternative, as a platform was formed to provide space for discussions with a hope to increase the culture of scientific approach towards contemporary sociological and political issues. In the past year this platform has-been able to conduct insightful discussions on various issues. It tried to inculcate a scientific understanding to this generation about the current political atmosphere. In this process the platform learned and analysed multiple issues to pump alternate ideas into the society.
Now we are bringing out this book consolidating all that this platform has learned and talked concerning many crucial issues for the past one year. From honor killing to conflict of Kashmir, from Hindutva to mining, from me too to dissent, New education policy to NRC. In this book we have tried to discuss many subjects that have majorly impacted our country this year. We hope you accept this book from us young writers with the same volume of love that you have been showering on this platform.

Our society has a set of ideas about how we expect men and women to dress, behave, and present themselves. About how we define 'love'. About how we ask everyone to fit into tight compartments of stereotypes. Now it's high time to ask WHY? The street play titled 'Mudda Ghatak Hai' asks these very critical questions. Directed, written and performed by the students of street play team 'Bedari'. This play intices the inequalities that have been present among different genders in the Indian society, since the very beginning of time, with fitting references to Indian mythology, Bollywood songs or the so-called 'hit numbers' to the references to our everyday news of tragic events with respect to the same. This play includes symbolic representation of concerns such as discrimination against LGBTQ+ community, toxic masculinity and female infanticide shedding light upon the humiliating practices of slut-shaming, the killing of a girl child and corrective rape. It ultimately reflects the functioning of the society forever since, reiterating the idea of dharma or justice from the Indian mythology that we preach. All we want to convey is that 'Stereotypes Don't Define Us' and now it's high time that the society accepts this because Mudda Bahut Ghatak Hai!!

Massive protests erupted across the country against the CAA, NRC & NPR. Two girl students of Jamia Milia Islamia, Ladeeda Sakhaloon and Aysha Renna who became the face of the protests in Delhi are in Hyderabad. They will be speaking to media and friends about the agitation and way forward.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

A expo on home automation solutions and robotics we are the leading robotics organisation which is having experience over 10 years in industry

Cricket Country by Dr.Prashant Kidambi - Book Discussion.

Dr.Prashant Kidambi, the author of the book, will be discussing the book with Mr. Ram Manohar Reddy, Editor of “The India Forum”, a digital publication on contemporary issues.
Tue Dec 24, 7:30 PM.

Lamakaan - An Open Cultural Space
Cricket Country has won the Sportsbook of the year award at the Ekamra Sports Literature Festival and also been selected as one of FT’s best books of 2019.
“On the morning of 6 May 1911, a large crowd gathered at Bombay’s Ballard Pier. They were there to bid farewell to a motley group of sixteen Indian men who were about to undertake a historic voyage to London. The persons whom the crowd cheered that sultry Saturday morning were members of the first All-India cricket team.
Conceived by an unlikely coalition of imperial and Indian elites, it took twelve years and three failed attempts before an ‘Indian’ cricket team made its debut on the playing fields of imperial Britain in the blazing coronation summer of 1911.
This is a capacious tale with an improbable cast of characters set against the backdrop of revolutionary protest and princely intrigue. The captain of the Indian team was nineteen-year old Bhupinder Singh, the embattled Maharaja of Patiala. The other cricketers were selected on the basis of their religious identity. Most remarkable, for the day, was the presence in the side of two Dalits: the Palwankar brothers, Baloo and Shivram.
Drawing on an unparalleled range of original archival sources, Cricket Country is the untold story of how the idea of India was fashioned on the cricket pitch in the high noon of empire”.

Hyderabad Cricket Ground Owners meeting to form an association.

The movie is about an economics graduate student studying for a year in Barcelona, Spain, as part of the Erasmus programme, where he learns from a group of students from all over Western Europe in a student share-house.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Screening of Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho

An old couple, Mohan Joshi and his wife decides to sue their landlord, Kundan Kapadia for not maintaining their ‘collapsing’ chawl. For this, they hire two lawyers. The landlord is least bothered as he wants to drive the tenants out and tear down the chawl. The court case drags on for years and the lawyers in cahoots with the opposition lawyer milk the old couple dry, while they become rich. In the end when the judge comes to check the condition of the chawl, Kapadia’s men prop up the place thus convincing the judge that all is well with the chawl. Finally, Joshi gathers all his strength and pulls down the temporary supports put up by the men causing the building to collapse on himself…

Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! is one of the best satires ever made on the Indian screen and one of Saeed Akhtar Mirza’s best work. The film is a brilliant take off on the housing problems faced by lower middle-class chawl living tenants in Bombay, while at the same time making a dig at the archaic Indian judicial system where cases drag on and on and on and on…

The film beautifully highlights the ineffectuality of the ordinary man faced with an abuse of his very basic rights

All are invited for the screening of the movie "Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho"

Entry Free !!

Screening will be followed by a discussion on the movie

In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace.

R S Krafts (Mr. RAMESH RAMANADHAM an expert in Handlooms n Handicrafts with 30 years of experience)in association with LAMAKAAN are proud to announce the start of a series of workshops, every month from November 2019, to promote Exclusive Handicrafts which are on the verge of extinction. Please do join.
Date: Saturday, 30 Nov. 2019
Time: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm
Fee : ₹ 500.00
Topic: Hand painting on pepal leaf by PRASAD
Admission is limited to 30 members on first come first basis.
The proceedings will go to the benefit of the craftsman.

100 Years of Industrial Design and Production: Hyderabad 1919 to 2019

An exhibition compiled and curated by Hyderabad Urban Lab to showcase the city region's legacy of production, design and technology.
Visuals, models, maps, artifacts and stories trace Hyderabad's growth as a hub of ideas and technological innovations through different phases of industrial activity. The exhibition foregrounds the role of communities, places, infrastructure, and people's aspirations in sustaining economic activity in the city. Design and production are powerful tools that offer rich possibilities to address the socioeconomic, and environmental challenges confronting us today. The exhibition highlights the resources and opportunities already existing in the city and those that can be restored and repurposed effectively. Our industrial past may hold the key to envisioning a more equitable present.

Art and literature can be seen as extensions of the human mind. Very often they can reveal what lies within, sometimes visibly, and, sometimes, not quite so visibly. The movie club is (we hope) a fun way of looking deeper into the emotions, perceptions and thoughts that weave human relationships together or tear them apart. A movie may be treated as a true story or, alternatively, can be used as a tool to try and figure out what went on in the directors head when the movie was made. Either way, it’s a different way of understanding human behavior and relationships. In the end, by looking deeper into another’s story, we hope, perchance, to understand ourselves better.

Jod Tod hindi comedy play presented by Kalayan Theatre group Bengaluru

Jod Tod is a funfilled crackling comedy play about quintessential relationships and its complications, presented in a subtle and quirky manner, this light hearted funfilled laughter riot for 120 mins will keep you in splits

It’s short sci-fi short film , it’s about Sheaker CEO of browse solutions and small scale software company . He has a OCD , his disorder becomes severe when his Neighbour dies in accident . Who is Sheaker and why his situation becomes horrible after accident is what my short film

Event is organised by Mobbera Foundation and drag queen Hyderabad

It has acts of transgender struggle played by drags of Hyderabad and other performances following with a panel discussion

Jod Tod hindi comedy play presented by Kalayan Theatre group Bengaluru

Jod Tod is a funfilled crackling comedy play about quintessential relationships and its complications, presented in a subtle and quirky manner, this light hearted funfilled laughter riot for 120 mins will keep you in splits

Event:

The historic Golconda fort is one of Hyderabad's most well-known tourist spots, often drawing people from across the country to see it. However, the medieval-era monument has also been the most lacerated in terms of preservation, as constant encroachments have today damaged the fort in many ways.

Most people, especially from Hyderabad, are even not aware that the Golconda fort, which is 500 years old (2018 marked 500 years since the Qutb Shahi dynasty was founded by Sultan Quli Qutb Shahm who established his kingdom in the fort) has eight gates and an extension called the Naya Qila, which houses a Baobab tree that is about 400 years old.

In view of its importance to the city's heritage and to also understand the actual contours of the fort, come join us for a talk by Mr. Milan Kumar Chauley, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), at Lamakaan on 3 December, on the fort and its history. The talk will be followed by a session of Q&A.


About the speaker:
Mr. Milan Kumar Chauley first joined service as a Documentation Officer with Delhi government's archaeology department in 2002. He joined the ASI in 2003, working for its excavation branch in Bhubaneshwar and Delhi. In 2012, Mr. Chauley became a Superintending Archaeologist directly after writing the UPSC exam, following which he was appointed to the Telangana circle as the same in 2017.

The Motorcycle Diaries is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla commander and revolutionary Che Guevara.

As technology becomes more and more integral to everything we do, it can sometimes distract us from the things that matter most to us.

'Managing screens for healthy tech: life balance’
'Screens and mental health: how much is too much?’

and Finally

'Is it time for a digital detox?’ & ‘Time to log off?

A soldier named Vijay is coming to see his father who is in the edge of death and knew about bomb blast was planned in a train in which he is traveling with so many passengers. And he saved the people in the train and sacrificed his life for that. Vijay friend who is also solider come to see Vijay’s father as his own son to make him happy in his final movements of the life.

Making Our Cities Safe For Women: What's going Wrong?

7:00 pm, Lamakaan on Friday, 6th December

The rape and murder of a 26 year old,now renamed Disha, has stirred the conscience of the nation. For us as Hyderabadis it is more painful as this dehumanising crime was committed in our city. To take a holistic view of how such crimes can be prevented we are organizing a discussion at Lamakaan at 7 pm on Friday November 6. Please come in large numbers to lend your support to the effort.

The panel will be moderated by Kingshuk Nag, (Author and Journalist). The participants include Rema Rajeshwari (Police Chief, Mahboobnagar), Seeta Murthy (Director at Silver Oak Schools), Ishaani Sharma (Entreprenuer and Founder at Grarri), Kalpana Kannabiran (Sociologist and Lawyer).

Non competitive quiz required for every first Saturday of the month.
Capacity ~ 50 members

The soil story.. Mitti ki kahani mitti ki zabani.

Soil is considered a mineral matter and as a substratum to grow crops... This lecture throws light on the soil as a living organism and the ways and means to restore soil health through appropriate manures, sprays, seeds, pest repellents and growth promoters.

Sultan Ahmed Ismail is an Indian soil biologist and ecologist. One of the pioneers of earthworm research in India

RAMESH RAMANADHAM of KS Krafts in association with LAMAKAAN are proud to announce the 2nd workshop - Tatting Lace Making,as part of series of workshops, every month from November 2019, to promote Exclusive Handicrafts which are on the verge of extinction. Please do join.

8th December 2019 Time: 10.30 am to 3.00 pm Fee : ₹ 500.00.

A monologue contest for children from age group 10-12 years for boys and 15-17 years for girls

Rubaroo is a Hyderabad based organization that facilitates shared learning among adolescents and young people, empowering spaces co-created by the young to understand their own selves, society and social issues, to become socially conscious leaders in their own capacity. Our vision is to bring young people together on various issues. Since 2013, it has been an adventurous journey, learning about what it means to set up an organisation, learning about impact and scale, learning about people, management, finance, fundraising, and most importantly learning with each of the young people who have been a part of this journey with us.As we take this opportunity to reflect on our journey for the last 5 years, we look forward to your participation in our event: '5 Days for 5 Years - Nurturing Stories for Social Change'. We want to celebrate you and invite you to be part of Rubaroo with Gender - Play and we hope for this to be a meeting-together of all our friends, family, partners, from the last 5 years.Keeping all of these in mind, we look forward to partner with you to use Lamakaan Space for a Play on Gender advocating for a gender just society marking the last day of 16 days of activism on 10.12.2019. For the last 5 years, Rubaroo has been advocating for Gender issues as part of the 16 Days of Activism on 10th December in partnership with Lamakaan as its venue which also marks as International Human Rights Day.

A family decide to travel across the country when their daughter wants to participate in a beauty pageant, unaware of what the journey has in store for them.

It is Shortfilm which is in thriller zoner directed by an enthusiastic Director funded by group of friends

Kathak dance solo performance by Katerina.

She is studying in Hyderabad from gurus Mangala Bhatt and Raghav Raj Bhatt.

Revealing the rapist's mindset.

ElectroFor#Truth is a platform that gives the sexual assault survivors and predators to share their experiences anonymously for the common audience to develop an awareness to tackle the stressing issues.

What do we usually talk when we talk about rape? More security. More surveillance. IFs and Buts on where the girl should be, shouldn't be, where she is and with whom, what she's wearing, more laws and rules to bring instant justice and so on.

We want to bring the focus to a different narrative, that lies beneath these outcomes and tries to explore deep rooted attitudes and systems that perpetuate violence against women.

With this approach, we believe that preventing rape is the best form of justice to victims of rape.

Please help schedule this for this Saturday: 14th December 2019. Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. What we do, basically: One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every alternate Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

How many of you enjoy animated films ? Be it TV shows like Tom & Jerry, Chota Bheem or Modern feature length films like Minions, Frozen etc. Have you ever thought about the process of making animated films ? How much time and effort are put into every single frame you see on screen ? Lets come and know about process involved in making animations and some fun facts.


A little bit about organizer,
I'm Dharma, a software developer in field of Visual effects and Animation by profession. Personally, I love art and one of the art medium I am particularly focusing is visual story telling. I made and published one animated short film till date and another one is in production at the time of writing. To know more about my works, visit https://www.dtrmediaworks.com

Docu Circle of Hyderabad and Lamakaan invites one and all to the screening of the documentary film:

Title - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Duration - 1hr 30mins
Director - Alison Klayman

Synopsis
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is about the internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. In recent years, Ai has garnered international attention as much for his ambitious artwork as his political provocations. AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY examines this complex intersection of artistic practice and social activism as seen through the life and art of China's preeminent contemporary artist. Klayman documented Ai's artistic process in preparation for major museum exhibitions, his intimate exchanges with family members and his increasingly public clashes with the Chinese government. Klayman's detailed portrait of the artist provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

Awards
Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize - U.S. Documentary
Alfred I. DuPont–Columbia University Award

All are welcome. Entry Free & Open to All!!!

Barking Dog is a Hindi sit-com written by Vishal Vijay, inspired by The Zoo Story by American playwright Edward Albee. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a materialistic world. The story, in simplest terms, is about how a man who is consumed with loneliness starts up a conversation with another man on a bench in a Park and eventually forces him to participate in an act of violence.

Passes – 200/- Contact # 9700074079

The Final Cut, an original play written by Hyderabad based writer - Krishna Ahir, revolves around the theme of bullying as a student and its impact on the mental health of the student. The play is a unique blend of drama, poetry and live painting. This will be the Premiere show of the play.
Cast: Harshad Fad, Devika Das, Arun Kumar, Kastury, Akanksha, Prajwal
Playwright: Krishna Ahir
Backstage: Sindhuja, Chandra

Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian (Mia Wasikowska) satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.

TM POTLE stands for The Missing Pieces of Your Tiny Little Egos. The play revolves around a theatre actor who is frustrated about her director being very strict. In this monologue, Simran Kaur, who is playing the lead, will have various shifts of emotions. She is struggling with the dialogues that her director has thrown at her, which are entirely absurd. She is constantly dealing with her inner turmoil. As the play progresses, we see that Simran is losing her mind. She sits and a sudden shift into the inner mind would reveal that she is not only the actor but also the director who has issues with her other-self. The play has explicit content (profanity).

Discussion with Public and Press on Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 & Joint Parliamentary Committee Report January 2019'

Open to All. Discourse

Invited by:
Socialist Party(India) &
Vote Needs Guarantee Organization VNGO

Sutradhar presents 'Kisi Aur Ka Sapna'- It is the story of five actors rehearsing a script found in a garbage bin. The play traverses through different eras in history and politics, using the journey to display the various shades of a theatre actor's life. The conflict between acting and reality, different interpretations of an idea, 'does a script really need an actor?' etc are just some of the issues the play deals with.

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill which says that any HIndu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, anyone except a Muslim who can't produce their ancestral documents will not be treated as an illegal immigrant.

Whereas if a Muslim cant, say, produce his grandmother's ration card, despite holding a passport, he'll be stamped an illegal immigrant and thrown in a detention camp.

Prof Faizan Mustafa is Vice Chancellor at NALSAR. He is a widely read public intellectual who has written extensively on Constitutional issues.

Aamis – The Ravening, is an Assamese film (with English subtitles) directed by National Award Winner Bhaskar Hazarika, has premiered in the renowned Tribeca Film Festival and opened to a packed house at all the subsequent international film festivals where it was screened. It has been loved and accepted and appreciated by audiences wherever it has played and many filmmakers from across the world have openly supported the indie film including Sriram Ragavan, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwani and many more. Anurag Kashyap is now the presenter of Aamis. The film premiered in India at the prestigious MAMI Film fest, Mumbai and released in Assam on November 22nd. The film is rated 8.5/10 by IMDb and almost all the critics have given it a rave review. The film has been doing well in non-Assamese market too and people have been writing to us to screen the film in their city and that is why we are looking forward to screen it in Hyderabad.
Synopsis of the film: Nirmali, a middle-aged doctor, living a joyless married life, finds solace in the company of Suman, a University Research Scholar, who takes her out on platonic dates of exotic non-vegetarian cuisines found in North Eastern India. But does their relationship limit itself to traditional food and confirmative bond or does it cross the social boundaries and go beyond?
Use the link below to book tickets for Aamis movie screening

http://bit.ly/2RxnSNR

Revealing the rapist's mindset. ElectroFor#Truth is a platform that gives the sexual assault survivors and predators to share their experiences anonymously for the common audience to develop an awareness to tackle the stressing issues.

A lot can happen over a cup of tea! Masala Chai by 'KissaGo' revolves around the concept tea being a form of social network. People get together for tea and build long term friendships with tea being the binding factor in many relationships. Masala Chai will be a presentation of Divya Prakash Dubey's Hindi Monologues - Jeevanshaadi.com, Hum Do Humara Ek and Love You Forever and Fill in the blanks. Cast - Sunjit Akkinepally, Shailja Chaturvedi, Jay Jha Directed By - Krishna Shukla Passes - 200 Contact # 9700074079

"TRAILS OF DISSENT " BOOK RELEASE on 22nd Dec at 4pm
Dialogue - Towards an alternative, as a platform was formed to provide space for discussions with a hope to increase the culture of scientific approach towards contemporary sociological and political issues. In the past year this platform has-been able to conduct insightful discussions on various issues. It tried to inculcate a scientific understanding to this generation about the current political atmosphere. In this process the platform learned and analysed multiple issues to pump alternate ideas into the society.
Now we are bringing out this book consolidating all that this platform has learned and talked concerning many crucial issues for the past one year. From honor killing to conflict of Kashmir, from Hindutva to mining, from me too to dissent, New education policy to NRC. In this book we have tried to discuss many subjects that have majorly impacted our country this year. We hope you accept this book from us young writers with the same volume of love that you have been showering on this platform.

Our society has a set of ideas about how we expect men and women to dress, behave, and present themselves. About how we define 'love'. About how we ask everyone to fit into tight compartments of stereotypes. Now it's high time to ask WHY? The street play titled 'Mudda Ghatak Hai' asks these very critical questions. Directed, written and performed by the students of street play team 'Bedari'. This play intices the inequalities that have been present among different genders in the Indian society, since the very beginning of time, with fitting references to Indian mythology, Bollywood songs or the so-called 'hit numbers' to the references to our everyday news of tragic events with respect to the same. This play includes symbolic representation of concerns such as discrimination against LGBTQ+ community, toxic masculinity and female infanticide shedding light upon the humiliating practices of slut-shaming, the killing of a girl child and corrective rape. It ultimately reflects the functioning of the society forever since, reiterating the idea of dharma or justice from the Indian mythology that we preach. All we want to convey is that 'Stereotypes Don't Define Us' and now it's high time that the society accepts this because Mudda Bahut Ghatak Hai!!

Massive protests erupted across the country against the CAA, NRC & NPR. Two girl students of Jamia Milia Islamia, Ladeeda Sakhaloon and Aysha Renna who became the face of the protests in Delhi are in Hyderabad. They will be speaking to media and friends about the agitation and way forward.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

A expo on home automation solutions and robotics we are the leading robotics organisation which is having experience over 10 years in industry

Cricket Country by Dr.Prashant Kidambi - Book Discussion.

Dr.Prashant Kidambi, the author of the book, will be discussing the book with Mr. Ram Manohar Reddy, Editor of “The India Forum”, a digital publication on contemporary issues.
Tue Dec 24, 7:30 PM.

Lamakaan - An Open Cultural Space
Cricket Country has won the Sportsbook of the year award at the Ekamra Sports Literature Festival and also been selected as one of FT’s best books of 2019.
“On the morning of 6 May 1911, a large crowd gathered at Bombay’s Ballard Pier. They were there to bid farewell to a motley group of sixteen Indian men who were about to undertake a historic voyage to London. The persons whom the crowd cheered that sultry Saturday morning were members of the first All-India cricket team.
Conceived by an unlikely coalition of imperial and Indian elites, it took twelve years and three failed attempts before an ‘Indian’ cricket team made its debut on the playing fields of imperial Britain in the blazing coronation summer of 1911.
This is a capacious tale with an improbable cast of characters set against the backdrop of revolutionary protest and princely intrigue. The captain of the Indian team was nineteen-year old Bhupinder Singh, the embattled Maharaja of Patiala. The other cricketers were selected on the basis of their religious identity. Most remarkable, for the day, was the presence in the side of two Dalits: the Palwankar brothers, Baloo and Shivram.
Drawing on an unparalleled range of original archival sources, Cricket Country is the untold story of how the idea of India was fashioned on the cricket pitch in the high noon of empire”.

Hyderabad Cricket Ground Owners meeting to form an association.

The movie is about an economics graduate student studying for a year in Barcelona, Spain, as part of the Erasmus programme, where he learns from a group of students from all over Western Europe in a student share-house.