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(500 entry fee) I am Ravi Kiran raju, Film Maker. I am into cinema. I fly drones for cinematography. Flying drones and landing is little difficult job. It can hurt others. Due to public safety I want to talk about drones. and give demo on Drones and talk about.
1) Flying rules.
2) Aviation rules.
3) safety rules.
4) Drone controls.
5) Drone flying.
6) Drone landing.
My works: https://youtu.be/IKUOG1NrMxU

Bond(ed) Democracy: Corporatization of Politics, is this now the 1%’s democracy?


Can the Modi government claim to have a clean corruption free image, when it is surreptitiously passing laws to facilitate corporate funding of political campaigns?

The Finance Bill, 2017 relaxes conditions for corporate funding to political parties. It ensures confidentiality to corporates and removes the limit on corporate funding as regards to proportion of profit previously limited at 7.5 per cent. This means that the companies are now allowed to keep the name of the party they contribute funding to as confidential in their profit and loss account and they can donate as much as they want. This is nothing but a big corporate take over of the political funding.


Are the bonds really as transparent as they are being touted to be? Is this mainstreaming of Hawala?

And there is no limit on the amount of money that can be donated. Along with FCRA amendments allowing foreign companies to donate, you can have any number of multinationals donating any amount of money and public can not know anything about which party got how much from whom. Even before you donate the money, the bonds being bearer bonds can change hands through untrackable cash transactions any number of times. Massive amounts of Black money finds another entry point into the economy. Just because the money is coming from a bank account, it does not make it white forever.

What is worse, is that the government will know who is donating to the opposition, without the opposition even having to declare this. Donors will fear harassment and donations to the opposition parties will dry out. All kinds of black and white money, now gets funnelled from all over the world to the ruling party only.

No resources. No opposition. Perfect way to stay in power and wreck havoc on the country.


The influence of corporates is set to rise exponentially, broadening the already wide gap between the government and the governed.

Now the corporate companies will have increasingly large influence on the political parties and they will be shaping country’s agenda and we the people of India will not even know which company supports which political party.

A report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has revealed that between 2012-13 and 2015-16 the BJP received the maximum amount of donations by corporate houses which amounts to 706 crore while the Congress has received the second highest donations with Rs 198 crore. Now we can certainly relate as how this bill which empowers corporate was passed as a money bill in Lok sabha and who will be the real beneficiaries from it.

In the name of transparency, increasing anonymous corporate funding opens the door for government making policies in favour of the corporate. The policies which are shaped to favour profit making of the corporate are certainly not in favour for the other class in the society which are the farmers, wage labourers, marginalized and the working class in general.


Join us at 7:30pm on 20th September as our panelists, Venkatesh Nayak, Shahid Khan & Rachana Reddy discuss these and other aspects of the electoral bonds.

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A session dealing with various aspects of scientifc temper- claims of those allegedly possessing supernatural powers analysed and
exposed.

About the speaker:
Narendra Nayak (born 5 February 1951) is a notable rationalist, sceptic, and godman debunker from Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

He is the current president of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations (FIRA). He founded the Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association in 1976 and has been its secretary since then.He also found an NGO called Aid Without Religion in July 2011.He tours the country conducting workshops to promote scientific temper and showing people how to debunk godmen and frauds. He has conducted over 2000 such demonstrations in India, including some in Australia, Greece,England, Norway, Denmark Sri Lanka and Nepal. He is also a polyglot who speaks 9 languages fluently, which helps him when he is giving talks in various parts of the country. He is the chairman of the online forum Nastik Nation

Hi. i'm Naveen (screenwriter & Director).looking for actors for my web series under
"Mad potte creations " and "D-studio's".

Progress meeting cum action plan discussion.

Learn the art of handcrafting a green gift this festive season. Miniature Haven brings therapeutic, fun and engaging DIY creative gardening workshops for all. A fun and creative way to pursue gardening as a hobby. Its therapeutic!

Ever imagined a mini garden in a pot with cute little pebble patio, pond, miniature plants and whole lot of miniature accessories like mushrooms, bugs, garden benches etc. To top it all we give away a miniature notice board for you to write your very own personalised message.

Workshop costs: 1250 INR (Includes kit cost & beverage)

Kit includes: decorative ceramic pot, miniature plants, miniature garden accessories, patio work material, gloves and other necessary items. You come empty handed and take a finished miniature garden home to nurture and cherish and we will send across candid photographs of yours post the workshop.

To know more call Shilpa on +917093018977.

A super fun way to teach your child to think out of the box! The class consists of interesting logical games that keep your child wanting for more!

The class involves logical games like gravity maze, brain builders, laser maze, logic links, iq twist and many more such puzzles each of which have 10 levels and gets more challenging with each level

Get your child to attend the Workshop and see their confidence soar!

Limited seats available. Fees: Rs. 500

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 Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

What does the shifting of the Telangana State secretariat from it current location to the Bison Polo Ground portend for Hyderabad ? The panelists, Kingshuk Nag, former editor of Times of India; M V Bhaskar Rao (IPS); and Shankar Narayan, renowned architect will share their views.

Slideshow/ projection - Night as part of the Indian Photography Festival - Hyderabad 2017.

FRENCH CINEPHILES MONTH
This september, Cinephiles Film Club and Alliance Francaise Hyderabad presents the French Cinephiles Month. Come watch four classical French films and discuss about at Lamakaan. For this week, we are screening “Under the sand”

UNDER THE SAND by François Ozon
French title: Sous le sable
Synopsis : When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Cast : Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot

Entry: Free | French with english subtitles

Plan for the event:
1. Introduction to the film (10 minutes)
2. Screening @7:40 pm sharp (Runtime: 96 mins)
3. Post screening discussion (15 minutes)

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 - Surender Sahil Verma, Ravi Raj, Shailja Chaturvedi, Jay Jha
Directed By - Krishna Shukla
Passes - 200
Contact # 9700074079

Factoryal is glad to launch the Let’s Talk Marketing series which is focused on disseminating the best practices of marketing strategies and tactics applied by successful startups from diversified domains through live founder talks and subsequent insights shared by our team of analysts.

" Sattvam " is a tale of an ambulance driver with his negligent attitude towards his profession and discovers his true self with a tragic incident

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 - Surender Sahil Verma, Ravi Raj, Shailja Chaturvedi, Jay Jha
Directed By - Krishna Shukla
Passes - 200
Contact # 9700074079

Karwan-e-Mohabbat a month-long journey across the country, led and conceptualised by activist and author, Harsh Mander, the caravan is a group of 40 people including professors, journalists, artists, students, lawyers and activists, who are traveling across the country to visit families who have survived lynchings.

So far, the caravan has covered parts of Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. The intention of the journey is to meet, listen and express solidarity with families whose members have been lynched and forge links between different communities.

An appeal Harsh Mander has written sharing his reasons, seeking support and funds for the journey contains the following excerpt:

“We need to interrogate the reasons for our silences, for our failures to speak out, and to intervene, when murderous hate is unleashed on innocent lives. We need our conscience to ache. We need it to be burdened intolerably.”

Surendra Singh Negi
Artist Profile

S. S. Negi is a Hyderabad based self-trained singer-songwriter. However, his family roots are in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, he was born in Goa and brought up in Goa, Bombay and Delhi. After teaching Spanish language and literature for some years at the University of Delhi, he shifted his base to Hyderabad in 2009 when he joined the The English and Foreign Languages University as Assistant Professor. In between, he also lived in Spain and Mexico for couple of years doing research work. Due to his travel experience, he carries a cosmopolitan outlook, which reflects in his music as well. He is deeply influenced by the folk and classical music of India and various other musical expressions from the world over. Since 2004, he is a full time university teacher but his interest in music and poetry has had a major impact on his personality and therefore he continues to be a performing artist as well. His musical journey, which started from Delhi in June 2012, has taken him to various corners of the country with his performances. One can see the blend of the personal and the social in his music, which essentially reflects the lives of common people and the emotions they experience in life. He founded the band Indian Folks in 2012 and worked with the band as vocalist-cum-rhythm guitarist fusing the Indian folk music with Indian classical and western soft rock. As a result, when you listen to Indian Folks’ music you get to hear a unique blend of sounds. Over the last few years, Negi has performed with the Indian Folks in different parts of the country and he has performed as a solo artist as well. His music received a lot of appreciation at the Delhi International Arts Festival, Delhi in November 2016 and at the Nazariya International Women’s Film Festival, Hyderabad in April 2017. He also released a studio album called Safar in October 2016 (with seven original numbers in Hindi and Spanish). The album was received quite warmly on the leading music portals like www.gaana.com, www.itunes.com www.saavn.com, etc.

Basic level of photoshop on how to edit and create professional images within a few minutes. This is for all people who want to learn and get to know about the tools and specific using of tools inside photoshop A person who is interested in learning about photoshop can come down for the meeting. Contact no +919700500515 400 rs each only

We are a library where you can check-out humans as a living book, listen to their stories and interact with them.

Our motive is to create positive environments that allow people to challenge prejudice and stereotypes through dialogue.

In Conversation with Umar Khalid

Umar Khalid, member of Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Students' Organisation
(BASO). And a Ph.D scholar at Centre for Historical Studies, JNU
pursuing research on adivasi history of Singhbhum (Jharkhand) over the
past two centuries.

The speaker suggests that climate change is somewhat more real than Big Foot and Unicorns (unlike what some skeptics would have us believe). This is the speaker's personal journey from the ethics to the science of climate change.

45mins talk + 45mins Q&A

The talk will focus on the issues that reach beyond merely the hard sciences and into the social and economic domains, with their potential to call into question our economic systems and social choices (for example, the link between development and energy consumption). The talk will also explore the importance of the basic sciences in societal development.

Climate change skepticism" is a term that has, unfortunately, been hijacked largely (but not completely) by climate changedenialists. Unfortunate because all scientists may be described as skeptics and scientific progress is fundamentally driven by skepticism. The recent narrative accompanying climate change denialism has obscured the fundamental science on which climate research rests, the massive consensus among climate scientists the world over, and the incontrovertible evidence observations are providing us. What the talk proposes to convey is simple: climate change is real, it's us, it's dangerous, and we can indeed do something about it.

SPEAKER
Chirag Dhara is a physicist and mathematician, and recently concluded his PhD in earth sciences at the Max Planck Institute. His previous work was on foundational quantum physics, specializing in quantum randomness. He is drawn into the field of thermodynamic perspectives on climate, due to his concern about the twin problems of climate change and peak energy.

ROMANIAN CINEPHILES MONTH
This october, as part of the romanian film retrospective we(cinephiles film club) are planning to screen 4 critically acclaimed films from Romania , this is the first movie from the list, expected to be screened on first wednesday of this October .

4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (original title)

<< A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania. >>

Genre: Drama

Please feel free to invite any guests along (you can use the "Facebook Invite" option on this event page to invite your friends)
Its a FREE event 🙂

Plan for the event:
1. Introduction to the film (10 minutes)
2. Screening @7:40 pm sharp (Runtime: 113 mins)
3. Post screening discussion (15 minutes)

Screening of Tom Alter's recital of Ghalib's Poetry, followed by Skype interaction with his friends and mentors.

An intricate tale of 'medicine, monopoly and malice', FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

Biryani Aur Haleem By Sutradhar

In 2016, I shot and directed a film titled An Invisible Minority - Rationalists in Contemporary India. The film is in interview format and tries to engage in larger philosophical debates around Rationalism. It was produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and was screened on Doordarshan last year. Therefore, the film relies on interviews and television style conversations.

While the film begins by talking about the murders of Rationalists in the recent past, the crux of the film is to understand the idea of Rationalism - what are its motivations in an overtly religious country like India? Its history and current status.

Promo of the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw_f74AEtM

The film was screened in Bangalore and Delhi. But, in the wake of Gauri Lankesh's death, I wish to screen the film in as many locations as possible.

This is my minute contribution to ensure dissent and rational thought are not silenced.

Write Club Hyderabad hosts an open writing session every Saturday to help the city embrace writing for art, expression and communication. We have over 1200 writers currently with each weekend session bringing forth many newbies to take up writing as a hobby or profession.

K-Circle, India's Oldest Quizzing Organisation, will be conducting a Non-Competitive quiz at LaMakaan. The event will be packed with a great amount of trivia and will be a great place to start for those who wish to begin indulging in quizzes.

“Socialist Experiments of the Last Century and Path of New Socialist Revolution in the Current Century”


The great October Revolution of 1917 was undoubtedly an earth shattering event which impacted the life of the toiling masses, not just in Russia but across the world. It achieved success in establishing a socialist system that guaranteed equitable distribution of resources, provision of basic needs, and social justice for its people. It set an unparalleled model which drew plaudits from humanist intellectuals, and inspired generations of workers, peasants and other sections of the toiling masses all over the world to struggle for such a model of development. Sadly however, this first socialist experiment in the history of humanity ended in a setback. Historians as well as political activists have been engaged in analysing the causes of the defeat of the socialist experiments of the 20th century and the restoration of capitalism.

But, the global capitalist system today is itself undergoing an incurable structural crisis. It is hurtling us towards human and ecological devastation. Clearly, the objective conditions of revolution are ripening again. Yet, the subjective forces of revolution all over the world suffer from stagnation and disarray. Widespread dogmatic thinking prevailing within the communist movement in India and the world, is a hurdle that blocks the path of an organized socialist movement against the all-round capitalist onslaught. Since the modus operandi of capital has undergone fundamental changes in the last few decades, the need of the hour is to bring about necessary changes in the strategies and tactics of mobilization of the working class towards the aim of bringing about the new socialist revolution in the 21st century.

There can be no better occasion to ponder over the prospects of such a revolution than the centenary year of the great October Revolution, hence a talk on “Socialist Experiments of the Last Century and Path of New Socialist Revolution in the Current Century” by Mr.Shashi Prakash, who is a Marxist thinker, revolutionary Hindi poet, political activist and editor of the Marxist theoretical journal ‘The Anvil’. He has carried out extensive study and research on the problems of socialist transition and capitalist restoration.

कामठी brvm को मजबूत करने के साथ ही-विद्यार्थियों की विविध
समस्याओं पर चर्चा करने हेतु-साथ ही महत्वपूर्ण विषय-
Obc विद्यार्थियों की स्कॉलरशिप बन्द करने पर सरकार के विरोध में खुला चर्चा सत्र

Whether you consider yourself a seasoned professional, an emerging filmmaker, or a beginner,this workshop will make it easy for you on how to make documentary films with limited resources. Beginners may want to check out introductory production, pre-production, editing, and storytelling. Those filmmakers with more experience will get a chance to enhance their work in taking your camerawork or editing to the next level. We also explain how to get funds raised for making your first Indie-documentary films.

Milan :
Saarang goes beyond Chennai to reach out to the youths of India with Milan. Saarang Milan is a set of events including music, dance, quizzing and art held in various cities across India before the main fest, attracting and facilitating the talented participants thus adding Saarang's diversity and reach.

Dramatics :
The flagship Thespian event of Saarang, Dramatics is a team event that involves three rounds. In the first round, teams must send in scripts, based on which teams qualify for round two, in which they are required to put up a 10 minute play/short skit on any topic. There will be no lights.

Saarang goes beyond Chennai to reach out to the youths of India with Milan. Saarang Milan is a set of events including music, dance, quizzing and art held in various cities across India before the main fest, attracting and facilitating the talented participants, thus adding Saarang's diversity and reach.
Alankar :
Bring all time favourite Indian numbers alive in Alankar, our light music solo vocals competition. The event is held over 3 rounds and sees the largest participation in Saarang, amounting up to a hundred every year. Critiqued by eminent musicians like Shakthisree Gopalan, Sreejith Edavana and Jayalakshmi, many of the previous winners have made a name for themselves in the music industry, like Deepanshi Nagar of Aadya Fame.
The winners will be given a wild card entry to perform in the finals during Saarang in Chennai.

Note: This Play is part of a Theatre fest -"Theatre For a Cause" which is organised to raise the funds for our own, fighting the battle of CANCER. The proceeds of this play will go In aiding his Treatment.

"Lalithe ga - Kaadhu Geetha" a Hilarious comedy play written by MANCH Srikanth. This play "Lalithe ga?" is a comedy entertainer, revolving around few employees of an organisation including their Boss, who work towards making their acting passion take life, and rest of the story is how do they make it happen. Directed by Sai Krishna Dheram, and ennacted by Team MANCH. Do come and enjoy all the comic timing we take you through.

Donner passes: 100/-

For More details please reach out to 8125107626 or reach us @ www.facebook.com/manchtheatre

Cynotype is a photochemical process, which is the first ever photographic process which was invented in the year 1843, as the name implies cyno which means blue, this photographic process only give you blue and white, and there are tonnings,which helps you to get brown yellow and purple colour tones to the desired photograph.

Workshop Fee: Rs.1500. For registration contact: 7382454545

ROMANIAN CINEPHILES MONTH

This october, as part of the romanian film retrospective we(cinephiles film club) are planning to screen 4 critically acclaimed films from Romania , this is the second movie from the list, expected to be screened on second wednesday of this October.

Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu (original title)

<< In the film an old man (Ioan Fiscuteanu) is carried by an ambulance from hospital to hospital all night long, as doctors keep refusing to treat him and send him away. >>

Genre: Drama (Dark Comedy)

Please feel free to invite any guests along (you can use the "Facebook Invite" option on this event page to invite your friends)
Its a FREE event 🙂

Plan for the event:
1. Introduction to the film (10 minutes)
2. Screening @7:40 pm sharp (Runtime: 153 mins)
3. Post screening discussion (15 minutes)

This play will revolve around the funny family members with Hyderabadi dialect and
how they keep themselves busy with crazy and mad things. It will take you on the
laughter ride through the funny Nok-Jhok between the Husband, wife and a servant.
Beauty of the play will come out from the secret in last which will be revealed by the
Servant.

'IDEA OF INDIA’ is a talk series that intends to show India in a different perspective. The talk focuses on how ‘Idea of India’ was a powerful Idea that shaped the current world order economically, geographically, demographically, linguistically, culturally, etc.
How have we forgotten the relevance of ‘Idea Of India’ in building our country?
How ‘IDEA OF INDIA can be instrumental in solving the current world problems?
The speaker is Raghunandan Vadla who is the author of the book ‘The Great Indian Treasure’.
The author is on a quest to launch his book in all the continents and oceans. He succeeded in launching his book in Antarctica, South America, and the Southern Ocean.

A super fun way to teach your child to think out of the box! The Workshop consists of interesting logical games that keep your child wanting for more! The kids will be applying their mind to logical puzzles like gravity maze, brain builders, laser maze, logic links, iq twist and many more such.

Get your child to attend the workshop and see their confidence soar!

Age: 6 - 18 yrs

Fees: Rs.500.

Contact 9849820222 for details.

Write Club Hyderabad hosts an open writing session every Saturday to help the city embrace writing for art, expression and communication. We have over 1200 writers currently with each weekend session bringing forth many newbies to take up writing as a hobby or profession.

We are the Hyderabad Quora Community who gather periodically to meet and have discussions, healthy debates on multiple topics and socialize!

Evam Indrajeet - What would a writer do if one of his characters develops a mind of his own, when all other characters are perfectly happy going round and round within the boundaries that the writer has set for them? In “Evam Indrajit,” Badal Sircar’s abstract, semi-autobiographical play, a writer, who feels tortured by the need for creative expression in an undramatic world, tries to create a play with the audacious character, Indrajit, who “sees life realistically and dreams about it romantically.” His muse, Manasi, remains elusive, and the characters that he summons are mundane and undramatic, no different from the people around him.
Indrajit, created in the image of the writer himself, stands outside routine existence. Failing in his attempts at tying Indrajit to a plot, the writer faces a nightmarish writer’s block that pushes him into a moment of literary crisis. As he grapples with the existential crisis of Indrajit, we are presented at once with a macroscopic view of our own life, in which everything seems to be stuck in a repetitive loop, without purpose, without essence.“Evam Indrajit” is a timeless play that analyzes the question of identity, of the essence of life, against an apparently meaningless, existentialist backdrop. The audacious assertion of one’s identity, one’s essence, is what differentiates life from mere existence, random collections of particles of matter going round and round.

My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
Ma vie de Courgette (original title)
PG-13 | 1h 10min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Director: Claude Barras

A 9-year old boy's life is turned upside down when he is put in an orphanage. At the orphanage he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love. This Swiss-French stop motion animated film was screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated in 2 categories at last year's Oscars.

In memory of Shri Kundan Shah

Screening of Movie Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983)| 2h 12min | Comedy, Drama

In the movie, Two friends who are attempting to start-up their own photo studio, come across shady dealings and corruption.A corruption that is so manifestly present that the others do not seem to question its existence, but implicitly assume it and use it to serve their own ends. Two protagonist gets involved in the filth of corruption and they try to expose everyone involved but the question remains 'will they survive?'.This tragic-comedy directed by Late Kundan Shah is one of finest movies produced during the New Wave movement in Indian cinema. It was a time of rampant unemployment and the times of the angry young man standing for justice.

One can enjoy it for its comedy but hopefully, the viewers will also see the tragedy beneath the humor.

Culmination of an advanced workshop dealing with verbatim theatre.

Dramanon presents 'Long Story Short', A set of 6 short plays including a guest performance by Grim Pumpkin Productions as a part of the Theatre For A Cause initiative. We do hope to see you on the 15th of October, 2017 at Lamakaan supporting us all in the fight against cancer.

The plays:
1. Echo:
It begins as a usual day of auditions for a play. Enters an unusual candidate filled with hope. What we get is a unique premise for a plot. You have got to see it, to believe it!
Directed By: R K Shenoy
Cast: Harika Vedula, R K Shenoy & Adnan Hararwala

2. :Guinea pig
Can you open your eyes wide enough to look beyond just a bowl of soup? Are you bold enough to explore its various layers? Why don't you just take a sip, be careful, you might find a guinea pig!
An adaptation by RK Shenoy. Original play written by Preston Struges
Developed and performed by: RK Shenoy and Saurabh Sensharma

3. Absolution: A confession room, a school boy and a priest. They don't see each other, but they do 'look into' each other. Let's see what they find.
Written by:William Reynolds
Directed by: Saurabh Sensharma
Cast: Adity Roy Sinha and Vinay Abhishek

4. Work in Progress: By Grim Pumpkin productions.
What happens when two actors are stuck on stage? Do they know their lines? Are they following 'The Script'? Will they succumb to fate or will they revolt?
Written by: Sishir Chala & Abhinanda Banerjee
Directed by: Sishir Challa
Cast: Abhinanda Banerjee, Akshi Singh, Anmona Chaliha, Krishna Varma, Nayana Raj, Priyanshi Bahadur, Sishir Challa & Soori K

5. The Date
What happens when a daft Bengali guy turns up at a blind date? A play of nonsensical proportions. One of Dramanon longest running short plays.
Directed by RK Shenoy
Cast: Kanishka Dasgupta, RK Shenoy & Adity Roy Sinha.
6. Flushed. Can a innocent rubber condom be a tool of destruction of an ecological balance? Will that ideology be accepted or will it be flushed down the drain? Find out.
Original play by Alex Broun
Adapted and Directed by RK Shenoy
Cast: Harika Vedula and Rahul Ghosh

“Venezuela: the shadow agenda”: a film screening followed by a talk on
“Current Political Scenario in Venezuela” by Prof. S.S. Negi


Lamakaan invites you to an evening of film screening of “Venezuela: the shadow agenda” a documentary by Hernando Calvo Ospina and a talk on “Current Political scenario in Venezuela”, a first hand narration from Prof. S. S. Negi, who has recently returned from Caracas,Venezuela. Dr. V. K. Bawa, a senior retired IAS Officer from Hyderabad who has written extensively on a wide range of issues, including Latin America, will chair the programme.

The event ""Venezuela: the shadow agenda": a documentary by Hernando Calvo Ospina and Talk by Prof. S. S. Negi on Current Political Scenario in Venezuela" will have the following schedule:

07:00 pm, Film screening of “Venezuela: the shadow agenda”
07:40 pm, Talk by Prof. S. S. Negi
08:30 pm, Discussion with the panelists ( Hernando Calvo Ospina, S. S. Negi, V, K. Bawa)

"Venezuela: the shadow agenda" is a forty minutes long documentary with English subtitles by the Colombian filmmaker Hernando Calvo Ospina who will join us for discussion from France through Skype. It came out as recently as August 2017 and the cover page of the documentary says: "This documentary is not temporary. It will be valid as long as the United States persists in ending the Bolivarian Revolution that is being built in Venezuela, to seize its immense oil wealth. It is based on interviews with Venezuelan scholars who, in simple and didactic language, tell us a story that the mainstream media insist on hiding or misrepresenting." Ospina’s documentary helps us understand why Venezuela has been in news all over the world for a decently long time now. Its take differs from the supposed mainstream corporate media and is based on the interviews conducted with a variety of individuals from different walks of life. It also puts in the right perspective the way US administration has shown interest in the internal affairs of Venezuela. The film screening will be followed by a lecture on Venezuela’s current political scenario with Prof. S. S. Negi, who teaches at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Negi specializes in Latin American Studies and he represented India at the recently concluded International Summit of Solidarity with Venezuela, which took place in Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela from 16th to 19th September 2017.

Entry is free for all!

ROMANIAN CINEPHILES MONTH
This october, as part of the romanian film retrospective we(cinephiles film club) are planning to screen 4 critically acclaimed films from Romania , this is the third movie from the list, expected to be screened on third wednesday of this October .

olitist, adjectiv (original title)

<< The movie focuses on policeman Cristi, who is investigating a teenage boy who has been smoking hashish. >>

Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama

Please feel free to invite any guests along (you can use the "Facebook Invite" option on this event page to invite your friends)
Its a FREE event 🙂

Plan for the event:
1. Introduction to the film (10 minutes)
2. Screening @7:40 pm sharp (Runtime: 115 mins)
3. Post screening discussion (15 minutes)

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

(500 entry fee) I am Ravi Kiran raju, Film Maker. I am into cinema. I fly drones for cinematography. Flying drones and landing is little difficult job. It can hurt others. Due to public safety I want to talk about drones. and give demo on Drones and talk about.
1) Flying rules.
2) Aviation rules.
3) safety rules.
4) Drone controls.
5) Drone flying.
6) Drone landing.
My works: https://youtu.be/IKUOG1NrMxU

Bond(ed) Democracy: Corporatization of Politics, is this now the 1%’s democracy?


Can the Modi government claim to have a clean corruption free image, when it is surreptitiously passing laws to facilitate corporate funding of political campaigns?

The Finance Bill, 2017 relaxes conditions for corporate funding to political parties. It ensures confidentiality to corporates and removes the limit on corporate funding as regards to proportion of profit previously limited at 7.5 per cent. This means that the companies are now allowed to keep the name of the party they contribute funding to as confidential in their profit and loss account and they can donate as much as they want. This is nothing but a big corporate take over of the political funding.


Are the bonds really as transparent as they are being touted to be? Is this mainstreaming of Hawala?

And there is no limit on the amount of money that can be donated. Along with FCRA amendments allowing foreign companies to donate, you can have any number of multinationals donating any amount of money and public can not know anything about which party got how much from whom. Even before you donate the money, the bonds being bearer bonds can change hands through untrackable cash transactions any number of times. Massive amounts of Black money finds another entry point into the economy. Just because the money is coming from a bank account, it does not make it white forever.

What is worse, is that the government will know who is donating to the opposition, without the opposition even having to declare this. Donors will fear harassment and donations to the opposition parties will dry out. All kinds of black and white money, now gets funnelled from all over the world to the ruling party only.

No resources. No opposition. Perfect way to stay in power and wreck havoc on the country.


The influence of corporates is set to rise exponentially, broadening the already wide gap between the government and the governed.

Now the corporate companies will have increasingly large influence on the political parties and they will be shaping country’s agenda and we the people of India will not even know which company supports which political party.

A report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has revealed that between 2012-13 and 2015-16 the BJP received the maximum amount of donations by corporate houses which amounts to 706 crore while the Congress has received the second highest donations with Rs 198 crore. Now we can certainly relate as how this bill which empowers corporate was passed as a money bill in Lok sabha and who will be the real beneficiaries from it.

In the name of transparency, increasing anonymous corporate funding opens the door for government making policies in favour of the corporate. The policies which are shaped to favour profit making of the corporate are certainly not in favour for the other class in the society which are the farmers, wage labourers, marginalized and the working class in general.


Join us at 7:30pm on 20th September as our panelists, Venkatesh Nayak, Shahid Khan & Rachana Reddy discuss these and other aspects of the electoral bonds.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/take-back-our-government

A session dealing with various aspects of scientifc temper- claims of those allegedly possessing supernatural powers analysed and
exposed.

About the speaker:
Narendra Nayak (born 5 February 1951) is a notable rationalist, sceptic, and godman debunker from Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

He is the current president of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations (FIRA). He founded the Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association in 1976 and has been its secretary since then.He also found an NGO called Aid Without Religion in July 2011.He tours the country conducting workshops to promote scientific temper and showing people how to debunk godmen and frauds. He has conducted over 2000 such demonstrations in India, including some in Australia, Greece,England, Norway, Denmark Sri Lanka and Nepal. He is also a polyglot who speaks 9 languages fluently, which helps him when he is giving talks in various parts of the country. He is the chairman of the online forum Nastik Nation

Hi. i'm Naveen (screenwriter & Director).looking for actors for my web series under
"Mad potte creations " and "D-studio's".

Progress meeting cum action plan discussion.

Learn the art of handcrafting a green gift this festive season. Miniature Haven brings therapeutic, fun and engaging DIY creative gardening workshops for all. A fun and creative way to pursue gardening as a hobby. Its therapeutic!

Ever imagined a mini garden in a pot with cute little pebble patio, pond, miniature plants and whole lot of miniature accessories like mushrooms, bugs, garden benches etc. To top it all we give away a miniature notice board for you to write your very own personalised message.

Workshop costs: 1250 INR (Includes kit cost & beverage)

Kit includes: decorative ceramic pot, miniature plants, miniature garden accessories, patio work material, gloves and other necessary items. You come empty handed and take a finished miniature garden home to nurture and cherish and we will send across candid photographs of yours post the workshop.

To know more call Shilpa on +917093018977.

A super fun way to teach your child to think out of the box! The class consists of interesting logical games that keep your child wanting for more!

The class involves logical games like gravity maze, brain builders, laser maze, logic links, iq twist and many more such puzzles each of which have 10 levels and gets more challenging with each level

Get your child to attend the Workshop and see their confidence soar!

Limited seats available. Fees: Rs. 500

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 Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

What does the shifting of the Telangana State secretariat from it current location to the Bison Polo Ground portend for Hyderabad ? The panelists, Kingshuk Nag, former editor of Times of India; M V Bhaskar Rao (IPS); and Shankar Narayan, renowned architect will share their views.

Slideshow/ projection - Night as part of the Indian Photography Festival - Hyderabad 2017.

FRENCH CINEPHILES MONTH
This september, Cinephiles Film Club and Alliance Francaise Hyderabad presents the French Cinephiles Month. Come watch four classical French films and discuss about at Lamakaan. For this week, we are screening “Under the sand”

UNDER THE SAND by François Ozon
French title: Sous le sable
Synopsis : When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Cast : Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot

Entry: Free | French with english subtitles

Plan for the event:
1. Introduction to the film (10 minutes)
2. Screening @7:40 pm sharp (Runtime: 96 mins)
3. Post screening discussion (15 minutes)

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 - Surender Sahil Verma, Ravi Raj, Shailja Chaturvedi, Jay Jha
Directed By - Krishna Shukla
Passes - 200
Contact # 9700074079

Factoryal is glad to launch the Let’s Talk Marketing series which is focused on disseminating the best practices of marketing strategies and tactics applied by successful startups from diversified domains through live founder talks and subsequent insights shared by our team of analysts.

" Sattvam " is a tale of an ambulance driver with his negligent attitude towards his profession and discovers his true self with a tragic incident

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 - Surender Sahil Verma, Ravi Raj, Shailja Chaturvedi, Jay Jha
Directed By - Krishna Shukla
Passes - 200
Contact # 9700074079

Karwan-e-Mohabbat a month-long journey across the country, led and conceptualised by activist and author, Harsh Mander, the caravan is a group of 40 people including professors, journalists, artists, students, lawyers and activists, who are traveling across the country to visit families who have survived lynchings.

So far, the caravan has covered parts of Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. The intention of the journey is to meet, listen and express solidarity with families whose members have been lynched and forge links between different communities.

An appeal Harsh Mander has written sharing his reasons, seeking support and funds for the journey contains the following excerpt:

“We need to interrogate the reasons for our silences, for our failures to speak out, and to intervene, when murderous hate is unleashed on innocent lives. We need our conscience to ache. We need it to be burdened intolerably.”

Surendra Singh Negi
Artist Profile

S. S. Negi is a Hyderabad based self-trained singer-songwriter. However, his family roots are in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, he was born in Goa and brought up in Goa, Bombay and Delhi. After teaching Spanish language and literature for some years at the University of Delhi, he shifted his base to Hyderabad in 2009 when he joined the The English and Foreign Languages University as Assistant Professor. In between, he also lived in Spain and Mexico for couple of years doing research work. Due to his travel experience, he carries a cosmopolitan outlook, which reflects in his music as well. He is deeply influenced by the folk and classical music of India and various other musical expressions from the world over. Since 2004, he is a full time university teacher but his interest in music and poetry has had a major impact on his personality and therefore he continues to be a performing artist as well. His musical journey, which started from Delhi in June 2012, has taken him to various corners of the country with his performances. One can see the blend of the personal and the social in his music, which essentially reflects the lives of common people and the emotions they experience in life. He founded the band Indian Folks in 2012 and worked with the band as vocalist-cum-rhythm guitarist fusing the Indian folk music with Indian classical and western soft rock. As a result, when you listen to Indian Folks’ music you get to hear a unique blend of sounds. Over the last few years, Negi has performed with the Indian Folks in different parts of the country and he has performed as a solo artist as well. His music received a lot of appreciation at the Delhi International Arts Festival, Delhi in November 2016 and at the Nazariya International Women’s Film Festival, Hyderabad in April 2017. He also released a studio album called Safar in October 2016 (with seven original numbers in Hindi and Spanish). The album was received quite warmly on the leading music portals like www.gaana.com, www.itunes.com www.saavn.com, etc.

Basic level of photoshop on how to edit and create professional images within a few minutes. This is for all people who want to learn and get to know about the tools and specific using of tools inside photoshop A person who is interested in learning about photoshop can come down for the meeting. Contact no +919700500515 400 rs each only

We are a library where you can check-out humans as a living book, listen to their stories and interact with them.

Our motive is to create positive environments that allow people to challenge prejudice and stereotypes through dialogue.

In Conversation with Umar Khalid

Umar Khalid, member of Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Students' Organisation
(BASO). And a Ph.D scholar at Centre for Historical Studies, JNU
pursuing research on adivasi history of Singhbhum (Jharkhand) over the
past two centuries.

The speaker suggests that climate change is somewhat more real than Big Foot and Unicorns (unlike what some skeptics would have us believe). This is the speaker's personal journey from the ethics to the science of climate change.

45mins talk + 45mins Q&A

The talk will focus on the issues that reach beyond merely the hard sciences and into the social and economic domains, with their potential to call into question our economic systems and social choices (for example, the link between development and energy consumption). The talk will also explore the importance of the basic sciences in societal development.

Climate change skepticism" is a term that has, unfortunately, been hijacked largely (but not completely) by climate changedenialists. Unfortunate because all scientists may be described as skeptics and scientific progress is fundamentally driven by skepticism. The recent narrative accompanying climate change denialism has obscured the fundamental science on which climate research rests, the massive consensus among climate scientists the world over, and the incontrovertible evidence observations are providing us. What the talk proposes to convey is simple: climate change is real, it's us, it's dangerous, and we can indeed do something about it.

SPEAKER
Chirag Dhara is a physicist and mathematician, and recently concluded his PhD in earth sciences at the Max Planck Institute. His previous work was on foundational quantum physics, specializing in quantum randomness. He is drawn into the field of thermodynamic perspectives on climate, due to his concern about the twin problems of climate change and peak energy.

ROMANIAN CINEPHILES MONTH
This october, as part of the romanian film retrospective we(cinephiles film club) are planning to screen 4 critically acclaimed films from Romania , this is the first movie from the list, expected to be screened on first wednesday of this October .

4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (original title)

<< A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania. >>

Genre: Drama

Please feel free to invite any guests along (you can use the "Facebook Invite" option on this event page to invite your friends)
Its a FREE event 🙂

Plan for the event:
1. Introduction to the film (10 minutes)
2. Screening @7:40 pm sharp (Runtime: 113 mins)
3. Post screening discussion (15 minutes)

Screening of Tom Alter's recital of Ghalib's Poetry, followed by Skype interaction with his friends and mentors.

An intricate tale of 'medicine, monopoly and malice', FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

Biryani Aur Haleem By Sutradhar

In 2016, I shot and directed a film titled An Invisible Minority - Rationalists in Contemporary India. The film is in interview format and tries to engage in larger philosophical debates around Rationalism. It was produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and was screened on Doordarshan last year. Therefore, the film relies on interviews and television style conversations.

While the film begins by talking about the murders of Rationalists in the recent past, the crux of the film is to understand the idea of Rationalism - what are its motivations in an overtly religious country like India? Its history and current status.

Promo of the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw_f74AEtM

The film was screened in Bangalore and Delhi. But, in the wake of Gauri Lankesh's death, I wish to screen the film in as many locations as possible.

This is my minute contribution to ensure dissent and rational thought are not silenced.

Write Club Hyderabad hosts an open writing session every Saturday to help the city embrace writing for art, expression and communication. We have over 1200 writers currently with each weekend session bringing forth many newbies to take up writing as a hobby or profession.

K-Circle, India's Oldest Quizzing Organisation, will be conducting a Non-Competitive quiz at LaMakaan. The event will be packed with a great amount of trivia and will be a great place to start for those who wish to begin indulging in quizzes.

“Socialist Experiments of the Last Century and Path of New Socialist Revolution in the Current Century”


The great October Revolution of 1917 was undoubtedly an earth shattering event which impacted the life of the toiling masses, not just in Russia but across the world. It achieved success in establishing a socialist system that guaranteed equitable distribution of resources, provision of basic needs, and social justice for its people. It set an unparalleled model which drew plaudits from humanist intellectuals, and inspired generations of workers, peasants and other sections of the toiling masses all over the world to struggle for such a model of development. Sadly however, this first socialist experiment in the history of humanity ended in a setback. Historians as well as political activists have been engaged in analysing the causes of the defeat of the socialist experiments of the 20th century and the restoration of capitalism.

But, the global capitalist system today is itself undergoing an incurable structural crisis. It is hurtling us towards human and ecological devastation. Clearly, the objective conditions of revolution are ripening again. Yet, the subjective forces of revolution all over the world suffer from stagnation and disarray. Widespread dogmatic thinking prevailing within the communist movement in India and the world, is a hurdle that blocks the path of an organized socialist movement against the all-round capitalist onslaught. Since the modus operandi of capital has undergone fundamental changes in the last few decades, the need of the hour is to bring about necessary changes in the strategies and tactics of mobilization of the working class towards the aim of bringing about the new socialist revolution in the 21st century.

There can be no better occasion to ponder over the prospects of such a revolution than the centenary year of the great October Revolution, hence a talk on “Socialist Experiments of the Last Century and Path of New Socialist Revolution in the Current Century” by Mr.Shashi Prakash, who is a Marxist thinker, revolutionary Hindi poet, political activist and editor of the Marxist theoretical journal ‘The Anvil’. He has carried out extensive study and research on the problems of socialist transition and capitalist restoration.

कामठी brvm को मजबूत करने के साथ ही-विद्यार्थियों की विविध
समस्याओं पर चर्चा करने हेतु-साथ ही महत्वपूर्ण विषय-
Obc विद्यार्थियों की स्कॉलरशिप बन्द करने पर सरकार के विरोध में खुला चर्चा सत्र

Whether you consider yourself a seasoned professional, an emerging filmmaker, or a beginner,this workshop will make it easy for you on how to make documentary films with limited resources. Beginners may want to check out introductory production, pre-production, editing, and storytelling. Those filmmakers with more experience will get a chance to enhance their work in taking your camerawork or editing to the next level. We also explain how to get funds raised for making your first Indie-documentary films.

Milan :
Saarang goes beyond Chennai to reach out to the youths of India with Milan. Saarang Milan is a set of events including music, dance, quizzing and art held in various cities across India before the main fest, attracting and facilitating the talented participants thus adding Saarang's diversity and reach.

Dramatics :
The flagship Thespian event of Saarang, Dramatics is a team event that involves three rounds. In the first round, teams must send in scripts, based on which teams qualify for round two, in which they are required to put up a 10 minute play/short skit on any topic. There will be no lights.

Saarang goes beyond Chennai to reach out to the youths of India with Milan. Saarang Milan is a set of events including music, dance, quizzing and art held in various cities across India before the main fest, attracting and facilitating the talented participants, thus adding Saarang's diversity and reach.
Alankar :
Bring all time favourite Indian numbers alive in Alankar, our light music solo vocals competition. The event is held over 3 rounds and sees the largest participation in Saarang, amounting up to a hundred every year. Critiqued by eminent musicians like Shakthisree Gopalan, Sreejith Edavana and Jayalakshmi, many of the previous winners have made a name for themselves in the music industry, like Deepanshi Nagar of Aadya Fame.
The winners will be given a wild card entry to perform in the finals during Saarang in Chennai.

Note: This Play is part of a Theatre fest -"Theatre For a Cause" which is organised to raise the funds for our own, fighting the battle of CANCER. The proceeds of this play will go In aiding his Treatment.

"Lalithe ga - Kaadhu Geetha" a Hilarious comedy play written by MANCH Srikanth. This play "Lalithe ga?" is a comedy entertainer, revolving around few employees of an organisation including their Boss, who work towards making their acting passion take life, and rest of the story is how do they make it happen. Directed by Sai Krishna Dheram, and ennacted by Team MANCH. Do come and enjoy all the comic timing we take you through.

Donner passes: 100/-

For More details please reach out to 8125107626 or reach us @ www.facebook.com/manchtheatre

Cynotype is a photochemical process, which is the first ever photographic process which was invented in the year 1843, as the name implies cyno which means blue, this photographic process only give you blue and white, and there are tonnings,which helps you to get brown yellow and purple colour tones to the desired photograph.

Workshop Fee: Rs.1500. For registration contact: 7382454545

ROMANIAN CINEPHILES MONTH

This october, as part of the romanian film retrospective we(cinephiles film club) are planning to screen 4 critically acclaimed films from Romania , this is the second movie from the list, expected to be screened on second wednesday of this October.

Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu (original title)

<< In the film an old man (Ioan Fiscuteanu) is carried by an ambulance from hospital to hospital all night long, as doctors keep refusing to treat him and send him away. >>

Genre: Drama (Dark Comedy)

Please feel free to invite any guests along (you can use the "Facebook Invite" option on this event page to invite your friends)
Its a FREE event 🙂

Plan for the event:
1. Introduction to the film (10 minutes)
2. Screening @7:40 pm sharp (Runtime: 153 mins)
3. Post screening discussion (15 minutes)

This play will revolve around the funny family members with Hyderabadi dialect and
how they keep themselves busy with crazy and mad things. It will take you on the
laughter ride through the funny Nok-Jhok between the Husband, wife and a servant.
Beauty of the play will come out from the secret in last which will be revealed by the
Servant.

'IDEA OF INDIA’ is a talk series that intends to show India in a different perspective. The talk focuses on how ‘Idea of India’ was a powerful Idea that shaped the current world order economically, geographically, demographically, linguistically, culturally, etc.
How have we forgotten the relevance of ‘Idea Of India’ in building our country?
How ‘IDEA OF INDIA can be instrumental in solving the current world problems?
The speaker is Raghunandan Vadla who is the author of the book ‘The Great Indian Treasure’.
The author is on a quest to launch his book in all the continents and oceans. He succeeded in launching his book in Antarctica, South America, and the Southern Ocean.

A super fun way to teach your child to think out of the box! The Workshop consists of interesting logical games that keep your child wanting for more! The kids will be applying their mind to logical puzzles like gravity maze, brain builders, laser maze, logic links, iq twist and many more such.

Get your child to attend the workshop and see their confidence soar!

Age: 6 - 18 yrs

Fees: Rs.500.

Contact 9849820222 for details.

Write Club Hyderabad hosts an open writing session every Saturday to help the city embrace writing for art, expression and communication. We have over 1200 writers currently with each weekend session bringing forth many newbies to take up writing as a hobby or profession.

We are the Hyderabad Quora Community who gather periodically to meet and have discussions, healthy debates on multiple topics and socialize!

Evam Indrajeet - What would a writer do if one of his characters develops a mind of his own, when all other characters are perfectly happy going round and round within the boundaries that the writer has set for them? In “Evam Indrajit,” Badal Sircar’s abstract, semi-autobiographical play, a writer, who feels tortured by the need for creative expression in an undramatic world, tries to create a play with the audacious character, Indrajit, who “sees life realistically and dreams about it romantically.” His muse, Manasi, remains elusive, and the characters that he summons are mundane and undramatic, no different from the people around him.
Indrajit, created in the image of the writer himself, stands outside routine existence. Failing in his attempts at tying Indrajit to a plot, the writer faces a nightmarish writer’s block that pushes him into a moment of literary crisis. As he grapples with the existential crisis of Indrajit, we are presented at once with a macroscopic view of our own life, in which everything seems to be stuck in a repetitive loop, without purpose, without essence.“Evam Indrajit” is a timeless play that analyzes the question of identity, of the essence of life, against an apparently meaningless, existentialist backdrop. The audacious assertion of one’s identity, one’s essence, is what differentiates life from mere existence, random collections of particles of matter going round and round.

My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
Ma vie de Courgette (original title)
PG-13 | 1h 10min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Director: Claude Barras

A 9-year old boy's life is turned upside down when he is put in an orphanage. At the orphanage he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love. This Swiss-French stop motion animated film was screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated in 2 categories at last year's Oscars.

In memory of Shri Kundan Shah

Screening of Movie Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983)| 2h 12min | Comedy, Drama

In the movie, Two friends who are attempting to start-up their own photo studio, come across shady dealings and corruption.A corruption that is so manifestly present that the others do not seem to question its existence, but implicitly assume it and use it to serve their own ends. Two protagonist gets involved in the filth of corruption and they try to expose everyone involved but the question remains 'will they survive?'.This tragic-comedy directed by Late Kundan Shah is one of finest movies produced during the New Wave movement in Indian cinema. It was a time of rampant unemployment and the times of the angry young man standing for justice.

One can enjoy it for its comedy but hopefully, the viewers will also see the tragedy beneath the humor.

Culmination of an advanced workshop dealing with verbatim theatre.

Dramanon presents 'Long Story Short', A set of 6 short plays including a guest performance by Grim Pumpkin Productions as a part of the Theatre For A Cause initiative. We do hope to see you on the 15th of October, 2017 at Lamakaan supporting us all in the fight against cancer.

The plays:
1. Echo:
It begins as a usual day of auditions for a play. Enters an unusual candidate filled with hope. What we get is a unique premise for a plot. You have got to see it, to believe it!
Directed By: R K Shenoy
Cast: Harika Vedula, R K Shenoy & Adnan Hararwala

2. :Guinea pig
Can you open your eyes wide enough to look beyond just a bowl of soup? Are you bold enough to explore its various layers? Why don't you just take a sip, be careful, you might find a guinea pig!
An adaptation by RK Shenoy. Original play written by Preston Struges
Developed and performed by: RK Shenoy and Saurabh Sensharma

3. Absolution: A confession room, a school boy and a priest. They don't see each other, but they do 'look into' each other. Let's see what they find.
Written by:William Reynolds
Directed by: Saurabh Sensharma
Cast: Adity Roy Sinha and Vinay Abhishek

4. Work in Progress: By Grim Pumpkin productions.
What happens when two actors are stuck on stage? Do they know their lines? Are they following 'The Script'? Will they succumb to fate or will they revolt?
Written by: Sishir Chala & Abhinanda Banerjee
Directed by: Sishir Challa
Cast: Abhinanda Banerjee, Akshi Singh, Anmona Chaliha, Krishna Varma, Nayana Raj, Priyanshi Bahadur, Sishir Challa & Soori K

5. The Date
What happens when a daft Bengali guy turns up at a blind date? A play of nonsensical proportions. One of Dramanon longest running short plays.
Directed by RK Shenoy
Cast: Kanishka Dasgupta, RK Shenoy & Adity Roy Sinha.
6. Flushed. Can a innocent rubber condom be a tool of destruction of an ecological balance? Will that ideology be accepted or will it be flushed down the drain? Find out.
Original play by Alex Broun
Adapted and Directed by RK Shenoy
Cast: Harika Vedula and Rahul Ghosh

“Venezuela: the shadow agenda”: a film screening followed by a talk on
“Current Political Scenario in Venezuela” by Prof. S.S. Negi


Lamakaan invites you to an evening of film screening of “Venezuela: the shadow agenda” a documentary by Hernando Calvo Ospina and a talk on “Current Political scenario in Venezuela”, a first hand narration from Prof. S. S. Negi, who has recently returned from Caracas,Venezuela. Dr. V. K. Bawa, a senior retired IAS Officer from Hyderabad who has written extensively on a wide range of issues, including Latin America, will chair the programme.

The event ""Venezuela: the shadow agenda": a documentary by Hernando Calvo Ospina and Talk by Prof. S. S. Negi on Current Political Scenario in Venezuela" will have the following schedule:

07:00 pm, Film screening of “Venezuela: the shadow agenda”
07:40 pm, Talk by Prof. S. S. Negi
08:30 pm, Discussion with the panelists ( Hernando Calvo Ospina, S. S. Negi, V, K. Bawa)

"Venezuela: the shadow agenda" is a forty minutes long documentary with English subtitles by the Colombian filmmaker Hernando Calvo Ospina who will join us for discussion from France through Skype. It came out as recently as August 2017 and the cover page of the documentary says: "This documentary is not temporary. It will be valid as long as the United States persists in ending the Bolivarian Revolution that is being built in Venezuela, to seize its immense oil wealth. It is based on interviews with Venezuelan scholars who, in simple and didactic language, tell us a story that the mainstream media insist on hiding or misrepresenting." Ospina’s documentary helps us understand why Venezuela has been in news all over the world for a decently long time now. Its take differs from the supposed mainstream corporate media and is based on the interviews conducted with a variety of individuals from different walks of life. It also puts in the right perspective the way US administration has shown interest in the internal affairs of Venezuela. The film screening will be followed by a lecture on Venezuela’s current political scenario with Prof. S. S. Negi, who teaches at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Negi specializes in Latin American Studies and he represented India at the recently concluded International Summit of Solidarity with Venezuela, which took place in Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela from 16th to 19th September 2017.

Entry is free for all!

ROMANIAN CINEPHILES MONTH
This october, as part of the romanian film retrospective we(cinephiles film club) are planning to screen 4 critically acclaimed films from Romania , this is the third movie from the list, expected to be screened on third wednesday of this October .

olitist, adjectiv (original title)

<< The movie focuses on policeman Cristi, who is investigating a teenage boy who has been smoking hashish. >>

Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama

Please feel free to invite any guests along (you can use the "Facebook Invite" option on this event page to invite your friends)
Its a FREE event 🙂

Plan for the event:
1. Introduction to the film (10 minutes)
2. Screening @7:40 pm sharp (Runtime: 115 mins)
3. Post screening discussion (15 minutes)