Friday Fundas
Our regular speaker and performer series in Vikhroli has become a popular fixture on Mumbai’s event calendar. Join us on select Fridays of the month for these events and tell your friends about them as well. Most of our events are open to the public with RSVP.
Ek Madhav Baug
Ek Madhav Baug is a pioneering Marathi language play by the late Chetan Datar that was enacted on stage by Mona Ambegaonkar in Hindi. (It has been translated into Hindi by Mona Ambegaonkar and Vivek Anand.) The play is seen from the point of view of a mother who discovers that her son is gay and through his diary, relives his journey of discovery of his own sexuality. The moving performance at Godrej India Culture Lab was followed by a discussion with...24 August 2012
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Ramya Pandyan is a suburban Mumbaiker whose lifeline is inextricably linked to the smooth functioning of the railway lines. Spreadsheets and presentations govern her day as a business analyst. She just about manages to squeeze in a few pages of reading in between stations. But in her online avatar as IdeaSmith, Ramya navigates exciting experiences and colourful conversations every day. Armed with Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Wordpress, she talks about life, love, art, fiction, womanhood, the workplace and the city that she calls...3 August 2012
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Ambassador Deo has a Master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics. A distinguished diplomat, she has been the Indian Ambassador to Denmark and Ivory Coast with concurrent accreditation to several West African countries. She has also served in Indian embassies in Washington D.C., Bangkok and Rome. Her most recent assignment was as Consul General in New York. During her assignments in the Ministry of External Affairs, she was Joint Secretary for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and the Maldives.20 July 2012
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Venkatesh Hariharan (Venky) is the Director of Knowledge Commons, a non-profit that works on open access to knowledge. Before entering the non-profit world, he was the Head of Public Policy at Google India, the Corporate Affairs Director at Red Hat and the Executive Editor of Express Computer. Venky was the first Indian to be selected for the prestigious Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. He is interested in the intersection of technology, policy and society. Over the last few years, Open Source has emerged...6 July 2012
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Young British born theatre-maker Kati Francis graduated in Theatre and Performance from the University of Cape Town in 2006 and returned from South Africa to the UK, questioning the space for traditional theatre within a globalised, media-tech world hiding in black boxes for the middle classes. Her work expanded into community settings from schools to youth offending units as a freelance drama facilitator, including co-facilitating the refugee outreach programme at the Tricycle Theatre, London. In 2010 Kati received funding for a Masters in Applied Theatre...15 June 2012
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Mumbai born Jaideep Sippy is the founder and CEO of the Style Kitchen – a start up wellness company. He is an avid foodie and is a hotel management and business graduate. Prior to stating the Style Kitchen he held senior positions at Louis Vuitton and Gucci. In this special funda he spoke about how you can eat healthy and be happy. He also shed light on his venture Missisippy11 May 2012
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This was a special evening of history, nostalgia and discussion about Bollywood through the lens of the Bollywood biography. 27 April 2012
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Anirban Mukherjee is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Consulting for Futurebrands. He has close to two decades of professional experience as a strategist, first in advertising and now as the head of Futurebrand’s consulting practice. Over many years of developing a diverse portfolio of brands for corporations, he has learnt one thing, and that is:“Culture has strategy for breakfast!” Anirban's interest in studying culture and love for travel have come together in his work which involves immersion in people’s lives, in understanding...23 March 2012
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