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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1570791095191","data":"October 11 is an important day for the LGBT community globally, as it is the International Coming Out Day. On this occassion, I spoke to Mobbera Foundation, a Hyderabad based NGO that works towards building awareness about the LGBT community. Started in 2015 by IT employees Sandy and Anil Kohli, this organisation primarily focuses on awareness, trans-health and trans-education.<\/p> The beginning of the organisation is interesting, as Sandy explains, \u201cI came to this city in 2013 and I got involved with activities of the Queer Campus Hyderabad (QCH). Later I realised QCH isn\u2019t into activism, nor does it entertain legal issues and I felt the need for an organisation that is into these. My friend Anil Kohli and I discussed about this and we decided to start Mobbera.\u201d But why the name Mobbera? \u201cWe started with flash mobs and we decided spreading awareness in an era through mobs, so the name is a play on combining mob and era,\u201d explais Sandy.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1570791095192","data":"The awareness events conducted by them include a free hugs event - Queer Hugs, a Queer Potluck and Guftagoo, a panel discussion kind of an event where various social aspects are discussed. Apart from these, volunteers from the NGO also have a benefaction club through which they go to different orphanages and old age homes and provide basic groceries for a month in addition to spending time with them to share love.<\/p> In addition to organising events, the NGO is also into helping out members of the LGBT community in legal aspects as they also have lawyers supporting them. \u201cThere are many instances when we get calls from people being harassed by their family or society. There was one guy from Chennai who was being harassed for being gay and then there was a lesbian couple who ran away from home but the families complained to the police. We help people out in these aspects.\u201d <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1570791095193","data":"Mobbera was registered as an NGO in January 2018 and since then, it started gaining popularity and they were even approached by students who wanted to intern and research about the LGBT community.<\/p> While activism for the LGB community is on one hand, educating and ensuring sustenance for the Trans community is the other activity that the organisation is aiming to work on. \u201cWe tied up with a couple of supermarkets which are now ready to hire trans\/hijra people but they said they will hire these people if they have the necessary soft skills to deal with customers. Now there\u2019s a huge perception surrounding the behaviour of the hijra community and that is the main reason why people don\u2019t give them jobs. To tackle that, we are now conducting soft skills and personality development classes for the hijra community,\u201d shares Sandy. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1570791095194","data":"As it turns out, there are several students who are a part of the NGO, actively involved in spreading awareness and other activities that the NGO does, with a few engineering and management students who are also among the board members of the organisation.  <\/p>"}]

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1570705769675","data":"Rap as a form of music is known for its catchy rhythm and for the message that rap songs usually carry with them. As a genre of music, it is popular globally and in the past decade or so, it is catching up even in Indian languages as Indian rappers are increasingly coming up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stumagz.com\/meet-pranav-chaganty-our-own-telugu-rapper\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pranav Chaganty<\/a> is one such rapper, who raps in Telugu and he is known for his experiments with the genre, blending Telugu poetry with it. Having been active for a couple of years now and also having the credit of belting out full length rap tracks for films like Kaala, Pranav now did something that, according to him, is the first such attempt in the world - writing an entire Telugu rap song using just two letters, Na and Ma.<\/p>\"Dvyakshari is a form of poetry wherein only two letters are used and it has been seen many times in ancient Telugu poetry and when I came across those poems, I was fascinated by it and I wanted to attempt writing a full-fledged song using just two letters,\" explains Pranav, about the idea behind attempting something like this, adding, \"The old poetry is usually religious in nature, in praise of a deity. I wanted to convey an issue that people of my generation face and would find relatable to and that is why I took the concept of love and wrote this song.\"<\/p>According to him, it is something that hasn't been done in the world so far and according to him, it is something that Telugu perfectly lets one attempt. \"There's a certain beauty in Telugu and I feel Telugu has the perfect rhythm required for rap. These aspects of Telugu in conjunction with the vocabulary of this language makes it apt to attempt a challenge like this,\" says the rapper who took six intense hours to write this song. <\/p>With this song, Pranav attempted something else that he didn't do before, as he shares, \"This song also has subtitles in English that were written in a poetic way by Megh-uh-watt. The reason behind us taking care to ensure the poetic essence is not lost in translation is because I want to globalise Telugu rap and even if a person on the other side of the planet watches this, I want it to make sense for them.\"<\/p>Another interesting aspect about this video is that this doesn't feature any instruments as the background music is completely done by Waseem, a beatboxer. \"I wanted to incorporate all elements of hiphop into this video. That's why I added beatboxing, street-art, graffiti and more. I actually wanted Waseem to be a part of the video but he had an accident before the shoot and he was recovering from it. But he did a great job with the beatboxing,\" shares Pranav who self-funded this video.<\/p>"},{"type":"youtube","id":"vid-url-1570705769676","data":"tfdyjUwGyFk"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1570705769677","data":"A couple of months ago, Pranav Chaganty was one of the speakers at stuMagz FYI, where he spoke about his journey into the world of Telugu rap. Check out his FYI video below.<\/p>"},{"type":"youtube","id":"vid-url-1570705769678","data":"Wtwl62HpWWY"}]

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