Chennai Times

Prakriti Foundation presents One Billion Eyes Indian Documentary Film Festival 2011 with the theme Gandhi, August 15 – 19, 6 – 9 pm at The Alliance Francaise, College Road, Chennai.  Please see below the schedule and make it for as many screenings and events as possible. Please also share with your circle of friends and family. Best Wishes, V.R.Devika 15/8/11 Screening Gandhi: The 20th Century Prophet” - Part I A.K.Chettiar -40 mins Performance  : ‘ soaked-stretched-submerged: a cross media choreo-poem ’ Directed by Parnab Mukherjee Gandhi: The 20th Century Prophet - Part II A.K.Chettiar -40 mins 16/8/11 Screening of 1.M.G.Road- Pravin Mishra - 32 Mins 2.A season Outside - Amar Kanwar - 30 mins ‘Why is Gandhi COOL even today?’  panel discussion with A.Annamalai (Gandhi Study Centre), Ram Subramaniam (Samanvaya),  Panneerselvam (Panos), V.R.Devika (The Aseema Trust) Moderated by Ranvir Shah (Prakriti Foundation) 3.I Found a Th...

The SAGE and Tamilnadu Women's Collective are organizing  a protest in front of the Memorial Hall (opp. the Government General Hospital) today (9th Aug 2011) between 4 and  5 p.m. as part of the national campaign against Monsato - Quit India Monsanto campaign. I have lived in Chennai most of my life. I am 40+ today. I have seen the changes in the habits of eating, food, availability of food, eateries and choices of food in this city in the last three decades of active memory about food. When we were kids, milk was available from the man who used to bring cows, tie them in front of our house and then milk them in front of us. That gave way to bottles with aluminium foil on top and later to the plastic sheets in which milk is supplied till date. Most of the next generations born and brought up in the city haven't seen the way a cow is prepared before the milking or the milking process itself. Now cows in Chennai are relegated to some distant corner of the city. They were...