Paradigm Shift in Science & Technology is needed is something that everyone except those working in the area of Science & Technology understand much better. Eminent Scholar and one of our most powerful orators today, Dr. Vandana Shiva is in Chennai this weekend talking on the subject. Don't miss this lecture, especially so if you haven't listened to her before. Dr. C V Seshadri was a maverick scientist who worked with people friendly and people oriented technologies in the 80s and early 90s in this very city. Many of the later generations may not know of him and some of his work which have become even more relevant today. Through this lectures, an institutions that he built brings annually some very interesting speakers and speeches.