Chennai Times

if you are in Chennai on the 14th wednesday and can spare the time, please do make it for the screening of this amazing documentary that brings together the tradition of Draupadi in the northern tamilnadu villages.

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. 

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...

Raghu ( natwesthomes@gmail.com  / 09840922400) coordinates a network of volunteers who give time supplementary education of students in the  Ramakrishna Vivekananda Student's Home, Mylapore .  He is seeking volunteers who could be part of the language skills development for diploma students in the Home. The classes will happen on weekends, 10 - 12 noon. Volunteers could either teach functional english / communicative language teaching or even be part of language laboratory to facilitate the audio-video usage by the students. Volunteers can be accommodated based on their own availability for either one or two days. English language teachers are welcome as volunteers for this purpose.  Please get in touch with Raghu for details.

Like me if you too have missed the Drive-in Woodlands for its yummy food, here is another opportunity. SFA is holding its organic food mela in the old drive-in woodlands (new Semmozhi Poonga) on 19th, if you are in the city and want to help yourself with some healthy food, do visit and benefit.  ----------------------------------------------------------------- SAFE FOOD ALLIANCE (SFA) Invites you to AN ORGANIC MELA AT SEMMOZHI POONGA, CHENNAI ON SATURDAY MARCH 19 TH  2011 TIME: 3pm to 8pm Do you believe that your right to safe food is a basic right and the very food that you eat to sustain yourself should not become toxic and hazardous? COME, LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS IN THIS  ORGANIC MELA The event is being organized to mark the occasion of  World Consumers Day  (March 15 th ). This year, SFA and many other organizations have joined together to highlight ·          Consumer’s Right to Safe Food: Many proposals to introdu...

The Stella Maris College in Chennai City has a new first. It has made the College Council election fully automated and  paper free. "We wanted to reduce the wastage of paper and the unnecessary energy associated with the polling and counting of votes", said the Principal, Prof Sr Jesinthan Quadras in a conversation. "So,we requested the computer science department to develop a software through which the entire process can be computerized".  She says that though this could have been thought before, now, it has become more possible as there is adequate infrastructure as computers available within the college. Result: Each department spent 15 minutes to finish the polling with the department heads facilitating the verification, the poll results were known instantly after the last poll was cast and the entire election process became a smooth operation with no paper work, no over worked faculty and no unnecessary litter in the campus.  "To ensure there wasn'...