December 26, 2007 Fusic, Festival of Fusion Music in memory of Tsunami December 15 - 30, 2007 Poetry with Prakriti: At multiple venues across Chennai city December 14, 2007, 6 pm "Seeing the Bhakti Movement", a talk by John Stratton Hawley, Professor, Department of Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University December 8, 2007 Prakriti Foundation in association with Ashvita and Tara Publishing present Book launch and exhibition of original art from The 9 Emotions of Indian Cinema Hoardings December 2-6, 2007 Prakriti Foundation's The New Festival 2007 November 6, 2007, 7 pm Goethe Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan and Prakriti Foundation present An evening of electronic music by Lychee Lassi, Germany and Jalebee Cartel, India November 4, 2007 'Images of a Forgotten Pantheon', an illustrated talk by Naman Ahuja September 28, 2007 "The Roots of South Indian Cinema: The Silent Era", a talk and a film clipping by S.Theodore Baskaran September 8, 2007 Alliance Francaise of Madras in association with the French Emassy in India, Prakriti foundation and the Taj Connemara presented Fusion of Classical Guitar and Kachhapi Veena by Philippe Loli and Thakur Chakrapani Singh August 31, 2007 the first annual Dr.D.Dennis Hudson Memorial Lecture "Haunted by Compassion - Vedanta Desika's Daya Sataka" by Dr. David Shulman August 25, 2007 "Devadasis of Madras" by V. Sriram August 15 - 19, 2007 One Billioneyes - annual Indian documentary film festival, in association with Alliance Francaise Theme for 2007: Caste July 22, 2007 at 11 am An illustrated talk by Dr.Srilata Raman on "Self Surrender (Prapatti) to God in Srivaishnavism" Tamil Cats and Sanskrit Monkeys July 20, 2007 at 7 pm An illustrated talk by Dr.Christoph Emmrich on Fruit, Ghost and Brick (The Many Marraiges of Newar Women) July 12, 2007 at 6.30 pm "Last Bus to Vasco": Poems from Goa by Brian Mendonca June 30, 2007 at 7 pm an illustrated interaction with Azhar Tyabji, author of "BHUJ: Art, Architecture, History" June 15, 2007 at 7 pm a panel discussion on "Politics and policing in the arts" with Geetha Doctor, Leela Samson, Kutti Revathy, Vasudha Thozhur and you May 25, 2007 at 7 pm Teaching Cross-Cultural Perspectives to American Students: A Window into an American Classroom May 4, 2007 at 7 pm Piano recital by Amba Punjabi March 30, 31 and April 1st 2007 at 7 pm "Gharana" Music Festival March 16 - 18, 2007 Stree Sharira: Exploring Sites of Women's Sexuality February 23, 24 25, 2007 Hamara Shakespeare Festival January 15 - 20 Tree of Life Festival Nature, Chennai, us. www.treeoflifefestival.com