Anantha Research Foundation and its activities.

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Dear BhakthAs :

 

I am copying you on a private note form Professor AzhwAr

of Mysore , who is actively involved in a noble

Kaimkaryam of outreach to overseas Sri VaishNavAs

to help them understand our glorious sampradhAyam .

This multimedia based approach is an excellent one

that merits strong support from all of us .

 

Please send me private mail on your interest to

particpate in helping this kaimkaryam .Extremely

competent scholars are particpating in

this endeavour . I think that we can support

this outreach effort thru personal

persuasions during visits to our temples .

 

The USA Temple Council headed by Dr.Mysorekar

and supported by all the temples of this country

should be able to support .

 

I need a set of volunteers to join me in

helping the noble efforts of Ananatha Research

Foundation . Please let me know of your interests

to help . Thanks very much .

 

V.Sadagopan

 

Anantha Research Foundation

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>Anantha Research Foundation is an organization devoted to the research

>and propagation of Indian Culture and Heritage in general and

>Srivaisnavism in particular. It has been functioning unofficially for

>the last few years by arranging lectures in different places within South

>India to create awareness among people about the above-mentioned topics.

>From the feedback the Foundation has been receiving from the people

>attending its programs, it is being known that Non-Resident Indians

>(NRIs) are in need of such programs to the maximum extent and that too in

>the immediate future, lest the young NRI generation would lose its

>cultural roots. Many such NRIs have evinced keen interest and

>appreciated the activities of the Foundation while also promising help to

>further the causes the Foundation is pursuing.

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>Recently, in an attempt to broad base and give a fillip to its proposed

>objectives, the Foundation has embarked on a wide-ranging series of

>programs. For the last few months the Foundation has been doing

>extensive research to find out innovative and thought-provoking means to

>achieve its objectives. It would not be inappropriate to claim that the

>Foundation has been quite successful in unearthing such means. Of the

>many means that the Foundation has selected to resort to, to achieve its

>objectives, the medium of computers using all the facilities like

>Multi-Media(MM) has emerged as the premier means to be used by the

>Foundation to carry out its programs mainly outside India where resource

>persons helping the Foundation are unable to be physically present due

>to various factors.

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>Recently the Foundation has taken up a project to educate the NRIs

>interested in learning more about Srivaisnavism. The project intends to

>develop a series of MM packages (to be delivered in CD-ROMs) covering the

>various aspects of Srivaisnavism. At present the material that is to

>form the content of these packages are ready, which have been provided by

>a team of erudite and versatile scholars who have very kindly consented

>to be on the Foundation's panel of Resource persons. The Foundation also

>has at its disposal an efficient team of computer engineers well versed

>in MM, graphic designers, artists, audio and video experts. It has made

>arrangements to equip itself with a full-fledged MM studio required to

>develop MM programs.

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>The first project in this series is on Bhagavan Ramanuja. It proposes to

>enlighten the users to know more about Ramanujacharya, our premier

>Acarya, which includes the details of His appearance on this earth, His

>achievements, a brief description of His entire works with the originals,

>and other necessary details. According to the Srivaisnava tradition, any

>person who is a Srivaisnava or interested in knowing about Srivaisnavism

>has to first try to acquire knowledge about our Acaryas, and also about

>their greatness. This knowledge would form the foundation on which their

>information about Srivaisnavism is going to be built.

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>At present a demo-version of this package is ready with the Foundation.

>This may be of use to gauge the opinions of the users interested in this

>package. The Foundation by showing this demo-version (as it is clear by

>the name itself), intends to get the feedback regarding all aspects of

>the package from potential users.

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>As of now, the Foundation, even though rich in its ideas and the resource

>persons giving them, is short of funds to develop the package on its own

>and distribute it to interested persons. Since the Foundation is a

>non-profit-organization, it would not like to market the package as a

>commercial one. In fact it is only as a service to Srivaisnavism that it

>has embarked on this project.

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>If you are interested in the completion of this project the Foundation

>will send you a copy of the demo-version on a CD-ROM, which may be

>returned immediately after viewing (i.e. within a week). Afterwards the

>Foundation will correspond with you and give you the details of the costs

>that are involved. It is to be noted that the Foundation intends to

>execute the project at cost. Further discussions can be held by e-mail.

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>A list of the Resource persons associated with Anantha Research

>Foundation is given herewith.

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>Resource Persons associated with Anantha Research Foundation

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>1. PanditaRathnam K.S.Vardacharya, Melkote, Karnataka, South India.

>2. Prof M.A.Lakshmi Thathachar, Director, Academy of Sanskrit Research,

>Melkote, Karnataka, South India.

>3. Vidvan Areyar Srirama Sarma, Melkote, Karnataka, South India.

>4. Vidvan N. Viraraghavacharya, Melkote, Karnataka, South India.

>5. Dr. M.A. Venkatakrishnan, Madras, Tamil Nadu, South India.

>6. Vidvan Velukkudi V.Krishnan, Madras, Tamil Nadu, South India.

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