iyengar teenage youth forum needed

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Dear Bhaghavatas:

While this is a good topic, I do not wish to make "Sri Ranga Sri" a forum for

discussion of various views, the pros and cons of proposals and counter

proposals. All discussions may be done in private mails. You may mark a copy to

my personal email id Ramanbil for my information and inputs. We can

go public if and when some concrete plan gets in place. Thank you for your

understanding and co-operation.

Moderator

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Asmad gurubhyo namah,

 

 

 

Dear friends,

 

 

 

This article is sort of related to all of us and may not be exactly a fit

for this group. I will post this only once because it is very appropriate

for this group to help out in this aspect. This definitely will affect

everyone of us in this group and may very well affect the very existence of

this group in the long term.

 

 

I request you all to help out to create a forum for teenagers of our

community to know each other via an internet forum. All I am suggesting is

to open communication and get to know each other. I request you all to think

about what kind of forum or a user group needs to be created to foster this

kind of interactions between the youngsters. I have requested Mani

Varadarajan to suggest some ideas or enlist some people. Since he may have

very little time, I suggest some one else to come forward to lead this

initiative.

 

 

 

I am not suggesting any off colour forum like a dating site etc. But

definitely this new forum is to create open communications between youth so

that this could one day be a barrier in some form against increased

instances of people marrying outside our community. Please don't politicize

or mistake what I am indicating. Just like how Jews get together by

organizing Jewish forums, which may be on internet or community events, I

like to suggest that srivaishnavas should have a similar group / set of

events for youngsters in particular.

 

 

 

If need be, please create another discussion user group to discuss this

matter over internet, if it is inappropriate to have a continued discussion

regarding this.

 

 

 

I know that NAMA once wanted to do something like this and I don't know what

happened to that idea. I hope NAMA folks on this group can do something

about it.

 

 

 

Once upon a time Bhakti list clearly united us as a community. But there was

nothing specific to youngsters. We need a group for youngsters to get to

know each other, without adults imposing on them, so that they have freedom.

I suggest that the nature of this group should evolve naturally and need not

be curtailed by anyone. Only then will the youngsters feel comfortable. This

may be of the form of a "chat group" or an IM group or bloggers group. It

need not be a simple email forum.

 

 

 

I like to enlist some computer experts, volunteers etc. to help out and

create this forum as a service to everyone.

 

 

 

We may want to create a separate user group to discuss the logistics of such

a group / forum for youngsters. I request everyone sincerely to please help

out to set this up quickly.

 

 

 

I am hoping to get some active volunteers and some quick action.

 

 

 

Adiyen,

 

 

 

Krishna Kashyap