Tuesday, December 7, 2010

ARTICLE BY DR. GOPALAKRISHNAN NEW CHAIRMAN OF TATA GROUP.

ARTICLE BY DR. GOPALAKRISHNAN NEW CHAIRMAN OF TATA GROUP.

Dr. Gopalakrishnan succeeds Mr. Ratan Tata as Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd.,
the holding company for many of the Tata Bluechips like Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Voltas, etc. Possibly, he is the first
non-Tata person to head the Tata Empire. The article below has been written
by him and I want to share it with you all.

Quote:
The grass isn't always greener
on the other side!! Move from one job to another, but only for the right
reasons.
"It's
yet another day at office. As I logged on to the marketing and advertising
sites for the latest updates, as usual, I found the headlines dominated
by 'who's moving from one company to another after a short stint, and I
wondered, why are so many people leaving one job for another?
Is it passé now to work with just one company for a sufficiently long period?
Whenever I ask this question to people who leave a company, the answers I get are: "Oh, I am
getting a 200% hike in salary"; "Well, I am jumping three
levels in my designation"; "Well, they are going to send
me abroad in six months".
Then, I look around at all the people who are considered successful today and who have reached the
top - be it in a media agency, an advertising agency or a company. I find
that most of these people are the ones who have stuck to the company, ground
their heels and worked their way to the top. And, as I look around for
people who changed their jobs constantly, I find they have stagnated at
some level, in obscurity!
In this absolutely ruthless, dynamic and competitive environment, there are still no short cuts to success
or to making money.
The only thing that continues to pay, as earlier, is loyalty and hard work.
Yes, it pays! Sometimes immediately, sometimes after a lot of time. But,
it does pay.
Does this mean that one should stick to an organization and wait for that golden moment? Of course not.
After a long stint, there always comes a time for moving in most organizations,
but it is important to move for the right reasons, rather than superficial
ones, like money, designation or an overseas trip.
Remember,
no company recruits for charity. More often than not, when you are offered
an unseemly hike in salary or designation that is disproportionate to what
that company offers it current employees, there is always unseen bait attached.
The result? You will, in the long-term, have reached exactly the same levels
or maybe lower levels than what you would have in your current company.
A lot of people leave an organization because they are "unhappy".
What is this so-called-unhappiness? I have been working for donkey's years
and there has never been a day when I am not unhappy about something in
my work environment-boss, rude colleague, fussy clients etc.
Unhappiness in a workplace, to a large extent, is transient.
If you look hard enough, there is always something to be unhappy about. But,
more importantly; do I come to work to be "happy" in the truest
sense? If I think hard, the answer is "No".
Happiness is something you find with family, friends, may be a close circle of colleagues
who have become friends.
What you come to work for is to earn, build a reputation, satisfy your ambitions,
be appreciated for your work ethics, face challenges and get the job done.
So, the next time you are tempted to move, ask yourself why are you moving
and what are you moving into?
Some questions are:
* Am I ready and capable of handling the new responsibility? If yes , what could be the possible reasons
my current company has not offered me the same responsibility?

* Who are the people who currently handle this responsibility in the current and new company? Am I as good
as the best among them?

* As the new job offer has a different profile, why have I not given the current company the option
to offer me this profile?

* Why is the new company offering me the job? Do they want me for my skills, or is there an ulterior motive?

An honest answer to these will eventually decide where you go in your career - to the top of the
pile in the long term (at the cost of short- term blips) or to become another
average employee who gets lost with time in the wilderness?

"DESERVE BEFORE YOU DESIRE"

Dr. R. Gopalkrishnan
Chairman
TATA Ltd.

Sent for your information and comments.

COURTESY:

Mr.K.N.Sarma
Dombivli-west
09833270464

kalahasti nageswara sarma

Spirituality for Our Salvation & to Save Earth for Future


Hari! Om!

Its been wonderful to catch-up with old mates, old associates, old friends etc. through Facebook, when the association is almost @ at verge of going into the oblivion.

Frankly, that’s the blessing in disguise biased to us Humans, by the Almighty, the attribute of fading & recurring memory. In a way we are all “Gajinis”. As otherwise we would keep lingering in our pasts and not enter the present. No way to think of future. The gift given is for us to let alone the negative aspects but not the rest.

Anyway, now Facebook has taken the role to get us back to the old for the remembrance of the past and also develop new associates to update ourselves with the latest. Friends! But watch out for the Negatives in it. Keep it out of the Children, below 20 years, in my opinion. Many of you may opine, it should be even less  or much more, influenced by your own mind sets or prejudices. I am aware, the population of aged 20 and less are much more than the rest on the Facebook.

Well! Actually, I have been in interaction with a Group, creating Community Oneness awareness. I felt certain aspects relevant to all in common, should be shared with, now that I have many friends, out of the particular group. Of course, its quite possible that what I want to share may not be new to many of us. But definitely, it gives me an opportunity to open out for more interaction or revive my concerns.

Human Relations, is one that is of paramount importance to us, especially in the ever densely populating world. Its an age old focal aspect of Spirituality, that  is long lost in time. However, thanks to a few truly aware, that in this timeless time of people, caught-up with so called modern aspects, we can still catch-up with our will, to raise ourselves up to the level of human status and maintain Human Relations, without fear of Royalty, for use as patent. Thank Heavens! Human Relations is universal, beyond diverse of the diverse of the NOW unrestricted Universe and not a geographical acclaim for patents to exchange hands for a song.

Its’ an observation, that the last decade of the 3rd millennium has somehow been a period where we all don’t have time  for anything. I wonder, then what do we have time for. There are so many aspects in our lives that we need to give a balanced importance or preference for a peaceful, contented & satisfied co-existence. However, we all have no clue as to why we have ACTULLY come into this world. With this negative back lift we are aimlessly adding worldly attachments of riches, pride, prestige, power, movables, immovables’ and what not, putting also the Mother Nature to stake. We are only achieving Kyoto, Copenhagen, Cancun and so on, only increasing the counts of the number of summits etc etc probably to compete with exponential  population of the  concrete world.

Obviously, we are ending up dissatisfied, un-contented & tormented. I suggest we all should turn back spiritual in our lives, regard all aspects of our lives, give equal time to everything without attachments & possessions, regard value for Environment and make our lives more objective.  And then, let us see, who can say that we cannot be happy, peaceful, contented or satisfied to the core.

We are circled around by unspiritual practices as terrorism, perennial border  disputes & conflicts, recessions, joblessness, Poverty, man-made natural calamities, planet concreting, carbon “monoxing”, states bifurcations, extinction of the flora & fauna, Problems with & without water in devastating floods & draught, A single highest importer of Gold in the world only for ornaments etc. Publicity of analysis & statistics of corruptions & scams in and around and socio-cultural-technological invasions well across the Globe, discriminations  based on so called well developed, developed, third world and underdeveloped countries are all not very spiritual.

When we talk of spirituality, the common perception of the so called educated young among us, is: A pass time and a Companion of the Senior Citizens in the confines of their retired or old age homes OR an apprenticeship to the same on how to lead life, mould themselves, or to preach what was not practiced.

Another perception, especially of the lot in pursuit of material needs and pleasures, is the physical renunciation of all material world & to settle down at Himalayas or other Mountain Forests   in ochre robes. Its all a misnomer. In actual the pass time perception is an absurdity, as what one can achieve by learning to lead or mould life in old age. Of course, it could definitely be a good companion in the loneliness of age.

On the ochre robes and renunciation, “to prove whom, the showbiz?” is my question. And nothing one can renounce, physically, WE WOULD NOT and MENTALLY WE CANNOT. Even our body, at the final summon. That’s the reason we get messages to be spiritual and ever ready to take the call and leave contented, to not come back.

Standing at the median on the busiest streets of New York, or in the midst of crowded youth in a pub or a disco club with music going at 4000w, too one can still be spiritual. These are very gross examples to drive home the point, so Friends! Please don’t get carried away with them or take them literally. Therefore, we all definitely need to get back to spirituality.

Conventions, rule books, laws of our times are primarily an external disciplining instruments or guides and are not by themselves anything of value, without the spirituality. The eternal spiritual values are referred everywhere. The rules are time relative and therefore are not very relevant and are superfluous, if attempted to relate. They divert our focus from the higher into only material pursuits. They siphon out the very basic attribute of internal and self-discipline, to reach our higher ideal. The Ultimate yardstick is our conscious, which will be always with us, watching us, as a silent spectator and only suggests pointers at crucial juncture.

The advantage of the conventions, rule books etc is it brings in challenges for us to confront but with the back-up strength of the Spirituality. Without this advantage, the inherent talents or zeal are not manifested in complete to exhaust the urge or desires in our life pursuits. Friends! We therefore need to handle this very carefully with an act of objectivity and not get too involved in it. The eternal spiritual values give us this.

Spirituality is a philosophy and involves deep study or insight, that is very well possible for any level(IQ) of Human Being to inculcate or develop, as only Humans have the spiritual orientation, predominantly. Any true, learned philosopher on any subject, name it, Science, Humanities, Religion, whatsoever, can vouch for this.

I don’t know how many of us have gone into deep study or are a philosopher. Definitely, I am still not one and have also not studied any subject to its true depths. But  I am in constant and sincere pursuit of one and have clearly understood that the more deep we try to get into, the more is the depth, it’s like the Black Hole.

One may ask then why at all we should study, prima fascia. Well, as Human Beings we have right on choice of action, unlike other animals. Alas! On spiritual pursuits we do not have the choice, we have to pursue to go higher for eternal peace & bliss. In fact by default, we do pursue, unawares. ITS ONLY THAT THIS PURSUIT SHOULD BE WITH A TOTAL AWARENESS, THAT’S THE CATCH HERE.

From the time we are born in this world or even before, we are already in an involuntary pursuit. As we grow to maturity we refine in our thoughts with our 3 instruments but coming in contact with the conditioned world, get entangled into it and forget, like “Gajini”, the spiritual pursuit, thus, invariably, tend not to apply the refinement.

A baby in the Mother’s womb or a new born baby, are in my opinion or observation highly objective and spiritual. An old man or lady minus his  or her attachments of the world (people, so called belongings etc.) are also spiritual. Again just examples.

The attachments with the world are the cause( anything for that matter) and the agitations or disturbances are the effect, is one such pointer to wake us up in the path of spirituality. Caution!! Yet, spirituality  is the most vulnerable of all Human pursuits.

Religion is often construed for spirituality. Religion, from my observation is the highest path  in spiritual pursuit. The top flight of stairs or the rung of the ladder is of Religion. On reading this immediately, we would want to choose religion, as we are always in a hurry, want the short cut to reach the goal, without putting any effort, typical human psychology starts manifesting. WATCH OUT again, Religion is the tedious path on the spiritual pursuit, from my observation. Apparently, this seems negative but the positive secret here is, the spirit in us is eager to join back. So no worry, that is human nature. Let us keep the eagerness as a pointer and follow our pursuit through our individual nature, ie. Swadharma. Only after all the refinements through other spiritual paths, that the path of religion comes, it is a total surrender without any inhibitions, conditions, whatsoever.It is a testing path.A failure here, means, start all over again. There are also other views that, we can start-off from where we failed.

We all must have heard of a very few Gifted Souls, who were spiritual enlightened through the path of the religion. Try and understand what is our path from the experiences in our life, be objective & alert, have judicious control over the emotions, be de-attached, of charitable disposition, open mindedness, be contemplative (not physically, but mentally, anywhere in doubt). Some tips that I could think of.

Readers, thanks for giving a patient reading. I look forward for open comments, suggestion, advice, criticism to improve or refine upon my posts.

The language of this piece is a little uncommon but humble and yet aggressive attempt to wake-up with a jolt the readership and thus the mankind to focus on higher and nobler thoughts & deeds.

Hari! Om!

Friday, December 3, 2010

Awareness Response among PDs

Hari! Om!

Dear PDs'

Very happy to hear of the overwhelming response to the wake-up call for PDs to get together. I have observed mixed response of enthusiasm, frustration, indifference, wisdom etc etc, apparently  due to individual and group experiences.I am sure anyone or everyone would agree that one should have a clarity of thought, goal, the path and the action. This unique process chain applies to every aspect of life and thus applies here as well. This is nothing new and definitely we are well aware and many of us may even be capable of debating, lecturing or even researching on this subject.

The catch is the emotion, the character of the mind, takes control of  the intellect and with its various attachments  turns the intellect into an invalid (incapable to analyze,rationalize, contemplate or decide)and there comes the litmus test. Even the most enlightened of the souls are susceptible to this.This is not to discourage but is only to caution in our path to reach our goal.

I pray to all the PD Community including me as I am keying in this piece, to have this jotted down in their minds clearly prior to getting into the process. Further any sort of attachment to any part of the process is detrimental. The thought of not having attachment can by itself turn into an attachment. Thus we need to be very careful.

With the above introduction, when we talk of forming friends, groups, associations, which is our mutual interest. Firstly, we need to question ourselves including myself, is forming all these and generating a member strength our goal or do we have an ultimate goal or a long vision? When we have the answer to this we automatically proceed further, that is the power of the mind / intellect. If we dont get an answer for ourselves, means we are puzzled and are circling in a whirl pool. This happens when we are driven by the emotions of our mind to act.

Next, we need to be very clear of the ground realities and superimpose our goal with the reality and look for the vision, then plan the action and proceed in the chosen path without any attachments at the start or en-route. Its like the jobs of an Architect and a Civil Engineer or Builders.

I would like to make it clear that, I am not averse to forming or maintaining these associations. In fact I am mighty encouraged and inspired to hear so many people aware of the need of true associations and initiating actions.If, we attach ourselves to anything, that's it we are gone. But one thing, Wonder of Wonders!! no words to express, we all life forms have such a mental mechanism together with a synchronizing biological one that we always keep getting cautions, knocks & shocks in our lives to alert us.

Therefore,let us clearly understand every thought, plan & action in relevance to the goals and monitor the progress. Then we know where we are, which itself will caution us. Its like the cellphone service provider messaging us when entering new area.

I personally, am aiming at a very highly exhaustive association between all of us and look forward to  put in immense effort in the direction for our PD Community.

Hari! Om!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

PD Association AGB Meeting @ Nellore; 25th December 2010

I have the info on the AGBM and of the assoication at Nellore.Congrats to all the members including the office bearers for the decesion on the AGBM. I wish all concerned a grand success of the Event.

I am not a member as such. However, evince a keen interest to be a part and provide active participation and contribution as I too ...have similar community feeling for PDs', being a PD myself. I leave it to the honourable members and the AGB OB / EC to offer their views / preferences on this and inform accordingly.

For the present, from outside the Assoication, I have some suggestions.

* A presentation of the PD website etc could be tabled for the awareness of all
* An assoication / meeting online could be devised for more attendance & thus
active participation
* A mutual co-operation between the Association & PD website, something of a
"hand in glove" could be thought of , understanding the power of the
communication potential that the website holds and the Noble Cause the
Assoication is into
* An agenda could be drafted & distributed among the members prior to AGBM
and discussed at the AGBM
* Proceedings, conclusions & results of the AGBM and or Photo / Video shots of
the AGBM could be uploaed on the PD website or anywhere on the Internet
* A regular informal progress meeting could also be organized for detailing and
smooth procedence of the future AGBMs

THOUGH I AM NOT A MEMBER, FOR THE PRESENT I AM AVAILABLE FOR ALL THE SUPPORT FROM OUTSIDE AS PER DIRECTIVE OF THE HONOURABLE MEMBERS / EC FOR ANY & ALL OF THE SUGGESTIONS OR FOR ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD FOR THE TRUE CAUSE OF & IN THE INTEREST OF THE PD COMMUNITY.

PLEASE FEEL FREE AND DO NOT HESITATE TO REVERT FOR ANYTHING IN THIS REGARD.

I APPEAL TO THE PD COMMUNITY AS SUCH & THE ASSOICATION MEMEBERS TO EXTEND THE BEST OF THE SUPPORT FOR ALL THE SUCCESS OF THE EVENT, IN WHATEVER WAY THAT IS BEST POSSIBLE.

AS SUCH FOR A HUMAB BEING THERE IS NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE, WHAT WITH GLOBAL WARMING OR REPLICATING THE BIG BANG THEORY GOING TO MOON, MARS OR FINDING OXYGEN ON SATURN ETC ...ETC.

Please follow the Pudur Dravida Community Group on the facebook.

VEDAM CHANDRASEKHAR
email:chandrasekhar73@yahoo.com
pudurdravida@groups.facebook.com
Ph: 00 91 44 222 70457 / 9444 77 9990
00 968 96425738 / 00 974 77377478

Saturday, November 27, 2010

REMINDER TO ALL PDS FOR JOINING THE ONENESS CAUSE FOR PD COMMUNITY

HARI! OM!

Dear PDs'

I am mighty pleased to be in touch with you all again. I look forward to more and more interaction between us all through exchange of our details of various kind and views on PD community and ideas on developing our community, support the PD Website and PD Associations.

I request all PDs across the Globe for having  regular get together and update all PDs' across the Globe on the same.

A couple of us met in Chennai in June end of this year. I am of the opinion we should meet again and extend special invitations to PD Associations; their members, Office bearers and Executive Committees.

Would some one kindly throw some light on the PD Associations, their office bearers, Executive Committee members with their contact details etc  to enable active support and awareness.

Incidentally, I understand a meeting takes place end of every year at Nellore. Could someone let me know more details of this.

APPEA;ING TO ALL PDS' TO GET TOGETHER PROVIDE THEIR DETAILS, SUPPORT ASSOCIATIONS AND WEBSITE SENT ON 30TH SEPTEMBER 2010

Hari! Om!

Dear PDs'


How are you, your family, and all near & dear doing? Hope this finds you all in the peak of health, spirits and prosperity. I have been in touch with you all  PDs' in the past few months through a series of emails on the subject of PD Oneness. And understand from a past isolated feedback, of your interest in to know more about PDs', history.

In this interest and subject cause, I am appealing on behalf of all PDs to join together towards a unity and thus be supportive to each other in all endeavours.

I am sure you would have understood my background and also would have gone through the PD website, which highlights the unsaid message of effort for oneness of our community through associations.

To continue further with the process, please do be kind enough to share your lineage or family background and other details and also provide some feedback for the website.

 Any support for the community, associations or website is most welcome from all of you. Kindly be informed that the website, which is a world accessible communication channel, shall also publish credits to the PDs' for whatever effort or support is rendered.

Looking forward to your views,comments, support etc

With Best Regards Many Wishes

Vedam Chandrasekhar

Ph: 00 91 44 222 70457 / 9444 77 9990
      00 968 96425738 / 00 974 77377478

SELFLESS INITIATIVE FOR PD COMMUNITY CIRCULATED ON 22ND SEPTEMBER 2010

DEAR PDS'; HARI! OM!


HATS-OFF FOR THE SELF-LESS INITIATIVE BY MR. VUDALI VENKATA NARESH. I AM NOT SURE HOW MANY OF US KNOW OF THE EFFORTS FOR THE PD COMMUNITY. MANY SUCH EVENTS HAVE COME TO LIGHT THROUGH CASUAL CHAT.

TO NAME A FEW,

THE LIST OF FUNCTIONS(MARRIAGES / BIRTHDAYS ETC FOR AUG'/SEPT'2010) WAS A VERY USEFUL INFORMATION

ANOTHER OCCASION OF HELPING A PD DURING AN ILLNESS, IS AN AWE INSPIRING SERVICE

HELPING THE PD WEBSITE THROUGH ITS STORE OF INFORMATION EXCHANGE & MAINTAINING THE PUDUR DRAVIDA BLOGSPOT.

I AM SURE THERE COULD BE MANY MORE TO APPEND THIS. AND NO DOUBT THERE ARE ALSO MANY MORE TO GENERATE A LIST OF PDS'.

I AM OF THE OPINION THAT ALL PDS' NEED TO BE AWARE OF THE INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS & INTERESTS FOR COMMUNITY, FOR INSPIRATION TO TAKE INITIATIVES FOR SELF-LESS EFFORTS AND TO GENERATE A ONENESS FEELING.

I AM THEREFORE COMMUNICATING THIS  TO ALL PDS' THAT I KNOW OF, SO THAT WE ALL GET INSPIRED TO TAKE SOME INITIATIVES FOR THE SAKE OF THE PD COMMUNITY.

I REQUEST ALL PDS' TO SHARE SUCH EFFORTS PUT IN, WITH ALL AND INSPIRE ONE AND ALL.

REGARDS

VEDAM CHANDRASEKHAR

PH : 00 91 44 222 70457 / 9444 77 9990
        00 968 96425738 / 00 974 77377478

WAKE-UP CALL FOR A CONTINUED GET TOGETHER SENT ON 22ND SEPTEMBER 2010

Hari! Om!

Dear PDs',

How are we all doing? Glad to be in touch again. Hope we all still remember something on the above subject and also that a couple of months ago, a couple of us got together at Chennai.

Definitely, we all are getting together somewhere or the other across the globe, only that the information has not percolated through many of us possibly due to some error in emai transmission.

Why not we get together again and think more seriously on the above subject, like many of us are already very seriously into.Hope more people are open and also available to meet this time.

Could somebody also through some light on the PD Associations that are supposedly existing and active. The sender of this email is interested to know the activities of the PD Aassociations, Individual PDs' active in the various Associations and their contact details.

The idea is to extend active support, guide organize and participate in any events whatsoever.

Looking forward to some positive response,

Thanks and Regards,

Vedam Chandrasekhar

PH: 00 91 44 222 70457 / 9444 77 9990
      00 968 96425738 / 00 974 77377478

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PD COMMUNITY AWARENESS MEETING HELD ON 27TH JUNE 2010 AT HOTEL ASHOKA IN CHENNAI, INDIA

A REFRESHER TO THE ORIGINAL CAMPAIGN FOR PD COMMUNITY AWARENESS CIRCULATED BY EMAIL ON 14TH APRIL 2010

Dear All PDs'; Hari! Om!

On the occasion of “Thamizh  Varsha Pirappu”& taking the privilege & freedom this is to wish all of us for eternal happiness, prosperity and well being . These wishes are based on the trust that we still follow the tradition, despite the Royal Decree of The Tamizh Naadu Arasar, to celebrate the event jointly with Pongal, during the Thai or Phusyam Maasam. It’s a blessing for us from our Ancestors that we PDs’ have this unique pair of events to celebrate, ie. Ugadi – Tamizh Varsha Pirappu. It may be that very few communities across the globe would have such a privilege of celebrating the events of two different states, forget communities. Probably it’s a deep message from The Almighty, with the mantle given to us PDs’ to bridge the gap between the states of Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu, to set examples to others and thus in the process get owned by both Tamil Nadu & Andhra Pradesh unlike in the present.

Refreshing the thoughts of  awareness for our PD Community with this email, in continuation to the Campaign through my previous email, let us touch upon a couple of points from the campaign,

* Oneness feeling for all PDs’
* Propagating the awareness message
* know each other better
* Constant interaction

The campaign will be available on www.pudurdravida.com for any ready reference.

The original  Campaign was sent on 8th of March 2010 and subsequently also appended to the UGADI WISHES. The attempt was to reach to all the PD population across the globe, of course with all our support. With this idea, the known email ids’ have been approached through the Campaign for awareness and to propagate further through the PD Community, exhaustively. We are a definitely a significant population on the globe, to the extent that we could even turn a movement, if we join together.

It’s appreciated that we are all pre-occupied with our own series of activities, commitments, responsibilities, problems of communication accessibility, or non-receipt of the emails, problems or may be some confusion of very understanding of the concept etc. Despite all this  a couple of prompt though isolated response were received for the Campaign, in the positive. Our whole PD Community is thankful to the owners of those email ids’ for the interest shown in the direction on Oneness Thoughts for the PD Community. An overwhelming feedback on the website is also appreciating & supportive. Of course we are also definitely thankful to each other for bearing with these couple of pages of messages.

“The success of any kind of such concepts are possible as a whole and not in isolation”, can very well be understood and convince anyone. We are talking of Community Oneness and therefore cannot restrict  to individuals. The appeal to all of us is for Individuals’ awareness for the Community’s Oneness.

The oneness feeling, at least, could definitely be nascent & inert in each one of us, the message or the campaign could already be under propagation and many of us may already be aware of each other. However, the nascent, inert should mature, turn active, may be reactive and critical or proactive also. The propagation could also be a transparent one. Most importantly we should know each other better, literally our names, family background, linkages,  whereabouts, activities. Of course, only if it is not that personal within the PD Community or felt unnecessary for the Community Cause. There could also be an opinion as, “ No Community or why Community feeling”.

By now it could be well understood by all that the campaign is not a promotion drive. There are a couple of formal associations within our PD Community and definitely this is no competition to any of them or any in the making, if it so perceived. In fact  this Campaign would definitely generate awareness and motivate PDs’ to support & co-operate the associations and make them a success and take our PD Community to global arena. As human beings, we are supposed to keep up to Human Status, by using our intellects, deciding on choice of action & aiming for the higher ideal. Similarly, as a PD’ian, we should keep up to the word Association by truly associating, instead of merely giving it a formal status and utilizing for worldly needs. Why not we use the  privilege that we have that other life forms don’t have? Thus avoid getting termed as “Herds” and in the process at least  be instrumental in a Community Awareness Cause.

There are many associations across the globe, at global level too, that are still a success in the truest sense but still don’t hold any formal status of an association.

There is one other important point that we can focus, apart from the rest, is the “PD Bhashai”. There could be definite support to the PD Community Cause in reviving the PD Bhashai. It isn’t any new idea, of course. There are Government State or Central & other NGOs’ at least in India & many western countries who have worked in the past and are still working on Projects of Revival on varied subjects. Probably, we could start to deliberately speak among ourselves and generate an awareness of its existence to the unawares. The Family trees could also be developed and placed on the WWW, just an another point to add.

It’s definitely justified in repeating the advantage of the modern communication technologies for the benefit of  generations, out of the presently active. This could enable PDs’ inaccessible or unaccustomed to the modern tools to use them and thus get easy and swift way in for supporting the  Community Oneness Cause. The PD website & the newsletters as we all know are productions of the modern communication technologies and we can go further and make them live with regular & consistent interaction.

Support for regular updates on various aspects, be it an event, history or  data base from any quarter, is definitely welcomed, supposedly, by the Website Moderator. Inclusion of  PD Bhashai in the website or newsletter is another good suggestion, for its revival. To make it “ All in One” links to thoughts and discussions by learned philosophers across the Globe could be uploaded, on a regular basis for our knowledge. All our consistent support is required in this regard, in any way. Interestingly, an article of “Eenadu” Newspaper on “Pudurdravidas” was uploaded to our website. Definitely, many of us would have read the article and commented on.Could someone translate that into our necessary evil as English for better understanding, knowledge & appreciation?
Let us work as individuals’ for the community interest and or for community’s individual interest

To share a detail introduction of this email forwarder, in continuation to the very brief one in the original Campaign :

Name : Vedam Chandrasekhar (Graduate Mechanical Engineer with over 2 decades career
                                                    span & based at Selaiyur in Chennai, contact details below)
              ( Age 46 years, born : 25th October 1963, Born @ St. John’s Hospital, Nellore)

             S/o. (Late)Squadron Leader Vedam Radhakrishnan(Retired as  A Senior Officer
                    of The Indian Air Force) & Vedam Rukmini (Home Maker)

             Wife – Melanathuru Radha Nandini ( Sr. Vocational Training Officer, ITI Nellore)
                         ( D/o. Melanathuru Venkatasubhramanyam & Melanathuru Gayatri)
             Daughter – Vedam Thanvi Sree Nithya ( Born 11.01.1999)

             Brother – Vedam Venkata Subramaniam ( A Senior Executive, Indian Railways)
                             Wife – Melanathuru Padmini ( Home Maker, D/o M. Venkatesam)
                              Daughter – Vedam Sonali ( Born 27.07.1997)

             Sister    -  Vedam Nalina ( Senior Inspector of Central Excise & Service Tax)
                              Husband – S. Ramnath ( A Senior Cost Accountant, S/o S Sivaraman
                                                                                   & S. Lalitha)
                              Daughter – R. Shwetha ( Born 04.01.1994) 

             GRAND PARENTS

 Paternal – Grand Father – (Late)Vedam Subrahmanyam ( Well known Insurance 
                                                Agent of Sunlife Insurance Co., Canada)
                  Grand Mother – (Late) Vudali Lalitha ( Home Maker)

 Maternal –Grand Father – (Late) Vadari Kalyana Sundaram, Leading Lawyer /
                                              & Government Pleader in Nellore)
                  Grand Mother – (Late)Thirupathur V  Bhagylakshmi( D/o. T Veerasamy   
                                                                                           Iyer & Anthamma)

The recipients, may share there details if willing in the interest of our PD Community. “Anything begins with introductions”, hope all of agree on this. PDs’ with better ideas are welcome to come forward only to get the  appreciation etc.

“Words talk more than the Silence, Actions talk more than the Words but the Attitude or the Spirit talks more than anything”

Since the talk is on the Spirit of Oneness Consciousness, the “I” & its attached Ego from the Campaign of the previous email is  raised to a humble “We” here, as  “Continuous Improvement  Initiative” and keeping with the latest trends.

WITH BEST REGARDS,


VEDAM CHANDRASEKHAR

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