we had a small gathering in chennai on 5th reputed author vishwaksenan was here. sps, sivaram, muruganantham turned up. satheesh from kuwait, vijay from singapore and author venkatram diwaker from vizag called up
we sort of decided that a get together needs to be planned for PS members. august 15 , 16 should be ideal days both being holidays. request outstation members to plan a visit to chennai during that time. a stay could be arranged.
a one day trip on 15th and a meeting and brunch on 16th is on the cards
Depending on response level we can finalise the agenda of the meet.
Like our dear Mr. Gandhiram who just retd attending Indus conference - Japan, we will invite outstation members too to share their views.
Thinking aloud whether we can invite Hon'ble Minister, TN State, Thangam Thennarasu to preside over. He is fully aware of our Group activities and very much supportive.
A couple of media persons like TKV Rajan - Needhiyinkural Baskaran - ZeeTV Sudangan ...
Of course REACH Dr. Sathyamurthy, Dr. Raghavan and similar scholars..
Kalinga Balu ..
We will Honour Writers like Dr. Jaybee - Vizag Dhivakar, R Venkat, Gokul Seshadri, Pavithra Srinivasan, Viswaksenan, Rajni Ramki, Srinivasan ..
Recoginising Longstanding services in the field of History & Tamil culture ::
Project madurai Dr. Kalyanaraman, Dr.Naa. Ganesan (NASA).
Our Tamil web dyons - Subashini madam, Dr. N. Kannan
We will explore whether Web-Conference is possible say for 30 mts or so. Members Thiru and Krupa can help.
List of contemporary historians like Dr. Jayakumar - Ariyalur Thiagarajan - Dr. Y Subbarayalu .. we will finalise after discussion through private mails.
For those attending from outstations (in India) we can provide transport and accommodation.
for Overseas participants we can arrange accommodation and a trip arond important places after the meet.
I think it is somewhat difficult to plan two months ahead. But atleast we can block those date for this. The following things are a long over due for the group, let us plan for this.
Mr. Na Kannan has expressed his very best wishes, but will not be able to attend in person.
Ms. Subashini has also expressed her best wishes, but will not be able to attend in August. However when she visits India, later this year, she will be in touch with vizag Dhivakar and we will have special meeting of our Group with her - in Chennai.