I think debates with potential malefactors are distracting people from the goals of helping the community become organized and politically aware. I am proposing some parallel actions that each of us can contribute to, to show that Tambrams can also be as savvy as the Jews. If each of us could spend just one hour a day on any of these efforts, it would make an enormous difference in just a few years' time.
a. Collection of statistics on Brahmanas throughout TN by trying to develop contacts in various cities in TN. This is probably the pre-eminent task. Data will be critical in terms of focusing our efforts. We should brainstorm on ways to do this, since I believe many of the members on here are out of TN.
b. Coming up with a bi-weekly newsletter, replete with well written articles along political and religious lines. Extracts from the Vedas, a simple Sanskrit and Tamil parable taken from our literature, short stories from the Panchatantra, etc would be good. These should ideally also be related to current events. Many Brahmanas nowadays do not have time, since they are working hard to pay taxes which feed the Viduthalai parasites. So a short magazine like this would be a good reminder.
If an e-zine, in PDF or OpenDOC format could be assembled, it could be posted on this website periodically, and could be sent to as many organizations as possible. The quality and content of this e-zine would probably blow the crass Viduthalai types out of consideration, considering the high caliber of the people who can contribute or participate. Even the anti-Hindu Hindu might sit up and notice. We probably need someone good with QuarkExpress or Indesign, who can develop an attractive layout. Also, we will need English and Tamil versions, so Tamil volunteers with an excellent command of the language would be needed.
c. Striking alliances with other publishers like Cho Ramaswamy and his Tughlaq, ******* association, temple associations, Hindu charitable foundations would be useful. Some cross-marketing would not hurt. This e-magazine could also be used for fund-raising operations, and to maintain our heritage.
d. Volunteers for canvassing and spreading our message "on the ground" in TN would be quite helpful. The question is how to locate and compensate these volunteers? How can we accomplish the objectives with maximum impact and minimum cost? If the e-zine were to take off, a classified section and advertisements could cover some of the costs. I am sure some of the matrimonial portals etc would love to have a targeted audience. But organizing volunteers on the ground would be imperative to vet requests for assistance. I wouldn't put it past some Viduthalai types to try and subvert this effort.
e. Establishing chapters in the US, UK, India, South East Asia etc would be the next step, with regular meetings and a very democratic setup with term-limits on any leadership posts. The last thing one would want is to end up like the Tambraas organization with internal politics and working at cross-purposes. A constitution for this would need to be drawn up, to ensure that personal aggrandizement takes a backseat to the interests of the overall community. In any group of highly intelligent people, there is always a potential for ego-struggles, and one should think of ways to minimize this. One of the charters of the constitution should also be to require every member to vote in all elections, State, Cental and Municipal elections. Pointers on how to cast an absentee ballot, or best strategies on how to single-mindedly go after issue-based voting is very important.
I believe with the enormous intellectual capacity distributed among the Brahmanas, if we are able to get off our butts and take concrete steps along the above, we will be a very formidable organization. Even the political parties and press will sit up and take notice. A politician should be aware that the days of mindless Brahmana bashing will no longer be tolerated, and a PIL may be filed if necessary to restrain them. If these stray politicians are faced with the threat of being put back in the pound, they will be somewhat cautious. The likes of MuKa should never be able to say "I will revive the anti-Brahmin movement". A public statement like that should have consequences just like a statement against the Sikhs (3% of the population), Jains, Christians etc.
a. Collection of statistics on Brahmanas throughout TN by trying to develop contacts in various cities in TN. This is probably the pre-eminent task. Data will be critical in terms of focusing our efforts. We should brainstorm on ways to do this, since I believe many of the members on here are out of TN.
b. Coming up with a bi-weekly newsletter, replete with well written articles along political and religious lines. Extracts from the Vedas, a simple Sanskrit and Tamil parable taken from our literature, short stories from the Panchatantra, etc would be good. These should ideally also be related to current events. Many Brahmanas nowadays do not have time, since they are working hard to pay taxes which feed the Viduthalai parasites. So a short magazine like this would be a good reminder.
If an e-zine, in PDF or OpenDOC format could be assembled, it could be posted on this website periodically, and could be sent to as many organizations as possible. The quality and content of this e-zine would probably blow the crass Viduthalai types out of consideration, considering the high caliber of the people who can contribute or participate. Even the anti-Hindu Hindu might sit up and notice. We probably need someone good with QuarkExpress or Indesign, who can develop an attractive layout. Also, we will need English and Tamil versions, so Tamil volunteers with an excellent command of the language would be needed.
c. Striking alliances with other publishers like Cho Ramaswamy and his Tughlaq, ******* association, temple associations, Hindu charitable foundations would be useful. Some cross-marketing would not hurt. This e-magazine could also be used for fund-raising operations, and to maintain our heritage.
d. Volunteers for canvassing and spreading our message "on the ground" in TN would be quite helpful. The question is how to locate and compensate these volunteers? How can we accomplish the objectives with maximum impact and minimum cost? If the e-zine were to take off, a classified section and advertisements could cover some of the costs. I am sure some of the matrimonial portals etc would love to have a targeted audience. But organizing volunteers on the ground would be imperative to vet requests for assistance. I wouldn't put it past some Viduthalai types to try and subvert this effort.
e. Establishing chapters in the US, UK, India, South East Asia etc would be the next step, with regular meetings and a very democratic setup with term-limits on any leadership posts. The last thing one would want is to end up like the Tambraas organization with internal politics and working at cross-purposes. A constitution for this would need to be drawn up, to ensure that personal aggrandizement takes a backseat to the interests of the overall community. In any group of highly intelligent people, there is always a potential for ego-struggles, and one should think of ways to minimize this. One of the charters of the constitution should also be to require every member to vote in all elections, State, Cental and Municipal elections. Pointers on how to cast an absentee ballot, or best strategies on how to single-mindedly go after issue-based voting is very important.
I believe with the enormous intellectual capacity distributed among the Brahmanas, if we are able to get off our butts and take concrete steps along the above, we will be a very formidable organization. Even the political parties and press will sit up and take notice. A politician should be aware that the days of mindless Brahmana bashing will no longer be tolerated, and a PIL may be filed if necessary to restrain them. If these stray politicians are faced with the threat of being put back in the pound, they will be somewhat cautious. The likes of MuKa should never be able to say "I will revive the anti-Brahmin movement". A public statement like that should have consequences just like a statement against the Sikhs (3% of the population), Jains, Christians etc.
