About Us
Our aim is to awaken the Chennai ties to the major issues confronting
our society, and make them vibrant citizens of this ancient civilized land. The
Chennai friends forum is apolitical, and our existence since1998, shows our
faith in performing this Knowledge ‘yagna’. We have been successfully
conducting Hall meetings, by inviting knowledgeable speakers. These ‘chinthan’
meetings numbering more than 500, so far in the yesteryears were successful,
because our trusted valued friends, attended, and helped us to grow, as an
effective organization.
Our Launch – A Divine Touch
The thought of starting this forum of course had a divine touch. Some of
our friends had been to Kailash, but had a providential escape while returning
to honour their yatra, a hall meeting was arranged, and it was a success.
This made us to ponder, and this forum came into being having “DharmamPeruguthu,
DharmamPeruguthu” as our chief motto. Late Shri. A. Ramasamy, an advocate and
a thinker along with an avowed organizer Shri.R.Ramamoorthy, the present General
Secretary and a dedicated nationalist Shri.T.V.Lakshmi Narayan, the president
and a Journalist Shri.M.R.Ramalingam, the vice president planned and made a charter,
and with the divine blessings this forum was started on an optimistic note. We
cannot forget the help of Late Dr .K. Venkatasubramaniam, erstwhile planning
commission member, who appreciated our efforts, and gladly accepted to
inaugurate this Forum. From that start, our journey has been continuous.
Our journey Continues with …..
Sri V Balasubramanian, a Sr. Advocate is our President and Sri Shridhara
Rajaram is assisting the General Secretary.
Sri R Manickavasagam is taking care of Accounts and Finance.
Our Friends
We have a list of thousand good friends and their participation in our
Mylapore and Madipakkam chapters made us to grow with success. The Madipakkam
chapter is under the valuable guidance of Shri. M. Masilamani, a social
activist with many laurels and our Shri. B. Srikumar and Shri. S V Chari along
with friends running it with aplomb. Our Mylapore chapter is working under Ms.
Kanthamani & Others.
Annual Functions
So far our anniversaries are concerned; our functions have been a success
continuously. As the Republic day shows freedom,
we do the function at Mylapore where our veteran freedom fighters lived and
shown us the path. Also on Independence Day, we conduct a function at Madipakkam.
As it is the emerging place of intellectuals, Of course, we have had the opportunity
of having among us a galaxy of great people of different hue as chief guests
who made us proud in this venture. Shri N Vittal,
former CVC, Justice Karpakavinayagam. Shri B.S. Raghavan, Kamban adi p podi S. Palaniappan, Prof. Gnanasambandam , Smt. Manjula Ramesh, Auditor M.R.Venkatesh and Dr. Sumant C Raman, are a few who have been
our Chief Guests. The list is long and we salute them now. As they have
attended and their valued speeches made us to proclaim that we also do service to
the society. Those who wish to join in this endeavor, can call us, and be a
part of "dharma migu Chennai
vasi".
You can be in touch with us
Shri R Ramamoorthy :
9884108586
Shri M R Ramalingam :
9884610926
Shri B Srikumar
: 9444105061
Shri Shridhara Rajaram :
9840412013
