California Telugu community invited Mr. Prabhakar Chowdary Kakarala, President of TANA to Los Angeles on 10/18/2008 to talk about the current happenings in TANA and to discuss the role of TANA in the wake of recent tragedies hitting Telugu Community.
More than 500 people attended this informal get together. PRABHAKER CHOWDARY KAKARALA explained all the events clearly with all the details. Attendees were so impressed with the presentation and they gave him standing ovation and pledged to stand by him in his efforts to clean up TANA.
TELUGU Community unanimously applauded the resolutions passed in Atlanta general body meeting exclusively the expulsion of politically motivated ex-members Jayarm Komati, Satish Vemana, Prasad Totakura, Chowdary Jampala, Mohan Nannapaneni and Janaki Rao.
President answered all the questions very patiently and took the suggestion from the members. Lots of members expressed their happiness and felt proud to become part of such productive meeting.
Prominent community senior leaders Rayudu Kothapalli, Conevener-1997 TANA Conference and Dharmareddy Gummadi expressed their solidarity to the president and offered their help in the up coming Florida conference in July 2009.
The organizing committee expressed their happiness over the success of the meeting. Everyone applauded the efforts of Ravi Koneru (TANA Board of Trusties member), who also sponsored the lunch from Chakra Cuisine. This highly successful and memorable event was well organized by Nag Potla, Ravi Kolli, Suresh Chilukuri, Prasad Papudesi, Kishore Kantamaneni, Neil Kolli, Nandan Potluri, & Chandrashekar Nangineni.
TANA Helpline Announced:
The major development of the meeting was announcement of ‘TANA Helpline’. In the wake of recent tragedies that happened in North American Telugu community, TANA has setup a helpline offering support on issues that directly affects the lives of Telugu people and their families. TANA will refer and guide the people to the variety of services that may be able to help them. Sometimes just talking with someone who understands is helpful and reassuring. The idea of this system is to offer legal advice, medical advice, emotional counseling help and support. This help line will be supported by a panel consisting of Telugu doctors (Psychiatrists, cardiologists) and an attorney. More specialists will be added and the details will be published very soon. Any Telugu person living in North America can call 1-888-TANA-4-YOU should they need any help. California Telugu community appreciated this announcement and everyone opined that the associations should focus on such welfare programs and president promised that he will make sure that TANA will become an organization that will address the needs of North American Telugu community and will become the primary resource for any Telugu Person/Family that needs help.
