Approaching Truth

Last Concluded Event

Featured Event

An opportunity to explore your inner-self !

The Maturing Mind

பக்குவம் அடைகின்ற மனம்

on Sunday, 1st August 2021

at 6.30pm–8.00pm  (I.S.T.)

The Discussions will be in English & தமிழ்

on ZOOM platform

The Panelists

Dr. Nappinnai Seran, Ph.D. – Senior Psychologist
Dr. Bhavanishankar Subramanian, Ph.D. – Senior Principal, Lalaji Memorial Omega International School
Miss. Divya Sornaraja – Tech-futurist and Entrepreneur

Dr. Bhavanishankar Subramanian, Ph.D.

Work Experience 2002 to date Head of School - Lalaji Memorial Omega International School, Chennai 128. K-12 CBSE/CIE/IBDP/NIOS/DLS affiliated residential/community school (student strength ~5500/ Faculty ~380; support staff ~400) – October 2008 to date. Chettinad Vidyashram, Chennai 28. K-12 CBSE affiliated school (student strength ~8700/ Faculty ~430; support staff ~350) - March 2002-Aug 2008....

Dr.Nappinnai Seran, Ph.D.

Completed M.Phil and Ph.D in Psychology.Certificate courses in hypnotherapy and transactional analysis.Specialised in marital counselling.Practising for the past 17 yrsWorking in Meenakshi medical college since 2004. Visiting psychologist at SRM Faculty of Arts and Science. Honorary special counsellor for the family court for the past 15 yrs. Founder of PsyHub brain and behaviour clinic a day...

Ms.Divya Sornaraja

Divya Sornaraja, an engineer, entrepreneur and futurist was one-in-three Indians to be selected to study Future Technologies at NASA Ames, California in 2012. She built her first tech-company aged 23 in Silicon Valley, exited it and is now starting her next tech startup. In addition to running companies, she is also a founder of https://yosee.in, A Digital Thinkspace

Moderator

Mr.Balashanmugham Umapathy (Anand)

Mr.Balashanmugham, the Founder of Viewpoints club is the son of the illustrious Kalaimaamani Dr.G.Umapathy.
Following in his father’s footsteps, he started a Packaging Industry followed by an Offset Printing unit,

Co-Moderator

Mrs. Swapna Nair, M.Phil (History), B.Ed, Masters in Psychotherapy

Swapna Nair is an Experienced Guidance Counsellor & Transformative Coach with a demonstrated history of working in the professional Training, Counselling & Coaching industry.

Guidelines on Virtual ZOOM meetings

Simple guidelines we like all of us to follow during the virtual meetings on ZOOM or like:

* At any point of time, only ONE mike shall be ON, all others are requested to mute their MICS.
* Please Do Not interrupt while someone else is speaking.
* If you have anything to contribute please indicate using the “Raise Hands” icon available in ZOOM and wait for the moderator to allows you to express your point during the Q & A time.
* If difference of opinion arises at any point, let us choose the option ‘Agree’ to ‘Disagree’ and proceed further.
* No personal attacks on anyone please.
* Remember this is only a discussion/deliberation on the chosen subject and not a debate.
* Listen to the points and counter points and make your own conclusions.
* Question hour will follow after the panelists have had their say.

Let’s have a knowledge enriching experience that will lead to more such interesting discussion events.

Past Discussion Events

Panelists on Board

Dr. Bhavanishankar Subramanian, Ph.D.

Work Experience 2002 to date Head of School - Lalaji Memorial Omega International School, Chennai 128. K-12 CBSE/CIE/IBDP/NIOS/DLS affiliated residential/community school (student strength ~5500/ Faculty ~380; support staff ~400) – October 2008 to date. Chettinad Vidyashram, Chennai 28. K-12 CBSE affiliated school (student strength ~8700/ Faculty ~430; support staff ~350) - March 2002-Aug 2008.   Teaching/Training Assignments 1988 to date Under-graduate, post-graduate and pre-doctoral students...

Dr.K.V.S. Maruthumohan, PhD

Dr.Maruthumohan did his schooling at American College High School, and B.A Economics at Madurai Kamarajar University and M.A., M.Phil. in History at Tamil Nadu Open University, Chennai & Ph.D. at University of Madras (2010-2017). He has completed his Doctorate on the life of Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji Ganesan and his acting skills, correlating with Tholkappiem-Meypattiyal and Method Acting of Constantin Stanislavsky. He aspires to pursue Post-Doctoral Fellowship on Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji...

Dr.Nappinnai Seran, Ph.D.

Completed M.Phil and Ph.D in Psychology.Certificate courses in hypnotherapy and transactional analysis.Specialised in marital counselling.Practising for the past 17 yrsWorking in Meenakshi medical college since 2004. Visiting psychologist at SRM Faculty of Arts and Science. Honorary special counsellor for the family court for the past 15 yrs. Founder of PsyHub brain and behaviour clinic a day care for psychiatric patients where cognitive retraining is done to make them functional and...

Gopu Rangarathnam

Gopu Ranjaratnam, (R. Gopu), was born and brought up in Madras. He obtained a BE in Computer Engineering from Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering, Srivilliputhur and an MS in Computer Science from the Texas A&M University, USA. He then worked at Microsoft, Seattle as a software engineer. He returned to India to pursue a career in writing, screenwriting and to continue his passion on history, and heritage, including the history of science and technology. He regularly lectures on...

Meiyappan S

Mr.Meiyappan Solaiyappan is a visualization researcher and director of a visualization lab at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. He studied in M. Ct. M. High School, Vaishnav College, College of Engineering Guindy, His career started as  R&D Computer Graphics Engineer in Wipro Information Technology, Bangalore and diversified into biomedical focus at Erasmus University, The Netherlands, and became an image computing researcher at National University Singapore before moving...

Ms.Divya Sornaraja

Divya Sornaraja, an engineer, entrepreneur and futurist was one-in-three Indians to be selected to study Future Technologies at NASA Ames, California in 2012. She built her first tech-company aged 23 in Silicon Valley, exited it and is now starting her next tech startup. In addition to running companies, she is also a founder of https://yosee.in, A Digital Thinkspace

Prabhakar B

B.Prabhakar is a B.E. graduate from College of Engineering from Anna University, Guindy and an MBA from Indian Maritime University. He joined Chennai Port as Assistant Traffic Manager at Container Terminal and was later deputed to Indian Maritime University. He is a United Nations accredited Port Planner & Designer. He has occupied senior management positions in global shipping companies and now he is running his own business. He has enormous interest in Tamil Literature, Culture, History...

Pradeep Chakravarthy

A Behaviourist - with a twist to the past! His trip is to understanding present and future behaviour by understanding the past. You don’t need to read the writing on the walls to know that his life is immersed in the history and heritage of Tamil Nadu. With his deep love and knowledge for the politics, economics, art, architecture, food, music and literature of Tamil Nadu, Pradeep is able to offer a holistic perspective of the State in simple and interesting terms to anyone who shares his...