The AGM at Ananda Mandir

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Open Floor Q & A –One member suggested an additional priestas Biswabhai’s back up when needed. A few senior Trustees responded by stating that we do have Guru Chakravarty, Debashish Mukherjee, Suman Banerjee and a few others who are available to support us when Biswabhai is unavailable, which is very rare.

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Dipan Ray organizing a pharmacy unit in a Polish shelter for Ukrainian refugees

A request was made by a life member to start our popular Ananda Sandhya program again. The Cultural Committee and Arun Bhowmik will look into re-starting this program. The location will likely be the lobby of Tagore Hall. Some attendees asked about a ramp or an elevator to go to the temple basement. At be symbolic of arriving at the heaven at the end of a marathon cycle of reincarnations. Just like heaven, Las Vegas is full of light, music, entertainment, magic, wealth, fairies, and food. We do not know what goes on in the heaven. That completes the metaphor because “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”!

Some questions were asked about the adequacy of our current safety measures against major vandalism, or safety of our premises and the priest. Management will look into some kind of small hand-held alarm system in addition to the full scale alarm system that we currently have in place.

Arun Bhowmik ended the meeting at 2:30 pm with concluding remarks, thanked everyone for their participation. The meeting ended with a happy note with all feeling comfortable about how the institution is being run and managed.