About Jnana Artha
HAA Jnana Artha is a collective effort by several HAA Families to serve people in our community with online programs, such as music, art, literature, and other areas of interest to our families. Additionally, a handful collection of social media groups was created to serve our people with specific interests in community such as on ಆರೋಗ್ಯ (Health & Wellness), ಲಲಿತಕಲೆ (Music & Arts), ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯ (Investing & Finance) and ಪುಸ್ತಕ (Literature). These social groups provide a real-time and live interactive platform though out the year and connect our families between various chapters and between USA and Canada, real time and interactively. The Jnana Artha set of service activities originally born in the HAA Northern California chapter in the year 2018 and grew rapidly to serve all HAA chapters. Currently the overall HAA Jnana Artha effort is being led by Shri Balakrishna Joshi.
As a result of the real-time and interactive connectivity from the interest groups, at times adhoc focused interest groups are also getting formed. One such example is that about ten people formed their own “havyaka beekeeping whatsapp group” to exchange ideas and to meet over zoom. This effort is being led by Shri Gopal Haregoppa. Another example is that “havyaka families in Arizona” connected with each other and formed their own local WA group to connect and celebrate. That effort is led by Smt. Shwetha Kakve. Similar group is formed in San Diego area as well. Several new members have discovered their local chapters for the first time. There is some visible interest and self initiated engagement among our youth in some of these interest groups, such as JA Investing, JA Health & Wellness and JA Pusthaka (Literature & Book Club)
As part of the Music & Arts service and as of October 2021 , we have served over 135 artists (75 adults and 60 children) and we helped the budding havyaka artists showcase their talents on our platform, while between 1000 to 2000 people audience enjoy every one of the programs. Shri Paveen Dala, Shri manu Hegde and Smt. Usha Hebbar and Shri Balakrishna Joshi are Co-Leading this effort. JA investing group meets periodically to discuss matters of interest to Havyaka family household finances including children’s education, retirement planning best practices and so forth. Currently Shri Thirumalesh Bhat and Shri Raghurama Bhat are Co-leading this group as needed. JA Pusthaka (book club) interest group holds talks by several havyaka eminent authors. Each one of them have been uniquely inspiring. Shri Thirumalesh Bhat is also helping lead and organize this effort currently.