సిలికానాంధ్ర మనబడిలో మనభాషా సైనికులని చూసి పలు ఊర్లల్లో తరచుగా అందరూ అనే మాట, "ఆయన/ఆమె మన ఊర్లో మనబడికి మూలస్తంభం" అని.

విషయమేమిటంటే, అలా వెయ్యిమంది కలిసి ప్రతి ఊర్లోనూ ఉన్న మనబడి విద్యాలయాలకి స్తంభాలుగా నిలిచి, సిలికానాంధ్ర మనబడిని "వెయ్యి స్తంభాల తెలుగుతల్లి గుడి"గా మలిచారు! నిలిపారు!!

ఈ గుడి ప్రాంగణంలో కేరింతలు కొడుతూ, తెలుగు అక్షరాల నుంచి, భాషాభ్యాస సోపానాన్ని అధిరోహిస్తూ తెలుగుభాష సంపదకి వారసులుగా వేలమంది మనబడి పిల్లలు తయారవుతున్నారు. ప్రస్తుతం సాగుతున్న ప్రగతి ప్రకారం ఇంకా ఎన్నో వేలమంది విశ్వవ్యాప్తంగా తెలుగు నేర్చుకోడానికి మనబడిలో వారి పిల్లలను చేర్పిస్తారు. అటువంటి పురోగతికి అనువుగా, విస్తరించనున్న ఈ మహాభాషాలయానికి ఇంకాఎన్నో స్తంభాల వత్తాసు కావాలి.

మనబడి సదస్సుల ద్వారా, మీ ఆలోచనామృతాల ద్వారా, తల్లిదండ్రుల స్పందన ద్వారా కూడా, మనబడి జట్టు బలం పెంచవలసిన ఆవకశ్యత తెలిసింది. ఇప్పటికే చేస్తున్న ఎన్నో మనబడి కార్యక్రమాలకి, చేపట్టవలసిన ఎన్నో కొత్త పనులకి మనలో చాలా మంది భాషా సారథులై పగ్గాలు చేపట్టాలి, ప్రగతి పథంలో మన పిల్లల కోసం పరుగులు తీయాలి. ఆ దిశలో ఈ "మనబడి మహాదళం" లో చేరనున్న ప్రథమ సేవకులని, భాషా సైనికులని పరిచయం చెయ్యడం నా అదృష్టంగా భావిస్తున్నాను.

వీరందరితో వివిధ విషయాలలో కలిసి పని చెయ్యడానికి అన్ని విధాలైన సహాయ సహకారాలనీ మీ అందరి దగ్గరి
నుంచి ఆశిస్తున్నాను.

Prem Kumar Madaka garu - Texas Regional Coordinator
Prem garu has been part of the DFW ManaBadi team for the past 8 years. He served as Frisco coordinator, and as the food coordinator for various ManaBadi events. Apart from that, he provided leadership for the Logistics team to distribute books and other related ManaBadi classroom material for Mid West and South West areas. Going forward he will take up being the Texas regional coordinator actively working for growth and sustainment in DFW area and providing active support to Austin, Houston and SanAntonio ManaBadi teams.

Mohan Katragadda garu - Los Angeles Regional Coordinator
Mohan garu has been associated with ManaBadi is Southern California since the very beginning. He is the center coordinator for the Artesia center and also provided able leadership for the Socal Samskrutikotsavams for the past several years. In this role, Mohan garu will manage ManaBadi operations and growth in the entire Greater Los Angeles area.

Sridevi Ganti garu - North California Regional Coordinator
Sridevi garu has been driving several activities for ManaBadi for the past 6+ years. She is the center coordinator for Fremont North location, as well as the Director of Accreditation department driving the Foreign Language Certification efforts and the University Examinations. She is taking up additional responsibilities as the regional coordinator for the North California region.

Hemchandra Talagadadeevi garu - San Diego Regional Coordinator
Hemchandra garu has been associated with ManaBadi in San Diego for 3+ years. He has also led the Telugu Maatlaata program in San Diego. In this role, Hemchandra garu will manage ManaBadi operations and growth in the San Diego area, and will be ably assisted by his team.

Srinivas Nidamarthi garu - Telugu Maatlaata National Convener
Srinivas garu has been associated with Telugu Maatlaata from its inception. Based out of Michigan, he has played the role of Telugu Maatlaata Upasandhata successfully. In this role, Srinivas garu will manage the Telugu Maatlaata program end-to-end and drive its growth all over the country, and bring to the table several innovative ideas to propel the games forward.

Sreedhar Chintalapaty garu - Telugu Maatlaata Sanjeevani Coordinator
Sreedhar garu is the voice of Padarangam and is based out of Dallas. He has been associated with the program from the very beginning in the area of content development and audio technology, which he will continue to contribute.

Venkat Didugu garu - Teluguku Parugu National Convener
Venkat garu is probably most suited for this role as he is a sports enthusiast and has participated in several marathons. Based out of Michigan, he has been associated with ManaBadi for many years now. In this role, Venkat garu will work closely with the Prachuryam team to develop and implement the innovative Teluguku Parugu program.

Nag Yenagandla garu - ManaBadi Core Team Project Management Coordinator
Nag garu has been associated with ManaBadi in the capacity of center coordinator for Irving and Coppell center for several years. Based out of Dallas, Nag garu provided a lot of value in the role of coordinating the Core Team meetings and will continue to contribute in the same role.

Prasad Rani garu - Prasikshana & Teacher Orientations Coordinator
Prasad garu has been associated with ManaBadi as a teacher and coordinator from Upland CA. He provided able leadership for the success of ManaBadi Paschima Sadassu last summer. Prasad garu comes with lots of leadership experience and will assume lead coordinator role in the ManaBadi Prasikshana program.

Kiran Simhadri garu - Prasikshana & Teacher Orientations Coordinator
Kiran garu has been an active member of the Curriculum team besides being a ManaBadi teacher in Woodland Hills center. He conducted several Samskritikotsavams as the cultural lead and is popularly known as "Baalaanandam Maamayya" for conducting radio shows with ManaBadi kids. He also leads the online webinars for ManaBadi refresher classes for PSTU exams. He will take up another lead coordinator role in the ManaBadi Prasikshana program.

Sarma Adithe garu - Prasikshana Technology Coordinator
Sarma garu is one of the most experienced teachers in ManaBadi from Bay Area, and led Telugu Maatlaata 2nd National Championship in 2014. He will provide lead on various Technical components of the ManaBadi Prasikshana program.

Kiran Duddagi garu - Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University Operations Coordinator
Kiran garu has been long serving members of ManaBadi team as coordinator in the NJ area. He actively managed ManaBadi Cultural Festivals, Telugu Maatlaata, Teluguku Parugu events in the past years. For the past 2 years, he supported the technological aspects of PSTU Exams and from this year onwards, he will take up PSTU exam technology and provide the direction, structure, process and governance required.

Manavatha Roy Pendyala garu - ManaBadi Exams Coordinator
Manavatha Roy garu has been one of the longest serving members of ManaBadi team. Apart from being teacher, coordinator in the NJ area, he provided critical regional leadership for the Logistics team in the South-East and North-East areas. He has been managing a critical area for the Curriculum team in creating the ManaBadi Exam question papers each quarter for the last several years. He will continue to provide his leadership in that role.

Sarada Jonnalagadda garu - Curriculum Quality Management Coordinator
Sarada garu is a senior teacher from Dallas area and has been critical member of ManaBadi Nanyata team for Curriculum. Sarada garu will now provide leadership role for the Nanyata team.

Sreedhar Kondagunta garu - Teaching Aids Coordinator
Sreedhar garu has been associated with ManaBadi as a teacher in the Princeton center for the past 4 years. Based out of New Jersey, he has contributed significantly to both Samskrutikotsavam as well as the Toorpu Sadassu. In this role, Sreedhar garu will work with the Curriculum team to develop, produce and provide teaching aids to make learning more interesting to ManaBadi students.

Srinivas Chittaluri garu - Sponsorship and Fundraising Coordinator
Srinivas garu has been championing several fund raising initiatives in Detroit area for the past few years and has played a key role in raising funds for several International Kuchipudi conventions, Jayaho Kuchipudi project and regional ManaBadi Cultural Festivals. Going forward, he will be stepping up in this role and will be leading the efforts to secure additional financial resources for starting several new initiatives in ManaBadi as well minimize the spend for MCF and Telugu Matlaata events by generating additional source of revenue outside the registration fees. He will be closely working with regional ManaBadi teams across US.

Ram Devulapalli garu - Budgeting Coordinator
Ram garu has been associated with ManaBadi for the past 4+ years. Based out of Michigan, he has effectively managed the Troy center with great student retention rates. In this new role, Ram garu will work closely with Finance team to put in place a process for budgeting expenses at center-level and manage the process.

As we continue to work together to make our mission expand into every Telugu home across the world, it is important to have leadership entrenched into all the critical areas that require diligence, abilities to create team and plans and skills to execute those plans in an effective and efficient manner. The superb leaders who are already contributing to the success of the program need to come together as "super team" and form "extended super teams" across the board to provide the scale necessary for the future growth. The time is NOW to become a process driven non-profit enterprise by defining, executing, monitoring, improving and innovating our processes constantly.

I sincerely thank the leaders mentioned above for stepping up to the challenge and this is just the beginning. What we do at ManaBadi is the dream for any service oriented leaders to come and contribute and watch their contributions to have world changing impact. We are at the inception of creating brand new pages in the history of Telugu language. This is our opportunity to mark our impact and place permanent signatures in the timeline of that glorious history for future years.

If you would like to take on a global leadership role similar of the volunteers listed above, please fill this survey

http://fluidsurveys.com/s/Team2016/

with the area of interest and willingness to commit your time wholeheartedly.

Thanks again for making this journey so exciting and exhilarating.

తెలుగునిప్రాచీనభాషనుంచిప్రపంచభాషచేద్దాం! భాషాసేవయేభావితరాలసేవ!!