The Future? of the Adyar Theosophical Society

D V Subramaniam’s

Posthumous

Letter of Complaint

Yet another source of information

regarding staff bullying at Adyar.

 

 

Below is a copy of a letter of complaint about staff treatment by, and behaviour of, the Adyar Estate General Manager Mr S Harihara Raghavan, written in November 2013 by 83 year old former Adyar employee, MR D V Subramaniam, who was also an officer in the Indian Air Force. I have included both a copy of the letter and my own transcript. I do not know who has seen this letter, or precisely to whom it was addressed, but I understand that Mr Subramaniam wanted the letter made public after his death, and sadly he died shortly after writing this letter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In transcribing the letter, I have left some gaps where words were either unclear or may be Indian English words, with which I am unfamiliar.

 

Mr Subramaniam was an officer in the IAF – Indian Air Force

 

 

Chennai

15/11/2013

D V Subramaniam

 

I am a life members of the TS

 

I was discharged from the IAF on transfer to pension establishment on 6/4/67. I held a senior Commisioned Rank in the IAF (Police) and had considerable experience in Field Security, VIP Security and Counter-Intelligence.

 

I have 32 years of TS service in various departments. While training our law instructor ingrained in us the imperative need to stick to truth while tendering evidenceeven if it means the failure of our in a court of law. I follow this dictum in life.

 

I came across Brother S Hariahraraghavan in 1986 and closely followed his activites. When I resigned as Security Officer in 1995 (after 10 years), I was superintent of the Mov.Projector Dept (96-98) and later went to the Garden Department with Sri Harihararaghavan as superintendent.

 

He was never concerned about the upkeep operation. He destroyed the garden. One day I caught him at his house watching TV while he informed methat he was going on rounds. His falsehood was detected by me. This is the commitment he had to his duties. I told him that it was unbecoming of a TS member to behave thus.

 

Qualification acquired by sheer fluke accident or unscrupulous methods does not necessarily mean administrative skill or ability to lead people.

 

A casual perusal of the records and appraisal chart his performance from those who had the misfortune of working under him would more than testify to his shabby handling of  ______ with utter disregard to human niceties. He has two sets of behavioural standards. With those who are above him, he will stoop to the lowest level to gain their confidence and favour and use this proximity to harass, humiliate and insult those who had the misfortune of working under him.

 

On quite many occasions, I had brought this to the attention of the late President Radha Burnier. I exposed many of his lies and she was not in disagreement with me. On one occasion, I bluntly told her that if allowed unchecked, he would cause unbearable wrongful loss to the TS and eventually _____the estate one day. He does not have any hesitation in uttering falsehood and gaining undeserved confidence

 

A survey of the opinion of those who worked under him would establish his arrogance _____towards those who cannot complain for fear of reprisal.

 

In the best interest of the TS, it is imperative that he is not allowed to handle sensitive issues of TS. Further damage must be arrested.

 

A mere paper qualification is not enough for a good administration/leader. He does not have any managerial qualities necessary for efficient administration.He does not have the courage to express honest dissent with superiors for fear of falling out of their favor. The above is my experience with Mr Harihararaghavan over 27 years. A quick action to arrest further deterioration is the need of the hour to preserve the TS.

 

From 2008 til date I have donated over Rs70000

to TS Education Rs70000

 

I solemnly affirm that the above is a true account.

 

Brother S Harihararaghavan is a person who would not hesitate to kick the ladder which elevated him to undeserved heights. In doing so, he would not have the compunction and concern for the dictates of his conscience. It is a pity that such a person is depended upon to accomplish responsible and fair tasks expected to fulfil the objects of the Society. In the Armed Forces, the views and sufferings of persons working under individuals were considered for appraisals before promotions and rewards. It is unfortunate that such an incompetent person has escaped critical scrutinizing at many levels.

 

Best regards

 

D V Subramaniam

 

He tends to devote more time in finding faults with others than doing anything useful to the TS.

 

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The phrases “those who cannot complain for fear of reprisal” and “to harass, humiliate and insult those who had the misfortune of working under him” highlight a recurring theme present in the current allegations regarding staff treatment at Adyar.

 

 

This is yet another source of information

regarding staff bullying at Adyar.

 

Is the new President listening?

 

Are the General Council members listening?

 

 

Dave Marsland

 

Posted  June 3rd  2014

 

Dave’s Theosophy News Board

 

Contact Dave Marsland

 

 

 

 

Theosophical Society Issues

 

 

 

The Tekels Park Family Eviction

A family has been evicted from their home at Tekels Park because

a Tekels Park Estate Limited director wanted to live in their house.

 

 

 

The Future ? of

The Adyar Theosophical Society

 

 

Will there be an Adyar Free Future?

 

 

Adyar’s Slightly International Convention

 

 

President of Nothing

Membership Decline – The Elephant in the Room

 

 

Ballast

The True Status of the

Adyar Theosophical Society Members

 

 

Open Election?

How Inconvenient

 

 

Adyar

The Voice of Stagnation

 

 

Tekels Park & Dead Animals

 

 

An Extra Box on the Ballot Paper

Suggestion for the 2014 Adyar Theosophical Society

International Presidential Election

 

 

A Society Without Members

 

 

Is the 2014 Adyar Presidential Election Invalid?

 

 

Radha Burnier Employment Services

Radha Burnier’s policy of allocating jobs to members of her own

family turned the Adyar Headquarters into the family firm.

How many suitable applicants were discounted so that

Radha Burnier could give a job to a family member?

 

 

Don’t Just Do Nothing

Stand There

Despite decades of decline and stagnation leading the

Adyar Theosophical Society to the verge of evaporation

or disintegration, the leadership have so far shown no

sign of coming up with a strategy for ensuring the

continuation of the Society as a unified body.

 

 

Adyar, the Sole Purpose of Adyar

 

 

Western President

Or

They’ll Knock Adyar Down?

 

 

Save Radha’s House

Revealing that the Adyar elite’s stately home is under threat

of compulsory land purchase and can be saved by convincing the

authorities that it is in fact an international headquarters (if true)

may have given the Theosophical Society members a brilliant

opportunity to get Adyar off their backs.

If not true then it looks like blackmail

 

 

Ignore the Voters

and Get Elected

An overview of the Adyar Theosophical Society

Presidential Election System

 

 

What an Insult to Members

Expecting members to vote for candidates while withholding

highly relevant information indicates an utter contempt by

the leadership for the general membership

 

 

Film of the Tekels Park Deer

Here is a link to a short film of the Tekels Park Deer

posted by a Camberley resident.

Everyone opposed to the killing of the Tekels Park animals

will want to see this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fkfw8amMps

 

 

International Election Protocol

This is only an idea for consideration but if the Theosophical elite

continue to treat the members with the current levels of indifference and

contempt for the duration of this election then the Adyar Theosophical

Society will be an empty shell by the time it is completed.

 

 

The Secrecy

The secrecy with which the Adyar Theosophical Society

leadership conducts the Society’s affairs is legendary.

Is this secrecy for its own sake or are some serious

issues being suppressed and kept beyond discussion?

 

 

Banging the Drum for Theosophy

Looking forward to the post Adyar era

 

 

Burnier Town Hall

Family control of Adyar has reduced the members

of the General Council to the status of town hall officials.

 

 

The Great Election

Rip-Off

Silence by elected management cheats

the members out of participating in the

running of their own organisation

 

 

Keeping the International Headquarters at Adyar

It may not be that easy

 

 

 

 

ABOLISH

The International President

ABOLISH

The General Council

An idea for consideration

 

 

What is Behind the

Attitude

of the

Theosophical Elite?

The Adyar Theosophical Society ruling elite denies

members the right to be consulted on issues and the

ability to convey their views directly to the leadership.

Why does the leadership of an organisation

treat its members like this in the modern era?

 

 

Towards a New Model for Theosophy

The Adyar Theosophical Society Leadership

now isolates itself within a cult of superiority

while the Society evaporates around it.

A Theosophical Society can survive but not

in the current format.

 

 

Choose a Stooge

When the Issues are Huge

Is this what is on offer to the Adyar Theosophical

Society's paying members from a ruling elite

that has a different agenda from that of the Society?

 

 

SHUT UP & VOTE

This election is really inconvenient for the leadership, isn’t it?

Why are the members being hustled into blind voting?

What are the leadership’s post-election plans?

 

 

Members No Longer Members

of their Own Society

An inter-regnum in the presidency, during which

matters are discussed, is the only course of action

with a chance of saving the Adyar Theosophical

Society as a unified body.

 

 

Now Here’s Something Worth

Keeping Quiet About

Are there plans to sell Adyar without

consulting the members?

 

 

Is There Hidden

Bad News?

A leadership shutdown combined with a total

news blackout suggests a serious hidden issue

and an intense fear of revealing it.

 

 

Control Adyar or

You Control Nothing

Is the self imposed isolation of the General Council effectively

a mass resignation as they have found, after the death of

Radha Burnier, that establishing control of Adyar is too difficult?

 

 

A Manifesto

Well Done! CVK Maithreya

 

 

Elected Representation

Not Representing

Silence is Killing the Adyar Theosophical Society.

The presidential candidates are as much victims of the

General Council’s silence rule as are the members.

The silence rule also seeks to establish General Council

control over the future president.

 

 

Make Way for the Messiahs

Have the Esoteric Section and the

General Council merged into one body?

 

 

Does Silence Mean

Game Over

for the Adyar Theosophical Society?

CVK Maithreya presented plans for the future, in

defiance of General Council instructions.

Does suppression of discussion mean that the

Adyar Theosophical Society doesn’t have a future?

 

 

Accountable Leadership Urgently Required

The General Council has abused its power

by putting itself beyond accountability.

A new leadership is needed, and fast.

 

 

Anybody There?

No Information,

Discussion forbidden,

No replies to questions.

Do the members still have a Society?

 

 

Can’t Change

Won’t Change

Those who have kept the Society time warped

in the 1930s now have the task of introducing

reform and they obviously don’t want to do it.

 

 

Beggars at the Door

Left sitting out in the cold and starved of information,

members now realise how the General Council regards them

Why not include this picture in any information request to General Council

officers as an indication of how members feel they are being treated.

Or just send the picture anyway.

 

 

From The Top Down

The Adyar Theosophical Society is decades

out of date and desperately in need of reform

starting with getting rid of a leadership that

refuses to be accountable to the members.

 

 

Who Owns Adyar?

 

 

The Royal Court of Radha Burnier

 

 

General Council Meeting 2013 Minutes

 

 

Adyar

Theosophical Society

International Rules

 

 

Something Wrong?

Making it a bit obvious aren’t you?

 

 

Disgraceful Treatment of an Adyar Employee

A woman sacked and evicted for complaining.

Given 13 days to get out of her home.

 

 

The Preethi Muthiah Letters

Tell A Very Sad Tale

 

 

Concerns Raised

About General Council Meetings

Looks like there has been some attempt

by a General Council member to promote

reform within the Theosophical Society

 

 

General Council

2012 Meeting Minutes

 

 

New Committee?

Make Your Wife The Chairperson

 

 

Adyar Internal Problems

that the General Council

Should Investigate

 

 

Is Adyar Still The Headquarters?

 

 

Creep On!

General Council

Or why don’t you do something

to recover Adyar for the members?

 

 

Good Campaign Pitch, Mr Singhal

 

 

Adyar Prepares for the Break-Up

 

 

Profile of Adyar

From a Victim

 

 

Adyar Family Appointment

A Job for Your Daughter

 

 

 

 

Another Family Power Appointment

For your Daughter

 

 

Bold Initiative

By Singapore Lodge

 

 

 

 

Triumph of the Weak

Don’t expect the General Council

to do anything if the election is bent

 

Adyar Job News

You don’t need a plan

You don’t need a degree

If your name’s Raghavan

It’s job number three

 

 

No Stand For Democracy

An appraisal of the General Council’s commitment

to maintaining the Adyar Theosophical Society

as a democratic body

 

 

Bent election?

But Vote Anyway

 

 

A Society Without Leadership

Nobody sees it, Nobody hears from it

Is it hiding somewhere? Does it exist?

 

 

Who will Believe It?

Even if the presidential election is correct and above board,

the confidence in the General Council has fallen so low

that members won’t believe it.

 

 

Supporting Adyar?

Haven’t members been cheated for long enough?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long Tradition of

Bullying

at Adyar

Preethi Muthiah has highlighted an endemic problem at Adyar,

which the General Council has ignored for many years.

There are still no plans implement a grievance procedure and

Anti-bullying policy at Adyar.

 

 

Summary Dismissal

Of lady over 70 from her job at Adyar

 

 

True Purpose of the

2014 Election

What the paying members want has little to do with

this election, as the silence and lack of information show.

The real purpose of this election is for the General Council

to deliver the candidate that the Adyar ruling elite wants.

 

 

What Makes this Election Invalid?

 

 

Trouble

After the Election

 

 

Was Your Vote Counted?

Was your vote forwarded to Adyar?

Was the election actually held?

Against a background of silence, a court case and

allegations of irregularities, these are fair questions.

 

 

Not Being at Adyar

Well, it’s much easier than being a real president

 

 

Democracy in the Adyar Theosophical Society

R.I.P.

 

 

11,432 Votes

Is That All?

 

 

No Right To Complain

Well, what can you expect in an organisation where

the leadership regards the membership as ballast

Doubts about the integrity of the election

are left unresolved, rendering the result invalid.

 

 

President’s Inauguration

A Private Function

Elite Welcome

The Ballast now know their true status

 

 

Pray Silence

While the President Creeps into Office

 

 

It’s Silence as Usual

By the Adyar Theosophical Society ruling elite.

No hurry to prove the election result

But a real hurry to get the president installed

 

 

Who Can Support

The Leadership Now?

 

 

Shut Up & Pay Up

The Adyar Theosophical Society has become

a multi-level marketing operation

 

 

President?

Really?

Doubts about the election result will

make the President’s job impossible.

 

 

Adyar & the US each have

Half a President

 

 

The White Lotus Hi-Jack

President uses White Lotus Day

as a personal platform.

What was the inauguration for?

 

 

 

Is this the

Great Wheaton Rip-Off?

Questions now arise over allocation of Wheaton

resources by a two job president

 

 

Master of the Small Event

Launches New Presidency

 

 

 

The Adyar Payments Scam

 

 

 

CVK Maithreya Deserved

Better Treatment

The exclusion of Mr Maithreya from the rushed

inauguration was an insult to him and his supporters

 

 

Staff Treatment At Adyar

Is This The

True Face

of the Adyar Theosophical Society?

And if so, it’s a very ugly face

 

 

Is Wheaton Set To Support Adyar?

A two job president will produce a massive conflict

of interest that will divide the American Section

 

 

CVK Maithreya is

Presidential

Who's the Guy in the Job?

 

 

Why was Campaigning Banned

During the 2014 Election?

 

 

Adyar Allegations

Adyar Estate General Manager reports former

Theosophical Society Accountant to the police,

resulting in detention and two days of interrogation.

 

Former Accountant makes serious allegations

against the Adyar Estate General Manager.

 

 

Did the 2014 Presidential Election take place in a

Climate of Fear

 

 

Police Action Threatened

Over Someone Else’s Car

“If we hand over the vehicle to the police things will be worse”

 

 

QUICK

on getting himself inaugurated.

SLOW

on dealing with problems.

Serious allegations about a reign of terror at Adyar

are lodged with the International President.

There is no response, just silence.

 

 

The Prisoner of Adyartraz

Serious allegations surround the treatment of staff and

Theosophical Society members at Adyar, but members find

that the elected president is unable to do anything.

 

 

Preethi’s Allegations

Allegations against Adyar Estate General Manager,

Mr S Harihara Raghavan over staff bullying

and threats of imprisonment are not new.

Preethi Muthiah’s letters and articles clearly

indicate that the issue has been around for some years

 

 

2014 Election

More Info Needed

As it stands only 56% of the poll and 49% of the final vote

can be verified by section leaderships on the current information.

 

 

One Man, One Vote

Tim Boyd nominates only one candidate for

International Vice-President and expects the

General Council members to vote for him.

 

 

Poor Adyar Future

As many ask if it is safe to go to Adyar.

 

 

CVK Maithreya

For Vice-President

An idea for serious consideration

 

 

The General Council Should Allow

No Appointments

By the

Not Proven President

 

 

The Amnesty International

Paradox

Amnesty International is widely supported by members

and official policy of an organisation that refuses

to investigate allegations, that its own staff and members

are bullied by the use of threats of imprisonment.

 

 

Did you get an Invite?

Did you know you were cordially invited to the

bargain basement president’s cut price inauguration?

 

 

 

 

Serious Concerns Raised

About the Conduct of the

2014 Presidential Election

 

 

2014 Election Result?

The only option is to

Go Back

&

Do It Again

With proper safeguards this time

 

 

The Sundaram

Nomination Sham

Indian General Secretary tells the Indian

Section Council that he is nominating

Tim Boyd – no discussion – no consultation

 

 

Call for Emergency Meeting

January 24th 2014

With the unresolved issues raised at that time,

the election clearly should not have gone ahead.

 

 

The Inauguration

That Never Was

Tim Boyd airbrushes his rushed inauguration from history.

 

 

Serious Concerns

That Cannot be Ignored

Relating to the conduct of the 2014 Presidential Election.

submitted to Chittaranjan Satapathy by South African

General Secretary, Jack Hartmann on March 16th 2014

 

 

Election Committee

Ignores Misconduct

It becomes clear that the election committee had

valid evidence for misconduct but ignored it

 

 

Bent Election Result

Rubber Stamped by General Council

 

 

Suspend

The Election Result

Pending an Enquiry

Krishnaphani Kesiraju calls on the governing body

to act as a governing body

 

 

Call for Action

From

East and Central Africa

Ignored

As the Adyar Theosophical Society

governing body refuses to govern.

 

 

Raise the White Flag

Admit it General Council, being the governing body of the

Adyar Theosophical Society is too difficult for you.

 

 

Staff Bullying

Allegations Ignored

True to form, one month has elapsed and

the President and General Council have failed to

investigate Mr M Kannan’s allegations of bullying.

 

 

Why Did

The 2014 Election

Go Ahead?

The General Council was confronted with considerable

evidence that the election was bent but just stood there

and let it go ahead.

 

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Links to other News Boards

 

 

The Future of the Adyar Theosophical Society

Institutional Issues

 

 

Theosophy Forum

InvisionFree

 

 

Theosophy Nexus

 

 

www.FilosofiaEsoterica.com

 

 

www.TheosophyOnline.com

 

 

www.Esoteric-Philosophy.com

 

 

Theos-Talk

 

 

Теософическое Сообщество

"Нет религии выше истины!"

The Theosophical Community
"There is no religion higher than truth!"

 

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The Adyar Theosophical Society has

representation in the following countries

and regions

 

Africa-East and Central Africa-South

Africa - West America-Central

Argentina Asia-East and Southeast

Australia Austria Bangladesh

Belgium Bolivia Brazil Canada

Chile Colombia Costa Rica Croatia

Cuba Dominican Republic England

Finland France Germany Greece

Hungary Iceland India Indonesia

Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast

Mexico Netherlands New Zealand

Norway Orlando Pakistan Peru

Philippines Portugal Puerto Rico

Qatar Russia Scotland Slovenia

Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland

Togo Ukraine USA Uruguay Wales

 

The Adyar Theosophical Society also has the following

regional organisations

 

​The Council of the European Federation of National Societies

Inter-American Theosophical Federation

Indo-Pacific Theosophical Federation

Pan-African Theosophical Federation

 

 

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Contact Dave Marsland