BE AWARE & BE SMART – YOUR ID ! YOUR MONEY !! YOUR SAFETY !!
I was immensely pleased to address a very absorbing and interactive online session on the subject on the 22nd Sep, 2026.
Organized and Invited by the Wise Owl Club (more about the club at the end of this post) , the session was well attended and participated mostly by seniors and the interactions left both the participants and the speaker satisfied of having discussed some of the happening cyber crimes now and ways to stay ahead of them and prevent getting victimized.
This was more evidenced by the spontaneous feedback provided by some of the participants as well the organizers.
Short video of the feedback could be viewed in my YouTube channel : Kapali’s Canvas
Grateful to the Wise Owl Club for the invitation and opportunity and the wonderful participative seniors , who made the 90 minute session lively and interactive.
About the Wise Owl Club:
The forum was started for senior citizens looking for a recreational club that is off the beaten track.
Led by two sisters – M/s Jayanthi Sekhar and Pushya Sitaraman — the activities of the Club are run under the Wise Owl Foundation, a registered body born in October 2023.
The idea to start a recreational club for seniors came up when the sisters themselves were trying to infuse fresh meaning into their lives.
The curated workshops try to offer activities that people are really longing to take up or something that they had grown out of but now want to return to.
Book owls, gardening owls, theatre arts owls, creative owls, playful owls, healthy owls and armchair travel are the broad themes of these workshops, offered to members as well as non-members.
While experts are brought in for the workshops, in some cases members would volunteer be the resource person.
Until last year, Wise Owl Club has been conducting two activities a month — one online and the other offline.
While the online events are free to attend, the in-person ones levy a nominal fee for workshops.
The sisters have been trying to pass on the benefits of such recreational activities to an old age home in the city.
“Whatever little we get conducting activities from our paid workshops is used to conduct similar activities at an old age home,” says Jayanthi.
{Source : THE HINDU }
