“The world is filled with a variety of colors and I get to meet all sorts of people through my group” says Mr. Bhaskar Maheshwari, founder and moderator of Jyotish Ganga. He was born and brought up in Mumbai and was curious about stars and destiny right from his teenage days.

Many years ago, he visited some astrologers and found that they could not resolve his problems. So he decided to study astrology and palmistry. He read several books to build his knowledge but astrology remained a mere passion for him for fifteen years. It’s only when his Mantra Guru reprimanded him for wasting time that he started practicing astrology professionally. However, blessings were more important to him than moneymaking. So he created an online group Jyotish Ganga to help people with his astrological knowledge.

The members of the group contribute and share stories of culture and spirituality. The “Files” section of the group has several articles and rare e-books. Mr. Bhaskar gives credit to his group for giving him a sense of belonging and the contentment of helping people. “My group has expanded to a family of five thousand members by God’s grace”.

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Diti
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‘United we grow prosperous’ is the motto of Share Trading group, which started in 2003 to help people understand and discuss the stock market. Mr. Melvin D’Almeida and a group of like-minded people pioneered the group and expanded it to the three-thousand member community that it is today.

Share Trading group was created when a similar group was shut down on account of biased practice. That’s when this group was created to advise investors in a selfless, unbiased manner. Melvin soon found volunteers to moderate the group with the same vision as his, one of them being Mr. Minesh Temkar, a software professional and an earnest moderator of Share Trading group. “We, the moderators, are small investors,” says Minesh, “We never encourage members who try to sell their products or companies to common investors”. Other moderators like Mr. HS Ratti and Mr. Pradip are, what Minesh calls, the two pillars of the group who always guide new investors. The unity of this group is so strong that members readily share investment guidance documents which they receive from paid subscription. Thus, members share knowledge and help other members. They are permitted to post jokes and forwards on weekends and non-trading days. But they never seem to get over the stock market fever. Citing one mail from Mr. HS Ratti, Melvin recalls,

“Kafan na dalo mere chehre pe… Mujhe aadat hai muskurane ki.
Aaj ki raat na dafnao mujhe yaaron, Kal umeed hai market upar jane ki!”

This mutual advisory group has helped many members across the globe. Melvin shares his thoughts on being emotionally attached to the group, “Moderating this group has helped me grow professionally and personally. I will continue to run this group as much as possible without bias and prejudice.”

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Diti
Yahoo! Groups India