I would like that to be the case - since as you mention at the end, a simple online forum is lesser investment. However, at the Bangalore TSC round, there was one common question - "I find it uncomfortable to discuss/be online for whatever reason, are there any offline meets?". I think at least 30+ people asked me this while purchasing the book. Now its another thing on whether they will turn up now when we announce the next meet, and I don't know if Varun had a different experience in Chennai, but for me at least, from that experience it is clear that the Indian audience is more likely to turn up the more we spread offline. As for it being in 2 cities, I agree, hence I said I plan to contact some core solvers in each city and encourage them to start their own meets - I am already in the process of a mailing list for Mumbai.

A forum is definitely easy and requires no effort at all. We can do it parallel to the meets. I just meant that in the long run I see more reach coming from the offline meets.