VOL. 05 | FEBRUARY, 2017THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF ROTARY MIDTOWN, BANGALORE

Published by Rotary Bangalore Midtown. For private circulation only.

Unit No. 09, 1st Floor, Prestige Towers

No 99 , Residency Road, Bangalore-560025

Meets Every Fridays at Oakwood, UB City at 7.00 pm

Vittal Mallya Road, Bangalore – 560001. Tel: 080 – 40915509

IN THIS EDITION:

Ÿ Message from The President

Ÿ Message from The Secretary

March 2017: Club Services

Ÿ Estate Planning

Ÿ Charter Nite Celebrations

MESSAGE FROM THE

SECRETARY:

My Dear Rotarians,

Yet another month of hectic service and speaker events. We learnt

about estate planning from folks at Kotak estate planning which

reminded us of the importance of planning so as to safeguard

what we have built or inherited. Charter night at BGC was yet

again a hit, well organised and thanks to all the members who

made it a part of their evening. we had many charter members

attend the meeting and share the events of the early years of

rotary mid town.

The Joint meeting at rotary house of friendship was a good

fellowship amongst many clubs along with an interesting speaker

for the evening. Thanks to all our Marwari Rotarians, an amazing

event where we felt warm with Marwari hospitality and lastly the

speaker meet of the month Mr.Eregowda, candidly shared with us

his growth and success as a ﬁlm maker. That was March 2017.

Many more interesting service events and fellowships being

planned for April will keep the energy high at Mid Town.

Regards

Narendra Pasuparthy

Secretary Ry 2016-17

MESSAGE FROM THE

PRESIDENT:

Dearest Midtowners,

In the month of April, we would be holding pulse polio camps on

2nd and 30th of April and aim to administer drops to over 7000

children between 1 to 5 years.

Globally, in developed as well as in developing countries, child

mortality is on the decline and life expectancy on the rise. In

1960, 182 of every 1,000 children born died before turning ﬁve;

today, that number is down to 43. A child born in 1960 could

expect to live an average of just 52 years; by contrast, a child

born this year can expect to live to 71. The use of vaccines has, in

many parts of the world, nearly eliminated diseases that once

were widespread, such as diphtheria, tetanus, and rubella. Thanks

to vaccines, 20 million lives have been saved from measles since

2000. Smallpox has been eradicated – and polio is next. Thirty

years ago, there were an estimated 350,000 cases of polio per

year worldwide. As this issue of The Rotarian went to press, only

37 cases of polio had been recorded in 2016 – the lowest number

in history. All of the other cases, and the paralysis and death they

would have brought, were prevented through the widespread use

of a safe, reliable, and inexpensive vaccine. Overall, the World

Health Organization estimates that immunization prevents an

estimated 2 million to 3 million deaths every year. It also averts a

tremendous burden of disability and economic loss. Yet we could

be doing so much better: An additional 1.5 million deaths could be

avoided by improving vaccine coverage worldwide.

From 24 to 30 April, Rotary joins WHO and UNICEF for Disease

Control and Prevention in celebrating World Immunization Week,

raising awareness of the incredible impact that vaccines have had

on global health. This year's theme is "Vaccines Work" – and they

do. In every part of the world, routine immunization is as crucial

as ever to ensure that all children have a healthy future.

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Ÿ Joint Meeting

Ÿ Marwari Nite

Ÿ Inspirational Talk - Eregowda

Ÿ Birthdays and Anniversaries

Ÿ Feeling Free

Rotary is truly Serving Humanity – now and for generations to

come. Thank you for your participation in every which way you

have and we are sure you would continue to do so!

Warmest wishes

Nishu Jouhari

President RY 2016-17.

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3 Its Juridical limitations

4 Incomplete and Complexity in execution

TRUST

1 Revocable and Irrevocable

2 Salient features of revocable and irrevocable

trust.

3 Tax implication – Estate tax

4 Treatment of assets with respect to the assets

belongs to 2nd and 3rd generation of NRI

individuals a/c's

5 Scope of trustee's and transition of assets to

beneﬁciaries

6 Management of trust in the case of minors are

beneﬁciaries.

7 Tax options and exemptions in diﬀerent

countries.

ESTATE PLANNING:

1 Its requirements

2 Beneﬁts / importance with respect to smooth

transition of immovable, movable, liquid assets

to 2nd and 3rd generation of the family

members.

3 Execution.

Rotarians, Anns and guests who were present in the

meeting had asked various questions which helped

to get a complete and clear idea about the ESTATE

PLANNING. Mr. Venktesh K expressed his opinion

about how safely and eﬀectively Kotak Estate

Planning team is working on this subject.

CLUB SERVICES:

Estate Planning

Friday, 3rd March, 2017

On 3rd March 2017, Friday 36th WEEKLY MEETING at

7.00Pm, at Oakwood, U B City, Bangalore.

Meeting stated with President Nishu Jouhari

welcoming all Rotarians and M. Venkatesh. K

Speaker for the evening. Mr. Venkatesh K is a

Chartered Accountant works as Associate Vice

President in Kotak Estate Planning team. In 2015

Venkatesh joined Kotak Estate Planning team and

has been actively working as part of this team. As

part of this team, Venkatesh has assisted clients in

estate planning through WILL's and Trust structure

exhaustively. He has been part of large assignments

involving large and complex families with multiple

business interest and eﬃciently has advised /

implemented estate plan for them to meet their

objective which may include seamless succession,

ring fencing of assets, incapacity planning,

segregation of control and economic beneﬁts etc .

Mr. Venkatesh K, explained the terms WILL, TRUST,

ESTATE PLANNING in detail.

WILL :

1 Its advantages and disadvantages

2 Tax implication – Estate tax

POSITION HOLDERS

Designation RY 2016 - 17

President: Rtn Nishu Jouhari

Immediate Past President: Rtn Sathish Manandi

President Elect: Rtn Uday Masturlal

Vice President: Rtn Kshama Bhatia

Hon. Secretary: Rtn Narendra Pasuparthy

Hon. Joint Secretary: Rtn Kunal Patel

Hon. Treasurer: Rtn Akhilesh Babu

Sgt-At-Arms: Rtn Masood Kareem

Directors

Community Service: Rtn Srikanth Bhagavat

Rotary Foundation: Rtn Gunashekar Vuppalapati

Vocational Service: Rtn Aditya Shroﬀ

T E A C H: Rtn Shrikant Pandit

New Generation: Rtn Seema Sibbal

Co-Opted Directors: PP Rtn M G Pramod

PP Rtn A V S Murthy

Chairman - Maanasi: Rtn Ramesh Bulchandani

Chairman - Dispensary: Rtn Masood Kareem

Chairman - School: Rtn Kamal Bhandari

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Charter Nite Celebrations!!!!

Saturday, 11th March, 2017

On 11th March 2017, Saturday 40th Charter Nite was

celebrated at Bangalore Golf Club 360 degrees bar,

Bangalore. Fun ﬁlled evening enjoyed by all the

charter members, Rotarians and anns. BGC was well

decorated and glittering lights with mist fans made

the ambience a perfect platform to meet all the

members. Members enjoyed music, cocktail followed

by interesting dinner. Thanks to all the members

who made it successful midtown family event.

JOINT MEETING

24th March, 2017

On 24th March 2017, Rotary Down Town, Midtown,

Rotary Brigades and 15 other Bangalore clubs

organized a joint meeting of 18 Rotary Clubs at

Rotary House of Friendship, Lavelle Road,

Bangalore. Presidents and Secretaries of the

participating Club started arriving at the venue at

7pm for a good Fellowship.

Announcements of the program organized by various

clubs are announced by the president / secretaries

of the clubs.

The Guest Speaker for the evening Ms Nina P Nayak

was introduced to the members by the secretary of

Rotary Brigades.

Ms Nina P Nayak, an authority on Child Rights,

adoption and Child Safety and Protection, former

chairperson of State Child Rights Protection

Commission spoke on Advancing Child Rights In India,

she updated the members present on the various

Acts created for Safeguarding Children of various

ages up to 18 years of age, how the acts are created

by various departments without interacting with

each other, on how the funds allocated are utilized

and how action is taken on cases of Child Abuse in a

very interesting way.

The meeting was attended by President Rtn. Nishu

Jouhari and the Hon. Secretary Rtn, Narendra

Pasuparthy from Midtown.

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Marwari Night:

A Celebration!!!

Saturday, 25th March, 2017

On 25th March 2017, Our Marwari friends hosted an

absolutely beautiful Marwari Night programme at

Prestige Acropolis, Koramangala.

The evening was very specially organized with

authentic Marwari style of Ambience, Ghumar

Dance, Welcoming procedure, Rajasthani instant

colorful bangles, Mehandi, choice of melodious retro

live music and n number of nonstop lip smacking

food. All beautiful colors of Rajasthan was enjoyed

by all the Rotarians, Anns and Annets.

Rtn. Ramesh Sadhwani conducted whole evening

with great fun gesture. Every Rotarian appreciated

and enjoyed his charisma, gest and quick wit, which

actually made the event memorable!!!!

Special thanks to the organizers Rtn Aditya Shroﬀ,

Anantha Shroﬀ, Alok Marda, Ritu Marda; Rtn Anand

Saraf, Rekha Saraf; Rtn Arun Chamaria, Asha

Chamaria; Rtn Ashok Kumar Gupta, Madhu Gupta;

Rtn Deepak Poddar, Sangita Poddar; Rtn F R Singhvi,

Lalitha Singhvi; Rtn Gagan Bihari Agarwal, Ritashree

Agarwal; Rtn Gyan Bhandari, Chanchal Bhandari; Rtn

Kamal Bhandari, Suman Bhandari; Rtn Lalit

Dokania, Usha Dokania; Rtn Pawan Poddar, Geeta

Poddar; Rtn Punith Jalan, Sangeetha Jalan; Rtn

Rajiv Khaitan, Rashmi Khaitan; Rtn Rohitesh

Hamirwasia, Nivrita Hamirwasia; Rtn Sanjay

Kejriwal, Namita Kejriwal; Rtn Sanjay Shroﬀ,

Yashodhara Shroﬀ; Rtn Surendra Mohan Gupta,

Madhu Gupta; Rtn Vimal Kedia, Savita Kedia; for an

absolutely beautiful Marwari Nite !!!

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Inspirational Talk By

Mr. Eregowda

Friday, 31st March, 2017

On 31ST March 2017, Friday 40th WEEKLY MEETING

at 7.00Pm, at Oakwood, U B City, Bangalore.

Meeting started with President Nishu Jouhari

welcoming all Rotarians and Mr. Eregowda speaker

for the evening. Rtn. Shrikant Pandit introduced Mr.

Eregowda to all the audience. Mr. Eregowda born to

a farming family in Mandya district, Karnataka. He

had to discontinue his studies in early age itself to

take care of his ill mother who was suﬀering from

cancer. Mr. Eregowda started working as house

servant, gardener, oﬃce boy and security guard. He

used to work for 11 to 12 hours a day to earn extra

money to treat his mother.

But, he had a strong determination and dream of

becoming a person with identity in society for which

his close friends Mr. Ram and Vittal supported and

believed in his capabilities. He has directed many

short ﬁlms. Kannada Movie “Tithi” was a turning

point in Mr. Eregowda's career through which he rose

to fame of script writer, second unit director and

casting director in Kannada ﬁlm industry. His ﬁrst

movie went on to win 14 top awards in Film festivals

around the world.

Mr. Eregowda expressed his interest in ﬁlming, the

concept and good themes that he wants bring on

silver screen to educate younger generation.

Rotarians, Anns and guests who were present in the

meeting applauded his success and wished him all

the very best for his future endeavours. Rotarians

also expressed their interest in watching his

upcoming movie “ Balekempa” in the theatre. Vote

of Thanks by Rtn. Narendra Pasuparthy.

Birthdays...

Date Person

01 Mar Rtn Zahir Laliwala

Ann Uzma (Rtn Irfan Razack)

06 Mar Rtn Rajendra J Hinduja

Ann Sangeeta Lala

10 Mar Ann Rekha Saraf

14 Mar Ann Bindu Sadhwani

15 Mar Rtn Ashok Kumar Gupta

Rtn Chandrashekaran Pillai

16 Mar Rtn Quresh D Merchant

18 Mar Rtn Ajit Singh Bindra

22 Mar Ann Jabeen Farook

Ann Radhika Hormusjee

28 Mar Ann Amita Kaushal

30 Mar Rtn G. S Bhaskar

Rtn Ravi Shankar G

31 Mar Ann Huma Ali

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FEELING FREE

Every one of us wants to feel free. No one likes

bondages. Read on to know more on how to feel free

in Relationships.

Perfecting the art of detached involvement is a

necessity if we are to meditate successfully. But a

newcomer to the path of meditation may wonder,

how can I become detached? Don't we have to run

our homes and oﬃces and interact with people even

if we are practising meditation? Then, does

detachment not mean that we are withdrawing from

our relationships and becoming cold?

In almost all spiritual paths right through the

passage of time, a lot of signiﬁcance has been given

to the practice of detachment. This is simply

because one of the deepest habits all souls have

developed in the cycle of birth and rebirth is

attachment, and we don't realise that whatever we

become attached to, becomes a trap for our

consciousness, for the self, which causes the

creation of fear inside us.

So, then how do we know that we are attached to

someone or something? We know that we are

attached when we start thinking about someone or

something, when they are not present with us and

when there is no need to think about them.

Sometimes realising and sometimes without our

realizing consciously at that time, our mental

energy is being drained and we do not have control

over our thoughts and feelings.

Whenever we become attached to anything, we

automatically invite fear to be present, whether it

is fear of people, objects, position, power, money or

even an opinion. Any form of attachment means

that there will be a fear of damage or loss. Fear,

then, takes many forms like worry, anxiety and

stress as it hinders our spiritual growth. Where

there is fear, love cannot exist.

Detached involvement is the foundation, if we are

to remain positive, fearless and loving towards

others while interacting with them. This is known

as the art of detached involvement in relationships.