Published by Rotary Bangalore Midtown. For private circulation only.

In This Edition:

Ÿ Message from The President

Ÿ Message from The Secretary

September 2016: Club Services

Ÿ Leadership Program for School Children

Ÿ Mind Mapping Session for Teachers

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VOL. 15 | SEPTEMBER, 2016THE 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

Ÿ Speaker Meeting at Oakwood

Ÿ Blood Donation Camp

Ÿ Back to School Picnic

Ÿ Beneﬁts of Sugarcane

Ÿ Committee Meeting

Ÿ Nation Builder Awards – District event

Ÿ Birthdays and Anniversaries

MESSAGE FROM

THE SECRETARY:

Dear Members,

Over the past 2 months we had

some engaging speaker meetings

and I hope all of you enjoyed them.

We are truly excited and motivated about the increased

turnouts to these meetings and are working hard to get

more speakers in the coming months.

We are also proposing to invite some NGO and social

organisations as well as social entrepreneurs to come and

pitch their projects to our club, the intent of this exercise

is to ﬁnd projects in line with the vision of Rotary

International. Such projects can be evaluated for either

funding or co-opting. Considering the paucity of time our

members have, this may be a good route to identify

projects and people who will bring to us not only projects

but the necessary passion to execute them. Stay tuned for

more information in this regard. I wish you all a happy

Dussehra and Diwali in advance.

May this festive season bring you and your family lots of

love, peace and prosperity.

Regards

Narendra Pasuparthy

Secretary Ry 2016-17

MESSAGE FROM

THE PRESIDENT:

Dear Members,

Hope all are enjoying a good week!

It’s been over two months since our

team has taken over and we are

enjoying doing the community services and fellowship

events with all of you. Rotary International has

understood the challenges regarding time faced by the

members and in our case our trafﬁc situation adds to the

issue! That's why the recent Council on Legislation

adopted some innovative measures that allow clubs to

vary their meeting times and expand their pool of

prospective members. Clubs have more ﬂexibility now to

respond to the needs of their members and to clear away

as many barriers to attending meetings as they can. We

have cut down the number of meetings per month to three

which includes one fellowship/ ﬂexible meeting -

regarding vocational/ new generation or community

service visit. We continue to need more willing hands,

more caring hearts, and more bright minds to move our

work forward, need you to join in as many service projects

possible - every little gesture uplifts the heart of a needy.

See you soon!

Warmest wishes

Nishu Jouhari

President RY 2016-17.

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Faculties Mr. Rajiv Luv and Mr.Sachin Kamath divided

the students into 2 groups and taught them the

Leadership and Communication skills by means of

Games and Interaction. Expert trainers conducted

highly interactive sessions in English on subjects

such as Goal Setting, Self-Awareness, Time

Management etc., at the camp.

On the day two, the students who participated in

t h e p r og r am s w e re g i v e n C e rt i ﬁc a te s o f

Participation. Students gave a positive feedback for

the program and thanked the Faculty and Rotary

Bangalore Midtown for having given them a great

opportunity. Children left with positive attitude and

zeal and conﬁdence to face their goals. The entire

event was graced by Rtn Nishu Jouhari, Rtn Aditya

Shroff, Rtn Seema Sibbal, Rtn Kiran Boal, Rtn Kamal

Bhandari and Rtn K A Kunja. Breakfast and Lunch

for the Students and the Faculty was organized by

Rotary Bangalore Midtown.

We had RYLA empowering 197 kids with leadership

and team building lessons and simultaneous mind

mapping session conducted for 40 teachers from

rotary aided schools and on occasion of Teachers day,

we did felicitate HBP, Urdu and Gottigere teachers.

Events were managed well, Thanks to Rtn Kamal and

Rtn Seema.

CLUB SERVICES:

Leadership Programme for

School Children

2nd & 3rd Sep., 2016

Rotary Bangalore Midtown, along with Rotary

District 3190 Youth Services & Interact Committee,

organized a 2-day Leadership Camp for Interact Club

Leaders on September 02nd & 03rd, 2016 at Rotary

House of Friendship, Lavelle Road, Bangalore.

In association with Forum of Free Enterprises,

Mumbai a Leadership camp was organized for the

Students of Various Schools in and around Bangalore,

and also for the students from Rotary adopted

schools. Around 150 students from Rotary Adopted

schools and schools from in and around Bangalore

participated in the camp attended in spite of the

Karnataka Bandh effect on ﬁrst day.

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

Mind Mapping Session for

Teachers

3rd Sep., 2016

It was an interesting and useful MIND MAPPING

session for Teachers from the Rotary adapted schools

of District 3190, organized through Rotary District

3190 by Rotary Bangalore Midtown.. Every

programme begins with an initial consultation that

serves as a needs analysis for

the consultants to design

training plans.

The session was conducted by

the Founder Director of Nine

Dots Mr. Shankar Subramanian

Founder Director speaking to

us on Mind Mapping. Assess,

Determine, Implement and

Evaluate (ADIE) methodology

to achieve and exceed training

objectives. The programmes

are effectively optimized by

follow-up consultation.

45 Teachers from various Schools participated in the

program, they were taken through the session by

means of interaction and drawings and games. At

the end of the session the all the teachers who

participated in the program was given a certiﬁcate

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of appreciation and the teachers from Rotary

Midtown Adopted schools were felicitated by giving

them cash incentives of Rs. 1000.00. Teachers

appreciated the Training Program and thanked the

organizers for giving them this great opportunity.

Teachers were happy to receive a mind mapping

session and were positive to inherit in regular

curriculum. Teachers were positive to help them

prepare, not only for their role today but for the

challenges they will face tomorrow.

The event was graced by Rtn Ramesh K V and other

dignitaries from Rotary District and Rtn Nishu

Jouhari, Rtn Seema Sibbal, Rtn Aditya Shroff, Rtn

Kamal Bhandari, Rtn

Kiran Boal and Rtn

Kunja K A from Rotary

Midtown.

Mind mapping session

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teachers from rotary

aided schools and on

occasion of Teachers

day, we did felicitate

H B P , U r d u a n d

Gottigere teachers.

Events were managed well. Thanks to Rtn Kamal,

breakfast, lunch and snacks for the Teachers and the

faculty were organized by Rotary Bangalore

Midtown.

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Speaker meeting at Oakwood - Joint

meeting with NCC Heritage

2nd Sep., 2016

We had a joint meeting with HCC Heritage club with 73 members

and an engaging speaker Mr. Gopi Krishnaswamy – Life Coach and

Mindfulness Guide. Invited by Rtn Naren Pasuparthy.

Friday 02nd September 2016, we had Mr. Gopi Krishnaswamy – Life

Coach and Mindfulness Guide who spoke on What do Google, the

Israeli Army and Stanford University have in common. Mr Gopi is the

ex Managing Director at IDEO, one of the most innovative companies

in the world and a company he is now on the board of. He has a rich

and diverse career of over 20 years both with global companies and

as a successful entrepreneur. He specialises in the areas of

Creativity, Creative Problem Solving, New Age Leadership, Personal

Effectiveness and Business Strategy. The Program was well attended

by Rotarians and well acknowledged the speech given by speaker

and was followed by dinner.

Blood Donation Camp:

At Sansera Engineering Pvt Ltd.,

Suppor

ted by Rtn. F R Singhvi

7th Sep., 2016

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Back to School Picnic - Brigade

Orchards, Signature Resort,

Devanahalli

18th Sep., 2016

Well attended by Anns and Annette's, A day back

into carefreeness, fun, masti, kids eats, games and

enjoyment!!

Benefits of Sugarcane

Sugarcane is an important member of the grass

family. It consists of sucrose and has several

nutrients included in it which aids in

maintaining good health. Many of the beneﬁts

are not known by people. Sugarcane juice not

only helps to add on healthy form of sugar in

the bloodstream, it contains vitamins and

minerals that can protect the system from ﬂu,

freezing and sore throat. Sugarcane juice is one

fruit juice that has a high level of natural

sweetness. One does not have to add on

additional sugar to it. Those who are diabetic

can enjoy such a juice without worrying about

the blood sugar complications. When one is

suffering from acute dehydration, it is

recommended that one drinks this juice as it

helps to boost the blood sugar levels as well as

removes fatigue. Those who suffer from fever

and have loss of protein from the system, they

will ﬁnd that consumption of sugarcane juice

leads to supplementing the body with necessary

protein. The body temperature is brought down

and one can recuperate faster. Those who suffer

from jaundice are provided sugarcane juice to

recuperate faster. Digestion is assisted as well

as constipation, due to the high level of

potassium content. Wound healing properties

are enhanced and so is the immune system with

regular intake of sugarcane juice.

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Committee Meeting

23rd Sep., 2016

Nation Builder Awards –

District Event

28th Sep., 2016

On 28th September, 12 clubs of District 3190,

including Midtown organized an Nation Builder

Event, planned around recognizing and felicitating

the most dedicated teachers from the schools aided

by rotary clubs, our club participated by

contributing towards teachers Mementos and

Certiﬁcates and gift hampers. President Nishu and

Club Secretary Rtn Narendra Pasuparthy and

Committee meeting of various avenues was held at

Oakwood and was well attended by the members.

Birthdays...

Date Person

07th sep Rtn. Adil S Fazal

Ann Era Goel

10-Sep Ann Padmaja Prasad

11-Sep Ann Usha Domania

12-Sep Ann Lalitha Singhvi

Ann Vijay Laxmi Misra

13-Sep Ann Uma Yadalam

15-Sep Ann Rajshree Shankar

18-Sep Ann Asha Chamaria

22-Sep Ann Rashmi Bhargava

26-Sep Rtn. Masood Kareem

Rtn. Tosher G Hormusjee

Ann Shruti (Rtn Arun Chamaria)

27-Sep Rtn. Gyan Bhandari

Rtn. Mildred Naronha Smith

29-Sep Ann Amina Mukarram

Rtn. Vimal Kedia

30-Sep Ann Geeta Varadan

... & Wedding Anniversaries

01st Sep Rtn. Ali Mohamed & Huma Ali

Rtn. Anil Lala & Sangeeta

10th Sep Rtn. Gopal & Kshama Bhatia

PP Rtn Kiran Boal were present during the event.

We recognized HBP school teacher Ms. Sujatha and

Got tige re two t e ach e rs Ms . P adm a ja an d

Ms. Dakshayanamma. It was wonderful to see all the

hardworking, dedicated and well deserving teachers,

overwhelmed by this gesture by the Rotary Clubs.

Chief guest was Ms. Philomena Lobo, Government

Education Ofﬁcer.