house magazine of Rotary Bangalore JunctionVOLUME 12 | ISSUE 9 | March 2020

Rtn KV Vardhan

Director, International Service

Rtn Reshu Baid

Rtn Suresh Arakere

Director, Vocational Service

Director, Youth Service

Rtn Meera Deshpande

Director, Club Service

Rtn Surendra Marda

Treasurer

Rtn Punit Bajaj

Director, Community Service

Rtn. Sanjay Kedia

Sergeant at Arms

Rtn. PP H M Sharma

Bulletin Editor

Additional co-opted Directors

Rtn Ajay RuiaCSR and Public Image

Rtn. Mandar DixitMembership Development

Rtn. Ramesh BhatSpecial Projects

Rtn Siddarth Hamirwasia

Joint Secretary

Rtn Arun Ladha

Secretary

Rtn BG Raj

President

Rtn Shankar Agarwal

Immediate Past President

Rtn Abhay Sinha

Rtn Velu B Pethi

President Elect.

Board of Directors

Vice President

CHARTER NITE CELEBRATIONS WITH A DIFFERENCE

Dist : 3190 Club ID : 82899

WE MEET EVERY FRIDAY 7pm

Royal Orchid Central, Manipal Centre

Five Past Presidents who helped in the

formation of the club and joined as charter

members on 5th February 2010 were

honoured and felicitated. They were

It was on 7th March at Lawns of Royal Orchid

old Airport Road.

FELLOWSHIP

It started with exchange of pleasantries with

lot of camaraderie's, Bonhomie and bonding

over Chaats and Thandai. What a good start

for celebrations!!

MEETING

It started on made to order stage for

celebrations on the special occasion in

decorated lawns.

RECOGNITION

Paul Hariss Fellows were recognized and

pinned by IPP Shankar Agarwal and Ann

Sarita. Rtns. Suresh Arakere, Mahesh

Khaitan, Siddapa and Nitu saraf were pinned

and Rtns. Deepak Singhal and Sanjiv Goenka

were recognized in absentia as they could

not attend the function.

HONOUR AND FELICITATIONS

All past Presidents were recognized for their

contribution in making the club one of the

best clubs in the district. They made the club

as major and model club and club with a

difference. Charter President Sanjay Sinha in

absentia. PPS - Abhay Dixit, Nagraja Rao,

Sanjay Agarwal, Vijay Saraf, Nawal Saraf,

Milind Deshpande, Santosh Kejriwal,

Shankar Agarwal and President BG Raj were

recognized and felicitated.

R t n s . H M S h a r m a , M P K r i s h n a n ,

BK Krishnamurthy. Jeetendra Aneja and

Dr Anil Rao Paila were honoured in Absentia

as they could not attend.

DECADE OF JOURNEY

Charter Secretary and charter President Elect

Rtn. Abhay Dixit took us back to 2010 when

club took first service project worth Rs. 5000

only in old dingy, depilated, old building of

Gubbalala school. Two pumps were provided

Two senior past Presidents B D Patel who

joined in August 2014 and BS Gilra who

joined in July 2018 were also recognized for

their contribution and guidance to the club.

RECOGNITION OF ALL PAST PRESIDENTS

CROSSINGRotary Foundation Hall of Honour Club

Charter Nite Celebrations

INNER THOUGHTS

“NO JOURNEY IS LONG WHEN THE DREAMS ARE BIG AND SKY IS

THE LIMIT”. DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS CAN BE INFINITE - THEY

DO NOT HAVE BOUNDERIES - SO DOES THE SPIRIT OF

JUNCTIONITES.”

AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE IS Rtn. NITU SARAF.

to take water from sumps to overhead tanks for drinking and

shabby make shift toilets for girls. What a change!! These past

presidents brought and now the RBJ does not hesitate to take

projects worth lacs of Rupees in a year.

CUTTING OF CAKE FOLLOWED BY CULTURAL PROGRAME

POWER PACKED PROGRAM

The celebrations mood was further elevated with celebrations of

festival of Holi with Gulal and Phoolon KI Holi. The celebrations

were on till 11.30 PM with Gulal and Phool Barse.

Cake was cut ceremonially to celebrate the birthday of the club.

Two incomparable compare - Antts. Shreya and Vamshika took

over to dazzle the dazzlers with their dexterous style of comparing

which resembled legend Amin Sayani’s narration. Duo’s body

language and dialogue delivery was rhythmic and musical; What a

caliber!! Tiny Annettes on the top of the world with their

performance were Miraya Mishra, Khayati Kothari, Aditi

Hamirwasia and Kavya Kapoor. They have inborn talents. The

members who delighted all and left a mark with their singing were

Meera Deshpande, Anuradha Bhat, Sukanya Raj, Rtns. Shailesh

Agarwal, Manish Kumar, BG Raj, Gajendra Agarwal, Mahesh

Agarwal, Dr Balasubramanya. Sachin Indane with Tabla and

multitalented Shreya dazzled all with her dance performance.

GLITTERING PERSONALITIES OF THE EVENT

Producer - President BG Raj; Director - Meera Deshpande; Anchor

- Reshu Baid; Trend setters - Shreya and Vamshika MCs of cultural

program and all artists mentioned above.

Impact of Appreciation

She also distributed Kannada to English Dictionaries 5 each in

GHPS, Gubbalala and Turrahali. She also gave one each to the

head of the school. The dictionaries have Rotary Junction name

with 4 way test. Both the schools have library. Rtns. Milind

Deshpande and HM Sharma were present during presentation

ceremony.

Rtn. Meera Deshpande gave token of appreciation to toppers of

unit test to the students from 4th to 7th class on 9th March at

GHPS Gubbalala. Now there is competition among students to get

the prize and get appreciation. It had motivated students to study

more and they have become competitive.

Crossing Thanks Meera director teach for inspiring the students.

8th Board meeting

It was held just before Charter night celebrations on 7th March at

the board room in the hotel Royal Orchid. Key highlights were the

consecutive health check-up camps that we have hosted at

schools and plan is to continue doing it. Rtn, BK Krishnamurthy

efforts were applauded in making the satellite club at Sira a reality,

we are at present the only club in RID 3190 having a satellite club.

Another very important topic discussed was tree plantation -

plans are on to get saplings planted before monsoons. Rtns . BG

Raj, Arun Ladha, Velu Pathi, Ajay Ruia, BK Krishnamurthy, Meera

Deshpande, Reshu Baid, Ramesh Bhat, Sanjay Kedia, Shankar

Agarwal and Siddarth Hamirwasia attended the meeting.

Penned by Rtn Siddarth Hamirwasia.

We ask for unwanted things forgetting to ask for love and compassion. We seek material wealth forgetting to ask for peace and tranquility. We knock at the wrong door and always at the wrong time. All because we are obsessed with ourselves and find difficult to equanimate.

~ contributed by Rtn. PP M P Krishnan

Point to Ponder

Ÿ Through Youth Service – we work with young people to help

them become next generation leaders, visionaries and peace

makers.

Hence enjoy Rotary and change lives.

Ÿ Through Vocational Service – we volunteer our professional

skills to serve others, promote integrity in things we do.

Ÿ Through International Service – we meet humanitarian needs

around the globe and promote world understanding and

peace,

Ÿ Through Community Service – we address local needs and

work with our community to bring lasting improvement,

Ÿ Through club service – we have fun, build lasting friendship

and make sure club runs well.

Rotary`s avenues of service guide our activities and help us to

Enjoy.

Enjoy Rotary Always First

Toastmasters' International has recognized the Alliance with

Rotary Bangalore junction. Presidents TI and RI gave a call to team

up and collaborate. Our is the first club to be recognized. This is

public image project of RBJ. Crossing lauds the efforts of

Rtns. BK Krishnamurthy, Santosh Kejriwal and Pradeep Kumar for

their efforts.

Starting of A New Era

Guest Appearance – Rtn. Jeetendra Aneja appeared in the group

said,” Hello” to all and wished all the best and left.

This write up is compiled with dexeterity by Rtn. Siddarth

Hamirwasia.

PREAMBLE

We had our first weekly on line meeting on 20-March-2020. It

began with President Rtn B G Raj welcoming all Junctionites to the

first meeting in online format. Much applauded by fellow

members, PP Rtn Milind Deshpande was recognized for his

generous contribution of Rs 30 lacs to The Rotary Foundation

India. PP Rtn H M Sharma, speaker of the evening, gave a very crisp

and clear talk on Listening Skills. Mesmerized by the session,

almost all the 20 attendees felt like saying "yeh dil mange more",

but then the meeting time had to be adhered to. Secretary Rtn

Arun Ladha took over to make club announcements including

upcoming birthdays & anniversaries. And the emeeting

concluded by President personally thanking each & every

Junctionite who joined the online meeting and made it a success.

Rotary Bangalore Junction, being one among the tech savvy clubs

in district 3190, seized the opportunity to make use of technology

in this time of need. Joint Secretary Rtn Siddharth Hamirwasia

took lead in setting up the weekly meeting online. It began with a

test eMeeting on 19-March-2020 where 7 members of the board

collaborated to see how easy/difficult it was for people to connect

online and to iron out any impediments. With a thumbs up from

all, we were all set for using the technologies we have at our

disposal to maintain continuity of our weekly meetings. History

was created in Rotary Bangalore Junction with our "First Weekly on

line meeting” held on 20-March-2020.”

Anhay Sinha, Amrish Kothari , Arun ladha , BG Raj , HM Sharma ,

Kamal Karnani , Mandar Dixit, Manish Agarwal , Meera

Deshpande, Milind Deshpande , NK Saraf , Naresh Choudary ,

Nitu Agarwal , Ruby Choudary , Shankar Lal Agarwal , Siddarth

Hamirwasia , Sukanya Raj , Sushil Agarwal, Velu B Pethi and Vinod

Kumar ; participated.

Namaste

Dr B D Patel gave a talk on scientific significance of Namaste as salutation in our second on line meeting on 27th March. When we do Namaste with folded hands both palms and fingers come together and rub acupressure points and heal many disorders. There is also combination of both Gyan Indirias and karama Indirias and you become Karma Yogi. Namaste with folded hands is sign of humility and you pay respect to your loved ones. Namaste with folded hands is respect to God in every one because we are respecting the soul within and not only the individual. When we do hand shake we absorb both negative and positive energy of an individual and we may lose bit of our positivity. Hand shake should be only done whenever there is deal and friendship is sought. Namaste has scientific significance that is why it is being followed by many countries now. Talk was very informative and interesting; it was followed by questions & answers session. There were 34 participants.

Science with Humor

Corona - corona करोना,

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सब के िहत मे और भारत की सेवा मे �ोफ डॉ बी डी पटेल

िवदेशी खाने से दूर रहोना, भगाओ िवदेशी corona !

इससे तुम डरोना, सब को हाथ जोड़ा ना, पास नही ंआएगा corona

दूर से राम राम करोना, हट हट के काम करोना, न पलेगा corona

हाथ मुह आंखे साफ साफ रखोना, corona से डरो ना

घरमे रहो ना, आराम से काम करोना, िनकट न आयेगा corona

घर का भोजन अमृत है बाहर का जहर है, घर का खाओ ना, पास न फटकेगा corona

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घर से काम करोना, थक गए तो �ाणायाम करोना, भाग जाएगा corona

Gracious Givers

1. Sanjiv Goenka on Wedding anniversary INR 11,000

2. Rtn. Anil Rao Paila on his wedding anniversary INR 5,001

1. Rtn. Milind Deshpande for Education INR 20,000

First Happy School 2020-2021

Govt lower Primary School, Horamavu was converted into first

happy School by the contribution of given by the following

Rotarians.

1. Rtn. M P Krishnan

2. Rtn. Milind Deshpande

3. Rtn. Hozefa Attarwala

4. Rtn. Naresh Kumar Choudary

5. Rtn. Velu B Pathi

2. Rtn J. Aneja to TRF on 30th"March USD 3000

They contributed 74,025 each to make this happy school. Crossing

congratulates them for their charity.

Donors

CORONA VIRUS

PROTECT YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY FROM

Rtn. Dr Balu Subramanya 1st April

Rtn. Abhay Dixit 6th April

Rtn. Revati Kamath 14th April

Rtn. Reshma Velu 14th April

Rtn. Dr Chandana Murthy (Satellite) 15th April

Rtn. Nitu Agarwal 20th April

Rtn. Roopesh SK (Satellite) 23rd April

Rotarians

Ann. Nimisha Ladha 22nd April

Ann. Reena Mittal 23rd April

Ann. Chandrika Rao 24th April

Ann’s

Antt. Hridey Choudary 1st April

Antt. Chaitanya 4th April

Antt. Kanishak Bajaj 5th April

Antt. Chetan Bhardwaj 6th April

Antt. Akash Bhat 8th April

Antt. Ishika Ladha 8th April

Antt. Adarsh Khaitan 9th April

Antt. Pragya Bajaj 12th April

Antt. Ayushi Agarwal 13th April

Antt. Eshaan Dwivedi 14th April

Antt. Onam Dalmia 14th April

Antt. Amit Kashyap 14th April

Antt. Cherisha Agarwal 17th April

Antt. Mrunal 18th April

Antt. Harshika 19th April

Antt. Sarakshi 19th April

Antt. Dhruva 23rd April

Antt. Tarang Mittal 24th April

Antt. Aditi Garwal 25th April

Antt. Yashvi Kedia 25th April

Antt. Pradham 30th April

Annettes

Rtn. Sachin Indane & Ann. Sanyukta 1st April

Rtn. Jeetendra Aneja & Ann. Sunanda 8th April

Rtn. D K Ravi & Ann. Sujatha 15th April

Rtn. Ajay Ruia & Ann. Sarika 15th April

Rtn, Anil Baid & Rtn. Reshu Baid 18th April

Rtn. Sanjay Jajodia & Ann. Seema 19th April

Rtn. Manish Agarwal & Rtn. Nitu 23rd April

Rtn. Kamal Karnani & Ann. Mamta 29th April

Wedding Anniversary

Crossing wishes them many happy returns of the day.

Education & honour

He was born in famous orange city but received education in South. He is BTech Civil, NITK (KREC, Surathkal) MBA, (EGMP) IIMB – Rank holder throughout.

His father was joint Director Industries and was instrumental in setting up industrial hub on Indore-Bombay Highway. His mother was double MA from Nagpur University. His spouse Meera is topper of Nagpur University. She is topper in Fashion designing, topper in interior designing, topper in painting, and topper in pottery painting. His eldest daughter Mrunal is topper in BDS and won many prizes in dance competitions. His younger daughter SHREYA is perfect role model for youth. She represented India in Malaysia for fit kid competition. She represented India in junior fitness competition and won the same in USA. She won the clean and clear Bangalore fresh race of the year in 2011. She was honored by Mayor of Nagpur and president of India.

He is unassuming, friendly, caring, has sporting and kind nature. He is known for his sobriety. He is man of few words but full of wisdom. He is an asset to any organization; as he was born in the first month of the Rotary year, he is the first rank holder in all the examinations conducted by Mysore University Engineering department. His organizational skill came to light, when he was recognized by the principal in the final year for organizing many activities.

Family genes of excellence

AWESOME 1 G, AWESOME 2 G, AND AWESOME 3 G

Rtns. Milind Deshpande and his spouse Meera belong to 2nd generation of excellence. 1st and 3rd have been vividly described above.. His profession is infrastructure construction. His mission is to help the needy which had been demonstrated by him and his spouse`s philanthropic acts many times. His latest legendary act is of donation of USD 42000 to TRF this month. He is down to earth gentle man rarest of the rare. We bow to you; Rtn. Milind , YOU ARE PARAGON OF CHARITY.

Know Thy Generously Generous Philanthropist

Be a part of solution and not a part of pollution; very successful campaign along with Rajashtan Patrika and Marwari Yuva Manch Central Bangalore at city market where they distributed cloth Bags to those who used plastic bags and created awareness against pollution. During Rotaract week spread awareness on menstrual health and hygiene to promote the practice; of using sustainable reusable pads. They distributed shoes with inner wheel club.

Rotaract Club celebrated Rotaract week by on line events like - memo o mania contest; Transformational Tuesday; Treasure Hunt; Private movie screening and trend setting Tambola on 29th March in which 200+ participated including many Rotarians and Anns. Rtrs of the month - Amrita, Arpita, Devansh, Kishan, Onam, Rohit and Vamshika.

Rotaract Bangalore Junction

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