Rotary International, on 22nd October 2014, announced a grant of 8.4 million dollars to Nigeria to

assist the country’s po-lio fight. In a state-ment issued in Dakar, Rotary said the grant came ahead of the Oct. 24 observance of the World Polio Day. It stated that the grant was part of Rotary’s broader contribution of 44.7 million dollars to end the paralysing

disease worldwide. It added that it would be used by UNICEF and the World Health Or-ganisation (WHO) to

support high quality polio immunisation campaigns in Nigeria. Rotary pointed out that with a 90 per cent reduction in polio cases, Nigeria was close to ending the transmission of the po-lio virus. “The funding commitment follows Nigeria’s 90 per cent

reduction in polio cases in 2014, com-pared with 2013 cases, with only six cases recorded to date

in 2014,’’ the s t a t e m e n t noted. It said that Nigeria reported the highest num-ber of polio cases in the world in 2012, adding that “along with Pakistan and Afghani-stan, Nigeria is one of only three coun-

tries where the wild polio virus never stopped. “We will not stop fighting this dis-ease until every child in Nigeria and the world is safe from this crippling disease,” Dr Tunji Funsho, Rotary’s National Polio Plus Chair for Nigeria, said.

SOURCE: ROTARY.ORG

VOLUME 6 ISSUE 4

November 2014

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES

$8 .4M GRANT TO FIGHT POLIO IN NIGERIA

MATHRU SANDESMATHRU SANDESMATHRU SANDESHHH

Inside this issue:

RR Nagar Club News 2

RR Nagar Club News 3

RR Nagar Club News 4

Articles & Contributions 5

Articles & Editor’s Note 6

Trivia 7

Rotary Information 8

Bulletin of Rotary Bangalore Rajarajeshwari Nagar Centennial

Club ID # 68917

District 3190

Special points of

interest:

Subscriptions are due, please pay at the earliest

PP Rtn. Satish Madha-van as has been selected as District Secretary for RY 2015-16

Excellent participation of Rotarians at the ICGF on Vocational Services, held at NIMHANS on October 12th

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tained us by playing the mridangam skill-fully. Soon after, Ann Chitra and her team lit up some 60 lamps, while all the lights were put out. It was indeed a splendid

visual. This was then followed by a sound and light dance, en-thus ias t i c ia l l y choreo-graphed and presented by Annets Shreya, Sunaina, Samskriti, and Vibha. Last

but not the least, t h e r e was a s t e l l a r Dandiya perform-ance by our Anns S m i t h a ,

Padma, Vidya, Savitha, Latha, and Ms. Jaishree Charan.

Everyone was then en-couraged to do the dandiya dance in gay abandon. The evening rounded off with an excellent dinner. I must mention that everyone was dressed to the hilt, especially the Anns. Check out the photos!!!

It was celebra-tion time in our club on Oct. 18. We cele-brated Dassera and Deepavali with great en-thusiasm. It be-gan with devo-tional songs on Shakti that were sung by Rtn. Girish, Rtn.

Vibha, Ann Radhika, Annet Vibha, Mr. B a s a v a r a j (father of Rtn. S h i v a k u m a r ) and myself. Af-

ter this, Annet Subbu (son of PP Rtn. Ravindra B.) enter-

M A T H R U S A N D E S H

3 D Show - dussehra, dandiya & diwali celebrations

Spread the Word! Invite someone to become a

Rotarian today.

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laboration with BBMP. Our club joined their efforts by supplying the entire team (over 1000 students from across colleges in Bangalore) with gloves and face masks. This project was inaugurated by the VC of Bangalore Uni-versity, Prof. B. Thimme Gowda. The team essentially cleaned up various areas of our neighborhood.

This campaign was officially launched on the said day at Rajghat, New Delhi, w h e r e P r i m e M i n i s -ter Narendra Modi himself

wielded the broom and cleaned a road. The same c a m p a i g n was initiated in RR Nagar by Banga-lore Univer-sity in col-

Oct 2 was also the day that the Swachh Bharat Abhi-yan (Campaign Clean India) was launched. It is a national level campaign by the Gov-ernment of In-dia covering 4041 statutory towns to clean the streets, roads and in-frastructure of the country.

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in the school, the principal r equ es t e d our Club to p r o v i d e hand-wash facilities for the stu-d e n t s . There were no taps, whatsoever

in the school. And so, our Club took up the initiative, led by Rtn. Ravikumar. He donated tiles and delegated a set of plumbers to the project. Rtn. Srinath

Babu, through Sai Ceramics, supplied the pipes and other fittings. This project was ably supported in many ways through other Rotarians too: BG Suresh, S. P r a s a d a R a o , S h y a m p r a s a d , Balasubramanyam,

Shivakumar, Suresh Warrier, Madhavaraya, Shyam Kadur, and Narayan Raghavan. Overall, 6 taps were pro-vided with a long, extended basin. A formal inauguration was done on 2nd Oct to co-incide with Gandhi Jayanti.

Our club has always been supportive of the Govt. School in Bangarappa Na-gar. The club has endeav-ored to fulfill many of the school’s needs such as stu-dent supplies (note books, bags, pencil cases, lunch bags, etc.), railings for all parapet walls, library cup-boards, computers, so on and so forth. This year, on August 15, during the Independ-ence Day Celebration

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WATER TAPS PROJECT - GOVT. SCHOOL BANGARAPPANAGARA

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Contribute

Generously !

To the Rotary Foundation

GLOVES / BAGS PROJECT ON OCTOBER 2ND

Amarnath. The surgery was

conducted at Jayadeva Hos-

pital in Bangalore. Special

mention must be made of

Past President Rtn. Srinath

B a b u

w h o

h e l p e d

in re-

so lving

an issue

t h a t

c a m e

up dur-

ing this referral and Rtn.

Venkatesh A who followed

up with the District to get it

resolved.

Our community services

committee did a wonderful

job of taking up one heart

surgery this month. This is

the first in-

stance for our

club taking up

this initiative in

this Rotary

Year. The pa-

tient was Mr.

Umesh, re-

ferred to the club by Rtn.

Heart surgery

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It was a fun filled evening as is wont every year. Ann Chi-tra invited the entire Club family for Navratri celebra-tions at her house. She keeps the traditional ‘Golu’ – doll display. Almost all Rotarians, their Anns and Annets par-

ticipated in this festivity. There was a fantastic sat-sang, yummy food, and spiri-tual fellowship. The satsang continued until 9:30 p.m. ably supported on the har-monium by Rtn. Srihari and on the dholak by Rtn. Nara-yan. Rotarians, Anns & even Annets sang lustily with

great devotion to make it a grand success. It is now a yearly event to look forward to.

Golu at ann chitralekha narayan’s residence

Continue to Commit! Let’s wipe this menace of the face of the

Earth.

jarajeshwari Nagar. We have identified various strategic retail locations in and around our community to strategically place the bins as well as display informative posters. The initiative contin-ues in terms of lending one’s

commercial premises for this purpose. Donors are en-couraged to hand over old computers, mobile phones or any gadget which re-quires the use of a battery as e-waste. This would be dis-posed off by Bin Bag.

A new initiative, as part of saving our environment – a related projects was started this month. It is being done in association with Bin Bag (a new social entrepreneur-ship). Rtn. Srinath babu has initiated this project in Ra-

Promotion of e-Waste project

The amateur photographer’s credo

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articles & contributions

NOVEMBER EDITION VOLUME 6, ISSUE 4

My camera is an extension of my ocular tissue.

I click photographs not to capture a memorable mo-ment but to make a moment memorable.

If I stumble upon a deserted beach with only the thunder of the tide in my ears and the last golden rays of sunset in my eyes and have the sea breeze rustle through my hair and scrunch the fine white sand under my toes…I will or-der everyone to say CHEESE!

Before immortalising a beauti-ful landscape, I will plant the nearest available human with the corniest possible smile, front and center.

A spell to capture distant ob-jects: Abracadabra willy-nilly-zoom!

At social gatherings, I click

countless pictures of the same people wearing the same clothes posing in the same manner with the same smiles, because practice makes per-fect.

May I never commit the sacri-lege of capturing people as they are in life. The only can-did snaps I take are those that can embarrass you.

I will click a thousand por-traits of each of my friends with the background out of focus. These will be their pro-file pics for the rest of their lives.

A friend who carries my tri-pod is a friend indeed.

On Saturday nights, my cam-era automatically clicks ran-dom pics of my friends and I bleary-eyed, drunk or passed out. On Sunday morning, I will tag everybody whose elbow, knee or little finger is visible in any of these keep-ers.

Once I get commit-ted/engaged/married, my profile pic cannot feature anyone apart from me and my beloved, or we will both die.

I judge a photograph by its F a c e b o o k wo r th i n es s , and the num-ber of likes and com-ments it gar-ners.

I will capture red roses, white roses, pink roses and a touch-me-not (because I’m versatile) from my phone camera and super-scribe *Insert Your Name* Photography on every photo in a nice conspicuous font.

I will click photos of photos.

I solemnly swear that the photographs I click will make you look flawless, wholly

flawless and nothing but flawless, so help me God.

Give me Photoshop and I will give you perfection.

Sepia is my birthright and I shall use it.

Instagram is my country and all Instagrammers are my brothers and sisters. I love my profile and am proud of its rich and varied filters. I shall always strive to look worthy of it. I shall give my portraits, couplies and all usies the Lux effect and post-produce eve-ryone as a courtesy. To my Instagram and my peeps, I pledge my devotion. In their well-seeming and popularity alone lies my happiness.

I spare myself the effort of thinking up appropriate cap-tions for photos because they’re all #instagood #picsoftheday #withmybestie #friendforever #iloveher.

If at first you can’t converse, Snapchat.

I take screenshots of Snap-chats and share them, be-cause #privacywatsdat # s w a g # y o l o #otherwordsthatmeannothing r e a l l y # p l u s #termsthatmakesensetonobodybutyou.

God couldn’t provide a sun at night, hence He gave me Flash. I must honour Him by clicking selfies in the dark.

Red-eye or not, here I come.

Source:

http://mrigankwarrier.wordpress.com

Plan ! Prepare! To attend in June 2015

RI Convention.

It is that day of the year….a birthday

What excitement in deciding

what to buy – why not this? Why not that?

What to eat – why not this? Why not that?

I realize that we die each moment

Because time waits for no one

The past is getting created

With every passing second

Can you capture that joy of giving and receiving

That happens all through one’s birth day?

Pack it up in the prettiest wrapping

And gaily adorn it with a satin bow?

That would indeed be a befitting gift

Except that it will have to be from you to yourself!!

The delight, the joy, the happiness, the smile, the bliss

These are all gifts that you have in you

Unwrap them now, look at them, and hug your-self

With a big THANK YOU!!

A poem by Ann Chitralekha Narayan

Dear Rotary family, It’s my pleasure to have put the Oct. 2014 edition of our Club newsletter together. I have been quite busy this month, moving to our new office loca-tion. Despite that, I found a little time here and there to get this all together. What I have observed these past few months are the various initiatives that the new Board has taken up to bring in new blood, new ideas, new per-spectives, and new contributions to the betterment of our community. I am now convinced that our Club is strongly rooted and we have plenty of leaders who will take this Club for-ward in the years to come. I have no-ticed that in our club, there are Rotari-ans, old and new, who come forward and support initiatives from the front, while there are equally dedicated members who support the same initia-tives from behind the scenes. I thank each one of you – Rotarian, Ann, An-net – for being there. In many in-stances, as a club grows and becomes a veteran club, I have found that there

is always some amount of politics that dilutes fellow-ship. However, in our club, solidarity is utmost – we never let each other down. The beauty is the participa-tion of Anns and Annets to make all our meetings and events successful and memo-

rable. We all bring joy, togetherness, and love to our Club. We are indeed a personification of ‘Vasudaiva Kutum-bakam.’ I pray to Goddess Rajarajesh-wari to bless our Club so that it may continue to be this way in future. I hope you like this edition as much as I liked working on putting it all to-gether. Yours in Rotary, Narayan Raghavan

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Articles & Editor’s Note

NOVEMBER EDITION

Are you

Environment

Conscious??

A Gift

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trivia

NOVEMBER EDITION VOLUME 6, ISSUE 4

How well do you know our rotary

1. In 1945-46, forty-nine ac-

tive Rotarians gathered in

San Francisco, USA, to

help a gathering of world

leaders draft what?

2. In 1915-16, the first non-

English speaking Rotary

Club was chartered in

which country?

3. Name the 5 avenues of

service.

4. What is the largest pro-

gram of our Rotary Foun-

dation (based on total

annual expenditure)?

5. What did Herb Taylor cre-

ate in 1932?

6. What year were women

officially admitted to Ro-

tary?

7. What was the name of

our organization before it

was changed to ‘Rotary

International’ in 1922?

8. True or False: When a

person becomes a mem-

ber of a Rotary Club, he/

she automatically be-

comes a member of Ro-

tary International.

9. What year was the Polio-

Plus campaign an-

nounced by RI?

10. What is the official mean-

ing of the Rotary Wheel

emblem?

11. How many spokes and

cogs are in the official Ro-

tary Wheel emblem?

12. The name ‘Rotary’ is de-

rived from what?

13. What are the official col-

ors of RI?

14. What is the title of Paul

Harris’ biography?

1. United Nations Charter

2. Cuba

3. Club service, Interna-

tional Service, Vocational

Service, Community Ser-

vice, New Generations

4. PolioPlus Eradication Pro-

gram

5. The Four Way Test

6. 1987

7. International Association

of Rotary Clubs

8. False: Rotarians are mem-

bers of Rotary Clubs; it is

the Rotary Clubs that are

members of Rotary Inter-

national.

9. 1985

10. There is no official mean-

ing

11. 6 spokes, 24 cogs

12. The early practice of ro-

tating meetings among

members’ offices.

13. Royal blue and gold

14. My Road to Rotary

Rtn. Suresh B.G. President

Rtn. Balasubramanyam K.S. Immediate Past President

Rtn. Adike Venkatesulu President Elect

Rtn. Srihari Boregowda Vice President

Rtn. Suresh Warrier Secretary

Rtn. Shankara Prasad N. Joint Secretary

Rtn. Satish Madhavan Treasurer

Rtn. Shyam Prasad Sergeant at Arms Directors of Services Rtn. Adike Venkatesulu Club Services

Rtn. Venkatesh A. Community Services

Rtn. Ravi Kumar V. Vocational Services

Rtn. Shyamsundar Kadur International Services

Rtn. Gayathri Suresh Raghavan New Generation Services

Rtn. Narayan Raghavan Rtn. Satish Madhavan Rtn. Shankara Prasad N. Rtn. Suresh B.G. Rtn. Suresh Warrier Ann Chitralekha Narayan

Board of Directors

Editorial Team

We Celebrate !!!!!

1st - Annet Suhasini d/o Rtn. Vasundhara Naik

2nd - Rtn. Girish K.S.

4th - Rtn. Suresh Kumar C.S.

5th - Annet Swathi d/o Rtn. Shamsundar N.

6th - Annet Dhruv s/o Rtn. Santosh Burande

9th - Ann Kasturi w/o Rtn. Sreenivas Setty

12th - Ann Surekha w/o Rtn. Shamsunder N.

13th - Annet Vinutha d/o Rtn. Amarnath

14th - Rtn. Jitendra Goyal

14th - Annet Kruttika d/o Rtn. Suresh R.

16th - Ann Nagarathna w/o Rtn. Suresh Kumar C.S.

18th - Rtn. Arvind Mampally

20th - Annet Prasanth s/o Rtn. Chandru S.

28th - Rtn. Shankaraprasad N.

28th - Rtn. Dr. Madhusudan G.

30th - Rtn. Geetha Gowrishankar

9th - Rtn. Ranga N.V. & Ann Malathy

27th - Rtn. Vedprakash Tiwari & Ann Pooja

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Schedule of Events

MONTH’s EVENTS

Nov 8th - Club Assembly

Nov 15th - ICGF - Interna-

tional Services

Nov 9th - Board Meeting

Nov 14th - Come Home

Safe Campaign in Schools

Nov 22nd - Karnataka Ra-

jyotsava Day Celebrations

Nov 24th - Cancer Camp at

Doddaballapur

Nov 29th - Parichaya for

Potential Rotarians

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