ISSUE 3 SEPTEMBER 2010BULLETIN OF ROTARY BANGALORE SOUTH

DISTRICT GOVERNOR'S HOME CLUB

THE

VistaPAUL HARRIS

MEETS EVERY WEDNESDAY AT VVN SCHOOL, VANIVILAS ROAD, V.V. PURAM, BANGALORE @ 7 P.M.

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION HALL OF HONOR CLUB

Rtn. M.N. SURESH

District Governor

Rtn. SURESH BHAT

District Secretary

Rtn. M.PRABHUDEVA

President

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Rtn. Dr. PRAFULLA THUMATI

Immediate Past President

Rtn. H.V.VEERESH

President Elect

Rtn. M.V.GOPALAKRISHNA

Vice President

Rtn. T.R.BALAJI

Secretary

Rtn. B.R.SRIDHAR

Treasurer

Rtn. S.R.BABUSHANKAR

Director- Club Services

Rtn. M.R.SHIVARAM

Director- Vocational Services

Rtn. JEETU MUTHA

Director-Community Services

Rtn. N. BALAKRISHNA

Director - New Generation

Rtn. Dr. B.S.JAIPRAKASH

Director- International Services

Rtn. PP. R.A.RADHAKRISHNAN

Additional Director

Rtn. PP.C.N.SHAMSUNDER

Additional Director

Rtn. B.J.RATHNARAJU

Joint Secretary

Rtn. D.V.Prabhu

Seargent At Arms

Rtn. S.RAMAKRISHNA

Chairman - Membership Committee

Rtn. M.G.NAGENDRA

Chairman - Public Relations Committee

Rtn. Dr.S.N.ANEGUNDI

Chairman - Service Projects Committee

Rtn. Md. MANSURUDDIN

Chairman - Club Administration Committee

Rtn. B.K.NAGARAJ

Chairman - Rotary Foundation Committee

Youth Festival

The annual Youth Festival was held on 31st July and 1st August at VVN Auditorium. The Festival was inaugurated by popular film actor Sri Yash and the occasion was graced by DG Rtn. M.N.Suresh and District Secretary Rtn. Suresh Bhat. The festival started with lighting of lamp and later DG Rtn. M.N.Suresh addressed the students who were participating in various competitions.

Over 3000 students from more than 45 schools participated in various competitions. The main events were Spot Painting, Mehendi painting, Rangoli painting, Face painting, Group Dancing, Instrumental music, Dumb Charades, On line computer quiz, singing of Bhava Geethe, Fashion Show, Essay writing, etc.

After two days of hectic activity, the time came for the winners to receive prizes. Food was served to all the participants on both the days. The valedictory function was held on 1st August evening and the chief guest was Kannada film actor Ramesh Aravind. He advised the students to set a goal in their life and achieve it and he said nothing is impossible with hard work and dedication.

Later more than 300 prizes were received by winners from Sri Arvind Ramesh. Rtn. N.Balakrishna, Director- New Generation presented the report on the Youth Festival. Special thanks to PP Rtn. B.S.Arunkumar for providing the VVN Auditorium for both the days of competition. Special thanks also go to all the Judges who have spent time to select the winners. The meeting ended with vote of thanks proposed by Secretary Rtn.T.R.Balaji.

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

FOUR WAY TEST

Mr.Nagendra Kamath, Yoga Guru was the guest speaker for the weekly meeting. He explained the importance of Yoga in day to day life. Yoga helps in reduction of stress and cures many ailments. Regular practice of Yoga keeps body fit. He demonstrated the various postures of Yoga through his students (one of them was Ann Prathiba Prabhudev). All appreciated the demo and the tips given by the speaker. Vote of thanks was proposed by Rtn. Dr. Girish.

FROM EDITOR'S DESK

Yours in Rotary

Babushankar

August was hectic month with Youth Festival and more than 3000 students participated in many events. Project Green was initiated jointly with The Lalith Suri Hospitality Group to regreen Bangalore. President Rtn. Prabhudeva has taken lot of efforts to identify the required land to plant the saplings.

Special thanks to Rtn. Arunkumar for providing facilities for Youth Festival and also for Kannada Film show on 18th Aug.

You reach me with your feed back at srbabushankar@gmail.com

Astanga Yoga 04-08-10

Project Green is one of the many initiatives taken by South club to reduce pollution. Hasiru Kranthi ( Green Revolution) was started jointly with The Lalit Suri Green Initiative part of The Ashok Lalit Group. Dr.B.M. Hambarvadi was the chief guest for the program. Rtn. Ashok Maheswari, Chairman,Environmental Committee, Dist 3190 was the guest speaker for the day. The program started with invocation by Ann Sandya Shankar. Project was inaugurated by lighting lamp. Dr. Hambarvadi and Rtn.Ashok Maheswari were introduced to the audience by Rtn. Babu Shankar. The Chief Guest explained the project details. The plan is to plant 150,000

Hasiru Kranthi -11-8-10

saplings within a radius of 30KM of Bangalore. Rtn.Ashok explained the need for greening of Bangalore and necessity to live up to Garden City name given to Bangalore. Special thanks to Ann Shylaja Ramakrishna for preparing and bringing the green food for the program.

Rtn. Prabhudeva informed that already 120 acres of land is identified for planting saplings which are mainly Neem, Tamarind, Gulmohar, etc. These trees once grown will last for longer period than normal trees. Meeting ended with vote of thanks proposed by Rtn. Dr. Jaiprakash.

First ICGF for the year 2010-11 was held on Club Services at Kanakapura. Our club has 100% attendance through Patron registration by all members. It was well organized by Kanakapura Club with village food, village games in village ambience. Most of the members were wearing ethnic dress which really gave a festive touch to the ICGF. Thanks to DG Rtn. M.N.Suresh for reminiscence of traditional village culture.

ICGF- Club Services 08-08-10

LIFE is a vehicle which is driven with the help of wheels called HARD WORK

but the journey is impossible without the fuel called CONFIDENCE

There are two hands eagerly waiting to help you at any difficult situations and they are at the end of your own shoulders

- Swami Vivekananda

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

– Paul Harris

Note book Project

Twelfth edition of Note Book Project started in June, 2010, more than 100,000 note books were distributed to nearly 25,000 students in urban and rural areas. The project was originally conceived by Rtn. K.Ramanath in 1998 was an annual event. Now the project is adopted by District and South participated in this District project in a big way. Many Rotarians and their friends and relatives have contributed to this project and it was successfully completed.

Rtn.Babu Shankar is the Chairman for the Akshara Note Book Project initiated by our DG Rtn. M.N.Suresh. The project generated lot of enthusiasm among the Rotary clubs and 300,000 note books were distributed by various clubs under this project.

The note books were distributed to schools situated even in faraway places like Sirsi, Chikmagalur, Pavagoda apart from neighbouring places of Bangalore. Many thanking letters were received by the club from the schools appreciating the efforts taken by Club with excellent quality paper and wrapper. The most important point is the books were distributed to students as soon as schools were re opened which really saved them the money. The literacy improvement is always on top agenda of Rotary and Rotary South.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

– Paul Harris

Youth Festival competitions

Independence Day was celebrated by club by flagging off Rotaract motor bike rally to spread the awareness of health and education.

The month end cultural program was rendered by Parvathi Nruthya Vihangama. The dance fusion was on “Vande Mataram”. Everybody enjoyed the dance program performed by the students of Parvathi Nruthya Vihangama lead by Ann Prathiba Prabhudeva. The meeting ended with delicious dinner served to all.

Independence Day celebration Cultural Program 25-8-10

The Vista thanks the following

Rotarians/Anns for their liberal

contributions to Youth Festival.

B.S.Arunkumar, M.Prabhudeva,

S.Ramakrishna, Dr.R.A.Srinivas,

Dr. Anegundi, Dr. S.Srinivas and

S.A.Jagadeshwar contributed

Rs1000 each and Rs. 500 by S.

Mudram. Rolling Shield Sponsors

S . U d a y a s h a n k a r &

H.V.Rajashekara Setty Rs 2000

each, H.V.Gowthama Rs1500 and

P . R a m a m u r t h y R s 1 0 0 0

contributed. In kind, Pens by

C.P.Puttaraju, Pencils / rubber /

Scale by T.R.Balaji, Bun&cake by

Vatsala Prasad, Biscuits by Swarna

Chandrashekar and Drawing sheets

by B.V.Srikumar. Each prize winner

got a Discount coupon of Rs 200 by

Madhusudan and Gold coin by

Narayan.

If GOD answers our prayers, he is increasing our faith. If he delays he is increasing our patience.

If he doesn't answer he knows we can handle…..

Spot PaintingSpot Painting Group Dance Group Dance

Fashion ShowFashion Show Face PaintingFace Painting

Rangoli CompetitionRangoli Competition Bandset competitionBandset competition

A negative thinker sees a difficulty in every opportunity.

A positive thinker sees an opportunity in every difficulty. Let us be positive in life.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Thanks to Rtn. B.S.Arunkumar all the Rotarians were invited to view the Kannada Comedy film “ Yeradene Madhuve” on 18th at Treveni Theatre. Lot of Rotarians, Anns and Annets turned up for the film and enjoyed the fellowship offered by Rtn.B.S.Arunkumar.

Film Show 18-8-10

– Paul Harris

Immediately after the inauguration of Hasiru Kranthi, President Rtn. M.Prabhudeva along with members of The Lalit Suri Green Initiative visited various places around Bangalore and owners of nearly 300 acres of land have already agreed for the planting the saplings in their land. Further another 300 acres of land is identified and the discussions are on to obtain their consent to plant saplings.

To Rtn. Srikumar and Ann Vanaja Srikumar on their visit to New Jersey, USA to attend World Kannada Conference.

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The nation that is supreme above all others during one age,

will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

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Shoba Muralidhar 3rd

Bharati Prakash 6th

Vijaya B.A. 6th

Vijaya Chandrashekara 8th

Kala Ghorpade 9th

Vidya Kashinath 9th

Rotarians Anns

V.K.Thyagarajan Saroja 10th

P.C.Balaraj Leena 11th

S.R.Prakash Bharati 15th

Dr.H.V.Rajashekara Setty Shylaja 22nd

K.V.Sathyanarayana Babu Radhika 25th

Wedding Anniversary

1-9-10 Talk on Numerology and Vaastu by

Sri Jaya Sathishkumar

8-9-10 Teachers' Day Celebration

15-9-10 Presentation by Rtn. O.P.Khanna on District

Heart Surgeries Program

22-9-10 Business Meet

29-9-10 Cultural program

Programmes - September 2010 Launching of Project GreenOn 26th August, 2010 'WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL DAY Project Green was launched by planting a sapling at Poornaprajna Research Center. The Lalit Group Green Initiative members and our club members were present during the planting of sapling.

Bon Voyage to Rtn. Y.V.Sarangapani and Ann Usha on their visit to USA.

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