October 15 The Golden Orange

October 2015

DISTRICT EVENT

OMOG

BOARD INTERVIEW

COMMUNITY SERVICE

INTERACT INSTALLATIONS

ROTARACT INSTALLATIONS

LADIES COMMITTEE

LIFE SKILLS

LITERACY

Literacy March

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August saw a flurry of activities with visits to the 50 schools allotted to us under ZP MOU. These visits have enabled us to identify their needs. These included Teacher training, augmentation of reading materials in the school libraries, addition of minor sports equipment and of course the big ones like Toilet repairs, Wash facilities, Building repairs and provision of drinking water.

It is clear that all of these can be achieved

by Rotary with the support of grants and commitments for public representative funds to be ear-marked. Since the Nagpur President's Enclave is spearheading the movement, some ideas have emerged.

These are: Eco- friendly LPG cooking gas facilities with the help of service partners and School Management Committees + Gas PSU. This activity can be taken up by Non-Conventional energy and Green City committees.

Strengthening libraries, where we have already have achieved success as several schools have already collected loads of books. This activity can be pushed through our Youth Services Committees – an excellent activity for Interact Clubs.

Interactors can visit these schools as part of their annual vocational visits and also interact with the ZP school children, participate in joint activities, encourage them for goal setting, and get a better understanding of the privileges they (interactors) enjoy. Urban children often take for granted physical, material and other comforts and privileges for granted. It would be an eye opener both ways and can also be carried out jointly with the Interact School managements.

This is another activity where Youth services Committees could find new areas of engagement.

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Toilets and school repairs are now being planned along with a move to engage with Service partners, trade and industry bodies, et al. The school building repairs and secure classrooms will enable investment in e-learning through Grant model, which is already put in motion.

Provision of Training material and Software for e-learning, wherever schools already have physical facilities and computers in place.

Health check up camps and personal hygiene for girls / Rubella vaccinations can be contemplated which is a new target audience for our Medical Services Team which could also tie up with service partners like Nagpur Obstetrics and G y n a e c o l o g i c a l S o c i e t y, I n d i a n Association of Paediatrics, India Medical Association and Lata Mangeshkar Research Foundation, to name a few.

Teacher training schedules are worked out and the first such workshops will commence from October with the first one at Modern School. Our members can definitely volunteer and request the

school to also involve the Interactors.

Adult Literacycan be pushed using adult literacy kits to good effect, engaging with Rotaract on “Each one, reach one and Teach one” with an aim to get the target audience to appear for tests and get certified as literate. This activity again presents another opportunity to involve the Rotaractors who are already actively engaged in teaching.

All of the above can be worked on with the support of one and all committees enabling focused attention to the 50 schools given to us. With involvement of so many committees, various Rotary objectives can be achieved within the same target audience. There could be overall improvement in the surrounds of these schools.

-Nimish Sutaria

President’s Message Being a Rotarian is like being a gourmet chef. You have to have all the necessary ingredients in place; toss, blend or mix them right; fry, sauté, blanch or bake before you get the dish to the table.

Similarly, Rotary too is an amalgam of passion, compassion, care, dedication, foresight, zeal perception and more.

Though our sympathies are always there for the have-nots, one has to do the balancing act all the time.

We Rotarians are approached by many for aid in some way or the other. But we have to have a measured view; balancing compassion and need with practicality, sustainability and effectiveness. We have to make our head rule over our heart.

Looking beyond this one year, we have to

put the finger on THAT which makes a lasting difference; that which will continue to have an impact for a long time to come.

Keeping all this in view, one strives to strike a balance. While some of our little acts of kindness bring instant smiles on the young faces, larger projects are directed towards the good of the community at large. While some need just a sprinkling of resources but large chunks of love and care there are some that need foresight and commitment to fulfill the task.

It may seem to many that a large Club such as ours has large resources. Yes, we are not lacking in resources. We are able to fulfill the tasks at hand by keeping a

watchful eye on our expenses but not by pulling the purse strings. Our benevolent well-wishers have always stood by us and judicious utilization of funds has always stood us in good stead.

Alike a chef, we have to proportion right to dish out a flavourful fare…and BE A GIFT TO THE WORLD. -Khusnoor Chugh

the day, morning, noon or early evening, whether I am off to Dharampeth or Central Avenue, the roads are adorned with cows- silently sitting, ruminating or standing on the divider with a contemplative look- giving the cars and two wheelers those killer looks, like we are the intruders who have the audacity to trespass into their kingdom. Then this big question comes into my mind, “Is this indeed not a village, albeit an adorable one at that?”

In July 2014, after a complaint was lodged by Times of India, offences were registered under Bombay Police Act, for which cattle shed owners could be

imprisoned for a month or fined up to Rs. 3000. Steps are taken by NMC every now and then to get rid of this problem, but them being evanescent vs. the cattle menace being permanent, the problem rears its ugly head every now and then.

-Durriya Akolawala

To Ponder...

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Fifteen years ago, I was not married into so and so family but was married to Nagpur .On my first trip to my native place Kolkata, I was goaded by questions like, “How is the village Nagpur? Did you manage to settle there?” …and so on…. I politely retorted by saying that “IT'S NOT A VILLAGE AT ALL, but a small place with its own heart and identity, where every individual LIVES rather than just E X I S Ti n g , a s w e s e e i n t h e metropolitans.”

After so many years, while I drive my car through the heart of the city, I tend to swerve my car often to avoid bumping into stray cattle on the road. At any time of

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Literacy March

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-Our visit to the rural schools

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Micro Credit about women empowerment and judicious use of the micro credit loans to expand the current business or to start a new business.

President Khushnoor held an interactive session where recipients explained their motive for the micro credit loan. A lady who had benefitted from such a loan described her experience and advantages of micro credit.

Also present were Hon. Secretary Parag, Director Ashok Mrig, and PP Chandru Shahani. Shri Prakash Panda, Dr. Shitikanth Khanwalkar, Dr. Mrs. Urmila

Rotaract Installation Nagpur Club Rotarians along with over two hundred Rotaractors from Rotaract Club of PIET were present in Auditorium Hall, PIET to attend Installation Ceremony of Rotaract Club of PIET. Rotarian guests included Rotary President Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh, Chairman Rtn. Manish Agrawal, District Secretary Rtn. Vijay Naidu, Hon. Secretary Rtn. Parag Paranjpe, Director Yo u t h S e r v i c e R t n . R a j S h a h , Chairperson Rtn. Zaheer Akolawala,. The event started by Lighting of traditional lamp. President Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh then installed the elected Rotaract team with Rotaract pins followed by acceptance speech of Rotaract Club PIET President Mihul Gabhane. Principal of

PIET, Dr. V.M. Nanoti Sir and Faculty Co-ordinator Dr. S.R. Mote then motivated students to participate in various social events to be organized under Rotaract Club. Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh addressed the gathering and briefed the members of theme: “TO BE A GIFT TO THE WORLD� .Secretary of Rotaract Club PIET Shobhit Chaturvedi thanked dignitaries and rotaract members for their support.

E L E C T E D R O TA R A C T MEMBERS President- Mihul Gabhane Vice President- Himanshu Kadu President Elect- Mitesh Tanna Secretary- Shobhit Chaturvedi

Rotaract Installation The new Rotaract team of Tuli college of Hotel Management for the year 2015 was installed on 2nd September.

The President of Rotary club of Nagpur, Rtn Khushnoor Chugh, inspired the Rotaractors with her words. She enlightened us on how we as hotel management students could contribute to the society. Secretary Rtn. Parag Paranjpe, Rtn.Raj Shah, Rtn.Manish Agrawal, Rtn.Pranav Singhal, Rtn.Namita Sharma were also present. The director of the Tuli college, Mrs.Urvashi Yashroy also encouraged the students to bring up new events this year.

A formal vote of thanks was given by the Rotaract secretary Aditi Nandankar.

Kshirsagar and Dr. Ravindra Kshirsagar were present on behalf of Niramay BahuUddeshiya Seva Sanstha.

Shailaja Pingle

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Joint Secretary- Sandeep Saha Treasurer- Parnavi Ghorpade Director Club- Soniya Shende Director Vocational- Kartik K Wagh Director Community- Shrawanti Mantri Director International- Shubham Mankar

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The Micro Credit Committee held a program on Tuesday, 1st of September 2015 for disbursal of the second round of micro credit loans at the office of Niramay Bahu-Uddeshiya Seva Sanstha.

9 ladies were given Rs 10,000 each, which they have to return in 10 monthly installments of Rs. 1,000 each starting from the third month. In this round, some of the ladies were selected from areas around Nagpur, namely, Saoner, Butibori and Dongargaon. A few ladies were from the Pratap Nagar area.

Chairperson, Rtn. Shailaja Pingle conducted the program and explained the purpose of micro credit loan. She talked

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Welfare of Specially abled

2nd Sept.

Rahul Choudhary is like any other teenager. He wants to study and make it big one day. But unfortunately due to some medical conditions, he cannot walk. He lost his father and the family runs their house on meager salary of his mother who works as housemaid. Rtn Rachna Singh conveyed his immediate requirement of a wheel chair so that he can attend school. Committee for specially abled decided to help him. Mr Afzal Bhai offered financial help and with coordination of Rtn Mr Uppal we arranged for a very user friendly wheelchair for him. On 2nd September at 9 am, at St Ursula, it was handed over to Rahul by the hands of President Khushnoor Chugh. Durga, mother of Rahul, couldn't control her tears, which made other members of our club emotional. Present on the occasion was Director Non Medical Namita Sharma, chairpersons Manisha Aggrawal and Pranav Singhal.

Business Meeting

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The 2nd business meeting of the year was held on Thursday 3rd Sept. Two new features were incorporated during the business meeting and will be regular feature henceforth. Rtn Sandeep Vaid shared vocational news. Two new members Zaheer Akolawala and Neeraj Shah introduced themselves to the club. Apart from this important club matters, board decisions were discussed and business was transacted. The meeting was adjourned after signing of the national anthem.

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Ladies Committee first place by singing lovely saawan numbers from old times.

To add to masti and fun were Shilpa and Kanchan hooting when other teams were cheating.

The competitive teams were no less, they gave equal fight to all teams. To add to the fun was a small umbrella, which the singers had to carry on their heads while singing.

Hina Agrawal added Icing to the Cake with a small jig.

The child like enthusiasm was hard to control. Since team Kumkum and Haldi scored same points, both teams were given prizes. There were also small Matki's filled with Mishri and dry fruits as a return gift, a very beautiful gesture by Rt.Ann Priyanka Jaiswal.

Saawan brings the onset of festivity and the euphoria never dies.

The effort put in by the committee was laudable. They worked hard to bring a

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Stress-a major problem of today's generation. In some or the other way, when people think about their problems, most of them conclude that it's all because

lovely evening together. We all had a gala time with singing, some latkas and jhatkas and bonding. Our sincere thanks to the committee, Neerja Shukul, Chetna Singhal, Vrinda Rathi, Ragini Sahu, Ruchi Uppal, Manju & others Please continue to organise such programs so that we lazy bums can enjoy the evening every month.

“Kudos to ladies committee” - Urvashi Yashroy

3rd Sept. of the stress. A workshop on ' S t r e s s Management' was organised by Rotaract Club Of IGGMC,Nagpur o n 3 r d September,2015 at 4:30 pm.The venue w a s ' Ta m a r i n d Hall' of Chitnavis Centre. The speaker was Dr.Bharati Gidwani.

Around 60 rotaractors were present along with some Rotarians like Geeta Rao, Director of youth-Raj Shah and

chairperson Zaheer Akolawala. Rtr Vedang Mahajan gave an introduction about the speaker and then Dr.Bharti Gidwani started with her session. She actually put stress as not a problem in real, but a perception in her words. So true it is!!! It was an interactive session.. Then there was an exercise session in which she emphasized on the physiological and biochemical changes in a human body during stress. At the end of the session,few questions were asked by the rotaractors to the speaker which she answered. One of the rotaractors gave a feedback about the session.Then momentos were presented to Dr.Bharti Gidwani followed by the vote of thanks

by Rtr Pratik Agrawal.The session was concluded with the national anthem.

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Aaya Saawan jhoom ke, in the true sense of the phrase,the lovely ladies of Rotary Club of Nagpur came to the evening “Jhoomte” “Lehrate” and" Gaana Gaate".

The ladies dressed in their best Bandhej and Lehariyas looked every bit Rajasthani. The churis and the jhumkas added to the fervour and festivity.

The ladies Committee welcomed everyone with a slip dividing them in three groups.

Mehendi, Kumkum and Haldi and then the games began. Testing our knowledge from our history & mythology, were few questions in the Quiz. Quietly googling and answering participants were caught and asked to refrain. The team Mehendi won and were rewarded.

Prior to this Rt.Ann Vrinda Rathi told us some less known facts about the importance of Saawan.

The second game was singing songs on a given word.

Our very own rotary singers vied for the

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Blood Donation

5th Sept.

On 5th September, 2015 , a blood donation camp was organized at R & Y logistics, Saraf Chambers, Nagpur, in their premises. A total Number of 36 units were collected. Rtn Khushnoor Chugh, Rtn Parag Paranjpe, Rtn Sandeep Vaid, Rtn. Navneet Jain, Rtn. Mohammad Master were present.

Thanks to Nimish Sutaria, and office bearers & Staff of R & Y Logistics for organising the camp -Sandeep Vaid

RAG

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by games at a nice picnic spot, some snacks and and the ride back home…the idea of this ride is to bond with the child and give them a unique experience and a day full of fun filled activity. This, in my opinion, was fulfilled completely.

The farm was abuzz with activity

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22 Bikes, 6 SUVs and 44 children of the Sevanand School Koradi were at the heart of this project of the Rotary Adventure Group (RAGs). Poonam Chambers was abuzz since 9:30 am with bikers filling up their bikes and getting ready for the ride. At 10 am, after all assembled, we were off to pick up the children from the school.

Director Sonia Khurana flagged off the bikers and the SUVs with 44 children of the Sevanand School and we headed for Mr. Sunil John's farm on Katol Road, a beautiful farm surrounded by water on three sides and with lots of fruit and vegetable being grown.

“Bikers With Heart” was a concept that had been talked about for many years now but somehow never really got fulfilled.

Well, from the looks of how well this event went, I'm sure it is now going to be an annual event in our Rotary calendar.

The concept is simple, each biker takes one child pillion for a bike ride, followed

of children running around playing games like Queen of Sheba and four corners, Rt.Ann Sonal Singhvi, Chetna Singhal, Rakhi Bhatia and Jumana kept all the kids entertained. President Khushnoor and PP Sanjiv Chugh reached the spot, with as usual some little addition to the project, this time it was the chicken, chutney and egg sandwiches that our charming President had made

herself. That wasn't the only surprise, Jumana Shakir was celebrating her birthday and all of us enjoyed cake.

All in all it was a fun filled day with lots of activity, Chairpersons Rukshad Bhagwagar, Shahrukh Cassad, Pranav Singhal had really worked hard to see that this project like all our other Rotary projects went smooth. Thanks to all that contributed to make this project a grand success. I'm sure the participants of this project are already looking forward to it next year..

-Parheez Gimi

Medical Camp

On Sunday 6th Sept a Cervical Cancer Screening camp was held at Primary school, Hudkeshwar village in association with Niramay Seva Sanstha.

President Khushnoor inaugurated the

6th Sept. camp and our team of gynaecologists which included Dr. Vandana Hazra, Dr. Shantala Bhole and Dr. Lubna Haq started patient examination.

Registrations were ably handled

by Rtn Manju Shahani and Rtn Namita Sharma and of the 19 women registered; PAP smears were collected for 14 of them.

Each patient was given iron and calcium supplements and anti fungal treatment as per their clinical complaints and examination. Dr. Surajit Hazra, Dr. Rizwan Haq and Dr. Jerestin Watchmaker along with sister Linda from Prakash Nursing Home helped to conduct

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the camp. President of Niramay Sanstha Mr. Shreeprakash and Dr. Amol along with health care workers helped to organise this camp. P.P Chandru Shahani and Sec Parag Paranjpe were present too.

Further processing and reporting of these PAP smears was done by Dr. Iqbal Khan at Nagpur. As per the reports almost each of these patients will require further treatment and suitable follow up which will be done by our team shortly. It was an extremely satisfying camp in which a small number of women were counseled, examined and treated. Committee hopes to identity more such places where similar camps can be held.

Dr. Jerestin Watchmaker

7th Sept.

Nutrition committee celebrated Janmashtami at Antar Bharti Shala. It was a colourful celebration. All the children were dressed up as Krishna and Radha. There was a small jhula, which was decorated with flowers and a little boy dressed as Krishna was sleeping. Children danced on different songs with the help of their very dedicated staff. Dahi handi was also done, which everyone enjoyed thoroughly. Janmashtami puja was performed and traditional prasad was distributed. Nutrition committee on this occasion presented toys and teaching aids to children. Present on the occasion were Director Non Medical Namita Sharma, chairpersons Mamta Kahai, Sushma Hedaoo, Vrinda Rathi, Ritika Singhvi and Anjuli Minocha.

Like every academic year, this year too witnessed the enthusiasm of the new interact members of PODAR WORLD SCHOOL, KORADI ROAD who showed eagerness to shoulder the responsibility of doing their bit for a better society.

A special ceremony was organized wherein the guests of of honor were given

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a warm welcome with a welcome song.

The dignitaries present on the dais were PP Rtn. Gulab Mahant , Advisor Rtn. Jumana Shakir, Chairperson Rtn. Rakhi Bhatia and principal of school, Mr. Ganesh Thaware .

The ceremony began on an auspicious note with the traditional lighting of lamp by all the honorable guests. Nachiket Patil, as the outgoing president of the club present a report on the various projects undertaken by his team.

The newly installed team members were then honoured with their badges amidst a round of applause.

They were fortunate enough to listen to an inspiring speech by PP Rtn . Gulab Mahant .

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Mr. Ganesh Thaware, the school principal not only urged the new team to put their best foot forward to undertake every noble task as it would be their best contribution to a worthy cause.

Mas. Atta Khan, the newly elected president of interact club outlined his objectives as the new leader and announced the various activities his team had already chalked out for the new session.

The ceremony concluded with Vanshika Sachdev, as compere calling out to Divyanshu Maske the secretary of the interact club, to present a vote of thanks.

The whole programme would not have been a success without the prior planning of the teachers in charge Mrs Chaitali, Mrs Kavita and Mrs Ritu .

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Interact Installation

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Interact Installation

8th Sept.

The installation ceremony of Qidwai High School took place on 8th September.

The outgoing president of interact club gave a brief synopsis of activities and events taken up by them during the past academic year.

The incoming board members were installed by the President Rtn Khushnoor Chugh followed by a very inspiring speech given by her. Newly installed interact president delivered her acceptance speech and the entire team took the interact oath.

The principal of school then addressed the gathering. The outgoing President then thanked the entire rotary team president Rtn Khushnoor Chugh, Hon. Sec. Parag Paranjpe Director of youth services Raj Shah and chairperson Urwi Suri . The meeting was concluded by the vote of thanks proposed by the secretary of interact club followed by national anthem.

-Urwi Suri

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Meeting

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The Regular meeting of 10th Sep'15 was devoted to education President termed the meeting as "Educentric" as everything in the agenda involved Education.

District Chair Rtn Madhusudan Sarda was invited to speak about the Rotary International Literacy Mission (RILM).

He told us that RILM is the flagship project of Rotary International with the aim to improve the Literacy Ratio. The aim is to make our country 100% literate for which we have to recognize the various factors affecting the proper

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functioning of the schools. With concentration on the Rural Zilla Parishad Schools many projects have been undertaken. The brand ambassadors of the Literacy Mission are Amitabh Bachchan, Raveena Tandon amd Dhanush to name a few.

Then, Rtn Rajiv Behal, Chairperson of Scholarship committee with his co chairpersons announced the scholarships to be distributed to 89 students from various schools.

The Literacy Committee under the Rotary International Mission recognized the

contribution of all the teachers in our club. Rtn Pranav Singhal, chairperson said the committee decided to award the Rotarians and Annes involved in professional teaching to commemorate the Teacher's Day(Sep 5) and Literacy Day which falls on Sep 8. In all 50 teachers were awarded the Nation Builder Award for the contribution in the field of Education.

Rtn Nimish Sutaria gave the Vote of thanks

Interact Installation

12th Sept.

The installation Ceremony of Rotaract club of Tirpude's Management Students took place in the presence of President of Rotary club of Nagpur Khushnoor Chugh, Rtn. Parag Paranjpe, Rtn. Zaheer Akolawala, Rtn. Manish Agrawal, Rtn. Raj Shah, Director of Tirpude Institute of Management and education Dr. Lalit Khullar, Dean Dr. Sanjay Kawishwar, Rtn. Prashant Rajurkar were the dignitaries present. Umme Salma Malik the outgoing president gave brief information about the previous year activities. After the speech she handed over charge to President Ayush Ram Rekhi who gave his acceptance speech. Other office bearers are Vice President - Mayur Deogade, Secretary - Shivam Madan, To conclude Shivam Madan -Secretary delivered the vote of Thanks followed by National Anthem.

District Event - WASH in Schools Dr Sule brought into focus all the factors that affect children behaviour and child psychology.

A water filter demonstration was provided by Lifestraw company that is economical, effective and simple to use. A stall was put up by a vendor for sanitary napkins, and cost of each napkin was as low as Rs 2/- only. This is something many clubs could consider buying in bulk and distributing through various adopted schools like ZP schools.

District WinS Chair Adv Mahesh Singh, President Nagpur Green City Sudhir Ghike, and many other dignitaries from

Green City September being the month of Ganpati, Rotary club decided to inspire Rotary kids to go eco friendly and make their own Clay idols.

Rotary were present. ZP team and DIET team were present to interact with Rotarians. Hearty thanks to RC Nagpur Green City for hosting this event.

PP Vijay Naidu

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'Alag Angle', an art school, was the ideal venue to learn and flex those art muscles for our kids.

They provided Clay and colours required to make the perfect idol and also their supervision and guidance.

T o o u r surprise, a number of Rt.Anns also accompanied their kids and made their own Eco Ganpati.

Around 28 kids and 10 members participated in this auspicious project.

Prizes were given to the best three idols.

First prize was given to Kanav Vaid, Second to Soumya Agrawal and Third prize to Samaira Kale. The prizes were based on the most innovative designs.

We could see a smile on every kids face as they took home their own creation.

We hope that we have kindled a feeling of being Eco friendly and Go Green attitude.

The project was made successful by Director Green City Sarang Kale, Chairpersons Manish Agrawal, Shefali Shah, Vinita Bahri and Rtn. Sonam Mohota.

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District Level - III seminar on WinS (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene in Schools) was held at Chitnavis centre. Host club was Nagpur Green City and Convenor was PP Rajesh Vyawhare. PDG Dr Satish Sule being District Coordinator made sure the agenda was packed with information that would help clubs carry out various projects.

UNICEF representatives Sandeep & Bharathy showed a film they made on school children, and with the help of their kits they explained how to approach school children in order to make them aware of better hygiene.

A panel discussion with four eminent school principals and moderated by PDG

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Community Welfare On 7th July , we had a multi - committee project at Sevanand Vidyalaya. In this project a health check up camp was organised, in which eye, skin and dental check up was done .Few children were short listed for further investigation. Our very dedicated team community services decided to complete the task .So they picked children from school, took them to clinic, got them checked, got frame selected by students and ordered to make specs. They took great care of children by providing them snacks and dropped them back. On 14th September at 10 am along with Scholarship committee, we distributed specs to 9 children by the hands of President Khushnoor Chugh. We would like to thank Director Medical Rtn Dr Rizwan Haq, Rtn Dr Shaunak Mokadam and Rtn Dr Rafat Khan, who took out time from their very busy schedule to check these children. Our

sincere thanks to Rtn Dinesh Chabra who sponsored the Specs. Apart from President, present on the occasion was Past President Gulab Mahant, PP Rajan Bhatia, Prem Gupta, secretary Parag

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Scholarships of Rs 1,000/- each were distributed to 39 underprivileged, yet deserving students of Sevanand Vidyalaya, Mahadulla under PROJECT SMILING FACES by the Scholarships Committee on 14th September 2015 at the school premises. This was in addition to scholarships for total amount of Rs 62,800/- given to 50 students from various other institutions during the Thursday meeting of 10th September 2015.

While part of the funds was generated

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from the Corpus Funds established for the purpose, generous contributions were also received from Tangent Club No.11 and our own members.

Tangent Club No.11 was represented by Ms.Gini Singh and Ms.SharmilaVali.

President Khushnoor Chugh, Hon. Secretary Parag Paranjpe, Director Service II (Non-Medical) Namita Sharma, PP Rajan Bhatia, PP Gulab Mahant, Rtns. Prem Gupta, Anjuli Minocha, Ragini Sahu, Kusum Pande, Rt.Anns. Anita Jain, Reema Sial graced

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Paranjpe Director Non Medical Namita Sharma, Chairpersons Anita Jain, Ragini Sahu, Kusum Pande, Anjuli Minocha,Rtns. Pritesh Tank and Sapna Vastani

14th Sept. the occasion at Sevanand Vidyalaya.

Chairpersons, Scholarships Committee Rtns. Sapna Vastani, Pritesh Tank and Rajiv Behal were also present.

Although a good deed done, but we still do have miles & miles to go. A small contribution of Rs 2,500/- takes care of a child's education for an entire year and a Corpus of Rs 30,000/- nourishes a child's future year after year forever.

Be a part of PROJECT SMILING FACES and feel the joy of 'giving'!

-Rajiv Behal

Interact Installation

14th Sept.

Installation ceremony of Interact club was organized in MECOSABAGH METHODIST HIGH SCHOOL, NAGPUR under the able guidance of the school Head Master Mr. Sundip P.Gaikwad on14 september 2015.

Rotary club Nagpur's President Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh, Secretary Rtn.Parag Paranjpe, Director Rtn. Raj Shah and Chairperson Rt. Ann.Ruchi Uppal graced the occasion..

The following students formed the committee of the Interact club.

President Ritik Selare, secretary Anshul Gadling , vice-president Vaibhav Tembhurne, and Treasurer Ankit Ganvir and other four as Directors.

Mr. Vasant Khodke read the Word of Lord and Mrs Minakshi John offered a word of prayer.

Mr. Sundip Gaikwad, Head Master of the school, and Rotary club of Nagpur President Rtn Mrs. Khushnoor Chugh addressed the gathering. Convener Mr. Hemant Dhalwale conducted the programme successfully.

-Ruchi Uppal, Raakhi Bhaatia

Project Nutrition Rotary Club of Nagpur has adopted Antar Bharti Shala for Nutrition project for the entire year Our very dedicated team of Nutrition committee decided to celebrate the festival of Pola with them. It is a festival which is celebrated in Central India. On this day people perform puja of their bullocks. th On 15 September, our team decorated the whole place with white and pink balloons. Children came dressed in colourful clothes and carrying their own wooden pola. A day previous to the festival, we had announced that there would be completion of the most beautifully decorated Pola. The children came with Pola decorated with flowers and other stuff.

Rt.Ann Reema Sial sponsored a beautiful Pola to be decorated there. On this occasion we invited our IYE students who displayed great interest in decorating the Pola. They helped the other children too.

Chairperson Vrinda Rathi told a story

Blood donation

15th Sept. behind Pola celebration a n d conducted t h e proceedings.

Chairperson s – Sushma Hedaao, R i t i k a Singhvi and M a m t a K a h a i organized a Pola race for the girls and boys separately. Interesting prizes were distributed to the children by Director Non Medical Namita Sharma.

Rtn. Anjuli Minocha and Rt.Ann Shalini Naidu looked after food arrangements.

Chocolates were distributed to all the children keeping in mind that something

is given when they come with the Pola.

Rt.Ann Vrinda donated a slide for the children.

Others present on the occasion were Director Finance Ashok Mrig, Anula Goenka, Kusum Pande and Nisha Kamath.

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Our member Rtn Sonam, who also works there requested to have a small blood donation camp at their ShreeRam Towers premises.

On 15th September at 4 pm 14 members of the bank donated blood . The camp was organised in association with Jeevan Jyoti Blood Bank. Present on the occasion was Director Non Medical Namita Sharma, chairpersons Navneet Jain and Rtn Pranav Singhal.

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HSBC Bank,

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Rotaract Installation Tulsiramji Gaikwad Patil College of Architecture organized installation ceremony of Rotaract in the college multipurpose hall. PP Vijay Naidu, President Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh, Secretary Rtn. Parag Paranjpe, Director Yo u t h S e r v i c e R t n . R a j S h a h , Chairperson Rtn. Shweta Singh, Rtn. Jatin Sampt, Dr. Mohan Gaikwad graced the ceremony with their presence.

All the dignitaries formally inaugurated the program by lighting the traditional lamp. The Past President Rtr. Soumya Singh presented the last years report and change of guard was done at the hands of Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh. The new office bearers were pinned with their respected pins by the president of Rotary club of Nagpur Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh.

The new office bearers are as follow: President-Rtr. Smita Burrewar Secretary-Rtr. Reewena John Vice President –Rtr. Salman farooqui Joint secretary -Rtr. Gauri Thavi

TreasurerR t r .

Pranali Neware T h e president o f Rotaract club Rtr. S m i t a Burrewar gave her speech and ensure that she will do her work will all determination. The principal of Tulsiramji Gaikwad Patil College of Architecture gave a brief about the college. The past president of Rotary club delivered very encouraging speech. The president of Rotary club Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh gave a speech in which she

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“Take left from from the kali mata mandir & the 2nd bldg. on the left is our hospital.

You are cordially invited”.

It gave me goose bumps to visit an Ortho hospital but this time it was not for a checkup but for a dinner.

We were about 10 couples who gathered

on 15th September for a TRH at Dr Hargun & Rajni Sangtani's residence.

As we entered the cosy living room we saw all men glued to the bar which indeed had been very attractively decorated.

Every couple was given a rainbow color to choose from and at the venue we all

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emphasised on sanitation and hygiene for schools in rural areas.

The new secretary Rtr. Reewena John proposed vote of thanks. The ceremony concluded with National anthem. After the ceremony Rtn. Jatin Sampt motivated the rotractors with his enthusiastic words.

15th Sept. were in VIBGYOR. We had to introduce ourselves colourfully.

Games organized by the chairpersons were really unique.We were made aware of different Rotary abbreviations like WASH, RILM, PHF, PROBUS etc by PP Chandru Shahani, PP Prashant Kale enlightened us in detail on the abbreviations.

Other than this we were given Hindi songs in English and we had to translate and sing the same .It wasn't so easy as it sounds to be. But we really had fun unveiling the same. The sumptuous snacks added more fun to the games.

After dinner, the group photo session was an icing on the cake where we could see ourselves in the rainbow colors.

Chairpersons Rtn Shalini Naidu and Rtn Dr Shantala Bhole worked hard to make the TRH successful.

-Raakhi Bhaatia

Interact Installation and act from the young age. She further appealed the students to be open to learn to make the best of the opportunities provided by the Interact Club.

The Chairperson Rt. Ann. Vandana Agrawal exhorted the Interactors to focus on saving the environment and be a gift to the world through their service to mankind. She said l, 'Dream, turn dreams into thoughts, and thoughts into reality and this will be the key to win the world.'

Director Shri Satyajeet Dasture, Principal Mrs. Rasika Dasture congratulated the students on this occasion. The proceedings were conducted by Ms. Sneha Joshi. CoOrdinator Shri Kanete Sir, Dr. Mrs Manda

Meeting

The Rotary Club of Nagpur on the auspicious day of Ganesh Chaturthi inaugurated the new office premises in the Bishop Cotton School (BCS) campus.

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Prior to the inauguration was the customary fellowship followed by cutting of the ribbon at the hands of PDG Bobby Srinivas. In addition to the active Rotarians, a host of Past Presidents graced the occasion. The President then called the meeting to order. The Birthdays and anniversaries of the week were called out. President Khushnoor Chugh credited the following persons for the office : Mrs. Rachna Singh

Rotaract Orientation With the beginning of new Rotary year 2015-16, the process of installation of new team of Rotaract Clubs also started.

To make Rotaractors aware of their roles an Orientation Program was organised at Vivekanand Hall of Sadabai Raisoni College at 3pm on 19th September 2015.

Our Motto of the year - "One Mission One Goal " It was a full house with 9 colleges (a record no.) participating. MOC for the program Chairperson Shweta Singh introduced Rotary members President Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh in her inaugural speech encouraged the youth to come out of their comfort zone and excel in their life. Rtn. Rajendra Jaiswal with his robust voice had a very interesting Icebreaking session. Followed by our

Walokar, Director of Youth Service Rtn. Raj Shah, Rtn Nikunj Doshi were prominently present on this occasion. A formal vote of thanks was proposed by newly elected secretary Ms. Gauri Borkar.

eminent, interesting and a good orator PP. Rtn. Shabbir Shakir took over the session on "Board Responsibility and How to involve members". He insisted on becoming a leader than a boss. He guided and said Team work, right attitude and loyalty is the pass to become a good leader.

PP. Rtn Vijay Naidu took another session on " Platform of Rotaract ". He spoke on developing their own skills first and then inspire other members eventually. The session was well accepted by Rotaractors.

Rotaract Advisor- Rtn. Jatin Sampat took the last session of the day. He guided Rotaractors about RI and Overview on how Rotaract works. Followed by interactive question answer session.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Director

– who helped in identifying a place.

Navneet Shukul – for getting the agreement done gratis, Manjusha Stevens – Principal BCS, for renting out the premises, Mohan Anand – for the tiles, Rukshad Bhagwaghar – for supplying the woodwork, Sati and Reeti Khanna – for the conference table, Gulab Mahant – for implemeting the project, Dr. Prakash – for the partitions and office table, Behram patel – for the A/C and Dr. Sanjiv Chugh – for the coordination and followup. The function ended with the singing of the National Anthem.

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Raj Shah. Special thanks given to Sadabai Collage for providing their hall.

Chairpersons Zaheer Akolawala and Shefali Shah, Rtn. Vandana Palewar, Rtn. Prashant Rajurkar were also present for the ceremony. Programme was concluded with National Anthem -Shefali Shah

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New team of Interact club was recently installed at South point School, Hanuman Nagar, Nagpur at the hands of Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh, President Rotary Club of Nagpur.

The new team consists of President Ms. Sejal Patil, Vice President Ms Tanmayee Jichkar, Secretary Ms. Gauri Borkar, Treasurer Mast.

Paras Kanhere and four Directors Mast.

Rubel Pakalwar, Ms. Maturity Burange, Mast. Shirang Ulabhaje, Mast. Sanket Kale.

On this occasion, the chief guest, Rtn. Khushnoor Chugh, addressed the students and informed them that Interact club is an international organization which aims to teach the student community to share, care

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Life Skills

21st Sept.

-Goal Setting by Rtn.Neeraj Shah The Rotaract Club of Hislop College conducted a workshop on “Goal Setting” by Rtn. Neeraj Shah. Chairperson Rt.Ann.Dr. Shivani Bidaye arranged the same. He cleared the clogged minds of all the students. In his own words, “A Goal is a wish with a deadline.” He spoke about how to set up the mind for a particular goal, and how to execute it in a skillful manner.

Rtn Geeta Rao explained students the importance and purpose of Life Skill workshops for the Youth, which she said is to make the young minds aware of the situation in and around them. This she said is the Goal of Rotary for youth. She encouraged everybody to open up their minds and to respect their parents in the workshop was a success due to the presence of Rtn. Raj Shah, Rt.Ann. Shivani and Rishi Agrawal, HOD of Mathematics dept and the lecturer of BBA, Amol Karnewar of Hislop College.

We specially thank our teacher-in-charge, Mrs. Jigisha Naidu for her constant support and guidance and Rotary for conducting the workshop.

Life Skills

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Entrepreneurship by Mukesh Asher A dynamic workshop was held in S.B.Jain for the rotaractors by Mr.Mukesh Asher, a trainer, motivator, HR expert, on the crucial topic of Entrepreneurship.

Mukesh Asher elaborated and explained the students on how to become an entrepreneur by experimenting, idea generation, creativeness and gave examples of Mr. Ritesh Agrawal CEO of OYO ROOMS & Mr. Bhavesh Aggrawal CEO of OLA CABS. The workshop was a huge success and inspired the rotaractors to think out of the box. To be a job provider and not to be a job seeker. The examples shared by him were able to flame up the sparks present into the bright minds of the rotaractors present there. Special thanks to Director Youth Rtn. Raj Shah and to Rotary club of Nagpur for conducting the workshop.

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Newly formed Rotaract Club of S. B. Jain was installed at college campus in the gracious presence of President of Rotary Club of Nagpur Rtn Khushnoor Chugh, Secretary Rtn Parag Paranjpe, Director Youth Service Rtn Raj Shah, Chairperson Rt. Ann Shefali Shah, Chairperson Rtn Manish Agrawal alongwith the HOD of ETRX department Mr. Salim Chauhan and our rotaract faculty incharge Mr. Yogesh Shinde.

The post of President of Rotaract club of S. B. Jain for the year 201516 was given to Mr. Vikas Tiwari and Mr. Aniket Kalambe was given the post of Secretary. A report was presented by IPP Mr. Vinit Agrawal followed by acceptance speech of newly elected President.

An inspiring speech was delivered by Rtn Khushnoor Chugh motivating every individual present. There were more than 150 rotaractors present to witness the ceremony.

The ceremony was brought to an end by a Vote of thanks by Vice President Mr.Bhavik Aswani.

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Meeting

The President called the meeting to order at 6:30 pm. After the birthday and Anniversary greetings 2 Rotarians were inducted-Mr and Mrs Cheema and Rtn Jumana Shakir. PP Tauby Bhagwaghar explained the term IYE-International Youth Exchange program of Rotary where high school children go to another country and stay with a host family for either long term(1yr) or short term(6weeks).The children experience a totally different scenario and become part of a host family and learn their culture which leads to global understanding. The children become more confident and also learn a new language. The students who

24th Sept. had returned after spending a year in France and America spoke of their experience.

Maria Mobeen went to France and found her experience amazing. She stayed with 3 host families during her stay in France. Her hosts took her skydiving, Horse riding and on bike rides. She visited 8 different countries by bus and gave 2 Exams- a Cambridge English exam and a B level French exam.

Himanshu Nagpal went to USA and found his experience awesome. He took part in different sports and went to see soccer and basketball(NBA) matches and also went to high school and learnt to shoot birds, went fishing and made lots of friends.

Aditi Pawar went to France and learnt to speak fluent french, bread making ,Ice skating and went to a carnival. She was the only Indian among 44 foreign exchange students from 18 countries.

Apoorva went to France and she was excited about the challenges she faced and feels a challenge teaches a child to

become a better person and she learnt a lot from her host parents and she now feels mature enough to make her own decisions. Yash Sial went to France for 6 weeks and in his host family - among 6 children was the only one who knew English so he used google translator to communicate with his hosts. All the 5 children thanked the Rotary club and chairpersons Mamta Jaiswal and Geeta Rao. The longterm inbound students at present, staying with members of our club are1)Estelle Compere from Belgium.2)Emily Sanmon fromUSA.3) Tilman Fritz from Germany.4)Augustine Gautier from France. All spoke a few lines in Hindi while introducing themselves and said their stay in India was amazing and they had taken part in few of the club activities like celebrating pola in Antar Bharati and Ganesh festivals in their host families and look forward to be involved in more club activities. Estelle and Emily even sang a song together. The evening ended with the singing of the National Anthem.

Shalini Naidu.

clarified. The session was very interesting and interactive.

The session ended on a gratifying note 'Money saved wisely is money earned'.

Kanchan also took up sessions for around 50 students of Dinanath High School and 100 students of St.Micheal. They were introduced to the basic concepts like Cheque Payments, crossed cheques,

Simple Interest, Saving A/c, Stop Payment, Inflation, situation arising in case of lost cheque etc. She also highlighted on “How to save and plan finance?”

All the three schools have requested for more such sessions for their students as well as teachers.

-Sonal Singhvi

-Banking and Finance – Kanchan Naidu A session on 'Banking and Financing' was organised for the Commerce students of class XII of Center Point School, Katol Road on 10th Sept'15 by a noted Speaker, Dr. Kanchan Naidu. She has been appointed by SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) as SEBI Financial Resource Person to conduct SEBI's Financial Educational Workshops.

She clarified the different aspects of money to the students in detail. She explained the three pillars of investment, told them the right investment options and gave them investment mantras.

She, with the help of Power Point Presentation and interesting and amusing stories highlighted the functioning of stock exchange and stock market.

The students took full advantage of her vast knowledge and got their queries

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Blood Donation

25th Sept.

A Blood donation camp was organised at Sri Ashtvinayak bahu uddeshiya Ganesh Mandal, Dhantoli, on 25th September from 12 noon. 35 units of Blood was collected.

Two blood banks i.e. Jeevan Jyoti and Life Line were there. Present on the occasion were President Khushnoor Chugh, Secretary Parag Paranjpe Director Non Medical Namita Sharma, Chairpersons Navneet Jain, Sandeep Vaid and Mohd Master were there. We thank Pranav Singhal for organising the camp.

Organ Donation

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A talk was held at Chitnavis Centre.

Dr.Umesh Ojha, Renal Transplant Surgeon and Dr.A.L.Kripalani, Renal Transplant Physician were the speakers. DG Dr.Nikhil Kibe , was the Chief Guest in the afternoon session.

There was an interactive session wherein doubts of the public were cleared.

The emphasis was on other specialities and disciplines that have to be involved in the transplant awareness programme.

Dr.Ojha said this is a long process. Our effort is to make known the importance of transplant. Treatment can be given as per affordability of the patient,.

NGO's like the 'MOHAN Foundation 'are working towards bringing the awareness. It was indeed a proud moment when Dr Ravi Wankhede was felicitated. Of course we all do hold him in high esteem but it was a pleasure to

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Dignitaries on the dais

hear visiting surgeons from Mumbai and other places speaking so highly of him. Some others who had donated were also felicitated.

Worth a mention here is one Mr Mohril who is a good friend of Dr Ravi.

Inspired by Ravi's example, he and his Pathologist wife also decided to donate a kidney each. They offered it to a number of doctors and after 3 yrs. the husband found a recipient.

The session today was for the press and the common man. A number of questions were asked and answered.

The gist of the matter being that the Government needs to simplify the legalities.

Common man should be made aware that his/ her life will be almost normal even after the

donation, as in any other surgery.

But what came as a strange and shocking revelation was the fact that most doctors other than nephrologists are themselves not aware of these donations. Unfortunately thus, brain dead cases go unreported. If only the doctor in charge at that time could make such families aware of the noblest of noble act of compassion that they could do!

Hopefully soon Nagpur and other cities will become more aware. Thanks to the yeoman service from some of our doctors.

DG Nikhil was present both as a Rotarian as well as a doctor.

Dr Sameer Chaubey was the convenor Thanks to Rotary! We came back better informed.

-Manju Shahani

Nirmalaya Collection Along with the Raths was an army of Rotaractors, Rotary Members and IYE Students.

Youth Team did an excellent job of managing almost 500 Rotractors effortlessly and efficiently. Shefali shah, Rtn. Manish Agrawal, and Zaheer Akolawala were on their toes.

There were almost 60 Rotaractors from Hislop college, Tirpude collage, Sadabai college and IGGMC were with 4 Raths and around 250 Rotaractors from Priyadarshini, Tuli collage, IGGMC, Tulsiram, Hislop, Tulsiram gaikwad, And SB jain were at Futala lake on Saturday.

Sunday 27th September being the day of Mega Visarjan at Futala was a more challenging job for the Committees.

Rotaractors were assigned jobs of Handling traffic as well as collecting Nirmalaya from Devotees who arrived at the lake with their idols for visarjan.

We requested all to use the artificially created tanks rather then the Futala lake, if the idols were made of Plaster of Paris.

We could successfully do around 400 Visarjans in artificial tanks by this activity.

600 Rotaractors on rotation for Nirmalya collection at Futala lake on 27th Sunday activity were from the Following Colleges..

Hislop Priyadarshini Tuli Sbjain Tirpude Sadabai IGGMC

Our enthusiastic Rotarians

Rotaract volunteers - a plenty

Tulsiram Gaikwad Rotarians who were present for the Project are Khushnoor Chugh, Parag paranjpe, Raj Shah, Sarang Kale, Archana Jhavery, Vandana Agrawal, Nimish Sutaria, Anula Goenka, Nilufer Rana, Fatiema Shakir, Cyrus Watchmaker, Jerry Watchmaker, Vijay Naidu, Dinesh Naidu, Pranav Singhal, Rakesh Awachat, Deepa Jamwal, Vikram Naidu, Vinita bahari, Nivedita Pendarkar, Geeta Rao, Pramod Jamwal, Tushar Singhvi, Litesh Thakkar, Namita Sharma, Atul shah, Shalini Naidu, Parul shah, Ritika Singhvi were volunteers. Manish Agrawal and Zaheer Akolawala manged the Rotaractors from morning 9.00 am to 10 pm.

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Making ganpati festival eco-friendly Green City Committee and Youth Committee teamed up to execute a mammoth task of collecting Nirmalaya from Ganesh Mandals. A project was conceptualized by Rotary Enclave which consists of all leading Rotary Clubs in our District 3030 and led by our very own Rtn.Dinesh Naidu.

Taking permission from Dr. Milind Ganvir who is the NMC's Health Deputy Director, the Rotary Enclave received 10 mini trucks specially for picking Nirmalya.

We named this truck as Nirmalaya Rath.

As most of the bulk Nirmalaya comes from Mandals, it was thought to be appropriate to collect them beforehand from the Mandals. This helped lower the collection load at Futala lake.

We started Nirmalaya Rath activity 2 days before visarjan. Our first stop was at residence of our Mayor Praveen Datke.

He was extremely happy with the drive and willingly gave us all the Nirmalya collected in over 8 days of Ganesh pooja.

We started the mega Mandal Nirmalaya collection drive on Saturday 26th September at 11 am from Chitnavis centre from where all the Raths were flagged of by our PP Gulab Mahant, Pp Rajan Bhatia, PP Shabbir Shakir, PP vijay Naidu, PP Atul shah, PP Manmohan Daga, PP Tauby Bhagwagar and President Khushnoor Chugh. Rtn Rina Sinha, Rtn Manju Shahani, Rtn Vikram Naidu, Rtn Parag Date, Rtn Shantanu Khedkar and Nisha Kamath and chairperson Shefali Shah were present.

There were three Raths alloted by NMC and one was given by our Green City Director Sarang Kale.

Almost 80 Mandals were covered during to collect Nirmalaya.

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The President Collecting Nirmalaya from Devotees

Encouraging Immersion in artificial tanks

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Rotaract and Interact Projects - at a glance The orientation program for Rotaract members of PIET was held on Tuesday, 1st September and saw various dignitaries welcoming the new rotractarians. With around 220 members present, the program was a success.

The Chief Guest of the orientation program was District Secretary Rtn. Vijay Naidu. The other dignitaries that graced the function were Chairman Rtn. Manish Agrawal, Director Youth Service Rtn. Raj Shah and Chairperson Rtn. Zaheer Akolawala.

Guest lecture on 'Use of LED' by Rtn. Zaheer Akolawala was organised for the students of Rotaract Club of SRWC on 18th September 2015.

Mr. Akolawala gave technical background of LED Light and compared the LED light with conventional light and CFL lights in terms of power utilization, effect on environment.

The Rotaract club of Indira Gandhi Government Medical college Nagpur, in collaboration with Sadabhai Raisoni Womens's college held very delightful and enjoyable activity for the orphans of Bal Sadan Orphanage, Nagpur.

The Rotaractars organized various competitions, fancy dress, poster making and mimicry for children for the different age groups. Later all the children, rotaractars and teachers assembled for the Dahi handi celebrations in which all the children participated enthusiastically .

Nagpur Institute of Technology has proposed to install the Rotaract club for students of NIT. To create the awareness on the vision and mission of Rotaract Club, NIT in collaboration with Rotary Club of Nagpur had organized an orientation Programme for students of NIT on 2nd September 2015 at NIT Seminar Hall.

To mentor the students of NIT, the programme was graced by Rotarian Vijay Naidu, Past President of Rotary club of Nagpur, Mr. Raj Shah, Director Youth Services, Mr. Manish Agrawal and Ms. Shweta Singh, Chairpersons of Rotary committee. The Programme was marked by the inspiring words of Dr. Surendra Gole, Principal-Nagpur Institute of Technology. He invited students to rise above the normalcy of life and become the part of greater large and work for betterment of humanity.

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CPS Wardhaman Nagar, had a sale of rakhis made by mentally challenged children. It was conducted on 20th and 21st August in Centre Point School Wardhaman Nagar.The rakhis were priced at Rs.10/-,15/-,20/-,35/-,50/&60/- each. A collection of Rs.4000 was sent to the Sandhya Sanwardhan Sanstha for mentally challenged children in Butibori.

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The students of SRWC celebrated Rakshabandhan by tying Rakhis to the inmates of Central Jail, Nagpur. This act brought a moment of joy for the inmates of the Central Jail who were separated from their family. They also requested the students to tie the rakhis sent by their sisters. As the Nagpur Police is always ready for the safety of Nagpurians, the students formally gave them a responsibility of their protection by tying rakhi's to them too.

This was a lesson of empathy and social responsibility for the students. The event was supported and encouraged by Ms. Amina Vali, Principal, SRWC and the Teacher In-charge Ms. Shakti Sharma.

ROTARACT CLUB OF PIET organised 10 days Ganesh Utsav“SAMARTH” for children of Deaf & Dumb School, Nagpur. Under SAMARTH, Rotaract Club of PIET organised events from 17th September – 27th September

Rotary Jr. Tales up?

Aalya – “Sabko bade ho ke Heroine banana hai!!”

Yug – Girls apply make up because they want to look good…

Me - Then what do boys do?

Yug – Boys ..pehle se hi achche dikhte hain…

Aashi – They put perfume and wear good pants and Shirts Me – What will you do if your mom is angry with you?

Tasneem – I will go to my room and act as if I'm crying…. Then nani will scold mummy…

Avantika – I will say “mummy you are very beautiful!!”

Aashi – I will start behaving like a very good girl.

Me – Who is Narendra Modi and what does he do?

All – He is the Prime Minister of India.

Aalya – Modi ji gives instructions to India as my Class Monitor instructs my class.

Grey Zone Eats Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss The cover of this book relates an incident.

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

“Why?” asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

“I'm a panda,” he says, at the door. “Look it up.”

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

“Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like animal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”

So, punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.

This book, in the author's own words isn't an instruction manual about punctuation.

What is it about then? Some self-help

Me–And what about Devendra Fadnavis?

Dia–Modi ji is “Raja” and Devendra Fadnavis is like “Senapati” Me - What will you do if you meet an alien?

Anish & Tasneem–“hum use maar denge” Yug – I will make him my friend and sit in his spaceship …aur uske ghar chala jaunga…

Me - Which is your favorite car?

Anish–(full of excitement) Bugatti.. because it's so fast that all other cars will go to Ganpati Bappa And the spontaneous answers were endless… Wish I could put up a video of this one hour where the kids opened up their hearts with full enthusiasm and zeal… Finding happiness in each and everything they do….Today I learnt from them how delightful and simple life is meant to be. Keep emailing your kids talents and experiences to sonalsinghvi3@gmail.com.

Nimish Sutaria books give you permission to love yourself. This book gives you the permission to love punctuation. It is about how we got the punctuation system, and how a tiny but adaptable system of marks allows us to notate most types of verbal expression. It's a treasure trove of amusing anecdotes and trip-ups for the punctuation vigilante. Yes, there are plenty of these vigilantes out there.

The book deals with commonly used (read abused and misused) punctuations like the apostrophe which the English language picked up in the 16th century from the Greek work which means “turning away”, hence implying “omission” or “elision”.

Classically used to mark dropped letters as in “wish'd” it evolved in the next two centuries, first, as a singular possessive (the girl's dress is pretty) and then as a plural possessive (the girls' dresses) respectively. It has now spiraled into madness.

Most people have no clue whatsoever and would routinely write “Thank God its

Friday” making the vigilante cringe and despair. The correct punctuation is, of course, “it's”! The apostrophe comes in because we want to curtail “it is” and not pronounce “is” fully.

This may sound like a drab textbook, but I assure you, it is most certainly not. It goes on to deal with other commonly used punctuations like the comma, dash, colon, et al in a very engaging manner which will appeal to any English language lover. At times mirthful, at times serious and indignant, the book comes with a punctuation repair kit containing numerous stickers. These stickers include commas, question marks, exclamations, semi-colons and full-stops in varying sizes. These are for the punctuation vigilantes like me who love to correct on the go!

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In Conversation with Rotary Kids 9 energetic children … full of life… ready with their own view point's….with truthfulness, curiosity and joyfulness in their eyes… An evening was set for the interview with Articulate Aalya Uppal, Charming Aashi Poddar, Adorable Tasneem Shakir, Macho man Anish P a r a n j a p e , A d o r a b l e Av a n t i k a Upganlawar, Delightful Miloni Sampat , Sweet Dia Singhvi & Energetic Yug Singhvi…

Me – Do you all know what Rotary is?

Aalya – Rotary collects money for poor people Dia - Rotary is a club where they decide what Twinkle club activities should take place and Take Rotary Home is done.

Tasneem–Rotary is a club where activities & games are conducted…

Me - What do Mummy and Papa do in Rotary?

Anish – My Papa is “Security” of Rotary Club…

Me – Security or Secretary????

Anish- Arey! Aunty Security!!!

Aashi – My mummy doesn't take me to Rotary….

Me – Will you all join Rotary?

All – YES!!!

Me – why?

Avantika & Tasneem–To make new friends Me – Okay lets move from Rotary to something very common…Can you tell me why do girls put on Make

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Fealty to the Body Cycling my way to fitness I have never played any outdoor sport and my profession meant spending most of my time sitting in an office chair in front of a computer screen. Also, I watched TV for hours after office. What did it result into – back pain, general weakness, indigestion and being sick often. I was trying to change all this and take better control over my health as I was nearing 40.

We had just bought a cycle for my son, Gaurav. I started riding it for 5-7 KMs around my house. One weekend I decided to join a cycling group called, Saddle Up Guys for their weekend ride of 40 KMs. I went on the ride but it proved to be a torture for me. I somehow completed the ride and pedalled back home, slept whole day and even fell sick. I decided to find out what's wrong and found that I was riding a MTB ,not a good choice for riding on road and also one size doesn't fit everybody for cycles, Having known that I decided to buy a proper bicycle for me and bought a

good quality hybrid bike. Difference was remarkable, riding became easier and lot of fun.

Then I came to know about soon to happen Brevet in Nagpur. Brevets are long distance cycling events where everybody who finishes it is considered a winner, unlike the races. Minimum distance for a Brevet is 200 KM which needs to be completed within 13.5 Hrs. Then there are brevets of 300, 400, 600, 1000 and 1200 KM as well. I began riding 30-40 KMs. daily to train myself. It took just a week of riding for me to graduate to riding 40 KM with ease. Contrary to what you may think riding 40 KM on a good bicycle is really easy. If I can do it, anybody can do it. To have a long ride under my belt before attempting 200 KM, I rode to Saoner and back, 85 KMs, which was tiring but satisfying.

I was able to complete 200 KM within time and recently completed 300 KM . I am looking forward to do 400 and 600 KM

Sachin Palewar within a year. Cycling is lot of fun, we do daily what people do on weekends, which is visiting a lake, taking selfie in a forest or beside lush-green fields in villages. Do you know how many lakes we have in just 20 KM radius near Nagpur? You will need to start cycling to find that out. See you peddling on roads soon :-)

Doctor Alert COMMON ANAL PROBLEMS

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Problems in anal area can affect anybody at any age. The common symptoms are pain and bleeding from anus or change in bowel habit. If you have these complains, it's better to see a surgeon with qualification of Masters in Surgery (MS).

In PILES, the blood vessels just inside the anus get enlarged. This can occur at any age. The most common explanation for people having piles is prolong straining on passing stool. So the main stay of treatment in bleeding piles is to make stool soft and bulky so that one do not have to strain during defecation. This is done by eating lots of fibre ( salad,fruits,brown bread etc) in diet, drinking lots of water , avoiding prolong sitting in toilet and straining during defecation. Some may need a bulk laxative like Isobghol at least in initial stages,. However if bleeding

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continues than the piles ( i.e. enlarged blood vessels ) are treated by injection of a “scleroscent” in these blood vessels.

FISSURE IN ANO is a 'cut' just inside anus caused by undue straining to pass out hard stool .Patient presents with severe pain (and sometimes slight bleeding) during defecation – which eases later on.

Very few patients would require surgery for either failure of conservative treatment or for recurrent fissure in ano. This condition is fairly common in pregnant females.

The most dreadful condition of anal region is CANCER . This starts from inside the anus – hence is not felt by patient. More common in elderly, the main complain is change in bowel habit i.e. increasing constipation or straining on defecation or sometimes loose motions mixed with

Dr. Rajesh Singhvi blood. The diagnosis is confirmed by doing examination, usually with help of an endoscope and taking biopsies. The treatment may include a combination of Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy and /or Surgery, depending upon the stage of cancer.

To summarise, the cause of most of the disease in anal region is straining to pass out hard faecal matter i.e. constipation.

One must avoid constipation at all cost by eating lots of green vegetables and fruits in diet. Recent onset constipation or diarrhoea of more than few weeks in duration, especially after the age of 50 needs medical attention. Early consultation with surgeon is advised.

If your Mediterranean fantasies feature balmy days by pristine clear sapphire waters in the shade of ancient walled towns, Croatia is the place to turn them into reality.

'Croatia is quite simply a mustvisit country. It offers a unique combination of breathtaking natural beauty, great swimming, summertime sun, oodles of history, interesting architecture, incredible wine, delicious seafood…just to name a few .

Without question, Croatia has enough intriguing characters, allusion, cacophonous city streets, and village secrets to satisfy the needs of every traveler.

Croatia is blessed with a wealth of natural riches, boasting almost 2000km of rocky, indented shore and more than a thousand islands, many blanketed in luxuriant vegetation. It has off-the-beaten-track islands, quiet coves and stone-built fishing villages to make you feel as if you're visiting Europe at its most unspoiled.

There's plenty in the way of urbane glamour too, if that's what you're after, with swanky hotels, yacht-filled harbours and cocktail bars aplenty – especially in àla-mode destinations such as Dubrovnik and Hvar. Wherever you go though you'll find that Croatia retains an appeal for independent travellers that are in short supply at more package-oriented

destinations elsewhere in the Mediterranean.

Cities to visit while in Croatia : some of the more important places to see Dubrovnik : Dubrovnik is city with fortified walls and a long history in the south of Croatia facing the Adriatic Ocean. Dubrovnik Old City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the most famous and memorable parts of the city are to be seen down near the waterfront, At the heart of the old town is the distinctive clock tower that looks over a nice square. While in Dubrovnik a visit to the MUSEUMS OF DUBROVNIK and the BEACH should be in the list.

Zegreb: Zegreb is the capital of Croatia. It is not the kind of city you fall in love with at first sight, What the city does offer is a uniquely vivacious café life and a year-round programme of heavy-duty art exhibitions.

A land mark of the city is Museum of Contemporary Art. Zegreb is famous for arty fun which extends into its nightlife, with cutting-edge clubs, live gig venues and summer festivals that would put many a central European city to shame.

Zadar: Zadar was bombed no fewer than 72 times by the Allies during World War II, Today with a popu,ation of 75,000 it is one of the most interssting towns of Croatioa. The pleasant muddle of architectural styles,

Atul Gupta Corinthian columns and Romanesque churches are a treat to your eyes .

Below are a must do's while in Croatia “ Sunset in Zadar Alfred Hitchcock raved about them, and you will be bowled over too, especially now sunsets in Zadar are accompanied by the complimentary sound-and-light effects of the famous Greeting to the Sun and Sea Organ art installations Walking Dubrovnik's walls The briefest of trots round the battlements will serve as a breathtaking introduction to this ancient city Plitvice Lakes National Park A bewitching sequence of foaming waterfalls and turquoise lakes, hemmed in by forest-clad hills.

Walking the Premulic Trail Croatia's most exhilarating long-distance hiking route takes in mountain ridges, dense forests and awesome views.

Pula Amphitheatre Imperial Rome's greatest gift to the eastern Adriatic, this awesome arena still serves as the venue for pack-'em-in summertime concerts.

HVAR Town ; The swankiest resort on the Adriatic is full of temptations, whether you're a culture vulture, Mediterranean foodie or cocktailbar cruiser.

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Voyaging Vikiing’s Musing

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INtelligent INvestment Vinita Bahri PERSONAL FINANCE WIDGETS Ek Chutki Darrr ki kimat tum kya jaano editor bibi….

Well, its definitely enough to turn the Boulevards of Greed into Streets of Paralyzing Fear.

Last month has been a roller coaster ride across the globe across all financial assets.

First we have the US threatening raise interest rates, then China preempts that by devaluing their currency, and the rest of the world follows. The prophets of doom are now crawling out of the woodwork and suddenly, what seemed like a few depressed economists venting their frustration, is now gathering momentum and if left unchecked, could become a self fulfilling prophecy !

There are a hundred reasons according to the researchers, why the sea levels should have inundated the earth by now, or the depleting ozone layer should have made tandoori chicken out of us all, but what do you know?!! Even the ice on the Killimanjaro is still there!!

Each one of those hundred reasons is a valid one to harm the earth, but does it have the capability of complete destruction, and is the entire world going to allow that to happen? I think not.

The financial markets are deeply interwoven and more than the markets, CNBCs and the CNNs are available across the world, busy fuelling frenzy whether it is a buying one or a selling one.

Because….. normal is boring,and does'nt get TRPs! So now we have a Shemitah to add to the financial gobbledegook…and one more reason for financial meltdown.

So what is Shemitah? Shemitah is basically a jewish Sabbath year. In the olden days, when agriculture was the main occupation of most people, it was so decreed that after six years of harvest, the land must be left fallow for one year to recoup its fertility and all outstanding debts must be waived in that year.

So logically speaking,the Shemitah year would be a no growth year, no production year,no income year!!It was a year of spiritual awakening and contemplation.

Today Shemitah is being touted as the Financial Holocaust!!

And we still have a hundred more valid reasons why the financial markets should be decimated, like the huge debt pile that each country has amassed, then the fact that people are being stupid enough not to buy more cars and homes,and then of

course, the west is growing old, and needs more social security and healthcare….

Investor psychology is an amazing thing, it is predictable, unlike anything else. Fear and greed are the cornerstones of this subject. Greedy squirrels gather more acorns than they can bury and actually remember where they buried them. Net effect, they will only get what they actually need.

Scared and fearful squirrels will keep digging out their acorns every other day and find new hiding places ..till they forget the last hiding place. Net effect, definitely not bountiful.

Smart squirrels will calculate exactly how many acorns are needed to tide over the winter, put them away systematically, and retrieve them as and when needed.

Fear is a much stronger emotion than greed. And the wrong decisions are mostly made when one is fearful. Investors who are able to conquer these two emotions are the ones who will always make the right investment decisions.

Tasty Terrain

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Jigna Thakkar

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Patra (Rolled gujarati snacks made of colocasia ) Handy tip : Always use black stemed colocasia leave while making & roll them tightly. We get these leaves and in the market.

Ingredients : For the besan mixture, 1 - 10 medium size colocasia leaves, 2 - 2 1/2 cup besan (bengal flour), 3 - 1tsp ginger ,green chilli paste & red chilli powder, 4 - 1/2tsp haldi & hing (asafoetida), 5 -1/2 cups grated jaggery, 6 - 3 tbsp tamarind pulp(imli), 7 - 1tsp oil & salt for taste For garnish : 2tbsp freshly grated coconut, 2tbsp finely chopped coriander Method : 1 - Wash the leaves & dry it properly. Then place the leaves with the vein facing you and remove the veins slowly using a knife.

2 - Combine all the ingredients in a bowl add 1 cup water to it &mix it properly till jaggery melts & the mixture becomes smooth .

3 - Place the leaf on plain surface with the tip facing you & spread little besan mixture with your finger to make a thin layer on the leaf.

4 - Take another leaf and apply little besan on it & place the first leaf on it with the tip in the opposite direction.

5 - Repeat 3&4 procedure for 5 more leaves & then fold the leaf around 1" from one side. Again apply little mixture on the fold leave.

5 - Roll it tightly while you apply the mixture with each fold.Stem it for 20 to 25 mins . When cool cut it into thick pieces.

6 - Heat the oil in kadhai & add mustard &

sesame seeds. Add the patra pieces on medium flame for 5 mins. Stir continuously or they may stick.

7- Garnish it with coconut & coriander .

Delicious patra are ready to serve .You can serve with green chutney or tomato ketchup.

Smart Alec NEWS ABUSE A 2nd wife of her 3rd husband is charged along with her 2nd husband for killing her daughter from her 1st husband who was having an affair with her 3rd husband's son from his 1st wife. Not funny enough? Here is another one... Teacher: Who is your role model? Student: Indrani Mukherjea...

Teacher: Why? Student: See Madam, Abdul Kalam passed away, no debate.

Sania won Wimbledon...10 minutes coverage. 4-5 IAS toppers are women, do we even know their names? Indian Women's Hockey team got entry into the Olympics after 20 years...have we even heard of it? But Indrani Mukherjea is all over! Still not funny?

It really is not! In fact it is downright ridiculous. In a world where personal space is increasingly getting confined, the media's handling of the Indrani Mukherjea case is a firm statement that nothing is personal anymore. Beware if you ever said anything, put something on Facebook on a weird, moody day. It will all be taken, put into context that suits the situation and put on national television for millions to see and judge your entire life based on it. This is abuse at the highest level. This is worse than Arnab Goswami silencing experts and critics alike just because he can shout

louder than them on his channel, claiming that the nation wants to know.

What the nation actually wants to know is that is there such a lack of good fictional thrillers on TV that news channels have to fill that space? Is there such a lack of good journalism? Or, have we finally decided that as a country we only want gossip, hearsay and selective plants from the police to be shown as the only news story?

According to the Department of Advertising and Visual Publicity, cable and satellite TV news viewers in towns with population over a lakh has grown from 14 crore in 2011 to 19 crore in 2015.

But for English news channels, it's not good news. For them, viewership has shrunk by almost 60 per cent. Shrinking consumer base means revenues getting hit, and that's never acceptable. Ergo, it doesn't matter what it is as long as it sells. So, is this the future of news? Is this what we as Indians want to see as crucial relevant information that matters? Or are we just a number in the bottomline that needs to grow larger every quarter to keep the television fat cats rolling in the green? The nation wants to know. It's high time.

Sohrab Kanga

Tol Mol Ke Bol

Last Month’s Winner Dr. Bharti Gidwani

A contest with a difference. Fill in the white blurb with what you think the person is saying. Funnier the better. Best entry will receive a prize. Send in your replies by SMS/WhatsApp to 9823031232. Winning entry will be published in next month’s G.O. and will get a tub of icecream from Dinshaws

Fashion with Finesse Fashion is a form of dressing, so abhorrent to people that they need to change it every six months! This wise observation was made by Oscar Wilde.

He was clearly wise and observant.

Actually, it depends how seriously you take fashion. It's almost a religion for some and not for others; either you follow it or shun it. Fashion to some, is an extension of one's personality, some say it's being in sync with the current trends.

To me, Fashion is trends created by a bunch of marketing geniuses who recycle trends every 10 years in circulation.

These smart people basically tell you to discard your fairly new clothes, shoes and accessories, to buy still newer ones. These people are called Designers.

People who create their own fashion statement, without following the trends, are the true style gurus. There are many fashion victims around, who succumb to the pressure. There is nothing wrong with it. The smartness comes from, not blindly following the trend, it lies in knowing your body type and getting your money's worth. Fashion and Style are different

aspects of a personality, yet it's interrelated. Real style does not come from following trends, it comes from how one can put various things together creatively and make a unique statement.

One garment, that has no bias against any shape or size, and has stood the tests of time, is our very own Humble Sari.

Though, not humble any more. It has developed an attitude. Rightly so, because, it's a garment, which has braved the onslaught of numerous fashion trends and is still revered as the most elegant garment, nationally and internationally.

Trends come and go, but the sari remains constant. A lot of International and National designers have taken inspirations from the sari, be it in the form of gowns or short dresses. A sari is the most versatile garment. It can be flowy; it can be teamed up with tank tops, bikini tops, backless blouses, sleeveless blouses and full sleeved blouses et al. With each outing, it spells versatility, elegance and a uniqueness which is essentially its own. A sari doesn't conform to any shape or size.

And of late, it has broken the traditional

barrier too.

Every region in India has a unique way of draping the sari, be it in Bengal, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, UP or MP. It can be worn in a lungi fashion, pre-stitched, zipped up or simply flowing, like frothy cloud. No other garment can boast of the numerous “Looks” it can achieve, given the simplicity of this 6 yards of unstitched cloth. It can be embellished, embroidered, dyed, printed, to suit every mood. It's the Little Black Dress or the LBD of India.

Just like the western world relies heavily on the safe LBD for any occasion, the humble sari can be worn anytime, anywhere and on any occasion. Such is the magic of a sari. Besides crossing the barrier of trends, it's the only garment which cannot be classified as “ Out of Fashion”. The sari is always “In fashion” and will always enjoy a cult status.

Needless to say, fashion is intrinsically woven into the sari, yet it's totally free from it!

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Amita Behal

The Humble Sari

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The True Heroes Manish Bhati Just recall the last time you snubbed a kid at a traffic signal after he or she knocked at your car windowpane. Have you ever given a thought to what compels children to beg and get screamed at, even in extreme weather conditions?

My thoughts are no different from yours; I hate the site of these children begging on traffic signals.

It was just another day when I was driving from Lokmat Square towards Sitabuldi, waiting at the Panchsheel Square signal and saw a little girl aged about ten, begging. I looked up at the signal, which showed another 70 seconds to go. As she moved towards my car with a sad crying face, I saw her limping, a bandage on her right foot. As she came by, I lowered the window pane and asked.

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ended with the National Anthem.

children in and around Mouda, thus leading to An amazing experience! birth of REACH AND F O O T PAT H S H A L A i s a n experimental initiative of UPAY (Under TEACH. Privileged's Advancement by Youth), a VOLUNTEERS OF UPAY: young NGO founded in 2011, primarily L o t s o f p e o p l e f r o m v a r y i n g working in education sector for professions have come forward to deprived children. donate their time as volunteers, First FOOT PATH SHALA was started including college students of Nagpur. in 2014, opposite to AMRUT Most of the students spare about an hour BHAWAN, Jhansi Rani Square, while every day to help these children with the second began near Yeshwant their studies, with 70 volunteers in all.

Stadium, with two more- at Mount Road and LIC Square. UPAY is in touch STOP CHILD BEGGING, STOP with other NGO's and authorities to GIVING MONEY: rehabilitate the families either back into Why should children suffer for elders their community or in shelter homes, who don't want to work? whereas children who wish to study are A beggar's life is tragic as they have to being moved to schools with hostel beg, irrespective of fever or any disease. facility.

Teenaged girl beggars suffer the worst, REACH AND TEACH is another as be it a lorry-driver or the notorious unique initiative of UPAY, to teach traffic policeman, most look at them school going children who cannot with bad intentions, which the poor afford tuition classes, having reached 5 helpless girls cannot do much about. villages around Mouda, providing

educational support to around 1100 students. Special Maths and English Me : ??? classes are held for students appearing She: ?? ? ?? ?? ??? ??? ? ??‹??? ?‹??‹?? | in Xth Board exams and special JEE classes organised for XI-XIIth students. ???? ? ???? ? ???????.?

Along with studies, sports, social work Me: ??? ? ? ? ? ?????? and cultural activities are also planned She: ???| ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ????,??? ‹? ???‹?? for the children.

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??? ??| The following Sunday, I visited the footpath and as I waited, two students aged about 20 came and instantaneously, a dozen children came running from nowhere. Quickly, the foot path was cleaned, with a black board in place reading “FOOT PATH SHALA”. The class started with a prayer, went on for about an hour and

More than our money, they expect compassion, so that they can be rescued from this vicious circle of poverty and pain.

Donate atleast an hour once a week, month or may be a year to Reach out and Teach. After all, as John Holmes rightly framed “THERE IS NO There are three Reach and Teach EXERCISE BETTER FOR THE centers in Nagpur- Mankapur, Jagdish HEART THAN REACHING DOWN Nagar and Ramnagar.

AND LIFTING PEOPLE UP”.

About the founder of UPAY: Coming back to the girl I met at Varun Shrivastava started this initiative Panchsheel Square- she eventually ran of teaching children on footpath in July away from her parents. We were able to 2014. An engineer from I.I.T. trace her in BAL SUDHAR GRAH in Kharagpur, he works for NTPC at Sadar. She had been living away from Mouda as an Engineer in Planning her family for about a couple of months Department. Post-graduation, he worked with a multinational company and did not want to come back to the life in Spain, but wanting to contribute to of begging. Last I heard was she has the society, he returned to India to been shifted to another BAL SUDHAR initiate UPAY in 2011. He motivated his GRAH in Mumbai. I am yet to figure colleagues in NTPC campus to teach out WHY?

Brainy Bolts KID’S PLAY

RULES You need to place the four numbers given and the mathematical operators in correct order so 3 + - x = 4 as to reach the answer.

Each of the four numbers given is to be used.

Priya Upganlawar

SOLUTIONS TO SEPTEMBER PUZZLES CROSS WORD

Each number can be used only once.

We arrive at the answer by solving the mathematical expression from the left to right.

SUDOKU

Winner Ritika Sahu SUDOKU

September Winner Parag Date WORDOKU

2 Each of the following clues refers to a word that begins with "TEN". Can you guess all ten words ?

1 inclination 2 delicate or gentle 3 fibrous connective tissue 4 a racket game 5 capable of being stretched 6 between the bass and alto 7 stretched tight 8 unsubstantial 9 a dwelling 10 an opinion held to be true Can you figure out what word or phrase these rebus puzzles stand for ?

ACT_O_ +DEEF

PS: Winners names were drawn by lot out of the correct entries received.

Editor

The Winners of each of these mind games will win a Tub of Dinshaw’s Ice Cream.

In case of Multiple correct entries, lots would be drawn and winner declared.

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The word puzzles go for a twist. Solve and win.

Can you identyfy the following common proverb expressed in high-flown language ?

“The stylus is more potent than the claymore."

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New Members Manju Shahani

Neeraj and Sejal Shah

Mad about Adventure' brought them into Rotary. Friends don't be shocked but this is a WhatsApp group!Friends with Hetal Sampat, Sejal was added to this group as she loved Cricket, Cycling and the other fun things, the group did ( Vinita Bahri is the admin).

The rest of the group were all either Rotarians or Anns & Sejal also wanted to be a part of it. Neeraj was brought into the picture. And here they are, a month old Rotarians.

An educationist, Neeraj runs ' Drishti Learning Private Ltd.' At Drishti, they teach, outside school courses to kids from 3 yrs. to 13 yrs.

Right now they have about 5 International Programs but they are growing & gaining popularity by the day. In the last 10 yrs. they have grown in leaps & bounds. Drishti is the future of Education!

A Somalwar boy, Neeraj graduated in Commerce from Hislop College. Later he did his Masters in Business Administration from Nasik. Sejal though born in Mumbai, her family moved to Nagpur when she was a kid. Tata Parsi School & LAD College have been her grooming institutions & she is full time involved in the family business - education out of school.

5 year old Niya is their only child.

Welcome Neeraj & Sejal!

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A chip of the old block, Sachin belongs to the renowned Mulanis. From childhood he knew that Philanthropy was an integral part of his family. And what better platform, than Rotary to be able to give back to society !

This is what his dad- Rajan & uncle- Hira have been doing for the last so many years. Though a Round Tabler, he was determined to be a part of Rotary one day. That day dawned, last month when Sachin & Kamya were inducted. Kamya provides an excellent foil to Sachin's personality!

She comes from a similar background in Agra, where her grandfather helped needy girls for their education. He also cared for the senior citizens. Not one for showbaazi, he would help silently and many a times even the family was not aware. A Nagpurian to the core, Sachin has been born and raised here and would never want to settle anywhere else. So also Kamya, who has come to love her new home in Nagpur though Pune as a city holds first position. Her maternal family lives there and she did her college there.

They both love to travel and have been to a number of places both in India and abroad but Nagpur is HOME. Blessed with two boys - Daksh who is 9 and in the 4th grade. And Garv who is 6 & in the 1st grade at Centre Point School,

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Sachin and Kamya Mulani

This young couple find Rotary as the perfect blend of Charity and Fellowship !

Looking forward to seeing more of them, we welcome Sachin and Kamya to the Rotary family.

On the Board Dont Change so people will like you.

Be yourself & the right people will love the real you.'

When I met Nilufer Rana for a tete-a -tete the first thing that strike me is her versatility. She has a passion for all things that life has to offer and more. She comes out as one who is high on life.

A true Parsi, born and brought up in Mumbai and has made Nagpur her home since 18 years. Nilufer grew up in Malad. like a typical Mumbai kid and got an all round development as she had an penchant for sports and extra curricular activities from her early years. She has done her schooling from Carmel of St Josephs and graduation in Commerce from Mithibai College. Then she went on to do her Masters from Sydenham while doing Cost as well. Her yearning to learn more did not stop here and she got a degree in Fashion Designing from Fashion Institute and Designing and also

did a computer course for 2 years from Aptech.

Nilufer then went on to work for Hindujas in Mumbai when she was engaged to be married to Mehernosh Rana . Soon she got married and came to Nagpur. Married to Mehernosh ,a boy born with a silver spoon in the family of 'Dinshaws', Central India's famous Ice-cream brand. A very interesting fact I got to know that Mehernosh's Grand father Dinshaw Rana started making Ice-cream from a cow shed and built the company from there.

Their home is a statuesque mansion which has an old world charm with all the modern flair. The lawns and the gardens are well maintained with great care and a ideal place to relax .With three grown up kids there is a lot of hustle bustle happening in the household.

Zenia,17 is her first born, a budding artist whose paintings adorn the walls of their home. She wants to do Fashion designing

and modeling and has already modeled for Femina when she was in Std 9th. Jinaisha is 11 and Tarounish is 10 years old, both studying in Centre Point.

What I realized when I met Nilufer is that her propensity to do everything diligently has brought a balance in her life.

She had no inkling about Rotary and was introduced to Rotary by her Uncle Jehangir Doongaji in 2004 and since then Rotary has been an integral part of her life.

She started as a novice attending all the projects and giving as much time she could give and like an ardent learner she gelled well in the Club.

Our very own Joint Secretary for 201516, has served in the board before, firstly as a Director International Services and then as Sergeant at Arms. This is the third time she is on the board. She has very innovative programs and projects lined up for the year ahead. The Sports Carnival in October is one which is surely going to be a winner.

Last year we all saw Nilufer come out as an ingenious performer and honing her skills as a singer in the all girls Power Band which won hearts of all in ladies meet. Then there was no stopping the rock music lover to perform on various avenues like Happy Streets. Now Nilufer has formed a band with her 2 partners and named it" Hum 3 Acoustics" and are organizing a Music Festival only for ladies with all the hoopla that goes with it.

Heres wishing Nilufer all the best in all her endeavors and a blessed and happy life.

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Chetna Singhal

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Birthdays

The Rotary Tales

1 October to 31 October

Manoj Moryani Preeti Vaid Vinod Parekh Asha Singhaniya Anita Chitaley Sabiha Maimoon Shubhra Maheshwari Sacheen Vastani Jatin Sampat Brijesh Sahu Rizwan Haq Nimish Maheshwari Jagdish Agrawal Shipra Tank Kapil Patel Sonam Mohta Rakesh Awachat Mohinderpal Singh Alag Pradnya Hazra Pritesh Tank Vandana Palewar Anil Sahasrabhojanee Smita Chaubey Manjot Singh Kahai Neeta Singhania Hargun Sangtani Chandrakanta Raina Vijay Naidu Soharab Kanga Wijay Chitaley Keshmira Mankeshwar Shwetali Deshmukh Rajni Sangtani Poonam Sethi Romesh Batra Priyanka Jaiswal Naheed Khan Sharad Bhave Kshama Yadav Aditya Mohta Mahendra Siriya Suresh Kulkarni Achal Gandhi Sadhana Paliwal Ambika Shivhare

01 01 02 02 02 02 03 03 03 04 05 05 05 06 07 07 07 07 07 08 08 08 08 08 08 09 09 09 09 10 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 02

Arveen Dheer Deepak Chowdhary Khushnoor Chugh Shailendra Mundhada Mahesh Agrawal Nafeesa Bande Ali Khan Devyani Buty Ragini Sahu Kevinder Talwar Mamta Rai Amitabh Sinha Dhananjay Hedaoo Divya Ladha Pramod Kholkute Prem Gupta Jayshree Chandarana Padma Mahant Ashish Kalode Sushma Hedaoo Vanita Shukul Rohan Thakar Kirit Joshi Ajay Sancheti Dr. Archana Patel Jaya Mulani Capt. Ashok Narang Indu Agrawal Rajeev Chhabra Dr. Namrata Rathod Dr. Prashant Choudhary Dr. Archana Jaiswal Arun Khobragade Shalini Naidu Monica Bhagwagar Farzana Haq Dr. Shaunak Mokadam Neeta Singh Neeru Bhatia Manish Bhati Pravesh Malhotra Beena Mathew Anil Bhatia Ashok Malani Dr. Ajay Sood

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1 October to 31 October Aeyjaz & Durriya Akolawala Rajiv & Abha Choudhary Yoginder & Renu Singh Capt. Ashok & Kamal Narang Ashok & Madhu Mrig Sachin & Vandana Palewar Hemant & Shilpa Jaitha Dr. Deepa & Pramod Jamwal Akhtar Parvez & Sabiha Maimoon Hemant & Kalpana Chandurkar

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Fatema Shakir Ritika Singhvi Hello to all Rotary friends, We, the Rotary messengers are back with a bang! As the days are passing by, our relationship is blossoming, sharing news of all genres along with updates and happenings, amidst our club members, and that is our 'mool mantra'.

1. Rtn Pritesh and Shipra Tank's daughter Ketki got 3rd prize in her category from LIC in Nagpur zone, where she represented her school. Keep it up Ketki!!!

2. Rtn Sidhharth and Archana Saraf's daughter Ishika has started a new venture by the name of “THE OVEN STORY” for supplying cakes and other desserts. Congratulations to the Saraf family!!!!

3. Rtn Vishal Agrawal took charge as the President of Bhartiya Agrawal Ekta Club. All the best for the presidential year.

4. Rtn Ajay and Savita Sancheti's elder son did MSc. in Program and Project Management from Warwick University, UK and younger son Varun completed his Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani (DUBAI). Congratulations to the Duo!!!

5. Rtn Jerestin and Cyrus Watchmaker's daughter Ruxshin graduated in English Literature with distinction from Jai Hind College, Mumbai. Way to go Ruxshin!!

6. Rtn Dr. Sameer Jahangirdar has been awarded active membership of International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeon- an elite group of worldwide plastic surgeons.

Congratulations Doctor!!

7. Rtn Dr. Shivani and Dr. Shashank Bidye's daughter Sharvari won the 2nd prize in English Extempore Competition amongst 30 schools. Well done Sharvari!!!

8. Rtn Ann Veenita Pasari launched her first short story at Amazon's Kindle “HUMAN BOMB”. Awaiting her next launch “HUNDRED DREAMS” very soon. Good luck Veenita!!

9. Congratulations to Rtn Rahul and Ruchi choudhary, for they have been blessed with a baby girl. “Laxmi aayi khushiya layi.''

“Lahro se dar kar nauka par nahi hoti Koshish karne walo ki har nahi hoti” These lines suit our adventurous Rotarians……….

10. Rtn Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal completed Airtel Hyderabad Marathon 2015 and Satara Hills Marathon 2015. His Marathon record was 2:13 minutes. Keep achieving many more records!!!

11. Rtn Dr. Rajesh Singhvi completed his bicycle expedition from Manali to Leh in August. This involved cycling for 8 days covering about 500km and passing through the world's second highest motorable road at Tanglangla.

Congratulations!!

12. Lord Dhananjay Headaoo, husband of Rtn Shushma Headaoo won Conquer Medal by completing Half-hill Satara Marathon 21 kms in 2 hrs 20 minutes. It was featured in Guinness Book of World Records. Congratulations!!

Hope to see you soon with lots of GUP_SHUP next time around.

Till then, have a colourful and glorious festive month.

Bye!!

OMOG Donations Rtns. Anmol and Sandeep Badjatia have donated a sum of Rs. 25000/- towards Project Nutrition

After a successful plantation

The Enthusiastic Rotaractors at Chitnavis Centre

PDG Vishwas Sahasrabhojanee has given Rs. 2100 towards Asha Kiran. 窶連sha Kiran... a ray of hope' is the Child Development Program of Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM).

Calling all Rotarians to get in to the festive mood with the Navbharat Garbha organised for our members and guests on 16th October. Registration charges Rs. 500 for a couple and Rs. 250 for single. Workshop from 10th to 14th October at Chitnavis Centre. The finals are at Le Meridien Wardha Road

Just planted...at the Sutarias

OCTOBER 2015 GOLDEN ORANGE

Card by the Rotaractors

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