Inaugurated On: 5.10.88 Chartered On: 11.03.89

Meeting No. 519th & Yearly Meeting No. 10 Meeting: Business Meet

Date: 26/11/09 Venue: Madras Cricket Club

AIMS AND OBJECTS OF ROUND TABLE INDIA:

To develop the fellowship of young men through the medium of their business and professional

occupations and community service activ ities.

To encourage active and responsible citizenship by cultivating the highest ideals in business,

professional and civic traditions.

To promote and further international understanding, friendship and co-operation.

To promote the extension of the association.

ATTENDANCE

SL.NO

NAME

STATUS

MEETING HELD

ATTENDED

CR

CR USED

% W/OUT CREDITS

% W/ CREDITS

1 LMF Tr. Senthil Kumar (C) P 10 10 16 0 100 100

2 LMF Tr. Manoj Lulla (VC) P 10 08 1 1 80 90

3 LMF Tr. Vijay Balaji (S) P 10 10 4 0 100 100

4 LMF Tr Nitin Mehra (T) P 10 08 0 0 80 80

5 LMF Tr. Neville Bilimoria

(IPC) P 10 09 5 0 90 90

6 LMF Tr. Ashish Ahuja P 10 06 0 0 60 60

7 LMF Tr. Deepu Selvaraj P 10 04 0 0 40 40

8 LMF Tr. Dinshaw Parakh P 10 08 0 0 80 80

9 LMF Tr. Gopalakrishna

Shetty P 10 08 0 0 80 80

SL.NO

NAME

STATUS

MEETING

HELD

ATTENDED

CR

CR

USED

%

W/OUT CREDITS

% W/

CREDITS

10 LMF Tr. Imran Pasha LOA 10 07 0 0 70 70

11 LMF Tr. J.S. Krishna LOA 10 05 0 0 50 50

12 LMF Tr. Krishna Ravindran

LOA 10 08 0 0 80 80

13 LMF Tr. Madan Kumar LOA 10 07 0 0 70 70

14 LMF Tr. Mahesh Jayaraman LOA 10 09 1 1 90 100

15 LMF Tr. Mehul Nanavati P 10 09 0 0 90 90

16 LMF Tr. Nauzer D. P 10 09 0 0 90 90

17 LMF Tr. Rajeev Vijaykumar LOA 10 07 0 0 70 70

18 LMF Tr. Rajesh Jayaraman LOA 10 07 0 0 70 70

19 LMF Tr. Rajit Mhetras P 10 09 0 0 90 90

20 LMF Tr. Raghu Kailas LOA 10 08 6 1 80 100

21 LMF Tr. R. Ravindran P 10 06 0 0 60 60

22 LMF Tr. Samir Singla P 10 08 1 1 80 90

23 LMF Tr. Shailesh Vummidi P 10 09 0 0 90 90

24 LMF Tr. Sivaramakrishnan LOA 10 09 3 1 90 100

25 LMF Tr. Vijay P. Kamalakara P 08 07 0 0 88 88

26 LMF Tr. Vishnu P 07 07 1 0 100 100

HONORARY TABLERS

Bipin Bhatia - Absent

Divyesh Palicha - Absent

Dr. Sanjay Chandrasekhar - Absent

SUMMARY

This

Meeting

Trs with

100%

Trs Under

60%

Total

Table%

17/26 6 2 65

SPECIAL INVITEE

Doc Achut, Prospects – Aswin, Dr. Atish, Preetam were present.

Chairman LMF Tr. Senthil requested all present to stand up and observe a minute of silence to mark the one

year anniversary of the deadly terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 / 11

MEETING CALLED TO ORDER:

Chairman LMF Tr. Senthil called the 519th Meeting, 10TH of the year

2009-10 of GLMF Madras Cosmopolitan Round Table No. 94 to

order with a toast to President Republic of India & sponsor Table

MERT 30.

AIMS & OBJECTS:

LMF Tr. Ashish “Ahua” read the Aims and Objectives.

SERGEANT AT ARMS:

LMF Tr. Vijay “Kailash” Prabath was appointed as sergeant at arms

WELCOME:

Chairman LMF Tr. Senthil Kumar welcomed Special Invitee Doc Achut, tablers of MCRT 94,and

Prospectives Aswin, Preetam and Atish to the meeting.

CONFIRMATION OF THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING:

The confirmation of the minutes of the 518th meeting was:

Proposed By: LMF Tr. Gopi Seconded By: LMF Tr. Deepu Selvaraj (Adra sakka adra sakka)

MATTER ARISING THERE OF NOT COVERED ELSEWHERE:

NONE

TABLERS AT OTHER MEETINGS:

Chairman Tr. Senthil Kumar – Tables 30, 95, 123

Tr. Vishnu – Table 30

Tr. Samir – Table 95

Tr. Manoj Lulla – Table 95

TABLERS AT PROJECTS:

NONE

GREETINGS AND BIRTHDAYS:

BIRTHDAYS

Cr. Shraddha Lulla – November 25th

Doc Achut – November 27th

Aruna Sivaramakrishnan – December 2nd

Square leg Ketan “Bacardi Blast” – December 10th

Square leg Jacob Kurien “Rotarian” – December 13th

ANNIVERSARIES

Square Leg Rohit Modi and Shalini – November 27th

Tr. Shai & Sushma – December 4th

HT Divyesh & Deepti – December 7th

Tr. Dini & Sheetal Parikh – December 9th

CORRESPONDENCES RECEIVED

NEX:

Received communication from National President Tr. Himanshu Gupta requesting all tablers to write to

each international tabler they know to promote the Peacock Mass Tours of India

Received communication from Tr. Bharath Kinger, National Committee Chief, International Fellowship

and Twinning on Inter Country Fellowship Tour between November 26 th to November 28th to Sri Lanka.

Received minutes of 2nd NEX meeting from National Secretary Treasurer, Tr. Ashwinni Kumar

Received communication from National Table Talk Editor Tr. Zishan Ali on sponsorship rates for Table Talk

Magazine

Received communication from NHT Satish Jupiter and Co-convenor HT Ravi Baid on NAGM details

Received communication from Tr. Kapil J Vyas, National Committee – Fellowship – Twinklers, dedicating

November 14th as National Twinklers Day

AEX:

Received confirmation of receipt of 518th meeting minutes from Area Chairman Tr. Prabhat & AST Tr.

Sivaramakrishnan

Received communication from Area 2 Publicity Convenor Tr. Sameer Ram on Tare Zameen Pe

coverage in Deccan Chronicle

Received communication from Area 2 IRO Tr. Kaushik Palicha on the 29 th International Round Table

carnival in Venice, and on the Friendship tour to Colombo

Received update from Area Chairman, Tr. Prabhat on RTI Freedom Coupons

Invitation received from Area Chairman Tr. Prabhat and Area 2 NFD Convenor Tr. Sandilya Venkatesh

for the NFD fun party

Received update from Area 2 Fund Raising convenor Tr. Hamir Sampat on MMRT 42s bid for NAGM 2011

and details of prizes of the Freedom Drive

OTHERS:

Received update on MMRT 3’s and MMLC 4’s RTI Week program from Tr. Suraj Sayani

Received information from Tr. Anshu Jain on the Newyear eve party fundraiser by Spice 159

Received NFD report & RTI Week report of MSRT 39 from Tr. Kaushal Kishore

Received minutes of 731st & 732nd meeting of PRT 70 from Tr. Arjun Sundaram

Received updated dates & schedules of MERT 30’s cricket tournament from Tr. Ashish Mehta

Received minutes of 1000, 1001 & 1002nd meeting of MWRT 10 from Tr. Kiran Mehra

Received details of movie fundraiser – “Kurbaan” from Tr. Hari Balaji, Chairman, MMRT 42

Received write up on LITTLE GENIUS CLUB from Tr. Suraj Sa yani

Received report on LITTLE GENIUS CLUB of MKRT 181’s activities on November 14 th from Tr. Vinay Grandhi,

Fellowship convenor

Received minutes of 557th & 558th meeting of MCRT 82 from Tr. Sameer Ram

Received publicity report of MERT 30 from Tr. Ashish Mehta

Received invite for fellowship with Twinklers from MKRT 181 from Trs. Yusuf and Vinay

Received minutes of 1213,1214,1215,1216, 1217 meeting of MRT 1 from Tr. Vijay Sriram

Received minutes of the 185th meeting of MCRT 162 from Tr. GV Satish Kumar

Received minutes of 641st meeting of VRT 77

CONVENORS' REPORT:

FELLOWSHIP: – LMF Tr. Shailesh Vummidi & LMF Tr. Nauzer

Shai updated the tablers that he and Nauzi were planning for the BOYZ 2 MEN COOKOUT on December

6th. This would be a unique event for the tablers to team up in groups of 4/5 and sit and cook from

scratch for their wives / girlfriends/ kids. Uncle Sam would supervise that the right ingredients go to

whipping up a “scrumptuous” meal for all. Of course as a fall back for Sam, Gourment Maggie was to

be available at hand as well so none went hungry.

The NFD celebration party saw good participation from the 94ers. The last men standing were the

formidable trio of Shivi, Scendy and Nevi. One hears that nowadays Nevi seems to make it a point to

leave all parties only at dawn – resurgent at 40.

PROJECTS: - LMF Tr. “ Safe T Copper T” Gopalakrishna Shetty & LMF Tr. “Netta Kokku” Vishnu

RTI WEEK

Tr. Gopi thanked everyone for their support during RTI week. The day at Sanjeevi was the highlight with

20 of us being present – tablers, circlers, wives and twinklers. A total of Rs. 1,07,000/- was spent during RTI

week on various initiatives including Keerakaranai school. A report would be tabled shortly. In the

interim, here is a glimpse of our activities during RTI week -

November 13th – visited Corporation school, Chetpet and provided 80 children stationery,

biscuits and sweets. IPC Tr. Neville sponsored a pencil box kit for each child in the school

November 14th - On behalf of MCRT 94, Mr. Sadiq donated 100 blankets worth Rs. 9,500/- to

victims of the Ooty / Nilgiris landslide disaster at Bharathi Nagar near Coonor

November 15th – visit to Kakum Karangal – 12 men and 32 women were recipients. The m en got

dhotis / towels / banians / blankets, and the women got saris / blouses / underskirts / towels /

blankets. Veg and Nov-veg food was also served.

November 17th –at Bala Vihar to provide provisions like Dhal, Sugar, Rice worth Rs. 15,500/-

November 21st – a lung screening camp was held at Sanjeevi where 112 people were screened.

MCRT 94 as a family of nearly 20 tablers and family members were present with children to

support the event

November 21st – We also visited Keelakaranai Panchayat school where MCRT 94 had done work

worth Rs. 50,000/- towards relaying the floor, painting the walls, upgrading the kitchen with tiles

and exhaust fan

OTHERS

Tr. Gopi updated the floor tablers that Square Leg Srinath had brought a request to the table from a

school in Alwarpet that is need of a compound wall

Chairman Tr. Senthil updated the tablers that Rs. 3,000/- has been paid as the November instalment to

Guntur Subba Rao school towards the After School program under the auspices of Amritha Vihar that

the table had approved previously

RULES: - LMF Tr. Ravindran

Tr. DRUM Ravi had nothing to report except that the

appearance fee paid to Tr. Deepu for attending a

meeting worked. Here Tr. Deepu is seen dazed

wondering “where am i? whatz going on??” Deepu –

its true, pinch yourself… you have made it to our

meeting!

EXTENTION: - LMF Tr. Ravindran

Tr. DRUM Ravi welcomed prospects Dr. Atish and Preetam for their 1st contact meeting and Aswin for his

2nd contact meeting.

Tr. Neville introduced Dr. Atish to be an accomplished doc and a good addition to our team . Dr. Atish

introduced himself and spoke about his interest in joining the tabling movement.

Tr. Manoj introduced Preetam as Preetam “Jayawardene” as he spent most of his time in Colombo.

According to Manoj, “he drinks, he smokes and goes to Colombo”?????

While the other tablers were showering niceties on these prospects, one tabler was playing the role of

HISTER – aka Adolf Hitler. SS FIELD MARSHAL HERR SAM FLICK NAZI was literally interrogating these

prospects – (questions like “how often do you bathe / how often do you scratch your b_ll_? – just

kidding) he tore in to these hapless souls. This made Lulla quip – “the only thing he did not ask them was

how they are in bed.”

INDUCTION:

NONE

PUBLICITY: - LMF Tr. Krishna Ravindran

Tr. Tagara Dabba was on LOA

FUNDRAISING: - LMF Tr. Sam “the Man” Singla & LMF Tr. Rajesh Jayaraman

Tr. Sam and Tr. Rajesh updated the tablers that Manoj was helping them plan a show sponsored by a

leading motorvehicle reseller with a Fashion show and Single Malt evening. We have got commitment

from the sponsor.

Chairman Scendy was feeling a bit left out in this discussion – so he duly jumped in with another super

reparte – “Coming on this!!! bro – cummmming on what machan????”

LEADERSHIP & PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT: - LMF Tr. J.S. Krishna & LMF Tr. Vijay Kamalakara

Tr. (Vijay) Prabhat and Kaptan JS said for a change there was no rain to report to upset plans.

SUPPLY HOUSE: - LMF Tr. Ashish Ahuja

Tr. Ahua said the table had sold Rs. 6,500/ - worth supply house items… basically held a gun to HT

Divyesh’s head asking him to buy whatever Ahua stuffed down his throat. Ahua said he will circulate the

supply house catalog by email.

GREETING CARDS: - LMF Tr. Rajit Mhetras

Tr. Raju threatened the prospects that their being accepted by the table was dependent on how many

greeting cards they picked up – nice try Raju beta

Tr. VB picked up 500 greeting cards

IRO: - LMF Tr. Mehul Nanavati

Tr. Mehul had nothing to report

WEB: - LMF Tr. Sivaramakrishnan & LMF Tr. Madan

Tr. Siva and Tr. Chick Magnet Madan were on LOA. Mehul pitched in for them and updated the floor

that MCRT 94 google groups will be the defacto group and this will come on shortly after which the

existing yahoo groups will be discontinued

INTERTABLE: - LMF Tr. Mahesh Jayaraman

Tr. Maggie Mahesh was on LOA. Chairman Scendy informed everyone about MERT 30s intertable cricket

match on December 5th and asked tablers to pad up while he will be “fully fed up” gorging on all the

snacks and sandwiches.

E - MAGAZINE: - LMF Tr. Imran Pasha

Tr. “USAIN BOLT” Imran was on LOA

WORLD 94: - LMF Tr. Raghu Kailas & LMF Tr. Rajeev Vijaykumar

Tr. Klas guy and Tr. Junglee were on LOA. So Mehul pitched in with the update that South Africa had

confirmed 5 registrations for the World 94 meeting and 1 additional registration from Germany bringing

the confirmed registrations to 85.

TREASURER'S REPORT: - LMF Tr. Nitin Mehra

Tr. “Kanaku pullai” said all subscriptions had come in

Balances in the bank accounts:

ADMINISTRATION – Rs. 1,85,000/-

CHARITY – Rs. 10,41,000/-

SECRETARY: LMF Tr. Vijay Balaji

Tr. VB informed the table that he had sent in an article for this edition of Table Talk to Tr. Zishan Ali .

CHAIRMAN: - LMF Tr. Senthil Kumar

“Like to thank all the Trs n Crs for taking part in good number in the RTI Week Celebration and also my

spl thanks to those who have attended Sanjeevi Camp,not to forget about Doc Achut – Doc thank u so

much for all the help for conduting the T B Camp and co ordinating with Keelakarani school.

Kindly request all Trs pay Rs 800 and take 4 T shirts each.

Request all Trs to buy Freedom Drive Coupon.

Like to appreciate the fantasic effort of Krishna Ravindran, Manoj, Rajesh & Sam for getting the first

sponsor for our fundraiser

Sanjeevi Roto Chart : Just to remind Ashish,Dinshaw n Deepu to visit sanjeevi before the next meeting

Kindly request Trs to register for NAGM which will be held on Jan 8 th to 10th of 2010 – for details kindly call

me

I would like to Congratulate Tr Rajit , Sheetal and Tr Imran, Farheen both the couples for the new born

baby”

ANY OTHER MATTER:

Chairman Tr. Senthil informed the tablers that the floor had decided to go ahead and bid jointly with

MMRT 42 for the NAGM 2011

It was decided that each MCRT 94er would buy five Freedom Coupon tickets

Doc Achut thanked Tr. Gopi and Tr. Vishnu for giving tiles & laying the tiles. Gopi was thumping his chest

and proclaiming proudly “ I LAID the tiles twice, and Vishnu supplies the items for laying”

Doc Achut thanked Tr. Drum Ravi for donating boxes of clothes and toys. If it is Ravi’s toys, hope it was

not of the inflatable mannequin variety doc – definitely there will be some stains

The tablers celebrated the birthday of The Phenomenal Doc Achut – some glimpses… ..

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS:

Tr. Vijay Prabhat delighted the table with his sergeanting and collected Rs. 800/- as sunshine. He also

fined “new prospect” Tr. Deepu for his presence at the meeting.

VOTE OF THANKS:

Chairman Tr. Senthil gave the vote of thanks – “My thanks to all Trs. and guests for being present for the

meeting and a special thanks to Dr. Achut for being with us today”.

DATE AND VENUE OF THE NEXT MEETING:

The next meeting will be the 520th meeting of MCRT94 and will be a dinner meet in December, 2009.

Date and Venue will be informed later.

CLOSURE:

Chairman Tr. Senthil brought the 519th meeting of Madras Cosmopolitan Round Table 94 to a close with

a toast to Round Table India and Round Table International.

Minuted by:

LMF Tr. Vijay Balaji

Secretary GLMF MCRT 94

2009-10