ROTARY BANGALORE ORCHARDS

AUGUST 2020

For getting an invite for our meetings :

Rtn. Narasimha Dwarakanath – 99860 23729

Rtn. Srividya Mohan – 98451 86979

Rtn Krishna Mohan – 98450 03740

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From the Editor’s Desk

We are bringing out our Second Bulletin for the month of August, 2020. We are overwhelmed by the compliments we

received from our District leaders. August is the month of Membership Development in Rotary. It is time for the Rotary

to induct new members. Due to Pandemic the installation of the president was done through virtual meetings. We

are glad to add one more new member, Rtn Ashok Udupa has been inducted into our Club. You will find a small write-

up on him and family elsewhere in the issue.

During these times our Orchid Bulletin plays a crucial role in communicating not only within the Club Members but

also with fellow Rotarians from other Clubs and the District Officials too.

We are delighted to inform our readers that our Past President Rtn. D. Ravishnakar and Rtn. Neil Michael Joseph have

made into the prestigious Environment Trust formed by the District in recognition to their immense contribution in

KOTI NATI. A list of our members in the District Board is printed below.

The Rotary Quiz was a very big hit and we received many entries. Thank you for the overwhelming response. We are

thankful to Rao Sahib for delivering the Gift Hampers with lightning speed to all the winners.

We wish our readers a Happy Independence Day in advance and pray for everybody’s Good Health

Thanking you,

With regards,

Rtn Harikrishna S Holla

Editor

RBO LEADERSHIP @ DISTRICT LEVEL

1. Rtn. Kiran Kumar International Service Director 2. Rtn. HariKrishna Holla Legal Advisory Committee Chairman 3. Rtn. Srividya Mohan Dist Conference Hospitality Chairman 4. Rtn. H Ravikumar Koti Nati Member 5. Rtn. Ramesh Babu A N Polio Committee Advisor 6. Rtn. Govindraj K S Basic Education and Literacy Member 7. Rtn. Prakash Hegde Happy Schools Co-Chairman 8. Rtn. Krishna Mohan Paul Harris Day Member 9. Rtn. Prakash Kamath Youth in Rotary Member

Annet Pradyun Kamath

Rotarian Prakash Kamath & Ann

Shaila Kamath are thrilled to

share with us that their son

Pradyun has scored a whooping

97% in his ICSE Boards !!

Pradyun is from the prestigious

Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bengaluru.

Presidents Message

1st August 2020 Dear Fellow Rotarians, It seems like just the other day that we started the new Rotary year. Unbelievable that one month has already passed by. Despite the pandemic and despite the lock down, we have been able to complete a few projects including planting saplings, two blood donation camps and two other joint Happy school projects. We have been hampered to have in-person meetings, virtual is the only way for now and perhaps for the next few months. To keep the camaraderie, we had a family program with a ventriloquist. We hope to keep these kinds of programs and other interesting speaker meets going forward. I would however like to appeal to each of you to log in to these virtual meetings. That will be encouraging for the Club Services team who will be enthused to put together more interesting programs for you. I understand the current ‘not so safe’ situation out there, but if you can, with all possible precautions, we will be happy if you would join the community services team on several of the projects lined up by Rtn. Ravikumar H. He will of course communicate the programs to you well in advance. To have more meaningful impact, we will also be conducting joint projects with other Rotary Clubs. You may be aware that, at the instance of the District, we have partnered with a rural Rotary Club i.e. Rotary Club Of Srinivasapura. The purpose of association is to be able to conduct projects in rural areas so that the benefit reaches the hinterland. Although we have been working in Kolar and Chickballapur districts for the past few years, this association will make it easier and also provide us with local support. At the District level, several projects are being undertaken viz. setting up of Covid Care Centers, Kamadhenu project (which involves donating a cow to rural women so that they can earn a livelihood), afforestation (a foundation has been formed called Rotary Environment Foundation in which Rtn. Neil Joseph and our PP Ravishankar Dakoju, are also the trustees). On behalf of all of you I would like to extend a warm welcome to our new member Ashok Uduppa who was inducted on 7th July. Thank you Rtn. Farooq, for introducing Ashok . The July bulletin carried a set of Rotary quiz which was enthusiastically answered by several members, Anns and Annets. The prizes for the winners was sponsored by Rtn. Rao Sahib which I would like to thankfully acknowledge. I also want to thank Rtn. Harikrishna Holla for meticulously putting together the Orchid monthly e-bulletin which has been well appreciated within and outside the Club. Look forward to another fruitful month. Rtn Narasimha Dwarakanath President Rotary Bangalore Orchards 2020-21

From our Sponsors :

Virtual Installation Ceremony

July ’20 Projects

Blood Donation Camp 01 – Bhagirathi Arranged courtesy Rtn Neil M Joseph

Blood Donation Camp 03 – Avery Dennison Arranged courtesy PP Rtn Ramesh Chari

Blood Donation Camp 02 – Volvo Rtn Farooq leading by example !!

Joint Project with Rotary Club of Bangalore Tree Plantation Drive – 2000 Saplings

@K.S.Reserve Police 1st July 2020

Joint Project with Rotary Club of Bangalore Tree Plantation Drive – 2000 Saplings

@K.S.Reserve Police 1st July 2020

Rotary International

ROTARY YEAR

THEME RI PRESIDENT RBO

PRESIDENT RBO

SECRETARY

1962 - 63 Kindle the Spark Within Nitish Laharry N/A N/A

1991 -92

Rajendra K Saboo Sushil Mehra B K Sampath

Kumar

2011 - 12

Kalyan Banerjee Dwarakanath

Manandi Ashraf Bawa

The History of Rotary

By Harikrishna S. Holla

The thought came to four friends when they met in a small office in down town Chicago why they should not form a service club. As a result of their foresight the world’s first service club was founded on 23 February 1905. These men wanted to fellowship, friendship and the same time they had desire to something to the society which has given to them everything. Therefore, they contributed and built first public comfort station in 1907 in Chicago down town, since poor people cannot afford to have luxury of bath rooms at their homes.

The vision of Paul Harris club soon spread and more and more like minded people started joining the club and others were invited to join. After considering various options they have decided to name their new club “Rotary” to describe the practice of meeting in rotation at the members’ various places of business. They also adopted wheel as logo or club symbol which has undergone change over the years.

The four friends formed the club predominantly for fellowship. Later they decided to serve the community through their association. By the end of 1905, the Rotary Club of Chicago had 30 members. Three years later a second club was established in San Francisco, California, USA. The next year three more clubs were established on the west coast of the United States and a fourth in New York City. Within a few years other groups formed service clubs based on the Rotary model.

First Rotary Convention

The first Rotary convention was held in the Congress Hotel in Chicago on 15th August 1910. The National Association of Rotary Clubs was organised at that time with 60 members from 16 member clubs. Rotary founder Paul Harris was elected the association’s first president.

Rotary’s international growth

During the 1911-1912 Rotary year, the association became international with the founding of a club in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Soon Rotary crossed the Atlantic to establish clubs in England, Ireland and Northern Ireland. The National Association of Rotary Clubs, which became the International Association of Rotary Clubs in 1912, adopted the name Rotary International (RI) in 1922. Before reaching its 20th birthday, the Rotary association had grown to include some 200 clubs with more than 20,000 members across the globe:

Article on Rotary

• The first Rotary club in Latin America was organised in Havana, Cuba in 1915. • Asia’s first club was established in Manila, Philippines in 1919.

In 1921, Rotary clubs were formed for the first time in Europe (Madrid, Spain), Africa (Johannesburg,

South Africa), and Australia (Melbourne) Rotary in India. The Rotary Club of Calcutta became the first

Rotary club chartered in India on 1 January 1920. Rotary Club of Madras sponsored Rotary

Club of Bangalore, the first club in our district then 319 in 1934

Working for peace The Rotary Foundation

During World War I, Rotary discovered new avenues for service. In 1917,Rotary clubs and Rotarians contributed for war relief and peace fund. Outgoing RI President Arch Klumph proposed the establishment of an endowment fund, which in 1928 became The Rotary Foundation with his personal contribution of $26.50. The Foundation awarded its first humanitarian grant (US$500) in 1930 to the International Society for Crippled Children. After World War II, many clubs that had been disbanded during the conflict were re-established and initiated new service projects, including relief efforts for refugees and prisoners of war.

Rotary Foundation has been spending his funds to make world a better place for living. It has so far contributed 75.7 million dollars till 2018 for its various projects: (Figures in million Dollars) Education and living 10.9 Disease management and Treatment 35.6 Local Economics 10.5 Water and sanitation 18.7

In the aftermath of World War II, Rotary International sent the largest non-governmental organisation delegation to the United Nations Charter Conference, held in 1945 in San Francisco. Forty-nine Rotarians served as delegates, advisors and consultants to the conference. A Rotary-sponsored conference of education ministers and observers held in London in 1943 was the inspiration for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), established in 1946. The Rotary Foundation enjoyed modest growth until 1947, when Rotarians made a significant number of contributions in memory of Paul Harris, who died in January

1947. That same year the Foundation launched its first program, Graduate Fellowships (today called Ambassadorial Scholarships), sending 18 students abroad to seven countries. Today, approximately 1,300 students study abroad as Rotary Scholars every year.

Two of Rotary’s programs for young people, Rotaract and Interact, were started during the turbulent 1960s. Interact (for youth ages 14-18) and Rotaract (for young adults ages 18-30) clubs operate under the guidance of a sponsoring Rotary club and give young people opportunities for community service and leadership development, and to promote international peace and understanding. Service to youth remains an important focus of Rotary.

Arch C Klump

Rotarians in Action during World War II

Rotary today

Rotary’s most ambitious undertaking, announced in 1985, is the Polio Plus program — a massive campaign to eradicate polio by the year 2005. Conducted with the cooperation of national governments and intergovernmental agencies such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Polio Plus is a paradigm for public/private sector collaboration in the fight against disease. Polio Plus helps support national and regional polio eradication programs by providing vaccine, surveillance support and social mobilization. By the year 2005 – the target date for certification of a polio-free world – Rotarian contributions to the global polio eradication effort will reach a half billion US dollars.

Women in Rotary

First women were admitted in 1987, women are today the fastest-growing segment of Rotary membership, and increasingly hold leadership positions within the organisation. More than 2,000 women serve as club presidents and women are also rapidly assuming regional leadership roles. Currently, some 1.2 million professional men and women belong to more than 30,000clubs worldwide.

Rotary continues to grow internationally. After the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Rotary clubs which had been disbanded during World War II were re-established in central and eastern Europe. In 1990, Rotary clubs were formed in Russia for the first time, and other former Soviet republics soon followed. Kyrgyzstan, once a part of the Soviet Union, is a recent addition.

Today, Rotary International encourages its clubs to focus on a broad spectrum of service activities such as hunger, the environment, violence prevention, illiteracy, drug abuse prevention, polio eradication, youth, the elderly, and AIDS awareness and education. Rotary clubs around the world are united under the motto “Service Above Self.”

D. Ravishankar, then president of Rotary Orchards became one of the highest contributor to Rotary Foundation by contributing Rs.100Cr.($14.7 Millon)to the Rotary Foundation during the year 2018-19.His motto of Joy of Giving has received recognition worldwide and he is one of motivator in the Rotary for promoting Joy of giving

(The Pictures and infomration has been sourced from Rotary Interntional Website)

Music and dance have been an integral part of any civilization. It is with immense pride we can say that

we belong to a country with a rich heritage and various genres of Music thrived here. And we continue to

inspire many countries in the world.

What a surprise it was to find out that in our own Bengaluru we have a place that showcases the History

of Indian Music. Yes its in our own BENGALURU -India 's first Hi tech Interactive Music Museum in

J.P. Nagar My visit to the place before the Pandemic left me stupefied. Temporarily the Museum is shut

down now due to the Pandemic.

The Museum gives visitors an educative experience of the diversity of Indian Music. It is an initiative of

IME Trust ( a non profit charitable organisation)....it is majorly supported by BRIGADE group.

Since our readers can’t make a visit now

due to Pandemic Guidelines, you can have

a virtual walk-through the Museum which

is spead on 3 Floors and has 8 thematic

galleries. Just click on the video to your

right for a virtual tour.

Inside the Museum one can get to read

the details of .................... classical ,folk,

contemporary contemporary music ..not

only this ...we can also listen to short

audio clips.

It is a blissful experience to listen to some

very rare clips of doyens of classical music.

The origin of Indian Classical Music has been explained beautifully in a chart.The photos of various STARS

of different genres has been displayed. Some of the intersting exhibits include the dress,the

instrument,the personal belongings ....for example....Silver Paan Box by Pt. Bhimsen Joshi,Tambura used

by MSS, an elaborately embellished Overcoat by Daler Mehendi etc....have been kept in a glass case.

Huge collection of exhibits also include Musical instruments, radios and transistors. One can record a song

in the recording station and send it to themselves as an e -mail !!

Indian Musical Experience

Karan Kapoor wedding ensemblia Munna Bhai & Circuit -Yeh Dosti .. Bollywood Legends over the years

The folk music, puppetry, various dance forms of our country have been covered too

It would be incomplete without mention of Film Music (Bollywood being the most popular )

And being in Karnataka..... Sandalwood music too is covered in a separate section.

In the front yard of the museum a beautiful "SOUND GARDEN " has been designed to give visitors, a feel

of the various sounds which can be created using various instruments.

On the whole ,the visit to this museum is an awesome experience and a well deserved and long overdue

museum for the rich heritage of our country is in place.

Article & Photos by Ann Shobha Dwarakanath Ann Shobha is our First Lady

Few images culled from https://www.indianmusicexperience.org

Rotarian Birthday • Ramesh M Cadabam 4th August

• Kulkarni S V 6th August

• Ramesh Jois 11th August

• Iqbal Ahmed 18th August

• Dr. Deepti Ashraf Bawa 23rd August

• Manandi Dwarakanath 28th August

• Amiya Kumar Maurya Twinkle 30th August

Spouse Birthday • Rinkee Amiya Kumar Twinkle 1st August

• Gayatri Ram Mohan Hegde 3rd August

• Jyothi Ajay Shand 6th August

• Vidya Shenoy 13th August

• Manju Prakash Hegde 15thAugust

• Pratheeksha Sanketh 26th August

• Jaswanthi Pradeep D 31st August

Wedding Anniversary • Yadalam Subramanyam & Jayashree 5th August

• A N Ramesh Babu & Radhika R 20th August

• Jayasri Prasad & T V Prasad 23rd August

• Farooq E Azam & Farooq Jabeen 28th August

CELEBRATIONS in August 2020

ROTARY QUIZ - AUGUST 2020

1. Who was the first honorary rotary member of India?

(a)Sir Surendranath Banerjee (b) Rtn. Panduranga Setty (c ) Kalyan Banerji (d) Rtn Ravindran

2. Where was the first Rotary Club Formed? (a) Washington DC (b) Chicago Illinois (c) New York (d) Philadelphia

3. Who was first secretary General of Rotary International?

(a) John Hewko (b) Richard D. King (c )Bhichai Rattakul (d) Jonathan B. Majiyagbe

4. Where was the first Rotary Club Formed in India? (a) Bombay (b) Delhi (c ) Madras (d) Calcutta

5. In which page of this Bulletin First Community Service Project of Rotary is mentioned

(a) Page No. 01 (b) Page No. 07 (c) Page No.05 (d) Page No.08

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“ಅಕ್ಷರ ದಾಸೋಹ” “ನಾವು ವಿಧೆ್ಯ ಪಡೆಯುವುದರಿಂದ ನಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತ ೀವೆ, ಆದರೆ ವಿಧೆ್ಯ ನೀಡುವುದರಿಂದ ನಾವು ಜೀವನ ರೂಪಿಸುತ್ತ ೀವೆ…”

Story of “Rotary Bangalore Orchards Govt. Higher Primary School, Vasanthnagar”..

Seeds of reconstruction of the dilapidated Vasanthnagar Govt. Primary School were sown few years prior to 2018, when RBO and my office in Vasanthnagar were interacting by distributing uniforms to the children, sponsoring notes books and activities during Independence Day, Republic Day, Teacher’s Day, Children’s Day celebration at the school along with a few Rotarians of RBO and my office colleagues.

During one such occasion in January - February’ 18, the ever helpful Corporator Shri. Sampath Kumar requested RBO to help construct a new building for the school, which was otherwise caving down for the deserving children. During one of the Club Assemblies of RBO in March’ 18 at Century Club, I happened to discuss about the request with PP Rtn. Dakoju Ravishankar who was the incoming President for 2018-19. Ravi, immediately grabbed the opportunity and requested me to check, if RBO constructs the building; • Can we name the school after RBO. • Can we have a permanent room for RBO. • Can we have a place to meet. The Govt. through the Head Master got involved along with the Corporator and agreed for our request. Rtn. D. Ravishankar moved quickly with the decision making and by end March’ 18 we had few meetings with the Govt. officials and the area representatives to formalize the requirements and plans for construction. On 1st of June’ 18, we signed the MOU with the Govt. in the presence of Principal Secretary - Education Dr. Shalini Rajaneesh and Department of Primary and Secondary Education, GoK. Between 1st June to 1st July’ 18, the Govt. officials and RWA shifted the students of the existing school consisting of about 180 numbers to a temporary location of Srirama Temple Choultry, 200 mtrs. away from the school premises. The old school building constructed in 1936, which was dilapidated was brought down by demolition contractor and site was handed over to us by 16th July’ 18 for construction.

Govt. and the area representatives organised a big foundation laying function on 17th July’ 18 with all Minsters, MLA’s officials and Local members and honoured Rotary represented by Governor PDG. Suresh Hari and RBO for taking up the milestone project for the welfare of the underprivileged students.

M/s. Vijaya Enterprises - led by Mr. H. B. Shiv Kumar and young and energetic Rtn. Mahantesh and team of Project Engineer Mr. Gupta, Site Engineers etc. started work in full earnest from 17th July itself.

The Corporator Mr. Sampath Kumar dug a bore well from BBMP funds and also helped us to get water from neighbouring temple for construction. The community of Vasanthnagar including the Head Master were excited and we designed the building for a capacity of 750 students, a raise from 180.

In the meanwhile, President Rtn. D. Ravishankar and myself had multiple meetings on the methodology of construction and Ravi brought in Rtn. Mahantesh and his Father-in-law Mr. H. B. Shiv Kumar of M/s. Vijaya Enterprises highly experienced and knowledgeable Contractors who agreed to build the school of 20,000 Sq.ft. at the very bear minimum cost without any profits to them in one year period.

My office Vishwannath Associates, which is situated a few meters away from school site did all the spade work, building design, structural design and supervision pro bono.

By mid Aug’ 18, on excavation we hit a thick deck slab 3 mts. below the ground, which was designed in 1936 to stop the up surge of water in the lake bed of Vasanthnagar. The deck slab which was more than a foot thick was very strong, coming in some parts of foundation and contractor could not break that slab. We brought Shri. Muni Narayana Swamy a structural expert and our structural consultant, who was instrumental in building Vikasa Soudha to solve the deck slab issue. After a few inspections and testing he gave us a solution of fixing the foundation over some part of deck slab, which was extremely strong and would also help us to contain upsurge of water.

Once we came up to the plinth level by Sept’ 18, there was no stopping by the Contractor with the free flow of drawings and site visits from our office and some funds from RBO.

Construction was carried out in a breakneck speed, as if we were possessed and the job was handled very professionally by Rtn. Mahantesh and team and supported by the President Rtn. D. Ravishankar and his twin Philanthropist Rtn. BSN Hari and couple of RBO members by collecting funds for the project. Rotarians like Ramesh Chari, H. Ravi Kumar, K. Vishy, our Inner Wheel PP Shobha Dwarakanath and members of Orchards Inner Wheel, our Partners in service and many more were involved in helping us with funds and construction materials to complete the project.

By March’ 19, the Head Master and a few people involved in the school were getting nonchalant to the project, who were until then extremely polite to us. We completed the construction by first week of June’ 19, which was 10 months since start of our construction and we inaugurated and handed over the premises consisting of 19 class rooms, labs, staff rooms, Head Master room, well designed toilets (which was always a problem), kitchen, watchmen’s family unit in the Ground Floor along with designated play areas, 250 capacity Auditorium and an RBO room.

The building was inaugurated on 25th June’ 19 in the Rotary year of 2018-19 itself by Minister’s, MLA’s, officials, who were surprised and highly appreciative of the design, quality and speed of construction, which had skylights and painted below with solar system by artist Mr. Ravi Kumar and various activities for the children.

The Govt. named the school as

The Rotary Wheel, Orchards Logo, Donors were prominently displayed inside and outside the premises and the buildings spruced up the whole locality and the neighborhood loved taking selfies in front of the school and thanked RBO immensely.

We had a few hiccup’s with the Head Master for handing over the RBO room to us, but we overcame all the issues after

meeting the Commissioner and area MLA who came to the Vasanthnagar School and personally handed over the room to

us and also gave us a Govt. order from Commissioner to BEO, DDPI, addressed to us and the Head Master was shunted out

and a new lady Head Misters came in and gave us a letter and key to the RBO room and to use 250 cap Auditorium to RBO

and Orchards Inner Wheel Club whenever necessary with prior intimation / permission from HM.

The Rotary Wheel, Orchards Logo, Donors were prominently displayed inside and outside the premises and the buildings

spruced up the whole locality and the neighborhood loved taking selfies in front of the school and thanked RBO immensely.

We had a few hiccup’s with the Head Master for handing over the RBO room to us, but we overcame all the issues after

meeting the Commissioner and area MLA who came to the Vasanthnagar School and personally handed over the room to

us and also gave us a Govt. order from Commissioner to BEO, DDPI, addressed to us and the Head Master was shunted out

and a new lady Head Misters came in and gave us a letter and key to the RBO room and to use 250 cap Auditorium to RBO

and Orchards Inner Wheel Club whenever necessary with prior intimation / permission from HM.

Thanks to PP Rtn. D. Ravishankar, Rtn. Prakash Hedge, Rtn. H. Ravi Kumar, Rtn. Ramesh Chair, Rtn. Govindraj, Rtn.

Aleemulla Khan, Rtn. Iqbal Ahmed and myself who met the MLA Mr. Rizwan Arshad and officers including Mr. Jagdeesha -

IAS, Commissioner Edu. and got the keys for our RBO room.

RBO finally emerged a winner and history will remember for the service we have rendered to the young minds of our country.

A big thank you to Hara brothers PP Rtn. D. Ravi Shankar and Paola Ravishankar, Rtn. BSN Hari, Ann. Sunanda Hari, their families, Rtn. Mahantesh and Mr. Shiv Kumar and to each of my office colleagues to have made this dream for the young minds comes true.

It was a very satisfying and an exemplary project of RBO. Again after Dharithri, Chaitanya, KGF school and of course the happy school projects RBO created history.

Cheers to our PP Rtn. D. Ravishankar for his endurance and leadership qualities in ensuring RBO gets its name and room at the school premises.

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Welcome our New Rotarian !!

Ashok Udupa hails from Kukehalli in Udupi

District. He grew up in Mysore & did his BBM from

Marimallap’s College and he completed his Masters

in Computer Science from NIE, Mysore.

He is happily married to Prarthana Udupa & is

blessed with two daughters Maanya & Pragya.

Post studies he restarted his Family Business of

Events – “Udupa’s Enterprises” along with his brother

K Vasudev Udupa. Through this they have handled

Big Events for Apicon, Demacon, National Science

Congress, Kannada Sahitya Sammelan & Kirloskar’s

Daughters Marriage to name a few.

He has been in Bangalore for 12 years. He has started

White Petals @ Palace Grounds, White Orchid @

Manyata Tech Park, White Feather @ Electronic City

and White Pearl @ Thanisandra Road. Based on this

experience he has pioneered into building of Semi-

Permanent structures & building Convention Centres.

His latest Venture is “La Mafioso Resto Pub” opposite

Manyata Tech.

WELCOME to Rotary Bangalore Orchards !!

Story of “Rotary Bangalore Orchards Govt. Higher Primary School, Vasanthnagar”..

May the good Lord prevail on RBO and give us the strength to continue further.

CHEERS RBO !!!

Written by Rtn PP V. Vishwanath

Vishwanath Associates, Architects

Club bulletin not only gives Rotary information to its

members but also is a tool to keep the members bound

together. You have brought out a beautiful and well

informed bulletin of your club. Since a majority of the

members may not be able to physically participate in the

club projects, this is the only means of keeping

everybody informed as to how their organisation is

effectively involved in fulfilling the rotary aspiration of

"Service above self" which keeps all the members

inspired. When senior and well versed rotarian like you

is the editor, it is a pillar of strength for the President. I

wish Rotary club of Bangalore Orchard a great Rotary

year 2020-21.

-PDG Manjunatha Shetty

A very good lay out - looks simplistic yet elegant.

The contents look good and u have a flair for writing

and the same is evident.

The interspacing with photos look good and one or

two suggestions from my side:

a) Try to have some snippets / articles specific to

designated Rotary subject (July is Leadership Month )

b) Ask the avenue of service district director / district

advisor/ your club director to give a brief note on the

designated month

c) RI has some brilliant and inspiring one slide designs

( quotes / themes etc) and make use of them..

d) ask one of your club anns / annets to give a para

about one of the club projects...

Wishing the best for current assignment.

-PDG KSNagendra

Hearty congratulations for your bringing out the July

issue of your Club Bulletin " ORCHID".

A truly well laid out, informative Bulletin ORCHID with

pleasing colours!! Covered all topics, including "History

of Rotary", very useful to New Members, (Also to

others) to enrich their Rotary knowledge n Interest.

You have also highlighted your club's Signature Project-

- Chaitanya. The testimonial letter from a resident is

"Truly Icing on the Cake"!!

The Rotary Quiz with mouth-watering quality offers

from Udupi Ruchi, should attract maximum readership,

even from other Rotary Clubs.....

While you have covered well, all in all, an excellent and

sincere efforts to "Showcase" RBO. Keep it going,

month after month.!!!

-PDG UB Bhat n Shailaja

Orchid Bulletin; Looks very interesting and arousing

curiosity to read on. Layout and breakups are good.

Consistency of matter and periodicity is key factor.

Suggest share with PDGS , and others. It will enlarge

image of Orchards. Keep up the good work.

- PDG Srikant H

Pleased to see the July issue of Orchid. Neat layout,

good and balanced contents, easy to read. Well done

and keep it up.

With warm regards

- PDG Rajendra Rai

Excellent. It has lot of Rotary information and

interesting reading material. Keep up the good work.All

the best for the year ahead.

- PDG Ramdas Good and well covered - 4way test story in a nutshell

and quiz on rotary vis apt. Keep up the good work .

Best wishes to the editorial team led by you

- PDG Suesh Hari

PDG comments on our July Orchid

Ann Lalitha Holla with her daughter Mithila (Yellow Theme Dress)

and Ann Shaila Prakash Kamath with her daughter Prathiksha

participated in the District Organised Putta-Gombe Savaal 1.0 an

online 60 sec Musical Dance Contest in the Category Mother &

Daughter. We wait anxiously to know the outcome of this unique

contest organized by our Dist Governor – Rtn B L Nagendra Prasad & Director Club

Services RID 3190 – Rtn Udaykumar Bhaskara.

My Mummy Can Dance

OUR INNER WHEEL CLUB OF

BANGALORE ORCHARDS

PRESIDENT

ANN RATHNA SUPRIYA

SRIDHARAN & OUR RBO

FIREBRAND RTN. V G KIRAN

IN THE NEWS !

KNOW YOUR SECRETARY & FAMILY

Annet Vidur, Rtn. PP Krishna Mohan, Secretary Rtn. Srividya Mohan & Annet Vishnu

LAST GOOD DEED ….