AboutUs Issue 05 Rotary Mysore Midtown

1. Issue : 5 Volume : 32 01-08-2012 Pages -4
Ÿ Performance Audits,
Ÿ Motivational incentive schemes,
Ÿ Network planning,
Ÿ Traffic Engineering,
Ÿ Operational Productivity
Ÿ Globalization and Culture
C h a m a r a j a n a g a r Ve n k a t a k r i s h n a i a h
Gopinath alias C.V.Gopinath is a retired
senior Deputy Director General and Ex-
officio Additional Secretary to the Govt. of India, in
the Department of Telecommunication. He is a
Mr. Gopinath is multi-lingual, familiar with
Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali,
Tamil and Malayalam and makes his presentations
in English, Kannada and Hindi.
Graduate in both Science & Telecommunication His awards include:
Engineering and Post Graduate in Business
Management (MBA) with specialization in HRD. Ÿ a. Karnataka Rajyotsva Award-2004 from Govt
He has 25 years of experience in Secretariate and of Karnataka( for contribution to Kannada
15 years of field experience. Before Culture)
superannuation he has been Advisor (IT) to Govt of Ÿ b. Bhagawan Gopinath Trust,Jammu (for
Delhi from 01-07-2006 to 30-06-2010. As a project contributions to Kashmir Culture)
leader he has successfully implemented a project Ÿ c. Ateesha Trust, Mysore (for contribution to
on Modernization of Telegraph Service with an Budhist preachings)
outlay of Rs.100 Crores during 1987-1990. Ÿ d. Chennai Karnataka Sangha,Chennai(for
contribution to Kannada Culture)
He is a member of the following committees: Ÿ e.The Shugden Society of India,Newdelhi (for
contribution to Budhist preachings)
Ÿ Inter-Ministerial - Nanda Committee on Ÿ f. Dehali Karnataka Sangha,Newdelhi (for
amendments to Indian Telegraph Act. propagating Kannada Culture in North)
Ÿ Hazards on Human health while working on Ÿ g. Dilli Telugu Sangham, Newdelhi (for
Computer screens (with B.A.R.C.).Productivity contributions to Telugu Culture)
linked schemes Committee. Ÿ h. Panun Kashmir Award,New Delhi(for
Ÿ Committee on Impact of Modernization on contributions to sustaining Kashmir Culture)
Labour Intensive Service.C.C.I.T.T.-I.T.U.(U.N.) Ÿ I . G l o b a l m a n A w a r d , U A E
S.G.Member. Federation,Abudhabi-UAE(for working with
children to imbibe Traditional values)
As a central government employee he has been Ÿ j. FOSAAC Award-California (USA)(for
community development leadership)
CARDIAC CAMP
posted in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka,
Kerala, Ÿ k. Ambassador of Peace-UPF-Jerusalem
(Israel) ( Sustaining interfaith and conflict
Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, West Bengal and New
Delhi. resolution for Middle East peace process)
Ÿ l. UDUPI Paryaya SANMAN-2008(for profound
Vedic scholarship )
He has received training in Germany, Italy, U.S.A., Ÿ m. Akhila Bharatha Kannada Sahitya
France, Japan and has also been exposed to the Sammelana Sanmana-2009
different cultures of Switzerland, Thailand, Ÿ n. Guru Samman Award-2010(For guiding Civil
Singapore, UAE, Bahrain, Mauritius, Srilanka, Services aspirants in mock interviews)
Nepal, U.K., Israel and Palastein .
Heritage documentary films made:
He has to his credit, papers and publications
related to the following subjects: Ÿ A Pilgrimage to Kailasa and Manasasarovar
( in English/Hindi/Kannada/Telugu).
Ÿ Man Power Planning, Ÿ Amarnath – the God of Immortality ( in
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2. ........................
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President’s Message
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........................ THIRD EYE VIEW by sini
........................ BINGO! Gangan has opened the account at the
Dear Friends, Olympics with a bronze. Inroads have been made
in badminton, boxing and tennis doubles as of
‘Samartha 2012’- Employment for special children now. There have been disappointments and
is taking place for the first time in our club. I take this laurels in the beginning but we still have half of the
opportunity to thank Rtn. Narendra for taking the 81 member squad chasing their yellow goal. If our
lead and also being the major sponsor for this people bring back some medals it is because of
socially relevant cause. Friends let us join hands to t h e i r o w n w i l l - p o w e r, d e d i c a t i o n a n d
support this project. I request each one of you to determination. What else to say and expect from
bring entrepreneurs and employers so that the the poor athletes with corruption at helm in our
children are benefitted. country's sports arena. Anyway good luck guys
with your LONDON DREAMS 2012.
I would like to thank Rtn. Balu, Rtn. Raghu and our
emerging star Rtn. Chandu for conducting Away from the Olympics we have a Taliban
orientation, consumer awareness, and drug abuse situation at home. The so called moral police have
lectures respectively at Govinda Rao Memorial come out with a new definition to its policing:
School & Mahajana's High School. Groping & feeling a girl in guise. These goons can
put their moral policing to use by catching red
We thank our Inner Wheel sisters for celebrating signal offenders, helmetless riders and other
Friendship Day along with us and hosting traffic violators. There is no use blaming anyone
sumptuous tea for us. because our law is slow and toothless, whether it
is Kalmadi, Tiwari or Raja.
Today, let's welcome Guru C. V. Gopinath to hear
and visualize Kailash Darshana. Vishu I missed the Varamahalakshmi Pooja invitations
from fellow Rotarians as I took the holiday
Happy Birthday opportunity to take a break with my family down
south. I saw the pooja pictures of Ann Sudha,
Amitha and Vimala, very religious and colourful. I
Rtn. Ashok Yadav trust the Anns have invoked the blessings of
Goddess Lakshmi towards Midtown treasury too.
2August Rtn. Naveen Chand
Rtn. Elizar Milton
The specials are blessed to have Rtn. Narendra
as chairman of 'Samartha 2012'. I am witnessing a
kind of history in the making in Mysore, as he is
toiling to make the awareness programme of
employing differently abled in all industries, a
success. Let us all join hands with him.
5August
ROTARIAN
Rtn. Rajesh Darla
Today we look forward for a virtual tour to the
Himalaya's through our speaker of the evening
and let us gear up for the family dinner meet at
“Village” on 6th of this month.
of the Cheers!!!
MONTH
T
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Midtown thanks you for he youngsters
making the installation should gear up
dbate
programme a grand for the 'Young
success and all the
support during the
month. Rtn.Harish ? Yes No!
Generation
Month' in September.
Rotary Midtown has
planned a number of
activities and one of
SPEAKER MEET them is a debate
competition in English
...Continued from page 1 for the college students (PUC included), held in
memory of Prof. Y.Bhagavan- a renowned
English/Hindi/Kannada). debater, dramatist and teacher.
Ÿ Cosmic Rhythms in Divine Abodes (in Sanskrit).
Ÿ Ksheer Bhawani( in English /Hindi).
Ÿ Shruti-Smruti(Oral Tradition of India-A DVD to Rotarians, Anns and Annets are requested to
teach Children in Gurukula System). suggest topics for the debate which will be held in
Ÿ OM-The Primordial Sound-A perception of the 2 stages- first round to screen and select 10
Religions of East and Ancient Scriptures(Audio finalists & second round to choose the best
CD-in English, Hindi, Kannada, Gujarati, among the top 10 finalists. E-mail the topics to
Bengali ,Tamil &Punjabi). mallige3180@gmail.com. Prize awaits if your
suggested topic is selected. Hurry scratch your
We welcome you sir. brain.

3. H V
ARAMAHALAKSHMI
ere is “Varamahalakshmi”, the harbinger of
festivals – after a dry Ashaada without any
festivals / celebrations.
Come Shravana – there are festivals in queue to POOJA
come one by one. Varamahalakshmi is a festival to
seek the blessings of goddess Mahalakshmi, wife of R o t a r i a n s
Vishnu. The significance of Varamahalakshmi is Ragavendra,
that, those who perform this vratha will be blessed Sanjay, Manoharlal
with 8 forces called Ashtalakshmis {Adilakshmi, and Sambashiv.
Dhanalakshmi, Vijayalakshmi, Santanalakshmi
etc}. Finally we landed
at Vimala Nagaraj's
With long list of invitations, we geared-up (!) to first residence where a
visit our Rotary President Vishwa and Sudha's colorful rangoli
“Manashanthi”. True to its name Sudha's residence welcomed us at the
was peacefully decorated and welcomed us. Sudha's entrance which is
daughter Anusha was dressed to the occasion. With the symbol of
more than a month's meticulous planning, Sudha hospitality of
had taken care of each and every aspect of Vimala. But Vimala
arrangements and the pooja room looked as if had just left to seek
Varamahalakshmi herself had descended from the the blessings of
heaven dressed in a bright, colourful Aruni saree. Varamahalakshmi
We joined our IW president Anupama Ravindranath at other friends'
to get the blessings of Varamahalakshmi. We houses. Nevertheless her in-laws and Rtn.Nagaraj
greeted each other and left for Amitha Harish's welcomed us. A religiously decorated pooja room
residence to say 'Namah'. was a pleasing experience with Goddess blessing
Lots of lamps lighted outside the house welcomed us. Her own little Lakshmi, Samyukta, had made a
us, creating an atmosphere nothing less than photo frame using magazine papers for which she
'Diwali'. We wondered if it was Amitha's residence had won a prize in school. My son Pratham had
or a film theatre! Clad in traditional silk dresses, lively moments with the colourful fish and was
Harish, Manu & Naren welcomed us with the ever amazed to see Rtn. Nagaraj's huge collection of
smiling Amitha right behind them. A tastefully trophies. A chilling badam milk added taste to the
decorated pooja room had Amitha's touch (not to occasion. We said good bye and left with a long list
forget the beautifully stitched ready to wear of friends yet to be covered.
designer saree for the Goddess). We were joined by ...Chaitra Mohan
T
he opening batsman's of our Club are still at the crease and
scoring. The two young senior Rotarians M.S.Raghu and
Balakrishnan are showing such energy, it's hard to believe. The
whole week they conducted programmes and projects
relentlessly.
Last Thursday, 1st and 2nd PU students of Chaitra College got an
opportunity to hear Rtn. Raghu on the topic “Empower to Excel”. On
28th morning Rtn. Raghu conducted an orientation programme for
140 students of Mahajana High
school between 8:30 and 11:30
NOT
!
a.m on the same topic. He had
taken Rtn. Chandu to speak on
'Drug Abuse' and he handled the
second session. On the same
evening, Rtn. Raghu gave a talk
on “How to build your club” for the
members of Vijayanagar Rotary
Club.
Last week Rtn. Balu conducted
'Consumers Awareness'
OUT
programme at Bagini Seva Samaj and on 28th, he was at M.Govinda
Rao High School giving demonstration and lecture on “Adulteration
Prevailing in Mysore in food stuffs”. Rtn. Balu enlightened around 110
high school students and 25 teachers on Consumer Awareness Act.
Dr. Krishnamurthy, former scientist at CFTRI, gave a live
demonstration to identify adulteration in around 10 products.
Still more to come out of these two batsmen. Good going gentlemen,
we at Midtown are proud of you.

4. I n 1958, Bob Izon ran but has remained active
the mile in world-
record time in the
ROTARY as a Rotarian, a justice of
the peace, and a school
under-16 age I board member at St.
category, becoming the N Paul’s Church of
English schools champion. But the most F England Primary School
meaningful run of his life took place in O in Hereford.
May, when the founding member of the R Other torchbearers
Rotary Club of Hereford Wye Valley, M Ken Logan, a member of
Herefordshire, England, carried the A the Rotary Club of
Olympic torch through his hometown. Braids, Lothian,
T
Izon is one of several Rotarians who have I Scotland, ran his
carried the torch on its relay to the new O segment of the relay in
Olympic Stadium in London for the June. He was nominated in part for his role in an
opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer N Edinburgh charity that delivers aid to Bosnia,
Olympics on 27 July. “I consider myself for which he has raised over £10,000 through
very fortunate to have been chosen, as half the marathons and long-distance swimming.
bearers are ages 15 to 25,” he says. “It gave me Mike Thorn, a member of the Rotary Club of
a chance to pursue three objectives: inspire the Cheam, Greater London, carried the torch
younger generation, publicize Rotary’s good through Kent in July.
works, and show that a diagnosis of “It’s an opportunity to be part of history. It’s
Parkinson’s disease does not always condemn priceless, and it doesn’t get much better than
one to a nonactive life.” this,” says Thorn. “It’s the nearest thing to
Izon was diagnosed with the disease in 1992 running in the Olympics.”
SOME ABBREVIATIONS DINNER MEET @ VILLAGE
NEWS: North South East West.
CHESS: Chariot, Horse, Elephant, SoldierS.
COLD: Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.
Hosted by Board Members at
JOKE: Joys of Kids Entertainment. ‘Village’, 4th floor, Mall of Mysore
AIM: Ambition In Mind. on 6th evening.
DATE: Day And Time Evolution.
EAT: Energy And Taste.
TEA: Taste And Energy Admitted.
PEN: Power Enriched in Nib.
SMILE: Sweet Memories In Lip Expression. Today’s tea hosted by
Inner Wheel Sisters
BYE: Be With You Everytime. Courtesy:Nandoo
GEAR UP FOR RI CONVENTIONS
Jun 23-26, 2013 Lisbon, Portugal Wedding Anniversary
Jun 1-4, 2014 Sydney, Australia
Jun 5-8, 2015 Sao Paulo, Brazil
May 29-June 1,
Jun 10-14,
2016
2017
2018
2019
Seoul, Korea
Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
Toronto, Canada
Durban, South Africa
August
6
2020 Honolulu, Hawaii Rtn.C.R. Krishna
Courtesy:Aaa Chaa
LAST WEEK RIDDLE’S ANSWER
1. Is it the TRUTH ?
Women - Omen - Men 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned ?
Lucky winner Rtn. Umesh 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS ?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned ?
CONGRATULATIONS !!!
NEXT WEEK IN MIDTOWN Q uiz
Q.: Who was the president of the first
SAMARTHA 2012 Rotary Club ever formed ?
Venue: Seminar Hall, Information Science Block, a) Paul Harris b) Silvester Schiele
SJCE Campus, Manasagangothri, Mysore c) Arch Klumpf d) Ramakrishna Kannan
Date : 08.08.2012, Time : 10 am (Last week’s answer : 2005 )