Dear fellow Rotarians,

One of my favorite parts of a Rotary conven�on is the House of Friendship. In Chinese, we say: 有朋⾃遠⽅來，不亦

樂乎.� “To have friends come together from faraway places is a wonderful thing.”

At the 106th annual Rotary Interna�onal Conven�on,

6-9 June, the House of Friendship will reflect the

excitement and the diverse blend of cultures of São

Paulo, the host city.

In between general sessions, you can relax and enjoy all that Brazil has to

offer – sample the cuisine, browse locally made gi�s, and take in top-

quality entertainment. You also can get ideas for service and find partners

at booths showcasing Rotary projects and Rotarian Ac�on Groups.

And best of all, you'll have the opportunity to spend �me with old friends

and make many new ones.

The House of Friendship is a wonderful place to bring your conven�on

guests – your family and your friends FROM HOME. By a�ending

conven�ons with me, my family experienced the true interna�onality of

Rotary. Eventually my wife, Corinna, and all three of my children joined

Rotary clubs.

You and your guests will want to be sure to come early for World Water

Summit 7, on 4 June, sponsored by the Water and Sanita�on Rotarian

Ac�on Group, or for the Rotary Peace Symposium, 4-5 June.

This year we are honored that Dr. Oscar Arias, former president of Costa

Rica, will be the keynote speaker at the Rotary Peace Symposium. Arias

received the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering a peace agreement that

ended the brutal civil wars in Central America.

Other events 4-5 June include the Rotaract Preconven�on Mee�ng, the

Interna�onal Ins�tute, and the Youth Exchange Officers Preconven�on

Mee�ng.When the conven�on is over, spend �me exploring all that Brazil

has to offer – pris�ne beaches just a few hours away, the excitement and

glamour of Rio de Janeiro, and the wonders of the Amazon rain forest.

Every year, I return from the Rotary conven�on inspired to do more, to give

more in Rotary service throughout the year. Register today at

www.riconven�on.org. I look forward to seeing you in São Paulo!

Vol. 32 Issue 11 May 2015/// ///

The Monthly Newsletter of ROTARY BANGALORE PEENYA

ARPANA

From thePresidents’ Desk

Source: http://www.rotary.org/

Rtn GARY C.K. HUANGRI PRESIDENT 2014-15

São Paulo ready to host the R I Conven�on

Dear Peenyans

We are in the penul�mate month of the year 2014-15 and one thing every Rotarian on joining Rotary is impressed upon is a�endance. Joining a

Rotary Club is just not being a Rotarian. It is only a job half-done. We understand that once you are a Rotarian you enjoy a lot of recogni�on as well, as you are ge�ng an opportunity to present your human face to the society. But it does come with a lot of responsibility towards the club as well as the society. This is the reason that we press upon the training modules which bring about the changes in you so that you can serve the society be�er. The district 3190 RLI team is arranging a training session at the end of the month which will be useful to our Rotarians. Request team Peenya to use the opportunity to Know Rotary Be�er.

The Nepal earthquake! What a calamity it has brought upon the people of that Na�on! People have lost everything which they could call as their own. To mi�gate the sufferings of the people of Nepal, Rotary in India has come out with a helping hand by providing Shelter Boxes which provide immediate succour to the people. Our District in par�cular has planned to send Shelter Boxes worth ` 10 lakhs and this was communicated to the clubs. There was a deluge of help from the clubs including our own club which has already donated ` 5.85 lakhs, thanks to The Good Samaritan PP Rtn Panchapakesan with the highest contribu�on of ̀ 5 Lakhs and other contribu�ons from the club members. We hope we could provide at least some relief to the vic�ms.

April was also the month of PETS and our leader for the year 15-16 Rtn Krishnamurthy has come out charged with the PETS at Sri Lanka. He will be giving out his plans for his year in the next couple of mee�ngs.

Also to con�nue the good work in Rotary we need to help the The Rotary Founda�on. I request all Rotarians to come forward and be a part of the noble cause of the Founda�on.

And let us stay together connected to serve the society and to LIGHT UP ROTARY.

Rtn B K Prasad President, Rotary Bangalore Peenya.

WEEKLY MEETINGS

Meditation in various forms have been advocated and there can't be a more simpler method to realise Self, God, and Peace of Mind... We had a discussion on this and more in our weekly meeting on the 1st of April at The Presidential Lounge, Century Club Prabhakar Ravoori the speaker for the evening spoke on the subject of Sahaj Marg, a form of meditation.

According to him, "Sahaj Marg, the ‘Natural Path’, is a simple practice of meditation on the heart. Derived from the ancient Indian system of raja yoga, Sahaj Marg is taught worldwide. If practiced sincerely, it rapidly brings about a balance between material and spiritual life. The true aim of this highly effective training in spirituality is to take the seeker to the highest goal of human existence – God realization or Self realization.

The essential features of Sahaj Marg system are Meditation, Cleaning and Prayer. The "cleaning" of impressions (called samskaras) is claimed to be unique to this method. Meditation is on the "mere supposition of divine light" in one's heart and it is done for 30 – 60 minutes every morning. Cleaning, done to remove the accumulated grossness in oneself,is undertaken in the evening after the day's work is over and lasts for 30 mins. The bed time prayer is 10 mins. The speaker introduced us to each of these and had a very interesting Q/A session.

- With inputs from Wikipedia

The law and the practice of law are rife with humour. And we all can use humour to break the tensions, to create rapport and simply to maintain our sanity. Sometimes humour sets in with out any body’s knowledge and sometimes it happens if the advocate has a sense of humour. The courtroom seriousness is thrown out of gear by humour and this is what Rtn K N Chandrashekar, a past President with Rotary Club of South West shared with us on the 8th of April in our weekly meeting held at Century Club.

He narrated his own experiences in his practice of Law which has extended to a few decades till date. According to him most of these incidents happen in a rural background involving innocent people. The court that witnesses these incidents are lower courts and never High Court or Supreme Court.

He also gave an insight into the Human Rights, Ethical Behaviour of an Advocate, Differences between the types disputes

This was a joint meet with Rotary Club of City Center.

SAHAJ MARG MEDITATION

SAMPLE THIS COURT ROOM HUMOUR:ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.

HUMOUR IN LAW

In the last Club Assembly held at Century Club on the 22nd of April, Rotary Bangalore Peenya’s Board of Directors and the Chairpersons along with the members took a brief tour of the activities of the club over the past months while also planning a few important issues for the coming year.

As the Light Up team prepared itself for a smooth transition to those Rotarians who are going to be The GIFT TO THE WORLD, it was extremely important to address the concerns of the Club Members on a few issues with the permitted guidelines and Principles of Rotary International.

CLUB ASSEMBLY

GRAND STAND, TO CELEBRATE THE MAGAZINE MONTH

HAPPENINGS & EVENTS

A Rotary Club’s News Letter is an important integral part of the Club’s public image. It essentially tells the story of the Club’s activities to the Rotary District, other clubs in the district, to the community we live in and to the new members. Just as we do things for humanity, the magazine spreads the words of our deeds to all around us. Occasionally, the news letter creates awareness of our club & Rotary International.

Colourful magazines year after year delightfully convey all the activities of the club under all the avenues of service.

ARPANA of Rotary Bangalore Peenya is one such example to show how beautifully it has evolved over the years ever since the first issue was published in 1983 under the dynamic leadership of Charter President Rtn M S Mallappa, and with the new capable potential members on the board for the future years, it will only become better and more efficient in it’s role.

The highlight of the evening was a talk on ‘The evolution of Rotary News in India’ by Past Rotary International Director Rtn Panduranga Shetty. He recollected his efforts in bringing out the first 12 editions of Rotary News with PDG Rtn Madhura and PDG Rtn Srikanth managing the Rotary News editorial and publication with much ease and aplomb.

In a fitting tribute to the Editors of all the Clubs, Rotary Club of Down Town & Rotary Club of Bangalore had organized ‘The Grand Stand’ where the Bulletins of 22 Rotary Clubs were on Display apart from Rotary News, Rotarian and even our GML, on the 13th of April 2015, at The Rotary House of Friendship on Lavelle Road. The idea to put the Magazines on the Grand Stand coincided with April being ‘The Magazine Month’ in a Rotary Year. The Presidents of both the Clubs recognized the contribution by giving appreciation certificates to The Presidents and The Editors of all these 22 clubs.

Rotary Bangalore Peenya meets at Hotel Windsor Manor at 7 pm. every wednesday

Rtn.Dr.B.M.Parthasarathy

Source: http://www.rotary.org/

Rtn Sakuji Tanaka

2012-132010-11 2011-12

Vol-1; JUNE 1983 2013-14Vol-1; JUNE’83 (Inside page)

FROM THE ARCHIVES OF ‘ARPANA’

Among the editors honoured on the occasion, Rtn Savitha from the ARPANA TEAM withPresident Rtn B K Prasad

PDG Rtn Madhura with President Rtn B K Prasad, pose in front of the ARPANA back issues on display. Also seen are President designate Rtn Krishnamurthy & Rtn Vijaya Kumar

2014-15

Rotary Bangalore Peenya through Rotary India Humanity Foundation has contributed nearly ` 6 lakhs to the earthquake victims in Nepal. This money will be utilised to provide Shelter Boxes, each with utilities worth ` 5000/-. We salute all the big hearted donors who helped us reach t h i s a m o u n t t h r o u g h t h e i r contributions, both in cash and kind.

The Nepal bound Shelter Boxes

Relief materials packedin a Shelter Box kit

Published By : Rotary Bangalore Peenya. Editorial Team

For Private Circulation only

Greetings and Best Wishes

VISIT OF PRIP TO OUR DIALYSIS CENTER

A few Rotary Clubs of RI Dist 3190 have been relentlessly pursuing their commitment to the needy in the areas of Health, that have benefitted the society immensely. Rotary Bangalore Peenya is one such Club that is making a remarkable service to the Chronically ill renal disease patients for over 2 years now along with serving the differently abled persons through Annual Limb Camp for over 18 years now. Dist Gov of RI 3190 Rtn Manjunath Shetty has been very appreciative of these two flagship projects of Rotary Bangalore Peenya. He felt it very appropriate to show a few worthy projects to the Visiting Past Rotary International President and Trustee Chair of Rotary Foundation Rtn Ray Klinginsmith.

A visit was arranged at the behest of Dist Gov and Peenyans were very enthusiastic to welcome Rtn Ray Klinginsmith to the The Rotary Bangalore Peenya Trust run Pandit Deendayal Updhyaya Dialysis Center at Rajajinagar on the 26th of April at 10.30 am. The dignitaries greeted by the Peenyans visited the Dialysis Center and interacted with a few patients who were undergoing the procedure. Mr Basavaraj from Chamarajanagara who has been undergoing dialysis for the past 16 months answered the visiting Rotarians curious questions. Rtn Ray Klinginsmith was introduced to the Dialysis Technicians and was very happy to know that the second most important avenue of service The Vocational Service that is in parallel being conducted to train them to carry out The Dialysis procedure.

In the Visitor’s book PRIP was too happy to write positive words about the Center and appreciated the chairman and the club members in running the center efficiently. He posed for a few photographs with the Peenyans and visited the Diabetology Center which is coming up in the same building.

Rotary Bangalore Peenya appreciated the presence of Local area MLA and the benefactor of this project Sri Suresh Kumar and PDG Rtn Madhura Chatrapathy, Rtn Srikanth Chatrapathy, Rtn Rajendra Rai, Rtn M N Suresh and DGE Rtn H R Ananth who have supported Peenyans whole heartedly all along and who joined us in welcoming PRIP Rtn Ray Klinginsmith and DG Rtn Manjunath Shetty.

ON THE OCCASION OF BIRTHDAYS to:

Rtn Dr.Jaydev 1st May

Rtn Vasanth Kumar G.R. 1st May

Annette Ganesh Jaydev S/o Rtn Dr.Jaydev

2nd May

Annette Sahil Bagadia S/o Rtn Mukesh Bagadia

2nd May

Annette Anshuman Dube 3rd May S/o Rtn Meenakshi Dube

Rtn. Nagendra Prasad 3rd May

Rtn Mahendar Jain 3rd May

Rtn Veerchand Nahar & Spouse 1st MayRtn D.G.Badarinath & Spouse 8th MayRtn Naresh Bajaj & Spouse 9th MayRtn M.Balachandran & Spouse 11th MayRtn Dr. Jaydev & Spouse 13th MayRtn Nagaveni & Spouse 14th MayRtn Basavaraju. H.D. & Spouse 15th MayRtn M.L.Tipparaddi & Spouse 17th MayRtn Hariram Thakkar & Spouse 23rd MayRtn Jayaram & Spouse 24th MayRtn H. Krishnamurthy & Spouse 25th MayRtn Vasanth Kumar G.R. & Spouse 26th May

Ann Bharathi Spouse of Rtn D.G Badarinath

4th May

Annette Shruthi Patil D/o Rtn Sunil Patil

10th May

Annette Pravesh S/o Rtn Gautam Chand Nahar

12th May

Annette Pooja D/o Rtn K.Raghu

15th May

Rtn Arvind Kumar Salampuria 15th May

Rtn M.Balachandran 16th May

Annette Neha Prakash 18th May D/o Rtn Nagaveni H.C

Rtn Prakash Nagesh 20th May

Ann Yashodha Prakash 20th May Spouse of Rtn Prakash Nagesh

Rtn M.L.Tipparaddi 20th May

Rtn N.V Dinakar 25th May

Annette Hansika D/o Rtn Maruthi B.R

26th May

Annette Manisha D/o Rtn Veerchand Nahar

27th May

Annette Neeta Prakash D/o Rtn Nagaveni H.C

28th May

Ann. Madhu Bajaj Spouse of Rtn Naresh Bajaj

30th May

Annette Sowmya D/o Rtn.B.Saiprasad

30th May

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY WISHES to: