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FEBRUARY 2016 1 Mid-Town Bulletin

For Private Circulation Vol 49 • Issue 08 • FEBRUARY 2017

R. I. President | JOHN F. GERM

Club President | SUCHARITA RAM HEGDE

District Governor | GOPAL RAI MANDHANIA

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DISTRICT 3141 | CLUB 15496 | MUMBAI, INDIA

RCBMT successfully hosts the 14th Free Plastic Surgery Camp in Jalna


In the first phase of the Child Nutrition Project at Potkhal/Baste, we physically screened about 200 children up to the age of five for signs of malnourishment. This was done with help of trained Rotaract members. We identified about thirty children with physical signs of malnourishment.

In the second phase, we took doctors from Saifee Hospital to medically check the 30 children who were identified with signs of malnourishment. This was organised by our active Rotarian Abuzar Zakir. This camp also was actively supported by our hardworking Rotaract members.

After an extensive check-up, about 12 children were considered to be severely malnourished.

About 18 children were diagnosed for various deficiencies.

The next phase will entail treating them for their ailments. For this, we are taking the advice and help of Dr. Alka Jadhav of the Nutritional Rehabilitation and Research Centre, Department of Paediatrics L.T.M.M. College & L.T.M.G Hospital, Sion. We hope to start the treatment this month.

We have also collected the health data of 200 children, in the 6-12 year old age group under the programme of providing nutritional supplements to all the children for one year. Basic data will be helpful in comparing and tracking the results of our programme.

- Yogesh Pandya

Checking for signs of malnourishment.

Rotarians interact with the students.

The team that visited Potkhal/Baste.

Children waiting to be checked by the doctors.

Paediatrics Camp Held at Potkhal/Baste

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14th Free Plastic Surgery Camp Inaugurated at Jalna

This was the 14th consecutive year that the Rotary Club of Bombay Mid-Town organised a Free Plastic Surgery Camp at Jalna along with RC Hattingen, RC Jalna and the German Rotary Volunteer Organisation. Ten German doctors, some of them on their 14th visit to the camp, arrived in Aurangabad on 18th February where they were to do over 200 surgeries in 10 days on patients with cleft palates, finger defects and burns. Dr. Anil Tibrewala also joined them in performing the surgeries and ensured that the camp, focused on patients from the lowest economic strata, progressed smoothly. The German doctors contingent comprised team leader Dr. Gerhard K. Schlosser, Dr. Detlef Cramer, Jorg Murgalla, Dr. Marco Blessmann, Dr.Perikles Kolokithas, Dr. Anja Gerstenberg, Dr.Dennis Koder, Dr. Katrin Schurmann, Elke Fischer and Silke Reicherter.

While inaugurating the camp, Rotarian Dr. B.R Barwale lauded the efforts of the German doctors, Dr. Anil Tibrewala and the Rotary Club for changing the lives of thousands of people and bringing a smile on their faces. Many members of the Rotary Club of Bombay Mid-Town accompanied our President Sucharita Hegde to the camp this year namely PP RP Anand, Rtn Raju Barwale, Rtn Yogesh Pandya along with his wife, Secretary Dr. Deepak Garg and Vicky Punjabi; theyprovided their support and encouragement to the doctors.

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Rotarians at the mango farm.

Rtn Dr. Anil Tibrewala at the Camp's inauguration. Rotarians visit the Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga Temple.

The super speciality eye Hospital founded by Rtn Dr. BR Barwale


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RI President | KR RAVINDRAN

Club President | RP ANANDDistrict Governor | SUBHASH KULKARNI

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Club President | RP ANAND

District Governor | SUBHASH KULKARNI

Abuzar ZakirA hardworking member of the Rotary Club of Bombay Mid-Town

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Club President | RP ANAND

District Governor | SUBHASH KULKARNI

Dr Deepak GargA young Rotarian

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No event by the Rotary Club of Bombay Mid-Town is complete without fellowships and fun. We were largely impressed by our visit to the super speciality eye hospital founded by Rtn Dr. BR Barwale in Jalna called Shri Ganapati Netralaya. It is a one-of-a-kind hospital that is visited by over 400 patients every day. Rtn Dr. Barwale in addition to hosting our stay at his grand guest house also invited us over for tea to his home in Jalna. Thereafter we accompanied him to see his mango plantations close to his place.

We also visited many historic locales in the vicinity of Aurangabad like the magnificent Ellora Caves, Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga Temple, the Doulatabad Fort and the famous Hazur Sahib Gurdwara at Nanded. Much to our delight, our President Sucharita cooked up a delicious meal at her place especially for us. We enjoyed the gourmet food she served and her warm hospitality.

- Rtn Vicky Punjabi

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Youth Exchange students visit Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Presently there are over 30 students on the year-long Rotary Youth Exchange Program in Mumbai spread over Dist. 3141 and 3412. Like last year, this year, too, Rotary Club of Bombay Mid-Town organised a visit to the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in the city. The students were taken on a two-hour long guided tour of the museum. The guide gave them detailed information about the exhibits on display along with the history of Mumbai. The tour ended with students enjoying snacks. The entire visit was arranged and sponsored by Rtn Piyush Khaitan. - Yogesh Pandya

Rotary International has issued a global challenge to Rotarians, asking them to work collectively to improve education quality and access — particularly for girls — by working with communities to provide improved WASH services, teacher training, and curriculum enhancement. Rotary’s WASH in Schools Target Challenge aims to answer a critical question: Can Rotarians work together and focus their energy to achieve a common goal that integrates water, sanitation, and hygiene with basic education and literacy? And, if so, what is the measure of impact that Rotary could have in the world?

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For the WASH in Schools Target Challenge’s integrated model to be successful, pilot projects must reflect an equal investment in both areas. For example, projects can focus on helping teachers build their capacity as educators by participating in trainings on how to incorporate hygiene programming into classroom lessons. Or they can show educators how to use the school’s sanitation facilities as a means for interactive learning (e.g. hand-washing demonstrations). The result is that children learn about disease transmission and practise good hygiene behaviours through an interactive, integrated learning environment, and they can take those lessons home to their parents and families.

By taking on the WASH in Schools Target Challenge, Rotary members join a global WASH in Schools movement. And Rotary has the unique overall opportunity to contribute new information and perspectives to a growing effort to improve education — as well as water, sanitation, and hygiene systems — worldwide.

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4th Jan, Speaker Bharat Dabholkar

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11th Jan, Fellowship Meeting

Rotarians playing Antakshari.

Murlidhar Jalan, Rajeev Anand, President Sucharita Hegde and Vice President Manoj Jalan

Rotarians Jamshed Patel, Kate and Mehernosh Currawalla and Dr. Firoze Mirza.

Rotarians Abuzar Zakir, Navin Shah, Manoj Jalan with Ashok Mehta of the Inner Wheel Club.

Consul Gen. of Russia Andrei Zhiltsov with his wife along with Rotarians Burjor Nariman, Mohan Lalvani and PP YK Shankardas.

Speaker Bharat Dabholkar, Rahul Mehta, Pres. Sucharita Hegde and Dr. Deepak Garg.

Rtn Dr. Deepak Garg addresses the audience. Speaker Bharat Dabholkar received a memento from Pres. Sucharita Hegde


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Rtn Dr. Deepak Garg presenting the project activities

Director Jamsheed Patel briefs Rotarians on Youth Services.Rtn Dr. Praful Sabadara gives his report on the Sports Committee

AG Yogesh Jesrani presents his observations.

PDG Gulam A. Vahanvaty

Rtn Vaibhav Sanghi, Lisa Bhansali, President Sucharita Hegde, Rtn Jaidev Mehta and PP Anil Ambo.

Speaker Lisa Bhansali receives a token from President Sucharita Hegde.

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18th Jan, Pre OCV and Second Club Assembly

25th Jan, Speaker Lisa I. Bhansali


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Allure of instant justice:As trials lag, harassment of women is rising. But is ‘on-the-spot action’ the answer?

“I gave her the patta (rubber leash) to use,” said Inspector Chougle.

“For what?” I asked, surprised. I was investigating a molestation case involving a college girl and we had just arrested the main accused. Dragging an iron chair before me, the inspector made himself comfortable, satisfaction writ large on his otherwise generally frowning face.

“Madam, permit me to be frank,” he said. He often said the same as he thought that as a young superintendent of police, I tended to be bookish. He’d use the word very respectfully, then rattle off many points where we had differences of opinion. One of the chief points of disagreement was his enthusiasm for meting out justice on the spot and my insistence on collecting evidence, sending the case to court and waiting for the verdict.

So he’d done it again, I realised. He had given the patta to the girl to hit the just-arrested accused as “instant justice”. The inspector now recounted, “As he cried out, the girl shouted that she too had cried the same way and she gave him one more.” Before I could protest, he said calmly that he had sent the molester to court for obtaining police custody. Inspector Chougle had, as he put it, “cleared his conscience” before I could even move the wheels of justice.

He, and many police officers like him, would create special “anti-goonda squads” to deal with “Roadside Romeos”, as molesters were called. Such units went around town when schools or colleges started or closed. Their special targets were bus stops where, they said, the most harassment happened. The “Romeos” would be roughed up on the spot or would flee at the sight of the anti-goonda staff. I was surprised that citizens, instead of complaining about beatings by the police in public, appreciated them while the “goons” would often refer to them as the “goonda staff ”, deliberately missing the “anti”.

My strong dislike for “instant justice” was well-known but respected only on paper by the worthy squad — their main contention was that trials of such cases would take place only after years, witnesses would not come forward, the accused would buy or influence witnesses, the molester would eventually be acquitted and finally go scot-free. This encouraged hooligans but was not reflected in the crime charts because of a lack of complaints by victims.

Their strongest argument was that complainants feared coming forward and molestation was only increasing; their ways of identifying molesters and using strong tactics were therefore justified. I would often talk to college girls in my district and enquire from them


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why they refrained from lodging molestation cases. Stock replies included a fear of reprisal by the molesters, concerns that parents may stop the girl’s education, embarrassment over approaching the police, not knowing whom to speak with, etc. Suffering in silence seemed the preferred mode, both for parents and victims.

I was pleasantly surprised when a girl approached me directly about net stalking by a guy whom she was friends with online. Referring her case to the cyber cell headed by a very conscientious woman officer, I got busy with other work. But soon, I received an email from the girl saying that she was contemplating suicide as the guy was threatening to post some of her photos on the net and the cyber cell had done nothing to help her. On checking, I was told the officer had taken the victim’s First Information Report (FIR) but proceeded on leave due to a personal emergency.

Understanding the gravity of the situation, I asked Inspector Chougle to present himself to the commissioner ’s office. The frown on his forehead deepened as he was told of the victim contemplating taking her life. Promising “instant justice” under his breath, he saluted and walked off.

The next morning, I woke to an email with profuse thanks from the girl. The story, as told by the inspector now, was that the cyber cell traced the net stalker through his IP address, which turned out to be a cyber cafe’s. Chougle invited the girl to the police station, making a lady sub-inspector talk to her. The girl was hysterical but finally agreed to come. Using the lady officer ’s laptop, the girl invited the stalker to a restaurant that evening. Thus walked the stalker into Chougle’s net, the inspector waiting with a cup of coffee patiently in his hand.I was surprised that the inspector had asked for the transfer of the cyber cell case to his own police station, investigated it further and chargesheeted it to the court. His justification for differentiating this case from others of “instant justice” was that the complainant had lodged a formal FIR, there was documentary evidence and he need not depend on witnesses. I saw the same intense satisfaction on his face; it was due to him having been successful in helping a young victim. “May your tribe grow,” I said. Feeling uncomfortable at this sudden praise, the officer saluted and left.

Seeing the intensely disturbing scenes of Bengaluru’s molestations on television now, I am wondering whether the “anti-goonda staff ” and their “instant justice” tools are still relevant; whether our reliance on formal investigation and waiting for court judgments over years have encouraged molesters to the extent that women are driven to contemplating retreating to their homes — just when they had started venturing out and spreading their wings.

As a senior police officer told me, an accused began to dance when told his trial would come up for hearing after five years — and it would take a year or two to finish.

In India, molesters dance with joy; the targeted girls are sent back to their homes. But it is not only the police or judiciary that fails our girls — it is also the families that bring up such molesters. As Inspector Chougle reminds me repeatedly, “Madam, stop thinking, start acting.” When will I do so?

Written by Meeran Chadha Borwankar , a Maharashtra cadre IPS officer, and the Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), Delhi. This article first appeared in Indian Express on 6-1-2017 and has been reproduced here with the writer ’s permission.

– Rtn Manoj Jalan


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Birthdays in March 2017 ❧

Spouse’s Birthdays

01 Helena Mama

05 Avani Vora

10 Snehlata Bhartia

12 Tanvi Sanghi

20 Indira Brunner

21 Sushma Barwale

24 Bunty Khanna

26 Bela Kapur

ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY MID-TOWN OFFICERS & DIRECTORS 2016 - 2017

President Sucharita HegdeImm. Past President R.P. AnandVice Pres. & Pres. Elect Manoj JalanHon. Secretary Dr. Deepak Garg Jt. Hon. Secretary Jaidev MehtaHon. Treasurer Anil V. KamathHon. Jt. Treasurer Rajeev ThakkarSergeant At Arms Munna Mitha

Advisory Committee:PDG Dr. Shirish Sheth, PP Tilak Mehta, PP Mohan Lalvani, Ashwin Shah

Director Club Service Manoj JalanProgrammes Abuzar N. ZakirCo-Chairman Deepak MehtaEvents & Fellowship PP Mohan LalvaniFinance PP Bipin JainAttendance Asha Singh Co-Chairman Uttara BhandareBye Laws PP Tilak MehtaFundraiser Chairman PP James BrunnerClassification Mahesh KrishnamurthiMembership & Retention Membership Development Navin Shah Rotary Information PDG Dr Shirish ShethBulletin & International Travel Anil Kejriwal

Director Vocational Service Anil AmboCareer Guidance Scholarships & Voc. Awards Gargi Mukerjee Club Website Dr. G.P. Kasbekar4 Way Test Vicky PunjabiSr. Citizens Welfare Shaunak ThakkarF.O.F. Rajeev ThakkarLiteracy Mission (Thrust Area) PP Tilak Mehta

Director Community Service Gaurav KapadiaChild Welfare: Midday Meal /SKMDS/ADAPT/UMEED/Anugraha School PP Kersi Hilloo Co-Chairman Naren MohattaNare-Vaje Development N. M. JainPolio & Physically Challenged (NASEOH) Anil Kejriwal Co-Chairman Naren MohattaMedical Camps Abuzar N. Zakir Plastic Surgery, Jalna Dr. Anil Tibrewala Director Youth Service Jamsheed PatelInteract Kiran ShahRotaract Gargi MukherjeeSports Dr. Prafulla SabadraInner Wheel Dr. Kirit Mody

Director International Yogesh Pandya Projects Global/ Matching/ PP Anil Kamath District Grants Jaidev J. MehtaInternational Family Suruchi R. Chand Exchange International Youth Manoj Jalan Exchange The Rotary Foundation R.P. Anand [TRF]

Director District Projects Deepak MehtaDistrict Relation & On PP Anil Kamath to Conference

Asst. Governor Yogesh JesraniDist. Secretary Kamlesh KharadeAsst. Trainer Dharmendra Gursahani

08 MarchVicky Punjabi

09 MarchDr. Ashwin Mehta

03 MarchShankar Sujan

11 March PP Om Degan

Anniversaries

01 Pushpa & Krishna Khemka

04 Rajul & Ashwin Shah

04 Helena & Reyaz Mama

10 Sarika & Deepak Garg

23 Gita & Navin Shah

MARCH 2017

WATER & SANITATION MONTH

WEDNESDAY, 01Speaker: Priyanka Sinha Jha, Head of Content, Screen and Star India Ltd.

Venue: Taj Mahal HotelLunch: 12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m.

Talk: 1.30 to 2.30 p.m.

SUNDAY, 05JPETS and SETS 2017-18

WEDNESDAY, 08 Speaker: Subject:

Venue: Taj Mahal Hotel at 1.15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, 15 Speaker: TBA

Subject:Venue: Taj Mahal Hotel

Time: 1.15 p.m.

9th BOD Meeting @2.30 p.m.

SUNDAY, 19District Leadership Seminar

WEDNESDAY, 22Speaker: TBA

Venue: Taj Mahal HotelTime: 1.15 pm

WEDNESDAY, 29Speaker: TBA

Venue: Taj Mahal HotelTime: 1.15 pm

27 MarchGaurav Kapadia

14 MarchAnand Didwania

14 March Praful Sheth

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