Rt 30 - New School Inauguration- Tr. Dhiraj Walia

SASHA MOHINANI VIVEKANANDA VIDYALAYA- NEW MANALI TOWN CHENNAI
(In Association With MERT 30)

Bhoomi Puja On 22/4/2008. A Brief Report :-
April 22nd ,another RED LETTER day in the history of tabling. MERT 30 ties up with
Vivekananda Educational Society to promote their second school under FTE at New ManaliTown , North Chennai. This is possible due to the very generous and initial philanthropic commitment of Rs.25lakhs from the Main Sponsor Mr.HARRY MOHINANI of HongKong. Mr.Harry has promised longterm commitment to the school project and has extended his wholehearted support for the same. MERT 30 is very grateful to Mr.Harry for his noble gesture which will enable the children of this largely neglected area to benefit from the upcoming school The function was well organized and the puja started at 8:30AM sharp. It was attended by 9 tablers from MERT30 and by the entire executive committee of VES.


Also present were the staff , students and parents of the adjoining GRT vivekananda vidyalaya alongwith local well wishers. Puja went on for about one and half hours and was followed up by a brief function where the society secretary Mr.Chakravarthy thanked all present for gracing the function. He highlighted about the noble contribution of Mr.Harry and the plans for the school . He also thanked MERT 30 for tying up with them to promote a second school after the RT30vv at agarmel. He was quite bullish about the future prospects of the new school. The parents, students and teachers present at the function came forward to donate monies which added up to
more than Rs.1 lakh. A local well wisher committed 10 lorry loads of construction sand. All in all a very auspicious beginning and successful function. Current plan is to complete construction of phase I (5020 sq.ft.)by July end and get school functional by August 2008.

Tr. Dhiraj walia

RTI-PC FTE Roadshow, Park Hotel

Tr. Sethu,
Chairman RT 1,

Your contributions to the cause has seen no boundaries. It was Chennai, Kolkatta, Pune, Bangalore and now in Delhi, your conviction of taking the FTE Road Show inspires us and makes Area 2 Proud.

This act surely exemplifies the spirit of ' Beyond the call of Duty " Proud to be associated with you and best wishes !

Tr. Sakthi

RTI Area II with Akshara - Tr. Sakthi RT 100

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to announce the launch of further Aksharas in Area 2.
Perseverence is not a long race, but series of races one after another ! What started as a pilot last year has scaled in size now. We certainly did aspired to achieve more by the MOU between RT India an CII-Yi.

Chairman RT 3 Tr. Satish and Chairman RT 30 Tr. Dhiraj, Please accept my hearty congrats on accomplishing this achievement and pass on my wishes to your table.

rgds / sakthi
enclosed here is the report from YI.

Yi Akshara Launch at Sri JRET Raghava Middle School
24 April 2008: Perambur, Chennai
As part of the Yi Education
committee’s initiative, the Yi Akshara
Resource Centre was launched at Sri JRET Raghava Middle School, Perambur on 24 April 2008. This is the 9th school funded by Cognizant Foundation for setting up of the
resource centre. The school was helped in being identified by Round Table India members.

The launch was attended by Ms. Gayathri Sriram, National Education Chairperson, Yi,
Mr. Ajay Kumar Vummidi, Project Convener, MERT 30, Mr. Dhiraj S Walia, Chairman,
MERT 30 and Mr. Gautam Garg, MERT 30 from Round Table India. The guests for the
function were given a grand welcome by the school children. Mr. Vummidi inaugurated the launch by cutting the ribbon and Ms. Gayathri Sriram and Round Table members launched the Centre by the traditional lighting of lamp. This was followed by a welcome address given by the school Head Mistress, a short speech by Ms Haripriya, Manager, JRET Raghava Middle School who thanked Yi and RTI for the help extended.
Ms. Gayathri Sriram then addressed the children explaining to them the value of the
materials and to utilize them in a way that it may help them in improving their overall quality of education. This motivated the children. Mr. Vummidi again encouraged the children to utilize the products in the best possible manner.
The children of JRET Raghava School prepared a special song on Akshara and sang for
the chief guests and those present.

The function ended with the distribution of sweets to the children.


Yi Launch of Akshara at Gurukulam A Trust Children School
16 April 2008: Kovalam, Chennai
The launch of Yi Akshara at Gurukulam A Trust Children School was held on 16 April 2008. This school was the 8th Cognizant Foundation sponsored Akshara.
The school, located at the Kovalam area comprises of 80 children between class 1-4 from fishermen and other poor backgrounds. The school is an English medium school with great enthusiasm shown by the children and commitment on part of the teachers.
The launch was inaugurated by Mr. Sathish V Raghavan and 5 other members from Round
Table India which incudes Mr Sathish, who was instrumental in identifying the school for the launch of Akshara. The inauguration took place by the cutting of ribbon and a tour of the centre. This was followed by an informal chat and discussion among Mr. Nandakumar, Founder, Gurukulam A Trust Children School, Mr Sathish V Raghavan and the RTI members.

RT 162 Event - H Tr Sat Jupiter

The Blog Riddle. For the first one who gets it right, dinner for 2 at The Park.

Answers, tomorrow.

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wo nderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

4. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out.

Conversation, Area II.

How Publicity Helps RTI. A classic case, with a fellowship opportunity thrown in.


prabhat the end result does not benifit me but the delhi table and the movement as such. yes the word of appreciation does make us fell good. i would love to sponsor yours and shivi's trip if you guys could go ahead and influence amit and ask him to part with 1 acre of the donation. awaiting your reply and assure you that if the end result met thisd time i would definetly not forget to mention your name and ofcourse the trip / stay / party

LOL.................................

great to know you are going to Tubai have fun.

Rajiv shah





On 4/23/08, Prabhat wrote:
Do i get a 3 day stay at any of the Resort as i Introduced him to you !! if i had not introduced the result mentioned below would not have materialized ! Waiting in Anticipation !!



Prabhat.



From: A2-Chair-0708@googlegroups.com [mailto:A2-Chair-0708@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rajiv Shah
Sent: 23 April 2008 13:54
To: ; AREA - 2 CHAIRMAN; AST Praveen; ajay.handa@thehanshotel.com; Rajesh Gupta; Neville J Bilimoria; Himu79; pranayt@gmail.com; amit@ramkishore.com
Subject: comments of Tr. Amit Bansal on 181's Publicity



hi tabler's,



I happened to meet Tr. Amit Bansal ( Area 5 Project Convener ) in a joint fellowship with other chairman's and Tabler's of Area 2. Here with I would like to present to you the conversation and appreciation he bestowed upon MKRT 181.





As i was introduced to him by Tr. Prabhat and later during conversation Tr. Prabhat mentioned to him of the Hoarding Publicity was done by our table. he immediately identified our Table name and appreciated the publicity work, he in fact quoted that it was because of these hoardings that one of his business counter part in Chennai while visiting his office in Delhi when happened to see the round table flag identified the movement as asked him what round table was all about.



On Explanation Received From Tr.Amit his Business Colleague agreed to sponsor him 2 acers of land in bhuvaneshwar for construction of school. While he was at this he thanked me for the publicity else the entire conversation would not have started and end result mentioned above not met. He thanked us for the publicity of the movement as well



I would Like to thank Tr.Amit Bansal for his kind words and apreciating 181's efforts. Having said that i would also on behalf of 181 like to invite and host him for the charter day celebration of our table on the 30th of June 2008.





Regards,

Chairman

MKRT 181









--
Rajiv A Shah

Lagan
66, City Centre Complex,
Thirumalai Pillai Road,
T.Nagar,
Chennai-17.

Ph:- +91-044-28156462 / 65872596
Fax:- +91-044-42061716

Fellowship - PRRT 104 - Tr. Suresh Soni

Hello Friends,

Pondicherry Rivage RT 104 had celebrated the 41ers day on 6th of April 2008 at Mookiah Farms in which we had all the Square Legs attending the social.

Area Chairman Rajesh Gupta along with the first lady attended the meet and we had a fun filled afternoon. Yesteryear stories were shared by the Sq.Legs and we had send the Oldies (Baldies) becoming younger when challenged in Games. (Like Lemon/Spoon Run; Sack Race etc..)

The social also had the annual sports meets where the sporting talents of Tablers Twinklers were put to test.

It was a great hosting by Tr.Ganesh Cr.Kala and we have posted the photos online.

If you have a minute, check out these photos from my Webshots photo album!http://cards.webshots.com/invite/pickup/140030090hioQ/album/563096719AXpChX

Enjoy,
Suresh Kumar Soni.

RT 181 - Update

RT 100 - Project - Heart 2 Heart, Healing Little Hearts. Tr. Prabhat - RT 100

Greetings from MART 100 !!



We are proud to announce the launch of our Project – “Heart 2 Heart – Healing Little Hearts” in partnership with Frontier Lifeline – Dr. K.M. Cherian Heart Foundation wherein we are partnering in order to identify underprivileged children with Heart Ailments and provide them necessary surgical operations at a subsidized cost.



This alliance will launch Project Heart 2 Heart with a free heart care camp for children on Sunday the 13th of April at Geetha Bhavan, 334, Lloyds’ Road, Royapettah, Chennai-86. This camp will facilitate detection of various heart ailments like holes in the heart, complex “Blue Baby” conditions and valvular heart disease. The tests conducted at the camp will include weight, blood pressure, ECG (electrocardiography) and echocardiography, apart from consultation with the cardiologists and counselling by dieticians. The team of cardiologists from Frontier Lifeline, supported by paramedical and technical staff, will screen the children using facilities provided by the Frontier Mobile Cardiac Diagnostic Unit. This customized vehicle is fully equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and instruments for the accurate and timely diagnosis of cardiac anomalies.



Frontier Lifeline and Madras Anchorage Round Table 100 aim to instil awareness that all children with recurrent chest infections, poor weight gain, unexplainable breathlessness and bluish discoloration of the hands and feet should be evaluated for heart problems. Children with heart diseases should be treated early so as to prevent irreversible damage to the heart and lungs. The other emphasis is on teaching the children about heart healthy diet and the need for regular exercises. The current trend of rapid westernization and sedentary lifestyle, where children have more fast food and indulge in video games / internet games, leads to childhood obesity which is growing to epidemic proportions worldwide. Educating the parents and their children on a heart-healthy lifestyle is a collective effort which finds a forum during initiatives such as this campaign.



We are also proud to announce that Mr. David T. Hopper, Consul General of the United States of America will be the chief guest and will mark open the Project on 13th April 2008.The Brand Ambassador for the project will be announced on that day. We take pleasure in inviting you for the inauguration of our dream Project “Heart 2 Heart”.



Please also find attached a scanned copy of the write up about this project in “Indian Express” today and more to come in the following days.



Thanks & Regards,



Tr. Prabhat Sreewastav RT 100
Dr. K.M. Cherian - Lifeline

RT 94 - HR Activity - Tr. Siva

MCRT 94 – HR Weekend Away and Boys Night Out
15th-16th March ’08, Adventure Zone
Over the last few years, the importance and participation of tablers of MCRT 94 in HR activities has
increased tremendously. A large portion of this can be attributed to the efforts of the past two HR
convenors in not only ensuring learning in HR, but also loads of fun and bonding.
Over the last three years, the HR weekend away and boys night out has evolved into one of the most
looked forward to events of the tabling year. And this year was no exception. We had 24 of us
including our Area HR convenor Punit and a few sq. legs making our way towards our venue for the
weekend, Adventure Zone, a purpose built out bound training venue about 90 kms from Madras. A
late breakfast on the 15th at Drive in Woodlands and it was on to Adventure Zone.
Idly vadai & VB enroute adventure zone
Strength testing the beds Where Sam’s prayers were answered
Future leaders?!
The theme for the weekend was “Continuity in Leadership” in order to motivate and understand
from the newer tablers, deterrents to them taking up larger roles in Round Table. The newer tablers
were the “leaders” for the weekend for all the activities we undertook. The HR portion of the
weekend was divided into 3 modules – Village Module, Tabling Module and Adventure Module.
Village Module :
After settling ourselves at our tents at Adventure Zone and a briefing of the place and the
activities, it was time for a few drinks and lunch. Post lunch it was time for the village rally.
The objective of this module was to sensitize our tablers about aspects of village life,
something which we are often disconnected from.
We were split into 7 teams and we were in 7 different cars . Each team was allotted a
village guide from the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), a youth club present in over 2
lakh villages around India. Each team was given one place to go to and they had different
tasks to perform at these places.
These seven different tasks were -
Team Village visit in Activity Objective
1 Sunambedu Visit the traditional
medicine practitioner’s
clinic
Get remedy for
common cold
2 Zamin Puthur Visit a potters house and
try pottery skill
Buy a pot
3 Amandakaranai Visit a folk deity temple Perform a ritual
and get the
vermilion and
sacred ash
4 Between Cheyyur
and ECR
Visit salt pans Buy Salt
5 Palaiyur Visit a folk performers
house
Buy a
drumming stick
from the
performer
6 Palaiyur Visit a rice mill Buy harvested
and husked rice
7 Vedal Visit a historical temple
near a man made pond
Photo
Document the
temple and
pond nearby,
and collect oral
history
Durai Enna parkkuraar?? Potter in action
Pretty village belle
During the time at each of these places the teams interacted with the local villagers. Post
visit, team members then made their way to a farm in Nangulathur village, where they were
welcomed with hot vadas and tea made by women self help group members.
Watching the different uses of cowdung!
This was then followed by a talk by Mr. Raghavan – an eminent person experienced in
organic and traditional farming. He enlightened us on the aspects of traditional farming
which we seem to be loosing out on now-a-days. This was then followed by a lively question
and answer session by the tablers. It was then time to get back to Adventure Zone for the
next module.
TABLING MODULE
As soon as we got back to Adventure Zone, we were given a short time to freshen up and
get ready for the tabling module. Tr. Punit conducted two modules – one on the qualities of
leaders and the other on the “Hot seat”. Punit was excellent in involving all the tablers in a
lively discussion. The hot seat involved getting all the new tablers to take the hot seat and
talk about how they can take up larger responsibilities in the table. These two modules were
conducted superbly by our Area HR Convenor Tr. Punit.
Creating the future leaders
Listening to them!
Post these modules it was time for more drinking and dinner and to a long night of the 94
style camaraderie. The highlight of the evening, was our Tr. Siva regaling us with his funny
tit-bits and stories in his unique indomitable style. The party continued outside our tents
with all of us keeping each other awake inspite of having a really long day.
Om Siva!!!!!!
ADVENTURE MODULE
After a short night at the tents, it was time to wake up to chirping birds and bright sunlight.
Soon after breakfast it was time for the adventure module conducted by Maj. S R Roy (retd),
the man who runs Adventure Zone. For this module, we were split into 2 teams – Team Tin
led by Tr. Krishna Ravindran and Team Drum lead by Tr. Ravi.
Team drum Team tin
The first activity we had was rappelling down a 51ft. wall. Each team member was given a
task to do during the activity. The teams were given points every time a member of the
team rappelled down. It was amazing to see Doc. Achuth rappel down as time was running
out to give a come from behind victory for team tin after the 1st activity. After a short break
for refreshments it was then over to the purpose built obstacle course for our next activity.
Don’t let go off the rope!
For the obstacle course, each team was given 9 obstacles to complete in 25 min. The
obstacle race was very challenging and time was tight, which brought out amazing team
spirit within each of the teams. To make things further complicated, we were given an
imaginary additional member of the team – Papplu – a casuarina pole which we had to take
with us throughout the obstacle course . It was amazing to see all of us unfit tablers pushing
ourselves in support to our teams to overcome obstacles that we thought we could not do.
Team Drum won the 2nd activity and inched past Team Tin for the overall lead.
Scaling new heights!

Overcoming obstacles – 94 style
The 3rd and final activity - rifle and pistol shooting involved all us sharp shooters shooting
the target both with the rifle and the pistol. At the end of this final activity, Team Drum
managed to maintain their lead and were adjudged as the overall winners. The losing team,
Team Tin, we supposed to carry the luggage of the winning team Drum to the car (which of
course they did not do).
Sharp shooters (Yeah right!)
All the three activities were brilliantly facilitated by Maj Roy. He led a discussion after each
activity to look at the team dynamics in play, leadership in the groups and turning
challenges into opportunities. All in all, a super amount of team spirit and bonding between
the tablers that challenged us to push ourselves for our team’s sake.
Sorry! No drinking....
After a relaxed lunch it was time to leave Adventure Zone back to Chennai. It was a very
different HR weekend for all of us at MCRT 94 with a little bit of roughing out and a whole
lot of fun and activities. We had a great time bonding with each other and getting Table 94
closer knit.

Tsunami Commermorative Block - RT 30 - Tr. Varindar Singh Sahney

Tablers

Been a long time in waiting, but the time has come.

We are nearing completion of the RTI Tsunami Commemorative Block at the St Georges AIHSS, Chennai.

Though earlier scheduled for an April openeing, it has been postponed to June due to the School being closed for SUmmer Holidays. Table 30 is proud to have played an active role in this project and has taken sincere efforts to ensure this eddifice will indeed be a model and showcase school project of Round Table India.

Attached is the artistic view of the block.

With a touch of friendship.

Bobby
Convener, St Georges School, MERT30

Rollywood - 2008

How to avoid a stroke - Tr. Satya Rao, RT 30

STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters.... S.T.R.


My nurse friend sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree.

If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously..

Please read:

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) .....she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.

Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 pm Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die.... they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke... totally . He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is t ough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR . Read and Learn!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke .


Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
S * Ask the individual to SMILE.
T * Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)
(i.e. It is sunny out today)
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 999/911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your Tongue

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue.. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other , that is also an indication of a stroke.

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.