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Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

Chief Guest DG.Prafull Sharmaji, Asstt.Governor- Rtn. Ramesh Daswani, Asst Trainer - Ashwin Shetty, District Secretary- Rtn. Dharmendra Gursahani, Honorable Trustees, Past Presidents, Honarary Member Shri. Pravin Dixit & Arundhatiji, Dear Members, Rtanns, Friends, My Family Members, Ladies & Gentlemen.

दोस्ती का शुक्रिया कुछ इस तरह अदा करू,

आप भूल भी जाओ तो मे हर पल याद करू,

दोस्ती ने बस इतना सिखाया हे मुझे

कि खुद से पहले आप के लिए दुआ करू..

On 1st July, 2017 I started my journey as the President of this esteemed Club of Rotary District 3141. It was an amazing journey to me in the Rotary World. I made many friends, brothers, sisters & guide from here which made my job of President very easy.

DG Prafull declared our Club amongst the Diamond Clubs of the District yesterday in his 'Abhaar' Function, the credit of which goes to you all.

Lets today acknowledge the contribution of each one of you with a request to kindly rise and get acknowledged whenever your name is called upon.

This year as you all know, we have executed a plethora of Community projects….

I would like to start with our largest Community Service Project, the Vivekananda Netralaya with the support of TRF Global Grant of 4,24,000 USD with almost half the contribution coming from our members.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rtn.Baldev & Usha Arora for not only introducing this wonderful project to our Club but also contributing USD 1,25,000 for the same.

I would also like to compliment the entire project team comprising of PP & Trustee Firoz Kachwalla, PP.Mahendra Thacker, PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati, PP & Trustee Zain Quettawalla, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay and off course Hitesh Sharma and Mahek Shah who coordinated the inauguration function so well and the team RKMA lead by Swami Asimatmanandji Maharaj, Dr.D.K. Kar and Mr.Manoj Varma. Here I would like to put on record our sincere gratitude to DG.Prafull Sharma, whose instant promise of 50,000 USD from DDF only made it possible for the project to take this grand shape and Rtn.Dilip Vora & Rtn.Saurabh Sonawala from District for guiding us on our Global Grant Application. How can I forget to thank the TRF Sr.Cadres, PDG Dr.Narayana and PDG.Vinod Bansal for pre and post inspection of our Grant amount for the project.

I would now shift our focus to another large project of constructing 100 rural household Toilets at Igatpuri with the financial support of Rtn.Nick Israni's Company, Blue Cross Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. I would like to thank Rtn.Nick Israni & Blue Cross for their generosity. I would also thank the project Committee comprising of PE.Sanjiv Kulkarni, Treasurer Gulamhusein Tayebali, Rtn.Mehul Shah & Rtn.Baldev Arora.

The Skin Bank project is very dear to our Club. This year we made a mark not only in our District but on pan India basis by organizing three mega Skin donation Awareness projects. We took a stall on the Rotary World Fest Day at Racecourse exclusively for Skin Donation Awareness. We also put Skin Donation awareness stickers on 50 NMMT buses and lastly we as the Lead host Club organized District project of 'CarVaan'. All the credit for these mega projects goes to the crusader PP.Dr.Satya Agarwal. Hats off to you Doc & Leelaji for your undying commitment to this great cause. I also thank our new Rotarian Abhishek Sharma, Mehul Shah & Alka Walavalkar who were a great support for these mega projects 'CarVaan' which got recorded in the 'World Book of records, would not have been possible but for the whole hearted support and full involvement of District Officials led by DG Prafull Sharma & Avenue Chair Membership Rtn Anuj Ajmera.

Another project spearheaded by Dr.Satya Agarwala is the Operation Restore to correct the burn defects at NBC Airoli. We held 2 such Camps this year performing about 40 surgeries. My sincere thanks to Dr.Sunil Keswani and the joint lead Club, the RC of Deonar for their whole hearted support.

Our project of Little Hearts performing pediatric heart surgeries at Wockhardt Hospital saved the lives of 30 very young children, all with the help of donations from our members. We are thankful to Ekam Foundation's Ameeta Chatterjee, RC of Downtown Sealand's President Anantram Mittal, Nafisa & Samina Khorakiwala & the Wockhardt Hospital authorities for joining us for this noble cause. A special thanks to Rtn.Dipak Himatsingka for giving the project a proper shape.

This year we started the monthly Medical Camp in association with Mahaveer International where thousands of patients with various ailments are benefitted. I thank the President of Mahaveer International Ms.Varsha Baid & Chief Coordinator Dr.Nemichand Chhajed because of whom this tie-up could be possible.

We had several other Medical Camps jointly with other Clubs and also under the District initiative, the Blood Collection drive, the Diabetic Check up Camp, the Cancer Awareness Camp at Masina Hospital, the Rozgar Mela, the Women empowerment Seminar, the skill development at WWC all through the year. My sincere thanks to our Chairman-Rotary Seva Abhiyaan, Rtn.Shirish Tare for his full involvement in these projects. A special mention is required for the support and attendence in these community projects of Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan and First Lady Pragati. The Worli Welfare Centres activities of skill development were supervised all through the year alongwith the coordination with Interact Clubs activities by R/Ann Hemangini Desai. A big thank to you Hemangini, you are a great asset to RCBN. At the same time the Rotaract activities were well coordinated by PP.Paresh Jhaveri & Rtn.Jagmohan Sekhsaria. Both of them deserve a big round of applause friends.

The Deolali Squint Eye Camp has entered into the 18th year. The project was well coordinated by PP.Abbas Arsiwalla and was well conducted by PP.Dr.Quresh Maskati alongwith Rtn.Dr.Rumi Jehangir and the whole team of Doctors. We are thankful to PP.Abbas, PP.Dr.Quresh and all other doctors who participated in the surgeries, the Millitary Cantonment Hospital staff & to the Deolali Club for making it possible to execute this most noble Community project.

Other Community projects of donating Appa Yag Laser machine to Bachooali Hospital, adopting 4 more Schools at Igatpuri, making clean drinking water available to 17 Schools in Igatpuri and also in Schools in Arunachal Pradesh, providing Computer Lab and e-learning equipments to 25 Schools in Aurangabad, all could be possible only due the generosity of our donor members and also the dedication & devotion of Rotarians. I thank PP.Dr.Palep, PP.Asim, PP.Firozbhai, PP.Mahendra bhai, Dr. Satya Agarwala, Dr.Sonal & Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, Dr.Gopinath Rachmale, Dr.Jinish Upadhyay, Dr.Chetan Desai, Dr.Anjali Patil alongwith the entire project execution team to implement these projects. Hats off to you Docs.

Coming to the Club Service, I would like to inform you all that we held record 33 regular meetings, including a few Club assemblies. Here, I would like to thank Sergent At Arms, Rtn.Rashmi Chokshi for making proper arrangements for these meetings and ensuring that members get different choices of sumptuous breakfast in every meeting. I would also like to thank Rtn Chandru for making our meetings very lively.

My sincere thanks to the program committee headed by Director (VP) Hemendra Shah, Chairperson- Nafisa Kachwalla, member Dipak Himatsingka for the fantastic job of selecting the right speakers for all these meetings. We are also thankful to all the speakers and guests who attended our meetings.

My leadership is by fellowship said Evem Ebude Oliver. Following this theme, this year we had in all 18 Fellowship events including the first ever fully participated International Tour of SriLanka, two domestic Tours of 3 nights each to Indore & Mussorie, Three - day picnics to Panvel, Karjat & Lonavala, Eight Cluster Fellowships, Installation, Charter nite, Diwali Dhamaka, OCV & Xmas Celebrations & Vocational Excellence Awards Function. Here, please join me to applaud the Fantastic work done by Fellowship Chairman-Kamal Lakhotia who in spite of his ill health (For few months) kept the tempo on ably supported by Jayshree.

He alongwith Sergent At Arms-Rashmi Chokshi, Club Secretary Rukhsana Khan, all the 5 Cluster Convenors, PP.Zain, Rtn.Shirish Tare, Rtn.Mehul Shah, Rtn.Hemendra Shah and Rtn.Girish Walavalkar organised every event so well that we had all the praises from the members. My sincere thanks to all our Cluster convenors for the job well done. They really deserve a big round of applause. I would be failing in my duties if I do not thank the hosts of some of these fellowships. My sincere thanks to PP.Dr.Habil & Nafisa Khorakiwalla for hosting the OCV & Xmas Party, PP & Charter member Babulalji & Kamla Todi for the fantastic party hosted at Todi Bungalow, Lonavala, KK & Vinita Agarwal for hosting the event at their Karjat Farm, Rtn.Vasant Kelkar for hosting the Cluster Fellowship at his house and Rtn.Baldev Arora for hosting a grand party at Antara in Dehradun. A special thanks to R/Ann Saju Thadani & the first Lady Pragati for the wonderful fashion show at Diwali Dhamaka.

During the Rotary year 2017-18 friends RCBN was seen everywhere in almost all the District events, joint events and other Club events and this all could be possible due to the support of our 17 members strong Board & 5 Trustees. I thank all the Board members & Trustees alongwith 30 committee members for their whole hearted support.

As informed earlier we had 11 Board meetings so far this year. I am thankful to Shri Motilalji Oswal for hosting two of our Board Meetings at Motilal Oswal Tower, to PP Suresh Gandhi for hosting one such meeting at 'Workwise' and to Rtn.Saif Attar for hosting majority Board Meetings at Ambit House.

It is said the “Bhukhe Bhajan na hoye Gopala” means none of these projects, programs and activities would have been possible without the generous donation of our members. Friends, in all this year we received the donations of whopping sum of over Rs. 300 lakhs from our members & others which alongwith our Trust’s income were all spent on various community projects. While all the donors deserve their names to be mentioned, due to paucity of time I would like to name a few: Rtn.Baldev Arora, PP.Dr.Habil Khorakiwala, Rtn.Nick Israni, Dr.Sonal & PP. Dr.Rajendra Agarwal, PDG.Vijay Jalan, PP.Dinesh Toprani, Dr.Sudhanshu Bhattacharya, PP.Suresh Gandhi, PP.Dr.Satya Agarwala, Rtn.Hemendra Shah, Rtn.C.I. Gandhi, Rtn.D.D. Chopra, Rtn.Naval Saraf, Rtn.Bhavin Chokshi, Rtn.Harshad Sheth, Rtn.Gautam Gandhi, Rtn. Jagmohan Sekhsaria, Rtn. K. K. Agarwal & all others. A special thanks to Chandrakalaben Marfatia for donating a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- to create an endowment fund in the name of her husband late Rtn.Ravi Marfatia, which was topped up with Rs.2,00,000/- by Rtn.Harshad Sheth. Can we have a thunderous applause for them. The membership committee headed by PP.Ravindra Somani and comprising of PP.Mahendra Kothari, PP.Pradip Shroff, PP.Babulalji Todi & PP.Quresh Maskati did a fantastic job of enrolling 6 new members this year. My sincere thanks to you all sirs. We welcome Rtn.Ashish Ajmera, Rtn.Chandrakant Gandhi, Rtn.DD.Chopra, Rtn.Abhishek Sharma, Rtn.Vishal Nathany & Rtn.Ragini Chokshi to Bombay North.

All these news & reportings were brought to you by the Club Magazine Inspiration, month after month regularly before the 10th of the next month. My compliments to the Editorial Team of Ajeet Arenja and Rtn.Mandar Tambe for the fantabulous job done by them which made our 'Inspiration' a talk of Rotary in District 3141. I am thankful to all the 11 sponsors of Inspiration, due to whose contribution only it could be possible to provide hard copies to each one of you.

All our projects received fantastic Publicity this year by print media, Inspiration, DG's GML Samvad & NMMT Buses (courtesy new member Abhishek Sharma) and off course our fully functional website www.rotarybombaynorth.com.

Rotary begins from home. Yes, friends I was fortunate to have a family of socially conscious members. My better half Pragati remained glued to me all through the year with almost 100% attendance. My sons Ankit & Anuj & daughters in law Pallavi & Shikha took care of our business and children in our absence due to Rotary engagements. A big thank you to all my dear children. A whole lot of other people worked as a great support in performing my Rotary duties this year. I would like to thank Mr.Adepu Shivramulu (popularly known as Shivram), Sarojini – our WWC incharge, Mr.Mohammed (Our Accountant), Mr.Niraj Anand our Auditors, Akansha in PP.Ajeet’s office and Anlet, Jayashree & Harsh in my Office. They were all a great help to me.

I would end my report with the famous Hindi Song which is absolutely apt and expresses my feelings;

“Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Ehsaan mere dil pe tumhara hai dosto

Yeh dil tumhare pyaar ka maara hai dosto

Yaaro ne mere vaaste kya kuchh nahin kiya

Sau baar shukriya are sau baar shukriya.”

THANK YOU VERY MUCH….

May I now request Pragati to say a few words...

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Kiruthikka Karthikeyan's performance at Alliance Francaise ,Lusaka

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Series Title: The Dialogue between Shuka and Rambha

Suite Name: Rambha-Shuka Samvad

Creation Date: ca. 1600

Display Dimensions: 8 5/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (21.91 cm x 9.84 cm)

Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection

Accession Number: 1990.778

Collection: The San Diego Museum of Art

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district Azamgarh Coordinated by mission sikshan samvad and teachers with

teachers club uttar pradesh.

Series Title: The Dialogue between Shuka and Rambha

Suite Name: Rambha-Shuka Samvad

Creation Date: ca. 1600

Display Dimensions: 8 5/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (21.91 cm x 9.84 cm)

Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection

Accession Number: 1990.779

Collection: The San Diego Museum of Art

Ramakrishna Mission, Dhaka

Accession Number: 1990:778

Display Title: Unyielding to Temptation: The sage Shuka Remains Unmoved as Rambha Dances. . .

Suite Name: Rambha-Shuka Samvad

Media & Support: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Creation Date: ca. 1600

Creation Place/Subject: India

State-Province: Rajasthan

Court: Bikaner (?)

School: Mughal

Display Dimensions: 8 5/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (21.91 cm x 9.84 cm)

Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection

Label Copy:

October 2005

Domains of Wonder

The celestial nymph Rambha was generated before the creation of the world during the churning of the primeval Ocean of Milk. She became enamored of a sage and visited him where he sat in meditation. Despite her seductive dances and pleadings, the sage remained chaste and launched into a speech on the futility of pleasures of the flesh. The text is written on the reverse sides in gold on vermillion or aubergine grounds. """

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Repository: The San Diego Museum of Art

Accession Number: 1990:779

Display Title: The Celestial Nymph Pleads with the Sage

Suite Name: Rambha-Shuka Samvad

Media & Support: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Creation Date: ca. 1600

Creation Place/Subject: India

State-Province: Rajasthan

Court: Bikaner (?)

School: Rajasthani

Display Dimensions: 8 5/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (21.91 cm x 9.84 cm)

Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection

Label Copy:

October 2005

Domains of Wonder

The celestial nymph Rambha was generated before the creation of the world during the churning of the primeval Ocean of Milk. She became enamored of a sage and visited him where he sat in meditation. Despite her seductive dances and pleadings, the sage remained chaste and launched into a speech on the futility of pleasures of the flesh. The text is written on the reverse sides in gold on vermillion or aubergine grounds. """

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Bibliography:

Repository: The San Diego Museum of Art

Red tape movement for support of rise for climate

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district.Deoriya... Coordinated by mission sikshan samvad and teachers with

teachers club uttar pradesh.

Firozabad, India-- Rise for Climate, Red Tape Movement program in district Firozabad Coordinated by mission sikshan samvad and teachers with teachers club uttar pradesh.

Afzal Ahmad Firozabad

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LATHORE ATROCITY : PRELIMJNARY OBSERVATIONS .

"hamari economic situation thik hai, kuchh ke paas zameen hei, educationally hum unse behtar hain, hum .

Ambedkarism ke tahat kam karte hain, temple meln entry ke /lye sangharsh kiye hain, unke liye baja bajana .

chlwd diye hain. hamara Srikrishna club development ka kam khud karla hai jmera Meher ki /adki ke sath .

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affair hai...in sab se Meher aur Agrawal bahuf jalte hain, . Laba Suna, Lathore.

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~~Maine 17 January ko Vanijya Sangha ke kala bajariyon aur Ghasiram ke mad (liquor) bhatti ke bare mein ek .

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news item /ikha tha. Jiske karan vo kaaphi baukhalaye fhe. Kapil Suna, Lathore.

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"22 January ko 3-3.30 baje 500-600 log jo kai gaon se the, Jitu da ke ghar ko jalane /age. Unke hath mein hafhiyar the-ta/war, pharsa, ku/hari, Jath1: sambhal, eint (brick). Jaggannath Agrawal petrol bant raha tha. Ghasiram mad(liquor) free kar diya tha. Bol raha tha ki Ganda /ogno ko mar do. Ma-behan ki sari khfnchi. Meri maa ko jab kandhe par lekar mein bhag rahi thi to unhe bhi eint (brick) lagi. Hum mein se .

kuchh Ghasi padamein bhage, jabki kuchh jungle ki taraf Ve torch lekarjungle mein bhi dhoondh rahe the. Mere kapde bhi phat gaye the. .

Hamne puri raat jungle mein guzaari kadakti dhand mein. "-Lalita Sun a, Lathore r;3.30 baje se lekar 12.30 rat tak hamare ghar ko ja/aya-loota gaya. Unhe pata tha ki kis ghar mein sona -chandi hai. Vo use loot liya.Hamare certificates ko nikal-nikal kar jala rahe the. Ve ghar ko jala rahe the aur nara de rahe--holi hai. Ve hamare micchil (goat), murge ko .

}ala kar kha rahe the aur mad (liquor) pi rahe the. Police ki maujoodagi mein ye sab twa. Damkat jo binapani ka tha ko bhi}ala diya. "-.

Geetanjali Suna, Lathore ('Hum nirdosh hain. Hamare 45/og arrest hain. Aap isse poliricise nal1i kariye. Bhagwan insaf karenge"-An Agrawal Youth, Lathore aHamare Jog Patnagarh jail mein hain. Election ke bad ve chhoof jaytmge. ·-Babita Meher, Lathore .

We could not do anything. Police were busy in the combing operation.,._ Loberto Kiro, SHO "OM called at 9.30 pm on 22nc1 January to reach the relief camp on 23rd morning."-CDPO "We are giving food to 195 people, but they are feeding 270 people.Their relatives are eating their food."-BOO DHamare school ki padhai yahan badhit ho rahi hsi is camp ke karan. Jati iss ghatana ka karan nahi hai." AN Mishra, Headmaster, .

Durgeshwari High School (a part of this school is 'relief camp now) .

" Humko Maovadiyon se bachane ke liye yahan deploy kiya gaya hai." A Para-Military Force Deployed in the Camp" Everbody is fit and fine here."-Medical Officer at the Camp, A Meher "Incident of Lathore is not an issue. It is part of life normal life . " -AK Panda, DSP (Establishment) .

"We are responsible for natural calamities and not for this."--Mr. Minj, ADM .. It has nothing to do with caste. We cannot register it under SC/ST Act. We cannot do anything now. We are busy in election."-AK Dey, OM "Cas~e is not the reason of this incident. People from different villages were part of this crime." Bhaj Meher, Samvad "h'um vote varyaan (boycott) karenge"-Seemanchal, Lath ore .

tiHumpehle to constitutional tarike se apna sangharsh kar&nge. Le~in agar hamein nayaya nahi mila to hum Maovadiyno ke safh ho jayenge~~-Rinku Suna, Lathore These are some of the excerpts shared with our ten membesr team from DU, JNU, IGNOU which were in Lathore from 15to 4th February.

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\"/hen Indian S~ate was gearing up for its 'Republic Day' celebrations on 22nd February, 2012 45 houses of Dalits in Lathore , Balangir.

district of Odisha were IGoted, burnt down by the Meher-Agrawal in collaboration with the RSS. Properties worth crores were looted. .

Women were harassed, sexua'ly abused. And now they are living in a camp, Durgeshwari High School, Lathore. The Administration .

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is busy in Panchayat election and have left the people on their own. .

The torching was well planned: The brahamanical media an-:i the Administration projected that the reason for the gutting down of .

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· houses is 'stealing' of a shirt by a dalit boy, Ganesh Suna from the shop of Bharat Meher. 'Ne must not forget that even in Mirchpurgenocide, where mere barking of 8 dog at Jat youths was stated as the reason for torching of the two dalits alive! Our interaction with the people in the camp proves that the reason behind it are many includi:1g the growing assertion of masses and their collective resistance waged against the Brahamanicel State. The Dalits of Lathore are comparatfvely in better situation. Some of them hold .

land. Economically, educationally they are better than their upper castes neighbours. They have rejected the caste based slaveryimposed on them. Politically they have started asserting thus have emerged as the enemy for the caste Hindus. Their militant assertion for entry into temples, collectively taking up the developmental tasks under the banner of 'l<rishna Club' (which is going to be renamed as 'Jai Shim Club') and many others are b!g threat for the RSS. .

Kapil Suna, a journalist whose house was also burnt told us thnt on 17th January he had written a news item in the The Samaya, Oriya daily, in which he exposed the black market and the illegal liquor business. The title this news item is 'kala bazaar ka shahar Lathore'. In addition to liquor, there is black-marketir.g of woods, kerosene, public distribution items such as wheat, rice etc. and also the minerals like coal. Along with the local mafia dons Jaggannath AgaiWal and Ghasiram Agarwal, the local administration is involved in this. Ghasiram AgaNJal has a Bear factory in Belpara (Odisha) and also one in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that'this was a planned torching was also substantiated by the infom1ation provided by the CDPO. She expressed that they were called by the DM on the 22nd night itself {\vhile the houses were still burning) that ihe Durgeshwari School ~hould be made as the 'relief camp and the OM asked her to be present with other Aanganwadi didis in the 'relier camp on 23rd morning. More so people from different villages .

were part of the attacking mob. .

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Admlnistration·not only spectator but a·.

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!so perpetrator: The observation of our team is that the Police"and Administration is hand-.

in-gloves in this heinous crime. It was reiterated by the people in the camp that the SHO Loberto Kiro was·present on the _spot when .

the houses were being burnt down. People unanimously said that the office of the OM SP was informed when the mob of more than .

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500 pe,ople gheraoed the Ganda Pada (name of the dalit's basti) but they did not bother to take any step..thhe looting and "tor<~~in._g o~ .

houses$farted at around 3 O'clock and went till midnight, but tbe casteist Administration did~ nothing. When ·meJ1ouses Were bei09 .

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Community members watching Samvad child labor shoot, Ahmedabad, India March 2010.

Samvad CVU producer Rehana prepares set alongside actors Rafiq and Munaf, Ahmedabad, India March 2010.

Red Tape Movement

Today, Red Tape Movement mobilized 10,000 students across schools in North India by tying a red tape around a tree, symbolizing our connection to trees and Mother earth and how climate change is going affect that relation in the coming years.

In this regard, today, I organised the 'Red Tape Movement’ for 350.org’s 'Rise For Climate’ in District Kanpur Nagar (Uttar Pradesh province, India) at Buddha Park, Indira Nagar. Our Chief Guest was Mr Narendra Singh Yadav, Joint Development Commissioner, Kanpur Division, Kanpur; Mr Yadav is facing the problem of 'Blood Cancer’s but he is always actively involved in 'Environment Conservation’, specially in 'Sparrow Conservation’ apart from his health issue & busy government job.

We are living in a world of Climate Change. So, we must develop a better and natural “GHG Sink system” to achieve 350 ppm CO2 level in the atmosphere. Trees are “Best Natural Sinks” of CO2 and will be helpful to tackle with Climate Change.

Red Tape Movement was started by me on 5th June, 2008, in District Etawah, to save trees and biodiversity. Under this movement, especially on a holiday, we choose a village and go to this village and do plantation and then tie red tapes on existing trees trunks, with the help of villagers and there, we give them message that to cut the trees is lethal for our future and generations to come. Since 2008, we tied red tapes on thousands of trees and making aware grassroot people about Climate Change and importance of conservation of nature.

Red Tape Movement, is also a Global Partner of 'Rise For Climate' global event ( List of Global Partners riseforclimate.org/#partners ), organised the event in more than 350 basic education department rural schools through 'Teachers Club Uttar Pradesh' & 'Mission Shikshan Samvad Uttar Pradesh'; about 10,000 students and their teachers participated, today ( actionnetwork.org/events/red-tape-movement ). Gen Sec of 'Teachers Club Uttar Pradesh' Mr Avanindra Jadaun, Teacher in Junior High School ( District Etawah) lead the event along with Mr Vimal Kumar, Teacher in Junior High School (District Kanpur Dehat).

Today, rural schools, in throughout 'Uttar Pradesh' and Chhattisgarh provinces of India did plantation, aware students & villagers about Environment Conservation and Climate Change; students tied red tapes on existing trees trunks and taken 'Oath To Save' Trees & Biodiversity and to live Environment Friendly life.

We believe that the Global Climate Action Summit, being held in California on 12-14 September 2018 presents a unique opportunity to pressure local governments and institutions to raise their ambition and do more for climate action. We think this is an opportunity to create pressure on World Leaders for fossil free world.

Every leader has a moral obligation to do everything they can to stop the fossil fuel industry and build 100% renewable energy for all.

We can’t live with energy from fossil fuels. 21st Century is the 'Century Of Climate Change’ and it’s time to repower our communities with clean and renewable energy, so that we can make the 21st Century, the 'Century Of Renewable Energy. Anything less than that is out of line with what science and justice demand.

‘United We’ can save earth from Climate Change, through such people’s participatory grass root level awareness movements. This is MUST to save our beautiful Earth from Climate Change for our future generations to come.

Prabhat Misra

Assistant Director, National Savings/

Founder of @RedTapeMovement,

District- Firozabad, Province- Uttar Pradesh Country- India

Mobile & WhatsApp: (0091)8630868420

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LATHORE ATRGCITY a: PRELIMINARY OBS.ERVATIQ,NS 112.

·hamari economic situation thik hai, kuchh ke paas zameenhai, educationally hum unse behtar hain, .hum .

Ambedkarism ke ta_hat kam karle hain, temple mein entry ke liye sangharsh kiyehain, unke /iye baja bajana chhod diye hain. hamara Srikrishna club devetopment ka kam khud karla hai ,mera Meherki ladki ke sath affair hai...in sab se Meher aur Agrawal bahutjafte hain, .·-Laba Suna, Lathore "Maine 17 January ko Vanijya Sangha kekala bajariyon aur Ghasiram kemad (liquor) bhatti ke bare mein ek news itemlikha thq.. Jiske karan vo kaaphi baukhalaye the."-Kapil Suna, Lathore "22 January ko 3-3.30 baje 500-600 log jo kai gaon se the, Jitu dakeghar kojalane/age. Unkehath mein hathiyar the-fa/war, pharsa, .

kulhari, lathi, sambhal, eint (brick). Jaggannath Agrawal petrol bant raha tha. Ghasiram mad(liquor) free kar diya tha. Bol raha tha ki Ganda lognoko mar do. Ma-behan ki sari khinchi. Meri maa ko jab kandhe par lekar mein bhag rahi thi to unhebhi eint (brick) lagi. Hum mein se kuchh Ghasi pada meinbhage, jabki kuchhjungle ki taraf. Vetorch l3kar jungle mein bhi dhoondh rahe the. Merekapde bhi phat gaye the. Hamne puri raat junglemein guzaari kadakti dh.and mein."-Lalita Suna, Lathore "3. 30 baje se lekar 12.30 rat tak hamareghar ko jalaya-loota gaya. Unhe pata tha ki kis ghar mein sona -chandi hai. Vo use loot liya. Hamare certificatesko nikal-nikal karjala rahe the. Veghar ko jala rahe the aur naraderahe-holi hai. Ve hamaremicchil (goat), murgeko jala kar kha rahe theaur mad (liquor) pi rahethe. Police ki maujoodagi meinye sab hua~ Damka/jo bina pani ka tha kobhijaladiya."-Geetanjali Suna, Lathore .:Hum nirdoshhain. Hamare 45/og arrest hain. Aap isse politicise nahi kariye. Bhagwan insaf karenge·-An Agrawal Youth, Lathore "Hamare tog Patnagarh jail mein hain. Election ke bad ve chhoot jayenge. ·-Babita Meher, Lathore "We couldnot do anything. Police were busy in the combing operation. ~~-Loberto Kjro, SHO ''OM called at 9.30 pm on 22nd January to reach the relief camp on 23rd morning."-CDPO "We are giving food to 195 people, but they are feeding 270 people.Their relatives are eating their food:-BOO :tHamare school ki padhai yahan badhit ho rahi hai is camp kekaran. Jati iss ghatana ka karan nahi hai. AN Mishra, Headmaster, Durgeshwari High School {a part of this school is 'relief camp now) "Humko Maovadiyonsebachane keliye yahan deploy kiya gaya hai." A Para-Military Force Deployed in the Camp .

" Everbody is fit and fine here."-Medical Officer at the Camp, A Meher .

~Incident of Lathore is not anissue. It is part of life normal life ." -AK Panda, DSP (Establishment} .

" We are responsible for natural calamities and not for this."-Mr. Minj, ADM .

'"It has nothing to dowith caste. Wecannot register it under SC/STAct. We cannot do anything now. We are busy in election."-AK Dey, 01\-1 'Caste ts not the reason of this incident. People fromdifferent villages were part of this crime." Bhaj Meher, Samvad (!Hum vote varyaan (boycott) karenge~-Seemanchal, Lathore "Hum pehle-to constitutional tarikese apna sangharsh karenge. Lekin agar hamein nayaya nahi mila tohum Maovadiyno ke sath ho jayenge"-Rinku Suna, Lathore These are someof theexcerpts shared with our ten membesr teamfrom DU, JNU, IGNOU which were in Lathore from1st to 41h February .

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******************** When Indian State was gearing up for its 'Republic Day celebratio!ls on 22°~ February, 2012 45 houses of Dalits in Lathore , Balangir district of Odisha were looted, burnt down by the Meher-Agrawal in collaboration with the RSS. Properties worth crores were tooted. .

Women were harassed, sexually abused. And now they are living 1n a camp, Ourgeshwari High School, Lathore. The Administration .

is busy in Panchayat election and have left the people on their own. .

The torching was well planned: The brahamanical media and the Administration projected that the reason for the gutting down of houses is 'stealing' of a shirt by a dalit boy, Ganesh Suna from the shop of Bharat Meher. We must not forget that even in Mrrchpur genocide, where mere barking of a dog at Jat youths was stated as the reason for torching of the two dalits alive! Our interaction with the people in the camp proves that the reason behind it are many including the growing assertion of masses and their collective .

resistance waged against the BrahamanicaJ State. The Dalits of Lathore are com~aratively in beJlef _sit~tion. -$Qme of them hold land. Economically, educationally they are better than their upper castes neighbours. They have rejected the caste based slaver/ imposed on them. Politically they have started asserting thus have emerged as the enemy for the caste Hindus. Their mifitant assertion for entry into temples, collectively taking up the developmental tasks under the banner of 'K· rishna Club' (which is going to .

be renamed as 'Jai Bhim Club') and many others are big threat for the RSS. .

Kapil Suna, a journalist whose house was also burnt told us that on 17th January he had written a news item in the The Samaya, .

'kala bazaar ka shahar.

Oriya daily, in which he exposed the black market and the illegal liquor business. The title this news item is .

Lathore'. In addition to liquor, there is black-marketing of woods, kerosene, public distribution items such as wheat, rice etc. and also .

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the minerals like coal. Along with the local mafia dons Jaggannath Agarwal and Ghasiram Agarwal, the local administratk>n is .

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involved in this. Ghasiram Agarwal has a Bear factory in Belpara (Odisha) and aiso one in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that this was a .

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planned torching was also substantiated by the information provided by the CDPO. She expressed that they were called by the OM .

on the 22nd night itself (while the houses were still burning) that the Durgeshwari School should be made as the 'relief camp and the .

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OM asked her to be present with other Aanganwadi didis in the 'relief camp on 23m morning. More so people from different villages .

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·Nere part of the attacking mob. .

Administration-not only spectator but also perpetrator: The observation of our team is that the Police and Administration is hand-.

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in-g!ov~s in this heinous crime. It was reiterated ?Y the peopk~ in the camp that the SHO Lobert.o Kiro was present on the spot when the houses were being burnt down. People unammously sa1d that the office of the OM, SP was 1nfonned when the mob of more than s basti) but they did not bother to take any step. The looting·and tortOOg of500 people gheraoed the Ganda Pada (name of the dalit'.

clock and went till midnight, but the casteist Administration dki nothing. When the houses wem beinghouses started at around 3 O'.

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-LATHORE ATROCITY·: PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS .

"hamari economic situation thik hai, kuchh ke paas zameen hai, educationally hum unse behtar hain, hum .

Ambsdkarism keatahat kam karte hain, temple mein entry ~eliyc sang/1arsh kiye hain, unke tive baja bajana .

chhod diye hain. hamara Srikrishna club development ka kam khud karla hai ,mere Meher ktladki kra sath tor JVt.

affair hai...insab se Meher aur Agrawal bahut jaltehain, .ft-Laba Suna, Lathore .

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"Maine 17January ko Vanijya Sangha ke kala bajariyor; aur Ghasiram ke mad (liquor) bhatti ke bare mein ek .

news item likha tha. Jiske karan vo kaaphi baukha/aye lh9. "-Kapil Suna, Lathore .

"22 January ko 3-3.30 baje 500-600 log jo kai gaon se the, Jitu da ke gnar ko j3iane JagA. Unke hath mein hathryar the-t8Jwar, iJnart:a. kulhari, lathi, sambhal, ~nf (brick). Jaggannath Agrawal petrol bant raha lha. Ghasiram mad(liquor) free kar diyEI tha Bot rana,ht:J Kr fianatt ore 1t.

togno ko mar do. Ma-behan ki sari khinchi. Meri maa kojab kandhe par lekar mein bllag rahi thi to unhe bhi emt (brioK) 1ag1. hum mem stt. .

kuchh Ghasi padamein bhage, jabki kuchh jungle ki taraf Ve torch lekarjungle mein blli dhoondh rahe the. Mere kapne bh1 pilai gi'IYEf'htJ, .

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Hamnepuri raat jungle mein guzaari kadakti dhand mein."-Lalita Suna, Lathore t .

"3.30 baie se lekar 12.30 rat tak hamare ghar ko jalaya-loota gaya. Unhe pata tha kl kis ghar mein sona -chandi t1w. Vo usutao11iya. .

Hamare certificates ko nikal-nikal kar jala rahe the. Ve ghar ko jala rahe the aur nara de rahe-holi hai. Ve hamare micr:hil (gem/, mwg9:_ t<cr .

jata kar kha rahe the aur mad (liquor) pi rahe the. Police ki maujoodagi mein;e sab twa. Damkal jo binapani ka tha ko bJJijafa}aiy,EL ..._ .

Geetanjali Suna, Lathore .

"Hum nirdosh hain. Hamare 451og arrest hain. Aap isse potmcise nahi kariye. Bhagwan insaf karenge"-An Agrawal Youth, latircr~ .

"Hamare log Patnagarh jail mein hain. Election ke bad ve chhoot jayenge. ·-Babita Meher, Lathore .

We could not do anything. Police were busy in the combing operation."-Loberto Kiro, SHO .

a'oM called at 9.30 pmon22nd January to reach the relief camp on 23rd morning."-CDPO.

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I "We are giving food to 195 people, but they are feeding 270 people.Their relatives are eating their food."-BOO 11Hamare school ki padhai yahan badhit ho rahi hai is camp ke karen. Jati iss ghatana ka karen nahi hai." AN Mishra, headmast~.. .

Durgeshwari High School (a part of this school is 'relief camp now) .

"HumkoMaovediyon se bachane ke liye yahan deploy kiya gaya hai." A Para-Military Force Deployed in the Ca:-r.p .

Everbody is fit and fine here.ft-Medical Officer at the Camp, A Meher .

"Incident of Lathore is not an issue. It is part of life normal life ." -AK Panda, DSP (Establishment} .

·We are responsiblefor natural calamities and not for this."---Mr. Minj, ADM 'D~~' .

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"It has nothing to do withcaste.We cannot register it under SC/ST Act. We cannot do anything now. We are busy l1 e🇸🇨:cr_!l_ A..:...)~·,. .

ocaste is not the reason of this incident. People from different villages were part of this crime.nBhaj Meher, Samvad .

Hum vote varjaan (boycott) karenge"-Seemanchal, Lathore .

"Hum pehle to constitutional tarii<e se apna sangharsh karenge. Lekin agar hamein nuyaya nahi mila to hum 1lao~'aaynoke sa:~ to .

jayenge·"-Rinku Suna, Lathore .

These are some of the excerpts shared with our ten membesr team from DU, JNU, IGNOU which were in lathore from 1s1 to 4~ Feb1J(H) .

2012. ********t***** .

When Indian State was gearing up for its 'Republic Day' celebrations on 22ndFebruary, 2012 45 houses of Dalits in Lathore, Balangir .

district of Odisha were looted, burr;t down by the Meher-Agrawal in collabo1·ation with the RSS. Properties worth crores were looted. .

Women were harassed~ sexually abused. And now they are living in a camp, Durgeshwari High School, Lathore. The Administration .

is busy in Panchayat election and have left the people on their own. .

The torching wa~ well planned: The brahamanical rnedia and the Administration projected that the reason for the gutting down of .

genocide, where mere barking of a dog at Jat youths wa.J stated as the reason for torching of the two dalits alive! Our interaction withhouses is 'stealing' of a shirt by a dalit boy, Ganesh Su11a from the shop of Bharat Meher. We must not forget that even in Mirchpur .

the people in the camp proves that the reason behind it are many including the growing assertion of masses and their collective .

resistance waged against the Brahamanical State. The Oalits of Lathore are comparatively in better situation. Some of them hold .

land. Economically, educationally they are better than their uprer castes neighbours. They have rejected the caste based slavery imposed on them. Politically they have ~tarted asserting thus have emerged as the enemy for the caste Hindus. Their militant assertion for entry into temples, collectively taking up the developmental tasks under the banner of 'Krishna Club' (which is going to .

be renamed as 'Jai Bhim Club') and many others are big threat for the RSS. .

Kapil Suna, a journalist whose house was also burnt told us that on 17th January he had written a news item in the The Samaya, 'kala bazaar ka 3hahaJ .

Oriya daily, in which he exposed the black market and the illeQal liquor business. The title this nevvs item isj Lathore'. In addition to liquor, there is black-marketing of woods, kerosen~, public dislribulion items such as wheat, rice etc. a"lCJ a .

the minerals like coal. Along with the local mafia dons Jaggannath Agarwal and Ghasiram Agarwai, the !ocal crinrrstra(,...,n ~ i .

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involved in t~is. Ghasiram Agarwal has a Bear factory In Belpara (Odisha) and also one in Andhra Pradesh. Tre facl tt~.

planned torching was also substantiated by the lnformntion provided by the CDPO. She expressed ihzt they were ca..

'"e~G~ ca .

on the 22nd night itself (while the houses were still burning) Ihat the Durgeshwari School should be made as ~he ~~n-~~relief camp on 23rd morning. More so people tLin C::~w.J :-.

OM asi<ed her to be present with other Aanganwadi didis in the '.

were part of the attacking mob. .

Administration-not only spectator but also perpetrator: The observation of our team is that the Police an:i A:!"71i1is:ct.i'J., is ),~\·....-.

in-gloves in this heinous crime. It was reiterated by the people in the camp that the SHO Loberto Ki"o was p--ese't 01 :~-v~ S?Y ~1~ .

the houses were being burnt down. People unanimously said that the office of the OM, SP was informed when !1e --r.o~ of~:y;: ~~a: .

500 people gheraoed the Ganda Pada (name of the dalit's basti) but they did not bother to take any step. -,e loath;; a;t' t.)":!1rt;: :r .

houses started at around 3 O'clock and went till midnight, but the casteist Administration did nothin,g. When t1fl h:us-e; wa~ :,ei't. .

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Samvad CVU producers Nimesh, Tarun and Zuber during child labor shoot, Ahmedabad, India March 2010.

AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi arrives to interact with the students of Laxmi Bai Institute of Physical Education during his two days visit in the state, in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh on Monday.

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January 18, 2010, Madhya Pradesh : Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi begins two-day tour of Madhya Pradesh and launches membership drive for NSUI.

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The topic for this year’s Bhagavat Saptah was Nav Yogeshwar Samvad by Swami Girishanandaji. The evening discourses from 2nd April to 8th April, 2018 at the Vivekananda Auditorium, Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi were well attended.

Swami Girishananda is the Acharya of the Saket Dham Ashram in Jabalpur, and is an exceptional speaker known throughout India for the clarity and lucidity of his spiritual discourses.

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LATHORE ATROCITY: PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

"hamari economic situation thik hai, kuchh kepaas zameen hai, ed:;cat!onal/y hum unse behtar hain, hum.

Ambedkarism ke tahat kam ka~ehain, templemein entfY ke/lye sangl1arsh kiyehain, unkeliye baja bajana.

chhod diye hain. hamara Srikrishna club development ka kamkhud karla hai ,meraMeher ki ladki ke sath.

affair bai...in sab se Meher aur Agrawal bahut jafte!Jain, .'1 Laba Suna, Lathore.

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"Maine 17 January ko Vanijya Sanghake kala bajariyon aur Ghasiram kemad (liquor) bhatti ke bare mein ek.

news item likha tha. Jiske karan vo kaaphi baukhalaye the."-Kapil Suna, Lathore.

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"22 January ko 3-3.30 baje 500-600 logjo kai gaonse the, Jifu dake ghar kojalane /age. Unke hath mein hathiyar the-ta/war, pharsa,.

kulhari, lathi, sambhal, eint (brick). Jaggannath Agrawal petrol bant raha tha. Ghasirammad(liquor) free kar diya tha. Bol raha tha ki Gandalogno komar do. Ma-bel1an ki sari khinchi. Meri maa ko jabkandhe par/ekar mein bhag rahi thi to unhe bhi eint (brick) lagi. Hum mein sekuchh Ghasi pada mein bhage,jabki kuchh jungle ki taraf. Vetorchlekarjungle mein bhi dhoondh rahe the. Mere kapde bhi phat gaye the.Hamnepuri raat jungle mein guzaari kadakfi dhandmein.~~-Lalita Suna, Lathore,.3.30 baje se /ekar 12.30 rat tak hamareghar kojalaya-/oot2 gaya. Unhepafa tha ki kis ghar meinsona -chandi hai. Vo use loot Jiya.Hamare certificates konikal-nikal kar jala rahe the. Ve ghar ko ja/a rahe the aur nara de rahe-·-holi hai. Vehamare micchil (goat), murge kojala kar kha rahe the aur mad (liquo~) pi rahe the. Police ki meujoodagi mein yesalJ hua. Oamkaljo binapani ka thako bhi ja/a diya."-Geetanjali Suna, Lathore.

uHum nirdosh hain. Hamare 45 log arrest hain. Aap isse politicise nahi kariye. Bhagwan insaf karenge"-An Agrawal Youth, Lathore.

.,Hamare log Patnagarh jail mein hain. Election ke bad ve chhootjayeng.9. 11-Babita Meher, Lathore.

"We could not do anything. Police were busy in the combing operation.11-Loberto l<lro, SHO.

11 0M called at 9.30 pm on 22nd January to reacht11e relief camp on 23rd morning."-CDPO.

"We are giving food to 195 people, but they are feeding 270 people.Their relatives are eating their food."-BOO.

~~Hamare school ki padhai yahan badhit ho rahi hai is camp ke karan. Jafi iss ghatana ka karan nahi hai.·" ANMishra, Headmaster,.

.

Durgeshwari High School (a part of this school is 'reller camp now),, Humko Maovadiyon sebachane ke liye yahan deploy kiya gaya nai.» APara-Military Force Deployed in the Camp" Everbody is fit and fine here."-Medical Officer at the Carnp, AMeherulrcident of Lathore is not an issue. It is part of life normal life ."-AK Panda, DSP(Establishment)"We are responsiblefor natural calamities and not for this."---Mr. Minj, ADMult :,as nothing to do with caste. We cannot register it under SC/ST Act. We cannot do anything now. We are busy in election."-AK Dey, OM~~caste is not the reason of this incident. People from different villagas were part of this crime." Bhaj Meher, Samvad"Hum vote varyaan (boycott) karenge"-Secmanchal, Lath ore"Hum pehfe to constitutional tarike se apna sangharsh karenge. LGkin agar hamein nayaya nahi mila to hum Maovadiynoke sath ho.

jayenge~-Rinku Suna, i..athore.

These are some of the excerpts shared with our ten membesr team from DU, ~.INU, IGNOU which were in Lathorefrom 181 to 41h February.

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When Indian State was gearing up for its 'Republic Day' celebrations on 22nd February, 2012 45 houses of Dalits in Lathore , Balangirdistrict of Odisha were looted, burnt down by the Meher-Agrawal in collaboration with the RSS. Propertjes worth crores were looted.Women were harassed, sexually abused. And now they are living in a camp, Ourgeshwari High School, Lathore. The Administrationis busy in Panchayat election ahd have left the people on their own..

The torching was well planned: The brahamanical media and the Administration projected that the reason for the gutting down of.

houses is '.

stealing' of a shirt by a dalit boy, Ganesh Suna from the shop of Bharat Meher. We must not forget that even in Mirchpurgenocide, where mere barking 9f a dog at Jat youths was stated as the reason for torching of the two dalits alive! Our interaction withthe people in the camp proves that the reason behind it are many including the growing assertion of masses and their collectiveresistance waged against the Brahamanical State. The Dalits of Lathore are comraratively in better situation. Some of them holdland. Economically, educationally they are better than their upper castes neighbours. They have rejected the caste based slaveryimposed on them. Politically they have started asserting thus have emerged as the enemy for the caste Hindus. Their militantassertion for entry into temples, collectively taking up the developmental tasks under the banner of 'Krishna Club' (which is going tobe renamed as 'Jai Shim Club') and many others are big threat for the RSS.Kapil Suna, a journalist whose house was also burnt told us that on 17U.

1 January he had written a news item in the The Samaya,Oriya daily, in which he exposed the black market and the illegal liquor business. The title t~is news item is 'kala bazaar ka shaharLathore'. In addition to liquor, there is black-marketing of woods, kerosene, public distribL·+ion items such as wheat, rice etc. and alsothe minerals like coal. Along with the local mafia dons Jaggannnth Ag.arwal and Ghasiram Agarwal, the local administration is.

involved in this. Ghasiram Agarwal has a Bear factory in Belpara (Odisha) and also one in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that this was aplanned torching was also substantiated by the information provided by the·CDPO. She expressed that they were q,al'led by the OMon the 22nd night itself (while ttle houses were still burning) that the Durgeshwari School should be made as the 'relief camp and theOM asked her to be present with other Aanganwadi didis in the 'relief camp on 23rd morning. More so people·from different villageswere part of the attacking mob.Administration-not only spectator but also perpetrator: The observation of our team is that the Police and Administration is hand-.

in-glcves in this heinous crime. It was reiterated ?Y the people in the camp that the S~O Lebert? K!ro was present on the spot whenthe houses were being burnt down. People unan1mously sa1d that the office of the OM, SP was mforrned when the mob of more than500 people gher~oed the Ganda Pada (name ~f th~ d~lit's basti) but.the~ did no~ ~oth~r to t~~e any step. The looting·and torching ofhouses started at around 3 O'clock and went t1ll m1d~1ght, but the caste1st Adrr.1n1strat1on d1d noth1ng. When the ho(ises were being .

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January 18, 2010, Madhya Pradesh : Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi begins two-day tour of Madhya Pradesh and launches membership drive for NSUI.

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January 18, 2010, Madhya Pradesh : Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi begins two-day tour of Madhya Pradesh and launches membership drive for NSUI.

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AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi arrives to interact with the students of Laxmi Bai Institute of Physical Education during his two days visit in the state, in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh on Monday.

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Samvad CVU intern Sylvia records audio during child labor film shoot, Ahmedabad, India March 2010.

The topic for this year’s Bhagavat Saptah was Nav Yogeshwar Samvad by Swami Girishanandaji. The evening discourses from 2nd April to 8th April, 2018 at the Vivekananda Auditorium, Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi were well attended.

Swami Girishananda is the Acharya of the Saket Dham Ashram in Jabalpur, and is an exceptional speaker known throughout India for the clarity and lucidity of his spiritual discourses.

The topic for this year’s Bhagavat Saptah was Nav Yogeshwar Samvad by Swami Girishanandaji. The evening discourses from 2nd April to 8th April, 2018 at the Vivekananda Auditorium, Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi were well attended.

Swami Girishananda is the Acharya of the Saket Dham Ashram in Jabalpur, and is an exceptional speaker known throughout India for the clarity and lucidity of his spiritual discourses.