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ROTARY BANGALORE ORCHARDS SEPT 2020 RI PRESIDENT 22/23 NOMINEE JENIFFER JONES From the Editor’s Desk The biggest news in the Rotary World is the eradication of Polio from the African Continent. Now Africa the biggest continent on the globe is Polio Free ! It is one of the toughest tasks undertaken by Rotary International in 17 association with World Health Organisation. Africa was more challenging than other parts of the globe due to its vastness, diversity of culture and large ethnic groups which have yet to come into the mainstream society. With consistent efforts the last country in Africa has finally been declared Polio free ! Now the world is having another herculean task of ending pandemic namely COVID19. The World Health Organization has approached Rotary to help them once again to partner in tackling COVID19 Pandemic. A large number of Rotary Clubs over the world, including ones in our own District 3190 have been tirelessly helping to combat corona virus by providing Volunteers in the form of corona warriors. During these times our Orchid Bulletin plays a crucial role in communicating not only within the Club Members but also with fellow Rotarians from other Clubs and the District Officials too.One of the most significant event happened last week is festival Ganesha Gowri at Rotary Orchards Chaitanya Senior Citizens Home. The enthusiasm of seniors in participating in the event was most joyous event and many of them remembered their childhood memories and could not control tears. Family event was organized by our club with participation by family members of our Rotarians on 15th August, 2020. A new Rotaract Club was installed during this month. They kicked off by distributing blankets to needy. Thanking you, With regards, Rtn Harikrishna S Holla WINNERS ROTARY QUIZ-2 Dr. Lakshmi Kumar Ann Nirmala Murali M Ann Shobha Dwaraka Annet Bhoomi Agarwal Annets – Anshu & Abhi Adiga Presidents Message Dear Fellow Rotarians, What better way to start the month than by monetarily assisting a critically ill patient for his cardiac surgery. This could be done from generous donations by several of our members. Like the previous month, in August too, a blood donation camp was conducted at Indian Institute Of Science. This time, we had our young Rotractors too were actively involved in this project including donating blood. As you might know, our Dist. 3190 has set up a 300 bed Covid Care Centre at a building provided by KSRTC. Our Rtn. Rajanna Srinivasan has donated 1,000 litres of coffee decoction (street value Rs. 5.7 lakhs) to this CCC. We had two wonderful speakers talking to us about cybersecurity and the wonderful world of satellites respectively. Both these two topics were indeed interesting, made perhaps more interesting by the speakers who put across the subject so succinctly. Being cocooned in our business and profession, we do not realize and recognize the vast amount of work being done which in some way or the other affect our lives. A thoroughly enjoyable family event, even if it was on a virtual platform, was put together by Rtn. Ramesh Chari and his Ann Jaishree. The program was greatly appreciated by the attendees. As usual, Udupi Ruchi continues to sponsor the Rotary quiz prizes that appear in this bulletin. Although belated, I would like to wish each one of you a Happy Independence Day. I also hope you had a good festival. May the Lord’s blessing continue to be on us. Look forward to another fruitful month. Rtn Narasimha Dwarakanath September ’20 Projects PDRR Naveen Senna collaring Rtr.Martina FIRST PROJECT DISTRIBUTION OF 100 Paul President of Rotaract Bangalore BLANKETS TO BEAT THE CHILLY WEATHER. Orchards on behalf of President Rtn. Dwarakanath Narasimha – on 8th August 2020 They were given to the needy. Government Junior Primary School, Chintamani Taluk Chikkaballapur District. All children studying in class 5 were given school bags. The bags were distributed by teachers. CAUGHT BEHIND !! Its All About Cricket By Manjunath Bijahalli Last week we the members of RBO family had the pleasure of listening our own high profile Honorary Member Rtn. Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani. Here are few snippets on our Kiri Sahaab, who was arguably the greatest wicketkeeper of India. Before getting into big time cricket, Kiri as a kid was using bricks as wicket keeping gloves, while playing cork-ball cricket on the streets. He stepped on the big stage at the tender age of 16 playing for Madras Schools in the Cooch Behar Trophy. From there to South Zone Schools as a keeper and batsman. And then he played four ‘Test.’ matches against the Australian Schools team, making full use of the opportunity. His returns in these four ‘Tests’ were 2 hundreds, 1 fifty with 6 catches and 3 stumpings. After this, when Eknath Solkar led the Indian Schools side on a tour to England, Kirmani was named his deputy. There were accompanying accomplishments as well. He arrived on the first-class scene in 1967-68, but had to wait for an opportunity in Test cricket till 1975-76. That was mainly because of the presence of Farokh Engineer in the Indian line up. However, after his entry, the Indian side did not have too many worries concerning the big gloves, in the 1970’s he kept for the all time great famed spin attack of EAS Prasanna, Chandrashekar & Bedi. In 88 Tests, he caught 160 and stumped 38 batsmen. With the bat, he scored 2,758 runs, with two hundreds, including one as a night-watchman. Kirmani's batting was dogged yet effective. He partnered Sunil Gavaskar in a record 9th wicket partnership against West Indies in 1983 at Chennai. His average in tests was 27, in those pre-Gillcrist era, 27 average was quite impressive for an wicketkeeper batsman. In 49 ODIs he held 27 catches and effected 9 stumpings. Perhaps the high point of his limited overs career was the famous match against Zimbabwe in the Prudential World Cup 1983, when he came in at 140 for 8 and added an unbeaten 126 with the rampaging Kapil Dev, he himself scoring 24 not out. In the historic world cup final at Lords, he took an outrageous catch in front of 1st slip to dismiss Faoud Bacchus of WI. Best wicketkeeper of the 1983 World Cup award was given to Kirmani by famous Godfrey Evans, a silver glove with a silver ball in it as a trophy which he cherish even today. In 275 first-class matches, Kirmani held 367 catches alongside 112 stumpings. Besides, he scored 9620 runs at 30.15 with 13 hundreds. Kiri played a major role in putting Karnataka as a domestic powerhouse. Interestingly, even after retiring from first- class cricket, Kirmani did not give up the game. In the Masters Cup of 1994-95, he held 7 catches and effected 5 stumpings. Seeing him at that age, Gavaskar observed that Mongia would be embarrassed if he saw Kiri’s keeping Later, he played in the 1995 Masters Cup, 1997-98 Zhandubalm Independence Cup … and even kept brilliantly against the South African veterans side at the age of 54. In 2007- 08, he took field for the final time, for the Kerala Veterans in Sri Lanka. He held two catches and made a stumping in the two matches. And hit 62 runs off 45 balls. Kiri for his clean shaven head was nicknamed as the Yul Bryner of Indian cricket. An enthusiastic actor, he played the role of a goon in the movie Kabhi Ajnabi The in which his co-star was Sandeep Patil, his 1983 World Cup mate. Kiri sahaab now a days plays golf and has a decent handicap. He was awarded Padma Shri in 1982 and Arjuna Award in 1980-81. Short Infomentary Kiri enjoying a game of Golf with the Author Rtn Manjunath Bijahalli Rt Kick out POLIO End of polio! By Harikrishna S. Holla Polio is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus that causes paralysis and even death. Children under five are most susceptible to the disease. Polio is incurable, but it is easily preventable with a simple oral vaccine. One of the biggest global Community service project undertaken by any non-government Organisation in the world is Polio Eradication Programme. This brought Global recognition to Rotary International. Many NGOs/Philanthropists/Corporate Bodies all over the world joined hands with Rotary International in eradication of polio from the world map. Today because of dedicated and consistent efforts for nearly 40 years by Rotarians world is almost free from Polio except for two Asian Countries. The project’s success led to Rotary to make polio eradication a top priority. More than 2.5 billion children have received the oral polio vaccine. UNICEF and Rotary, a global network of volunteers dedicated to tackling the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges, are working together in the fight to end polio forever. Since UNICEF and Rotary began their partnership in 1988, both organizations, as members of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have played a fundamental role in dramatically decreasing the number of polio-endemic countries. In 1988, an estimated 350,000 cases of paralytic polio occurred, when polio was endemic in 125 countries. Today, polio remains endemic in just two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2017, there were just 22 cases worldwide. Rotary funds critical elements of UNICEF’s polio eradication programs, such as national immunization days, polio vaccine delivery, and training of health workers. Rotary’s network of volunteers in more than 200 countries and regions has also worked with UNICEF in the field to ensure that the poorest, most isolated children are immunized against polio.