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Ad -1 NOVEMBER 2015 | 1 Ad -2 2 | NOVEMBER 2015 Ad -2a NOVEMBER 2015 | 3 COMMITTEE MEMBERS & PORTFOLIOS PATRON Lt. General Jagbir Singh SM, VSM, General Officer Commanding, ATNK & K Area PRESIDENT **MR. P.V.S VENCATASUBRAMANIAM [email protected] Golf & Gym Mag VICE PRESIDENT CONTENTS **MR. S.B.P ANAND MOHAN [email protected] Legal & Software from the Secretary’s desk ......................6 VICE PRESIDENT **##BRIG. K.S SELVAN [email protected] from the Treasurer’s desk .......................8 HONORARY SECRETARY **MR. A.P SURESH KUMAR [email protected] Staff & Service Places-A soft and pleasant land ..........10 HONORARY TREASURER **MR. S.M ISPAHANI Happy Married Life .................................12 [email protected] MR. ARVIND C. MEHTA [email protected] Angels Do Exist ......................................14 Chess, Darts, Badminton & Squash MR. A.R. BALAKRISHNAN Bridge ...........................................................16 [email protected] Library MR. M. FAZAL MOHAMMED Events ..........................................................18 [email protected] House & Residential Quarters **DR. T. GUNASAGARAN Personalities ..............................................20 [email protected] Swimming, Snooker, Garden & Environment MR. N. KUMAR The Gymkhana Club Yesteryears ......22 [email protected] Cricket & Gymnasium MR. K. PARTHASARATHY ................................. Food 24 [email protected] Bridge, Tennis & Table Tennis Rs.999 Question? ............................26 #Col. RAJESH SINGH, S.C.,S. M., #COL. R. RAVI KUMAR, S.M., [email protected] .................... Emergency Medical Care 27 MR. SEKHAR ALAGAPPAN [email protected] Catering **MR. C. VENUGOPAL Madras Gymkhana Club [email protected] The Island, Anna Salai, Chennai-2. Bar E-Mail : [email protected], [email protected] Website: madrasgymkhanaclub.com Golf Annexe, Guindy Phone: 22350319, 22300093 MR VIVEK DHANDA [email protected] Deputy General Manager: Mr. R. Manoharan, Ph: 9962072788 Entertainment & Gym 3S Sr. Manager (P&A): Mr. R. Manikavachakam, Ph: 9176669270 Enquiries: Office, Party Booking & Accommodation: 2536 8169, 2536 4320, 25368160,8,9, Catering: 2536 1089 ** Members of the Executive Committee # Members nominated by GOC Publisher : A. P. Suresh Kumar, Honorary Secretary Managing Editor: P.V.S. Vencatasubramaniam, President 4 | NOVEMBER 2015 Ad -3 NOVEMBER 2015 | 5 FROM THE HONORARY SECRETARY'S DESK Dear Members, It is my pleasure to communicate with you once again. I thank you for coming together and electing a full committee this year. With new committee members taking over their respective portfolios and new sub- committees in place, you can look forward to an interactive experience at the club. We have a number of good entertainment programmes, bar nights and special food nights planned for the year, with the festive season set to take off soon. The long overdue software upgradation and implementation is now taking shape and we hope to have it in place at the earliest. CCTV cameras have been installed at all critical areas for safety. Our MGC swimming team participated in the Tamil Nadu Masters Event during the third week of October and returned with a rich haul of 21 medals. The committee is planning to expand the range of sporting activities to include shuttle and squash. Plans are ready but the permission from the authorities is awaited and so is the approval and finance from the General Body. The talks with the labour are an ongoing process and you can be rest assured that your Committee will do its best to maintain a cordial relationship. Wishing you all the very best and good cheer for the festive season. A.P. Suresh Kumar, HONORARY SECRETARY 6 | NOVEMBER 2015 Ad -4 NOVEMBER 2015 | 7 FROM THE HONORARY TREASURER'S DESK Dear Members, A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since my last communication to you. For the past month, we have been going through the process of getting to know the functioning of the various departmentsof the club. This has been a learning process. We have put into place cost-effective measures in important areas of the club, viz in the area of all purchases in general,and printing and stationery in particular. These have been streamlined and brought under one roof. We are now in the process of exploring ways and means of improving the finances of the club. The residential quarters are grossly underutilized. We are discussing the avenues toaugment the usage of the residential quarters and generate additional income. We are also in the process of preparing for the proposed Extraordinary General Body Meeting of the club which is to be held shortly, where we will place proposals to improve the finances of the club. A record room is being planned and will be put into place very soon. Plans are also afoot to expand the rangeof sports activities prevalent in the club to provide more facilities to the members and their families to enjoy. We need your inputs and participation in bringing the club back to its original glory and position. Please help us to do the needful. With best wishes, Syed Isphahani Honorary Treasurer 8 | NOVEMBER 2015 Ad -5 NOVEMBER 2015 | 9 A SOFT AND CES A PL PLEASANT LAND Dr Mrs Nithila Masilamani Do you realize how lucky we are to live in Chennai? The people are gentle and even-tempered and it has, besides the native South Indians, a good seasoning of people from the North, the North- Eastern states and the business communities of the West of India. All of them live amicably for the most part and enjoy each other’s diversity and humour. The festive season begins in September with Vinayaka Chaturthi and after that each day brings the sounds of drums and scenic beauty but there is little become a divider too if you allow pipes mingled with the crackers diversity. it. What happened to “live and that herald Deepavali. Finally, in let live”? It reminds me of a joke. December we have the full-blown As for clothes, salwars and gharanas A harassed mother was trying to glory of the Carnatic Music Festival have invaded the South in a big work when her two small kids kept together with the Carol Concerts way and the young wear leggings bickering. Finally she shut one of in all the churches. It is a great and jeggings and propagate an them up in a room with a book explosion of music of all kinds easy and comfortable style which and tried to get on with her work. from the Thirupavai sung early in is pandemic. Soon the other was crying. The the morning to the sacred music mother said, “What is the matter in the evenings – there is much to To a foodie like me, food plays an now?” The child replied, “He is enjoy. integral part of our experience. A making faces at me!” “But how friend of mine has actually written could he when he is in a closed It is a city where temples lie a book called “Festival Recipes”. room?” The child said “I can see cheek by jowl with mosques and Each festival has a plethora him through the key-hole!” If we churches. I truly appreciate the of them, all culturally diverse. are going to peep at one another’s sight of the Islamic minarets side From the delicious Mughlai food activities, we are definitely going to by side with the beautifully carved of Delhi and Hyderabad to all be unhappy. Why don’t we confine Gopurams of the temples and the the home-made delicacies my ourselves to our own affairs, enjoy tall spires of the churches. Where neighbours send me at Deepavali, the atmosphere of a mixed group else do you see such variety of to the Christmas goodies which like you find at the Gymkhana architecture and such beauty! It I send them, it is a holistic Club – where bonhomie prevails is a privilege given to few, and experience which is difficult to and our “culture” is to live in we much cherish it. Compared beat. harmony. to this, the more homogenous cultures of the West have natural Food is a great unifier but it can After all, variety is the spice of life! 10 | NOVEMBER 2015 Ad -6 NOVEMBER 2015 | 11 HAPPY MARRIED HAT T & IS H T LIFE V.C.PAUL BAHL I have not greyed as yet and I look quite fit. Whenever I am asked about my age, particularly by girls, I reply mentally 18, physically they should guess. My circle of friends and other people who are in contact with me think I am very happily married man. They find me always cracking jokes with them and laughing. They often ask me the secret of my happy married life. My standard reply is –‘ I get a beating at home’ and laugh. Somehow, they are not convinced by my reply. A gang of them cornered me one day and insisted on me telling the truth. “The matter is very simple,” I said. “ When both of us are in the house, either she is sleeping or I am or either she is in the house or I.” They all responded, “How can this be? Don’t you ever go to the movies etc together?” Certainly, we do. She goes on Monday and I on Tuesday. If it is the same day, she goes for the matinee show and I go for an evening or night show. Jokes apart, my wife has an excellent sense of humour and quick wit. Once she was in a very foul mood. Before she could start displaying her unhappiness, she warned me, “It is her time to talk and I should find my slot later.” So, there is no question but to listen. Living in Chennai, I often complain about how the birthday. I told her that I will take her for dinner to city moves at such a slow speed.