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Don’t get disheartened by a NO and EMembership Development Month, don’t wait for someone else to do the our leadership has come up with a new asking. Begin now and with your self. slogan and vision : EACH ONE GET ONE There is an old saying” the best time to AND EACH ONE RETAIN ONE. plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second FRIENDS Membership is just not in best time is now so you have two jobs…. numbers; this growth is a momentum to One Plant a fruit sapling but it has to be our organization. It increases our human by new member only. Today is a best time resources, develops leadersand we attract to introduce your best friend to Rotary. and retain members, it is a great Retention is also of equal importance testimonial to the value of Rotary and if you notice any potential member, membership. the best will be to engage and involve those So why this issue comes again and again members as per their talent and resources. , may be becoz of that we have not done Make it a personalized approach and when enough to bridge the desired gap , this we talk of quality or quantity. To my mind month is just a token to initiate and this quality means----- quality induction, will continue in the years to come. This quality fellowship, quality assimilation, process of bringing new members should taking quality care of the family. We need never stop irrespective of the year, but quantity of quality in our clubs. you can certainly put in little more efforts Membership is the future of Rotary and to make this month more attractive. If you that is in your hands, lets begin the change. have new addition in the beginning of the Change the trend, bring a friend, retain year, you will be able to generate better that friend. Enjoy Rotary and Enjoy friendship, fellowship and make best use yourself. Your one action will open more of new member expertise also. doors for more opportunities. Ramesh Bajaj District Governor 2020-21 SAMPARK SUTRA | AUGUST 2020 5 Courtsey: GML D 3141 6 SAMPARK SUTRA | AUGUST 2020 SAMPARK SUTRA | AUGUST 2020 7 PERSPECTIVE BRAND KANGANA RANAUT: Growing in stature or diminishing with controversy? The author writes there is no doubt that Kangana is loved and admired. But her politics is hurting her image... DR SANDEEP stress that “her heart is in the right place”, this … it is a 99-1 fight with some GOYAL that “what she is fighting for is not wrong”, lightweights lending her support that “she has crusaded almost single- occasionally, but that is not enough”, “The handed” and that “she is very brave”. Also Bollywood cartel is very very strong … that she is “fearless” and “does not mince her doing a Kejriwal on them looks words”. But equally she was described as impossible”, “She has no mass base. So “a child of controversy”, “willfully the bullying though real, cannot be abrasive”, “hungering for attention” and leashed. Bullywood it is”, was the ad “playing into the hands of manipulative verbatim feedback in the research had atleast two clients, currently using politicians”. The clear verdict, however, interviews. There was universal goodwill, Kangana Ranaut as a brand ambassador, was that Kangana Ranaut is building up and some admiration too, for the gutsy call me last week. They wanted to know her personal brand for politics. The Kangana but her political over-hang of Imy opinion on whether to continue with motives may have started out clean but motives kind of took some of the gloss Kangana as the face of the brand, or to jet- the acts point to building up a popular away from her brave fight within the tison her. vote for a future leader. Sigh! industry. “But she has put a scare into To be honest, while I had my views, I Feedback on Kangana’s statements too most of them”, “She has silenced them was really not sure if the answer should was not very favourable. Almost everyone for sure”, “Wish she didn’t have a political be a straight “yes” or an unambiguous who was interviewed said that she was motive: Sonu Sood too perhaps has political “no”. And, given the circumstances, a speaking and behaving like a politician: backers but he is being more discreet”, “maybe” would have been an inadequate unrestrained, most times with no real facts “She could have easily been like Sunil Dutt answer in a go-no-go situation like this. – aspersions and allegations that may or Saheb. So well respected. And loved by So, I resorted to my old jungle book : Rule may not be true. The ‘PoK’ remark all.” Kangana Ranaut personally has a lot No. 1 - when in doubt, ask the people. especially has not gone down well with of support. It is just that her letting this So, over the weekend, I got two of my anyone. Kangana has lost out on much degrade into a political slugfest is eroding young associates to make some calls and support because of her volleys of anger, her constituency of love and goodwill. get answers for the following questions: and repeated outbursts which most don’t There is no doubt that Kangana is loved 1. KANGANA : ZEALOUS-FIGHTER-FOR-GOOD see as civilized behaviour – provocations and admired. But her politics is hurting OR POLITICIAN-IN-THE-MAKING? notwithstanding. Most felt that she is her image. Most felt that “all the drama 2. IS KANGANA GOING TOO FAR WITH HER trying to don the mantle of a messiah while is pure publicity”, “the Y-security is UTTERANCES AND ACCUSATIONS? she does not have any credentials to claim completely uncalled for”, “the demolished 3. WITH HER OFFICE BEING DEMOLISHed, such a pedestal, apart from being an office worth 2-crore has got her 200-crore HAS KANGANA BEEN WRONGed? “outsider” combating nepotism. visibility”, “she has really become Queen 4. IS SHE COrreCT IN SAYING THAT The demolition of her office, though, of Mumbai”, “I can see that she is really BOllyWOOD IS ACTUAlly BUllyWOOD? has won Kangana widespread sympathy. enjoying all the glamour and attention … 5. IS THIS THE END OF KANGANA IN Every single one of our 47 respondents more than she has ever received”, “She BOllyWOOD? said that Kangana had been singled out, keeps getting more and more of the screen 6. KANGANA : SHOUld BE ADMired OR and hugely wronged. The Maharashtra time … the meeting with the Governor SHOUld BE IGNOred? Govt. was seen to have been vindictive was a power-serve” … but verdict is 7. DO YOU TRUST KANGANA? and cruel. “She is just a dissenter … why IGNORE. All the utterances and antics 8. WOUld YOU BUY BRANDS SHE ENDORS- go so far?”, “She has her views and voices are just PR. And yes, despite all the ES? them fearlessly … an elected government negativity, her beautifully draped off-white The total number of interviews we cannot choose to be openly peevish and saree as she travelled from Chandigarh to managed were 47, over Saturday and combative” kind of summed up the no-no Mumbai received many rave mentions, Sunday. Of these, 24 were from Mumbai; feedback on the office demolition. “She “She really looks pure and innocent 23 from outside of the metropolis. Now, 47 too has to learn to take it on the chin if dressed in a damsel-in-distress white may not be a very large number statistically, she is hitting below the belt mostimes” saree”, one of the respondents observed. but the feedback from the depth interviews stated one of our respondents. Would you buy the brands she endorses? pointed me directionally to a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ Bollywood or Bullywood? Most agreed Surprisingly, no. Politicians cannot be in response to every single question. with Kangana’s new coinage. That she has trusted. Oops! 34 of 47 respondents said Unfortunately, despite Kangana’s almost no support of any consequence in that for now they would not want her to protestations to the contrary, most of those her industry was, however, obvious to all sell any brands.