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Tangent Times Magazine of Tangent India February 2020 Amethyst Issue Tangent Times February Issue 2020 love yourself ove yourself. Enough to It's the month of February and Be the hero of your life and to be Ltake the actions required for LOVE is in the air. just that. You have to learn to your happiness. To love and being loved are the 'FLY'( first love yourself). Enough to cut yourself loose best blessings we could be For self love : make Life become from the drama-filled past. showered with. simpler and lighter. Enough to set a high standard for This Valentine's Day, make a have more inner stability and less promise to yourselves to 'find, relationships. self-sabotage . embrace and be yourselves'. Enough to feed your mind and be happy. Lets begin our self love journey body in a healthy manner. by affirming Sending lots of love to all my dear Enough to forgive yourself. "My life is a gift, I will use this friends from the bottom of my Enough to move on.” gift with confidence, joy and belly, I would like to say but – Steve Maraboli exuberance. my belly is BIGGER. COVER STORY BE HAPPY methyst, the birthstone of February, is a variety of Quartz that Acarries a spectacular purple color that ranges from a blend of deep violet and red to a lighter lilac hue. Ancient Greeks believed that the stone protected the wearer from drunkenness and enabled them to keep a balanced mindset. Birthday greetings to our Amethyst girls Geetha Srinath, Maya Jain, Sonal Desai, Monita Khatri, Shobha Bembalgi Sucharita, Neelam Kohli, Archana Manojkumar, Usha Nair, Mini Kar Sudha Rao, Chandrika, Rinku Shah, Atibha Vijay, Chanda Kinger, Kusum Sikand , Neena Bakhshi, Jyotsna Sadhu, Sheetal Chhabria, Sukanya L Narayan, Renuka Sehgal, Koely Roy, Aruna Chainani, Vani Srinath, Preeti Asher, Tanu Bhargava, Sobby Saluja, Nanda Javali, Daksha Gandhi, Sneha Shettar. 1 Tangent Times February Issue 2020 Your President Speaks My Hat Collection I am Bijal Kalbag and I am the wearer of the hats. I have many skills but the greatest of them all is my ability to quickly change hats. Some even call me a mad-hatter. I wanted to talk to you about my hat collection and point out a few of my favourite hats. 1) Orange - I am currently the president of the Tangent Club, a servant of the club, rowing and moving it forward. I really believe in our new motto of "She Unlimited". I believe that we are all here to achieve the full potential of our lives and that together, we can be stronger. Some of my passion projects is the movement of Tangent Entrepreneurs and Tangents on Vacay These are both so important to my heart because I personally identify as both, an entrepreneur (Blue Hat) and a traveller (Green Hat). Read along to know more. 2) Blue - I am an entrepreneur and a business woman, running a successful business since the past 25 years - Creative Awards and Rewards. I have always believed in the importance of pushing myself and striving for more. I work full time at the company and I am definitely a boss woman at work. Chop, Chop, Go. 3) Green - Travel is my food for the soul. It helps me unplug and destress like no other medicine can. I love taking the wheel in my hand and driving across multiple terrains and places. We travel a lot as a family - name the city, country or continent and we have probably been there. But the travel list is endless and there is still so much more of the world I want to see, hopefully now with my fellow tangent family. Most people describe me as many things - a go getter, a power woman, a caring mother and a force of nature. But I believe that I switch between different roles and personalities, the same way I switch my many hats. Afterall, there is so much beauty and colour in life - Why would we only wear one hat? Valentine's day is not just for lovers.... It's also for friends who love each other... Tangent 28 along with 41rs celebrated valentine's night at Mariott and the fun, masti and of course laughter continued right till the calendar date had changed... Sec Ritu agarwal 2 Tangent Times February Issue 2020 MESSAGE FROM 41 CLUBS OF INDIA PRESIDENT Sivaramakrishna Babji Dear Tangent Members, Greetings of the season from the Association of 41 Clubs of India. It is good to hear about all the activities happening in Tangent India. We look forward to work side by side with you on various facets. On the 10 th of January, 2020, I represented the 41 Clubs at the NAGM of RTI at Chennai. We had a Fabulous outbound MTM of Area 6 at Pattaya, Bangkok on 18 th , 19 th and 20 th of January, 2020. It was well attended and the NEX was represented by seven members. I also represented the 41 Clubs of India, in my capacity as President, at the Round Table India Foundation meeting held on 31 st January, 2020, in Chennai. My greetings and best wishes for your upcoming MTM at Bangalore on 15 th and 16 th of February, 2020. Incidentally, the MTM of Area 3 is also on the same dates. Looking forward to meeting up with all of you in Bangalore. MESSAGE FROM TCI PRESIDENT Nina Leppäkangas WISHING YOU WONDERFUL MID-TERM-MEETING! Dear ladies of Tangent India, how wonderful it would be if only India and Bangalore would be closer to Finland! As the President of our international association, I really would have loved to be able to join either your AGM or MTM in person. To live and breathe the colours and tastes of true and unique India. However, I must accept my financial and timely limitations and only send you my greeting to the meetings – and admire the photos which I encourage you to share in our social media channel during and after the event. Fortunately, our TCI board member and secretary Åsa Egnell is a true world traveller and able to join also your upcoming MTM. TCI is still a young association, but we in the board have worked hard to make it a solid member of the International Round Table Family. As a member of this family, we are stronger, we have more voice in making a difference. This is something that also nationally we should remember and take advantage of more. At the same time, we must of course concentrate on increasing the member base of our own association and keeping our activities interesting and inviting to our own members. There is something for everyone, I am sure; from local service to international meetings, which I hope that also from India we will get more attendance going forward. Ladies, on behalf of all of the TCI board, I would like to wish you a fruitful and fun MTM! 3 Tangent Times February Issue 2020 MESSAGE FROM LCI IMPORTANT SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH OUR “LITTLE SISTERS”: TANGENT CLUB INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTED AT THE LADIES’ CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL MID-TERM-MEETINGS 2020 There were two Mid-Term- of napkins to ladies in rural India topics. They varied from charter Meetings for LCI this year: one in and one can follow their project packages to how to support Vienna, Austria, for Middle on Facebook. TCI supports this countries to get new members European and African regions LCI project - a way of also and how to offer and find home and another in Reykjavik, showing the dedication and hosting opportunities when Iceland, for the Nordic, Southern support for our “little sisters” travelling. Social media presence Europe and APAC regions. from Tangent. was one “hot” topic in the In Vienna, there were 19 The region leads gave their meetings too, as it has been countries represented and just reports and new Regional identified as an important over 200 ladies attending and in Chairpersons were voted on. information channel, despite its Reykjavik, there were 16 They will not, however, step into informality. countries represented, with about their role until at the LCI AGM in Attending the meetings of LCI is 250 ladies attending the August, to be held in Lahti, very important for us Tangent weekend. Finland. The locations and dates representatives, as there we can for the MTM’s and AGM’s for As both of the LCI MTM’s had be seen and heard, there we can 2020-22 were presented. The the same agenda, here is a share the information on how to status of the members’ platform summary of the discussed topics continue the friendship after circler. world was discussed and for both meetings: Ladies’ Circle. Any member of it is wonderful that over 70% of Tangent is welcome to join these Saturday was the MTM itself, countries will be live in the meetings, so do not hesitate to do which as the TCI HYM, is a circler. world by the end of 2020. so next year! discussion meeting with little Lastly the legal and financial voting. TCI board member Jill entities were discussed, as the Harris gave the TCI greetings for bank account of LCI will need to the meeting in Vienna and TCI be moved to another country and President Nina Leppäkangas in they are planning to establish Reykjavik. LCI as an NGO or foundation. At the meetings, we learnt that More will follow on this at the the LCI charity project, Crimson LCI AGM. - International Service Project In the end, the meeting 2019-21, already has enough participants were divided in money to distribute the first sets groups and given discussion 4 Tangent Times February Issue 2020 WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE AWARDS Bijal Kalbag - President Tangent India y theme for the year is SHE UNLIMITED.