Vol. 57 No. 40 May 03 – May 09, 2016 RCB Felicitates Shabana Azmi With Shri Pravin Chandra Gandhi Award very once in a while a megastar comes along to widen and deepen the very essence of stardom. That is the experience that all Eof the two hundred and twenty-seven present at RCB’s joint Club Meeting with RCB-Hill South on the 26th of April, took back with them that day. It was definitely one of the more special afternoons for RCB, with veteran actor of global repute and committed social worker, Shabana Azmi being felicitated with the prestigious Shri Pravin Chandra Gandhi Award for Excellence in Public Life. She went on to wow us all with her address to the Club where she presented a thought-provoking Shabana Azmi Awarded the Shri Pravin Chandra Gandhi Award by Rtn. talk on ‘The Indian Film Industry’s Role in Amit Gandhi, Pres. Rtn. Dr. Sonya Mehta and Pres. Rtn. Poddar RCB Public Life Today’. Presenting the award to Shabana Hill South Azmi were Rtn. Ram Gandhi, direct Sonya Gandhi, who read out the citation, Shabana Azmi for participating actively in descendent of Shri Pravin Gandhi, along “The Rotary Club of Bombay is proud to various forms of public life in a dedicated with President Rtn. Ratan Poddar from present the Shri Pravin Chandra Gandhi and exemplary manner.” RCB, Hill South and our President Rtn. Dr. Award for Excellence in Public Life to Ms. (Full Report on Pages 4 & 5) Learn How To Use INSIDE THIS ISSUE FORTHCOMING EVENTS ‘ROW’ ROW or Rotary On Wheels Page 2: • May 10, 2016 is an App made to further the The 5th Annual Tennis Fellowship Neema Majmudar Addresses RCB convenience of all Rotarians and keep them connected Page 3: • May 17, 2017 at all times. Rtn. Murad Get ROWing with Rtn. Murad Currawalla Anant Goenka addresses RCB Currawalla demystifies the use of the ROW App for the Pages 4 & 5: • September 30, 2016 easy usage of the Club Roster, Shabana Azmi Speaks On ‘The Indian 9-Day Fellowship to Iceland as an example. Film Industry’s Role in Public Life Today’ (Details on Page 3) Page 6: The BY Offsite Lonavala Retreat Page 7: BY Kids Revel at Kidzania May 03 to May 09, 2016 The Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Bombay Page 1 The Sports Committee Presents The Fifth Annual Tennis Fellowship n the crisp Sunday morning of 24th March, 2016, the Tennis Stars of RCB gathered to celebrate the sporting spirit of OFellowship through the game of Tennis, at the Bombay Gymkhana, marking this as the Fifth Annual Tennis Tournament. Being a Sunday, numerous talented tennis players showed up early morning to occupy the limited number of courts available on first cum first basis. Soon, it was quite a sight to behold the adjoining three courts were filled up by talents of Rotary Club of Bombay including PP Rumi Jehangir, golfer-turned-tennis-pro RCB’s Tennis Champs and Cheerleaders! Rtn. Bimal Mehta and also stalwarts Rtns. Anand Dalal, Dinesh Daftary, Jaidev Merchant, Mehul Sampat, Sameer Kaji, Satyan Israni, Jamshyd Vazifdar, Mehernosh Dotivala, Ishraq Contractor with his sons Raed and Ayush, and a wild card entry of the young nine-year-old Nisha (daughter of Rtn. Anand Dalal). Organised under the immaculate leadership of Rtns. Moy Biswas, the de facto chief of most sporting activities of Rotarians at Play the Rotary Club of Bombay, along with Smiles All at The 5th Annual ground stroke – a scintillating hour and a Tennis Fellowship! half of tennis was played out, witnessed by President Rtn. Dr. Sonya Mehta and PP Nowroze Vazifdar; and to encourage and motivate the participants and Match Referee, Photographer of the event and main organizer, Moy “Alan Mills” Biswas. The President presented a special trophy to Nisha Dalal, being the youngest ever to have participated in a Rotary Sports Event. In true Rotary Spirit, the morning ended with a breakfast fellowship attended by all present. Rtn. Moy closed The Fellowship Lunch post the the event by thanking all the participants and especially Rtn. Satyan Israni, who in Game the history of the Club is the only person who has ever participated in all the Sports Anand Dalal, which lived up to its motto events of the year namely Table Tennis, Special Award for Nisha Dalal of spreading goodwill and fellowship. Our Football, Golf, Cricket and of course, (daughter of Rtn. Anand Dalal) for tennis stars gave the best of the best a Tennis! being the youngest participant in a run for their money. Volley after volley, Well played, Rotarians! Rotary Sports Event ! smash after smash, ground stroke after Page 2 The Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Bombay May 03 to May 09, 2016 Report: 6th Assimilation Committee Mini-Fellowship he 6th Mini- Fellowship of the President Elect Rtn. Dr. Mukesh Assimilation Committee was Batra, Director Rtn. Ramesh and Devi held at the Willingdon Club, Golf Narian, Rtn. Sheila Bulchandani, Rtn. View Restaurant on Tuesday, Dr. Shahrukh and Dina Golwalla, Rtn. Tthe 26th of April at 7:30pm. Assimilation Dr. Darius and Ayesha Soonawalla, Director Rtn. Dr. Nayna Dastur and PP Rtn. Ghulam Vahanvaty, Rtn. Manoj Rtn. Dr. Adi Dastur generously hosted and Nandita Patodia, Rtn. Mahesh eighteen Rotarians to an evening treat Khubchandani, Rtn. Samir and Shailaja of cocktails, dinner and camaraderie in Mogul and our most gracious host- a 10-person2-tables format, charged couple, who sat one on each table, to with round table discussions and Rotary ensure that all the guests were well banter, as the drink and food kept looked after. coming. Rotarians swapped tables post dinner so that all present could interact The Assimilation Committee warmly with each other for a fun evening of thanks Rtn. Drs. Nayna and Adi Dastur assimilation. for their lovely hospitality and looks forward to more Rotarians coming In attendance were President Rtn. Dr. forward to host mini-fellowships in the Sonya Mehta and Rotary Don Bomi coming months. Gracious Mini-Fellowship Hosts, Framroze, PP Arun and Aarti Sanghi, Rtn. Drs. Nayna and Adi Dastur Get ROWing with Rtn. Murad Currawalla n an attempt to help familiarize the usage of the roster, since many of hoped that it will be used increasingly Rotarians with the exclusive App us may need to contact a Rotarian and as a more convenient tool of connect. A ‘Rotary-On-Wheels’ on ‘ROW’, Murad may not have immediate access to the pictoral understanding via screenshots Currawalla explains the simplicity roster. Please note that the App is free should help further: Iinvolved in starting off by showcasing and exclusively for Rotarians and it is The ROW app has numerous Rotarians can be located on We can either scroll through a Member details are displayed. features we are unaware the app via their names or list or type in the name at the If you select the phone of including notifications, other criteria like place of top. For this example we are number, the App will directly meeting schedules, etc. Our work, job type, classification searching for “Sonya Mehta”. call the person. Select the focus is the Club Roster, hence of blood group type, etc. We type “Mehta” in the search email option to send a new we tap on “Club Roster” For this example, we select bar and select the name. message/mail. “Rotarian” May 03 to May 09, 2016 The Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Bombay Page 3 Shabana Azmi Speaks On ‘The Indian Film Industry’s Role in Public Life Today’ (Cont’d from Page 1) of her life from acting to activism, “I Mrinal Sen’s ‘Khandar’; or Vishal grew up in a family where my parents Bhardwaj’s ‘Godmother’. Shabana believed that art should be used as Azmi is also India’s first actor to star in an instrument of social change. And numerous international films including they practiced what they preached - ‘Immaculate Conception’; ‘Son of my father through his work as a poet, Pink Panther’; ‘In Custody’; ‘City Of writer, activist and a member of the Joy’; and a couple of films awaited Communist Party, and my mother by her ardent fans include ‘It’s A with her work as an actor. Though it Wonderful Afterlife’ and ‘Reluctant should have been a given that I should Fundamentalist’. Her theater career have followed that dictum almost by a has also been legendary, with eminent process of osmosis, I got so involved in plays including ‘Tumhari Amrita’, ‘The the business of becoming a fellow actor Waiting Room’ and ‘Broken Images’, that I kept myself away from politics amongst several others. and social life and I prided myself for not even reading the newspapers! Speaking on her life as an actor and I give credit to my father who never her move towards social activism, she pressurized me to get into being more shared, “For an actor, you draw all socially responsible – I think he was your experiences from life. If you are Shabana Azmi addresses the Club eteran actor and social worker, Shabana Azmi was conferred the prestigious Shri Pravin Chandra Gandhi VAward for Excellence in Public Life by the Rotary Club of Bombay, on the 26th of April, 2016. Also present at the function was known dignitary and industry fellow, Dolly Thakore who introduced her in a glaring tribute saying “It is not a cliché when I say that no one deserves the Shree Pravin Chandra Gandhi Award for Excellence in Public Life more than Shabana Azmi - a five time winner of the National Film Awards. Film Personality Shekhar Kapoor of ‘Bandit Queen’ fame rightly Shabana Azmi answers questions seated with the Panel.