Rotary Club of Bombay The Gateway DISTRICT 3141 BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY | FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY | WWW.ROTARYCLUBOFBOMBAY.ORG VOLUME NO. 62 ISSUE NO. 12 SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TEA TREATS OR SOMETHING’S BREWING Guess what? Tea remains the Darjeeling Tea Mix tea bags, mint and sugar in hot water, and let steep second most widely consumed Darjeeling tea is exquisite and delicately flavoured, and for 15 minutes. Strain out the tea bags and mint leaves. beverage after water. And enjoys the distinction of being one of the finest teas in Chill and add lime juice before serving (serves 4). in case you feel guilty for the world. Experts like to call it the champagne of teas! Assam Tea consuming all those endless First flush teas are light and aromatic, while the second Another classic Indian tea that enjoys prominence cuppas at work – don’t worry. flush produces tea with a bit more bite. The third or across the world. The flavour is very strong and it is Common facts on tea indicate autumn flush gives a tea that is lesser in quality. In primarily a black tea. This rich, full-bodied tea actually it is rich in antioxidants, summer, try simple iced tea, with a twang of lime and has a malty flavour and is best enjoyed as a breakfast can help shield our immune hint of mint. It’s both sweet and tart at the same time. tea. Assam tea revolutionized tea drinking habits in the systems, is capable of stopping The lime juice will be much better flavoured if freshly 19th century since the tea, produced from a different infections, and can even help us shed some pounds! squeezed. variety of the tea plant, yielded a different kind of tea. Research shows that tea contains a rarely occurring Lime Mint Iced Tea Mocha Chai Latte amino acid called L-theanine that stimulates your alpha brain waves and this is associated with a relaxed but 1 quart water, boiling 2 tablespoons loose-leaf Assam tea alert mental state. 4 Darjeeling tea bags 1 ½cups boiling water But why stick to the same boring flavour when there 1 ¾ cups fresh mint leaves ½ cup whole milk or ¼ cup unsweetened condensed milk is a world of exotic teas (that can be enjoyed hot or ¼ cup sugar CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 cold) waiting to be discovered. ¼ cup lime juice ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon #tuesdaythoughts “My simple philosophy of life: just “As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have never go to work!” says celebrity some tea. Broken bones? There’s a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother’s photographer, talent manager pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, ‘In case and film producer, Atul Kasbekar of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes’.” ― Aprilynne Pike, Illusions WHEN I WAS A STUDENT OF has a Masters in Mathematics I really admire and Prahlad CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, and he does Sudoku puzzles all Kakkad. Prahlad said something #numbercrunching THERE WERE JUST THREE day. The next one is an architect, that made a big difference to 1 billion kilogram GIRLS IN MY CLASS. ALL then there is a doctor, chemical me: 95 per cent of humanity The consumption volume of tea OF THEM WERE SMARTER engineer and then a CA. goes to work and only five per THAN ME AND IF I TRIED cent enjoy what they do, in in India in the financial year When I became a photographer, 2019. TO GET LUCKY USING ANY which case, if you have fun all CHEAP LINES, THEY SAW my dad asked, “Okay, but what day and someone gives you a RIGHT THROUGH ME. MY are you going to do for a living?” cheque at the end of it, what #caughtintheweb ONLY OPTION WAS TO TAKE No disrespect intended but, at could be nicer? UP PHOTOGRAPHY WHICH I that time, the photographer was ENJOYED THOROUGHLY. MOST seen as the guy who came to I was quite clear which side of KIDS IN THOSE DAYS BECAME functions and said things like: the 95 per cent I wanted to be. A DOCTOR, CA, ENGINEER OR ‘Sir, little closer! Say cheese!’ I asked myself what do I like A LAWYER BECAUSE IT WAS It was a process to make dad to do without someone telling THE THING TO DO FOR THE understand that it wouldn’t be a me what to do? And that was MALE OF THE SPECIES. life wasted. photography! This year is special for me because I have been 30 To be an artist of any kind made Part of the process involved me years in this business. I came you the black sheep of the talking to someone like Gautam back from LA in 1990. family. The eldest of us siblings Rajadhyaksha whose work TODAY: RAJIV BHATIA ON INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY, AT 12 NOON 2 THE WEEKLY MEET September 22, 2020 THE WEEKLY MEET 3 Rtn. Satyan Israni Rtn. Hiren Kara Rtn. Shariq Contractor Rtn. Ramesh Mehta PP Sandip Agarwalla Rtn. Ritu Prakash Desai The world seemed to have come As a photographer the process of goes to the desk of the chairman woman. I remember shooting to an end for people like us this reinvention and being relevant and you cannot acquire it. with Shilpa Shetty and she was year for whom livelihood depends as a result of reinvention is Something you cannot acquire wearing a leather jacket. There on human contact. I can’t take a critically important. When I suddenly becomes something that was something crass about it, picture remote-controlled nor can started, I was 25 years old. The art you must have. There was a lot of something very cheese cakey, I make a movie remote-controlled. directors in the agencies that were marketing genius from the UB side nothing classy. commissioning the work were of the fence and I am happy to say Fortunately, I just started with the same age or 10 years older so that what happened as a result, The first time I asked someone a shoot with Vidya Balan and one could relate to them. As one in a small way, contributed to to be part of the calendar, all another with Sachin Tendulkar. gets older, the people who were celebrating the Indian woman. the famous models at that time This is great because in my very your contemporaries, who handed declined. They said: ‘we love you first year of shooting, I shot with out the print assignments, they Until that point, the girl in the to bits but we can’t do swimsuit a young boy who had started with became national creative directors swimsuit was the bad girl in modeling.’ All the girls that did the Indian team. I was reminding and were looking into agency Bollywood. She was the one who it, whether it was Yana Gupta or him about it but before I could policy, hunting for new clients and enticed the sweet hero and made Ujjwala Raut, were people who finish, he said, “We shot at Bata making pitches. him smoke and drink. She was the had international experience Tower, Taj Palace Delhi and I could mol who hung on Ajit’s arm and and foreign agents and so on. It barely speak English and I was so All of a sudden, Prasoon Joshi is a her name was likely Mona Darling became a thin happy that someone could speak chairman of a company and Sonal and that’s the vibe, anyway. Marathi in the nation’s capital.” It Dabral is the chairman of another. g where it was socially acceptable has been an enduring friendship You can’t pick up the phone and In alcohol advertisements, those for them. But, from the second since. say, “Hey, aren’t you going to give days, you would see a lean-mean year onwards, I routinely had me some work?” They have all machine like a sports car or mums come to me and say their In a profession like ours, there is passed that point. The art directors bike and then there would be a daughter was great looking and a time span in which you are red now handing out the work are still hot. In art, especially, it is difficult between 28-38. No matter how to stay relevant and that word is cool you are, at the end of the day, TEA TREATS OR SOMETHING’S BREWING... CONTINUED probably the most important word you are going to be a 50+ uncle. in my vocabulary. I talk to kids ¼ teaspoon ground cloves Tea-infused vodka? So how do you stay relevant in a 1 tablespoon cocoa Infuse an entire 750ml bottle of all the time in my role as a brand space like this which is, essentially, ambassador for some camera Whipped cream (optional) vodka (if you’re brave) with 6 a young man’s job? It was always Orange Pekoe teabags, by steeping company, like Nikon, now. I tell terrifying for me. Cocoa for dusting them that for them to be relevant the tea bags for 4 to 6 hours or Steep the tea in the water for about overnight. You may wish to pour in what they do is important. Then there is the Kingfisher 5 minutes. Add milk, spices, cocoa the vodka into a container that Calendar which, in my head, was and simmer over low heat about 2 That brings me to a line by Mr. will allow you to easily remove the a combination of the legendary or 3 minutes more.