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Innerwheel Midtown observes International Women's Day-

Felicitates 2 women achieversDR. H. V. RAMAW/o Dr. K. Nagendra PrasadQualification:

M.B.B.SPGDMCH (Postgraduate Diploma in Maternal & Child Health)

D.F.M (Diploma in Family Welfare)F.C.G.P (Fellow of College of General Practitioners)Working as Lady Medical Officer, JSS Urban Health Centre from past 9 yearsEarlier worked as LMO at Family Planning Association of India, Mysore branch for 18 years

As a Resource Faculty:§ Attended Video Conferences related to health

organized by SIRD (State Institute for Rural Development)Awareness programmes on Women's health with Bharath Hospital in KHSDP project in 8 taluks of MysoreAs Resource faculty for NGOs like JSS Shikshan Sanathan, Rotary & Inner Wheel Clubs, etcActively involved in Pulse Polio & other National Programmes.

Books:Written books on Health: Bicchu matu, Rutusrava, Arivinedege etc.Air Talks:Given more than 200 radio talks on issues related to health & social problemsMemberships:

Member, Indian Medical AssociationMember, Mysore District Family Physicians Association.Member, Mysore Obestetrics and Gynaecological SocietyMember, IMA College of General Practitioners Association Member, National Association of Reproductive and Child Health

Special Interests: Women's Health & Adolescent Health issuesHobbies: Reading, Writing & Music.

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DR. ULFATH FATHIMA

W/o Dr. Naseer Ahmed Delvi

Qualification: § B Sc from St. Philomina's College,

Mysore(1968)§ M.B.B.S from Bangalore Medical

College(1973)§ DGO from BMC, 1990

Joined Service:§ 1976 in Metur later on in Gundlupet,

Doddabalapur, Bangalore § Voluntary retirement in the year 1992§ She is the founder of Bibi Ayesha Mili

Hospital

Services to the community:§ President of Almamoor§ Ladies association for 2 years which

helps women in various ways.§ Has adopted a slum area called Onde

Mataram & Works for the upliftment of economic condition, education, religious gathering & marriages.

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Member, RGA (Rehbar Graduates Assoc ia t i on ) has a schoo l a t Ghousianagar with 750 students( LKG to

th9 std)Member of PNDT(Preconception & Post natal Diagnostic Association)

Has two sons, both are Engineering graduates & settled abroad.

Hearty Congratulations toboth the Women

President's MessageMy Dear Rotarians,

Bye till next week…..

Thank You

Last week under visit to Community service centre programme we visited Mother Theresa Home for Mentally Ill women Rehabilitation Centre. It was heart touching to see a child born to mentally retarded mother living like an orphan at the home. The real sad part is one of the inmate is an intelligent lady and a classmate of one of our Rotarian many years ago.

Sisters of the Home requested us to give a Rice Cooker & Mixie and along with that Rs.5,000/- also has been contributed by the Club. Evening dinner for all the 75 inmates was served. I thank all the Rotarians for their generous contribution towards the same.

Today let us discuss about Club Business.

Rtn. Raghavendra

28-3-2012

How Would You Like To Be Remembered ?

About a hundred years ago, a man looked at the morning newspaper and to his surprise and horror, read his name in the obituary column. The news papers had reported the death of the wrong person by mistake. His first response was shock. Am I here or there? When he regained his composure, his second thought was to find out what people had said about him.

The obituary read, "Dynamite King Dies." And also "He was the merchant of death." This man was the inventor of dynamite and when he read the words "merchant of death," he asked himself a question, "Is this how I am going to be remembered?”

He got in touch with his feelings and decided that this was not the way he wanted to be remembered. From that day on, he started working toward peace. His name was Alfred Nobel and he is remembered today by the great Nobel Prize.

Just as Alfred Nobel got in touch with his feelings and redefined his values, we should step back and do the same.

What is your legacy? How would you like to be remembered? Will you be spoken well of? Will you be remembered with love and respect? Will you be missed?

This is Mr.Lingesh to whom we donated a three wheeler 7 years ago. He is residing & working at T.Narasipur. He has two daughters and leading a happy life. This project was done during the period of Rtn. Alagappan when he was the President and Rtn. Vishwanath was the Secretary.

21-03-2012. Visit to Community Service Centre: Mother Theresa Home for the Destitute

A Rice Cooker, a Mixie, a cheque for Rs. 5000 from the sunshine box collection, and dinner for the all the inmates of the Home was served.

26.03.2012 Board meeting hosted by Rtn. PP. Sundar Raja Rao at Sports Club. All the Club members were invited for Dinner. Sundar, we had a great time ! Thanks

328-3-2012

Rahul Dravid – the true legendHow many of you will

agree with me if I tell you that Rahul Dravid was a Greater Batsman than either Sunil Gavaskar or Sachin Tendulkar? I know it is st i l l considered blasphemous to put Rahul D r a v i d o v e r S a c h i n Te n d u l k a r o r S u n i l Gavaskar, but the obvious fact - backed by statistics - is that Dravid has been India's greatest match winner for a long time now.

It is now unanimously agreed that the Golden Age of Indian cricket (which is now officially over) commenced in March 2001 when India beat Australia after following-on in the second Test at Kolkata. From then till June 2006 when India won a series in West Indies for the first time in 35 years on the back of another series-defining performance from Dravid, he was indisputably the leading man of Indian Test cricket. But not many had noticed because of the ridiculous accent on individual-oriented aggregate statistics. For those statistical

thminded, Sachin getting his 100 100 is more important than India winning or losing a match. But for the followers of pure cricket, this man was a marvel because he was, like the Australian great Steve Waugh, a warrior. The Indian team uniform was his battle fatigues. The bat was both his sword and his shield, more often the latter. He was not a creator/destroyer in the Tendulkar-Richards mould. He could never be that. Dravid did not have their outrageous genius. He was more Boycott than Bradman but without the selfishness of the English opener. Dravid will be remembered as the man in the middle of India's great triumvirate. VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar may have performed feats more easy on the eye, but Dravid was the ultimate team man. If it meant dropping anchor, down it went and there it stayed. If his team wanted him to don the big gloves to make the team combination better he did the job most effectively. If the team needed an opener He is the most steadfast player in the modern game. Equally if a different tempo was required, Dravid did his utmost to deliver.

I find it hard to think of a more versatile cricketer. You were one of our finest short leg fielders. You were, for the most part, a remarkable slip catcher. You have opened the innings, batted at No.3, batted at No.6 (from where you conjured up that 180 in Kolkata). I'm sure you have batted everywhere else. You have kept wicket, offering an added dimension to the one-day side in two World Cups. You even scored 145 in one of

those games. You captained both the Test and one-day teams. Sure, things didn't go according to plan but you were a superb on-field captain. More importantly you were India's finest vice-captain, an aspect that is often conveniently forgotten. Jeez, you even took some wickets

Eight out of Dravid's ten highest impact batting performances of his career are from this period. Two are after this period, interestingly none before it. This tells a very clear story – how Indian cricket changed between 1996 and 2011, and the hugely significant contributions Dravid made towards that change.

He spent more time in the nets than the others, he worked on his fitness, he worked on the little things that

came easily to the others, and he worked on keeping his head above water… why he even worked on his wicket-keeping to stay in the ODI team. But hard work has a sort of mortal, doable quality to it. We can all work hard – if we have the motivation and the belief… that's all it takes. But to do it over 17 years requires the kind of genius that not everyone is born with; the genius of hard work.

Like everything else Dravid, nothing was left to chance even in the final farewell ... That Dravid was nearer the end than ever before was not in doubt, but the fact that several people were asking why — rather than why not — showed that he got the timing of his retirement just right.

To talk of Dravid's ability tells only half the story. He exhibited greatness at its most humble, and is one of the most impressive men to play the game: dignified, fair-minded, eloquent (he never used a ghost-writer), gentle, yet tougher than we will ever realise. A Gary Cooper for the new millennium; the kind of man you'd want your son to grow into.

Come on Midtowners! Let us Doff our hat to the greatest and the Most Selfless TEAM MAN – Rahul Dravid

Rtn. Farooq-e-Azam

Dravid’s 180 against Australian in 2001 along with Laxman

Next Week in Midtown

Editors MeetDate : 04.04.2012

Time : 6.30pmVenue : RCL Hall, J.L.B. Road, Mysore.

Rtn. Srinivas M.N.03-04-2012

(Mobile: 94480-48499)

Happy

Birthday Rotary's areas of focusRotary c lubs serve

communit-ies around the world, each with unique conce rns and needs . Rotarians have continually adapted and improved the way they respond to those needs, taking on a broad range of service projects.

The most successful and sustainable Rotary service tends to fall within one of the following six areas: _ Peace and conflict prevention/resolution _ Disease prevention and treatment _ Water and sanitation _ Maternal and child health _ Basic education and literacy _ Economic and community development

Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation recognize these six areas of focus as organizational priorities, and there are countless ways that Rotarians can address these needs loca l l y and internationally. For ideas, consult the publication Rotarys Areas of Focus.

Clubs and districts participating in the Future Vision pilot can apply for Rotary Foundation Global Grant funding by targeting specific goals for one or more of the areas of focus. Learn more about these goals.Areas of focus resources _ Peace and conflict prevention/resolution

] Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution

_ Disease prevention and treatment ] Rotarian Action Groups Specializing in this area

_ Water and sanitation ] Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group] RI/USAID International H20 Collaboration

_ Maternal and child health ] Rotary's strategic partnership with Aga Khan University ] Rotarian Action Group for Population Growth & Sustainable Development

_ Basic education and literacy ] Rotary's partnership with the International

Reading Association and the Dollywood Foundation's Imagination Library

_ ] Oikocredit International ] ]

Economic and community development

Rotary Community Corps program Rotarian Action Group for Microcredit

Of the things we think, say or do

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and

BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all

concerned?

ROTARY FOUR WAY TEST

Photo of the Week

Happy Birth DayPresident Raghavendra

Everybody is talking about Italian tourist kidnaped by maoists in Orissa. No body seems to care about Manmohan Singh who is in the captivity of an Italian woman from last 10 years!

Just Heard!!