RRT 169 Invitation for the inauguration of Bilaspur Round Table

BRT49 press conference covered by leading News Channel on the launch of Project Mission 5000

Joint Project with Mr. Satrughan Sinha in Bihar by Round Table

Round Table is a non-political and non-sectarian organization offering young men between the ages of 18 and 40 the opportunity for serving their communities by encouraging high ethical standards in commercial life; by developing the acquaintance of men in all vocations and thereby a fuller understanding; and by stimulating individual interest in everything affecting public welfare. The local club termed as “Round Table” or simply “Table” is the most important unit in the movement. The individual members of each Table decide how they will serve their community. What the Table does depends on the problems and challenges, which its community presents. These range from providing civic amenities, vocational training, conducting blood donation drives and health camps, performing corrective surgery, sponsoring underprivileged children in educational institutions and homes, providing shelters for the needy and helping out during times of natural calamities and tragedies like floods etc. The Table alone determines the scope and limit of its activities. There is no pattern limiting this scope. It is said that the privileges of life are accompanied by equal obligations and it is a Round Table belief that they require effort and service in return. The community service performed by Round Tables is an instrument, which benefits both parties to the contract. Those who are helped are given an intimate friendly assistance. Those who help have the opportunity to give a return for the privileges they enjoy, not the least of which is their membership of Round Table.

A proud achievement of Round Table India is that, it is the highest per capita contributor towards projects at Rs. 50,000-00 per annum, possibly the highest amongst all service organization in India.

Round Tables and Ladies Circle of Ahmedabad in association with Indian Heart Foundation and Research Organization take the pleasure of inviting you to the “Public Appeal for Bihar Flood Relief” in the gracious presence of renowned Actor, MP and Social Activist Shri Shatrughan Sinha.
We are all aware of the devastating flood in Bihar and the havoc it caused to the residents. Round Table has been instrumental in Bihar relief work. It has set up a relief camp in Bihar, managed by the tablers of RTI. Tablers and Circlers from all over the country have managed to send medicines worth Rs. 100 Lacs, food items worth Rs. 200 Lacs, tons of clothes and other relifef material. There is need for more support.
Shri Shatrughan Sinha has been kind enough to visit various cities of Gujarat in association with Round Table India to gather support for the flood victims.

We request you to contribute a few moments from your valuable time and support the flood victims of Bihar by remaining present:

Date: September 23rd, 2008
Venue: Ahmedabad Management Association Campus
Time: 03:00 PM Onwards

In service towards humanity

Organized by: Round Table India (Ahmedabad Chapter)
Ladies Circle India (Ahmedabad Chapter)
Sponsored by: Indian Heart Foundation and Research Organization
Profound Thanks: Shri Shatrughan Sinha

88888 Initiative by PRR105

88888 Initiative by PRR105

About 88888 initiative
This was an initiative taken by our table to promote the awareness about Global warming and fight against it by joining 88888 campaigns.

What is 88888?
We urged everyone to switch off lights for 8 minutes at 8 PM on 8th august 2008. We informed that Global warming is a real threat and all must act now. By this initiative we aimed following:
Building Awareness
Taking Individual responsibility for our surroundings
To be part of the solution
A feeling of togetherness amongst people when they all take a stand to arrest a common threat.

Impact of Global warming is far reaching and it is needed by all the acknowledge same. This effort was towards that

What our table did?

Our table printed the handouts in large numbers (10000). We circulated these pamphlets all round Pune at key places example: bills at Vaishali were accompanied by this, club solaris, Deccan, petrol pumps, societies in Kothrud and Aundh, Sopanbaug , tata sky customers etc...

Highlight of Publicity achieved:
A curtain raiser of this event was published on page 3 in Punes Newsline of Indian express of 6th August. The news also features Round table India achievements and will help us reach our cause to more people.

Actual Event
On that day, our tablers and ladies circulated the pamphlets from 7 Pm till 7 30 at key locations and we met after that at Autumn Service apartments and observed the lights out. During light out we resolved together to follow simple rules which can help fight global warming like putting off lights, not keeping devices in standby mode, using cycles, walking for short distances etc.

We also solicited support to our schools through publicity done.

Publicity achieved:
A curtain raiser of the 88888 event was published on page 3 in Punes Newsline of Indian express of 6th August. The news also features Round table India achievements and it will help us reach our cause to more people.
More than 10000 pamphlets were distributed all around pune depicting our cause and schools etc. We had encouraging response and calls resulting from that exercise

Fellowship angle to the event
This was a good fun as everyone had a cause. We meet once or twice to plan to event. Print and circulate the pamphlets we distributed in Pune. By means of this we urged all to put off lights at 8 pm on 8th Aug 2008 for 8 minutes as awareness to fight against global warming. Two days all tablers took responsibility to distribute the pamphlets publicizing event and table activities. It was fun, with updates from all over Pune about score: the number of pamphlets distributed. Finally we all met that day at Chirag’s petrol pump on University Road. There we distributed to all. A great bonding…
After the event, few tablers had a late coffee session at Sanjay’s Place to discuss all.

PRR105

1st AEX Meet Photographs

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Area3 1ST aex MEET

Report on the First AEX meeting @ Pune on 20th & 21st September
The year has started with a Bang!!! The first AEx meeting was less of a meeting and more of a fellowship and outbound for the Area Board Members of Area III
The entire Area Board Team along with their families assembled in Pune in the Morning of 20September Saturday. We quickly got fresh and moved on to Amby Valley Sahara city near Lonavala. It was an out of country experience. The place was beautiful, weather was amazing,raining on and off and the company was the best every possible Tablers!!!
We spent the day on the huge 10,000 Acres property, site seeing and enjoying and envying the lifestyle being offered. We finally landed playing at the India’s best Gold Course’s Driving Range. We all took our shots, the ladies tried their swings. Few of us were confused which game we were actually playing….cricket, tennis.We returned back to Pune in the evening and went to the a Social hosted by Pune RT15 which was at a lounge bar called “The Den”. It was a exciting place and we had some more fun, music, mischief and fellowship. The Chairman Tr. Sunil Punjabi conducted a crisp meeting.
The next day morning was the formal AEx meeting. All conveners gave their reports and sought suggestions on few of the events and programs they are planning for the year.
We finally ended the meeting and Tablers bid adieu to each other and left for their respective homes ranging from 0 to 1200 Kms away.
What a weekend…..Its just the beginning……

Tr. Vinit Parikh

AREAIII Chairman

Report on Mega Social-BRT-49

Report on Mega Social-BRT-49
BRT-49 decided that the first social should be a mega social so Wedding theme initiation cards were send out with a Box of Motichor laddu to all tablers of Vadodara,infact they were personally delivered to their houses(BRT-49 and BYRT) with physical wedding card all tables from Gujarat were invited by a e-card.
6th of September the much awaited social of Tabler Amit Bhatnagar and Tabler Vipul Shah based on the theme of wedding finally came, believe or not the entire affair was genuine as a Normal Indian Wedding as in the true Indian Style we had the famous Durbar band playing to the rustic Indian wedding numbers it was accompanied by the light bearers of the baraat, and not the miss out was the baggi.
The baraat Started from a distance of one kms for the venue, to re-live our weddings days all the circlers and tablers were dressed up in their wedding attires looking handsome and charming respectively.
Each of the circlers and tablers took turns to take a ride on the baggi,through out the distance their was dance drama and dandia,the silver lining to the baraat was the magnificent fire cracker show the baraat with all it gaiety and fervor reached the venue PM Banquets ,for the reception of the barrat the hosts wives Mona and Nirali were their the greet the barratis with flowers and gajra the tired barrati were served drinks and soups, the most enjoyable lot were the twinkers who were simply mesmerized to see their parents wedding all over again.

The atmosphere had fervor of celebrations fun and frolic as is seen in the weddings. After a sumptuous dinner the guest were parted by giving them a traditional back gift consisting of a small pouch of Anjeer and chocolates. The scene was set for a perfect suhaag raat, as the eyes of each of the tablers and their wivers who re-lived the moments were full of romance. You had to see it to believe it.

Area Chairman Vineet was their in wedding attire with his wife, so were tablers from BYRT in full Strength and tablers Satya and Bhaiji from Ahemdabad and surat made a special attempt to attend it.
A special aspect of the social was the fact that parents of the tablers were also invited and they were present in large numbers, this fact was specially appreciated by Area-3 chairman Vineet, in short the social was attended by 125 persons at the Majestic PM Banquets

To sum it the entire social was a historic one.

Independence Day Celebration BRT2

Independence Day Celebration

As our country celebrated it 60th Independence Day, we witnessed the next generation talk of the greatness of the occasion. The Twinklers dressed in the tri-colours of the Indian flag narrated the history of Indian Independence and the meaning behind the Indian Flag. They put up a good show and stole the attention for the evening.

Tr Ankit and Cr. Mona Parekh hosted the dinner get-together on 14th August, '08 at their residence at Shivaji Park . The highlight for dinner was some scrumptious Gujrathi Cuisine organized by our host. We had the presence of Sq. Legs, tablers from RT 6, RT 19, RT 198 and past circlers among the circle of BRT 2 that evening.

It was great to see everyone sporting the tricolour theme. The evening seemed to flow from one good thing into another. Everyone was in high spirits. Right after dinner which went on till midnight, our tablers got into the mood of kick-starting the season of Diwali with games of Taash. The crowd enjoyed every bit of their evening.

Tr.Vishal Mirpuri

Chairman,

Bombay Round Table No.2.

Bombay RT#2 celebrates the 1200th meeting

Bombay RT#2 celebrates the 1200th meeting

One more milestone in the history of Bombay RT 2 as it celebrated its 1200th meeting on 30th August’ 08. The evening at Hotel Executive Enclave, Bandra was one that will be remembered down memory lane in the future. BRT 2 has completed 48 glorious years from when it was chartered on 23rd August 1960. BRT 2 is amongst the 6 tables of India who were the original signatories of the charter of Round Table India. This has been a long and eventful journey. BRT 2 had the honour to have amongst the guests, Sq. Legs of BRT 2, AST Tr. Mukul Ajmera, chairmen, prospective, circlers and tablers from across all tables of Bombay city. The crowd of more than 60 heads rocked late into the night.

Sq. Leg Prakash Apte lit the lamp to begin the proceedings of the meeting. The 1200th meeting was called to order by Chairman Vishal with a toast raised. We then sang the RTI song. Tr. Ranjit presented a myriad of memories of almost 5 decades of BRT 2. It was a very nostalgic moment for all present, especially the Sq Legs who laid the foundation for us. AST Mukul unveiled the pin of the 1200th meeting of BRT 2.

Tr. Rajiv Mehra Jr. & Cr. Rita Rajgarhia entertained the floor as they were Seargeants for the evening. Tr. Rajiv impersonated and mimicked Laloo Prasad Yadav and Cr. Rita was a journalist interviewing him. They made spoofs of all the tablers of BRT 2 and had everyone in splits. Tr. Rajiv perfected the act with pan in his mouth and Bihari on his tongue.

The celebration peaked with cutting a cake and Sq Leg Rahul Nandkeolar popped champagne. The celebration moved on to the dance floor and the party rocked on. A celebration that will be remembered for years to come.

PHRT 182 HRD REPORT ON MERCEDES BENZ MUSEUM

HRD REPORT ON MERCEDES BENZ MUSEUM VISIT IN STUTTGART , GERMANY
Date : TUE , Aug 5th, 2008-09-10
Attended by :
1. Tr. Vikas Agarwal and Shivani Agarwal 2. Tr. Dhawal Shah and Jinal Shah 3. Tr. Abhijit Bora and Pooja Bora 4. Tr. Amol Hatkar and Monica Hatkar 5. Tr. Jaspreet Kohli and Preet Kohli 6. Tr. Amol Kothari and Shubha Kothari 7. Tr. Ajay Chordia and Ashwini Chordia 8. Tr. Amit Patodia and Deepa Patodia 9. Tr. Lokesh Munot and Tina Munot 10.Tr. Hiten Patel 11. Tr. Amit Bora On a beautiful sunny morning , our German host tablers drove us all down to Stuttgart, approximately a one hours drive , to visit the Mercedes Benz museum.
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an automotive museum housed in Stuttgart, Germany. Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz brand and the international headquarters of Daimler AG. The building, which stands directly outside the main gate of the Daimler factory in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, was designed by UN Studio.
It is based on a unique cloverleaf concept using three overlapping circles with the centre removed to form a triangular atrium. The museum was completed and opened in 2006.The building's height and "double helix" interior were designed to maximise space, providing 16,500 square metres of exhibition space on a footprint of just 4,800 square metres
When we reached the building , we were amazed by it’s futuristic design and interiors . It was as if we have been transported into the future when we entered the building. We were first given headphones through which we could hear what our group guide was saying, wherever in the museum we were, which was our first glimpse of the technology in use here .
The tour started on the top level , the eight floor . Every floor showcased one decade in automotive history and innovations by the Mercedes benz company and their contribution to the evolution of the modern automobile .
Starting from the eight level which showed the first motorized vehicles developed by the Benz and Daimler companies (then separate entities) from the year 1886 to 1900. The vehicles shown here are not replicas but actual vehicles which were used during those times .
On the next level(Year 1900 – 1914 ), we were amazed tolearn the story behind the Mercedes brand, who was not named after any of the owners . In the year 1902 , some of new racing models were named after the daughter of the company’s biggest dealer. Her name was Mercedes Jellinek and so began the story of one of the world’s best known brands.
On the next level (Year 1914 – 1945), we learned about early models and the introduction of the diesel engine and the world’s first supercharged engine. It was in 1926 that former competitors, Benz & Co. and Daimler Motors merged to form the the new company Daimler – Benz.
As we then went down more levels, a different chapter in automotive history unfolded before our eyes. We were shown the racing history of Mercedes cars and we were amazed to know that even in the early 1900’s the cars were capable of doing speeds of 100 mph. We were also fascinated by the immense research done to improve the safety of the cars as their was an entire level dedicated just to this.
We also checked out the cars driven by celebrities, presidents, Hollywood and the Pope himself in the celebrities gallery and cars that have been used in various movies like Jurassic Park and other Hollywood movies.
Finally , we got a glimpse of the future, where were displayed 5 specially selected prototypes of research models. These models are fully operational with futuristic design and technology which are currently being tested and will be introduced in future models .
The racing enthusiasts then got a taste of Formula One racing in specially designed simulators where we got to be a part of the live action . After a couple of minutes inside the simulator , we came out feeling how it is humanly possible to complete a circuit driving at those kinds of speeds. We were totally disoriented and exhausted after just a few minutes inside the simulator .
We could have spent an entire day here admiring the beauties but finally we had to call the tour to an end and tear away the tablers from their favourite models to assemble for departure . We all left , I am sure , with most of us hoping we would someday own the car of the future shown above. .
Compiled and Written by

Vikas AgarwalChairman –PHRT 182

FELLOWSHIP IN EUROPE PHRT- 182

FELLOWSHIP IN EUROPE -The PHRT- 182 way
Going to Europe along with your fellow tablers is a dream for most of us in the tabling fraternity. Last year our then IRO –Tr. Abhijit Bora initiated a dialogue with our twinning tables across the world to visit Pune and experience Indian hospitality and more so Pune tabling. It was this invitation which prompted the tablers of Tubingen-Reutlingen182 to visit us last year and we hosted our fellow tablers and families for four to five days. An immediate invitation from our German friends followed which prompted a lot of us to visit them this year.
Tour Highlights After months of planning and
1. 11 tablers including 8 couples and seven organisation we decided to go on a children. twelve day trip along with our families. 2. 12 days of fellowship and bonding. In fact at some stages, due to our busy3. Vienna, Salsburg, Cologne, Heidelburg, work schedules, we thought that ourStuttgart, Tubingen, Reutlingen visited. 4. Joint fellowship night with Austrian Tablers trip was only going a remain a dream, 5. Joint meeting with Tubingen 182. but it was the pure tabling sprit and 6. Release of PHRT 182’s 100th meeting pin. dedication of our tablers that our 7. Indian flag hoisted at Mercedes Benz HQ. dream turned into a reality. On the 24th of June we finalised the names, the places and the tentative itenary of the tour and decided to leave on the 27th of July 2008 for Vienna.
The fellowship tour started from Pune with us deciding to go altogether by bus on the 27th Afternoon. As each of the families drove to the meeting point, they were welcomed with a lot of cheer.The excitement of the next 12 days could be felt on the bus from Pune to Mumbai as the ladies could not stop talking of their earlier experiences and new shopping lists.
We landed in Vienna at 05:35 am and reached the hotel by approximately 6:30 am. The rooms were to be allocated by
2:00 pm as per European standards and hence we had organised two rooms where the babies, children and ladies could freshen up. This went as per plan only for the first 20 minutes until hunger struck and the ladies opened the thaplas, khakras, chutneys, farsans and sweets in the traditional Indian way. We then headed off to a park just adjacent to our hotel. Amidst the scenic surroundings of lawn mounds was a small pond with many ducks. The children had a good time feeding the ducks. After this we all feasted on mouth-watering ice-creams, while waiting for the tram which would take us to the city centre. But we kept waiting for the next tram as 10 am Sunday morning was the perfect time to start our
day with a couple of glasses of beer. We ultimately got to the City-centre and
it was a long, pleasant stroll on the narrow streets of the city, which ended again with a chilled glass of beer followed by a light lunch. Later we went back to the hotel to unpack and change and take a short cat nap. In the evening we set out to explore another square and ended the day with a early dinner comprising of pizzas, salads, risottos and kebabs.
The next morning, Abhijit and his daughter Cherry joined us at our hotel. After all our Pure vegetarian friends fested on a sumptuous breakfast – “ Eggs are Vegetarian “ we all assembled at the hotel lobby and left for the city tour organized for us. It was a nice sunny morning and our first stop was the Belvedere palace along with the botanical gardens. We then we drove through the city to see various buildings like the parliament, library, city hall while we captured a few pictures. We opted for a lunch break at the amusement park where all the ladies freaked out on all the exciting rides including the Ferris Wheel, Carrousel Ride, Water Boat, Bomb ride etc etc etc. We then visited the Schonbrunn palace and the guide gave us a very nice tour explaining about each room, their character, the history of the family, the queen, the grand wedding and various other important events that occurred during that era. We were also pleased to see Indian paintings in the Palace- I guess we Indian have always been well connected. After this we rushed to the Schonbrunn zoo which was a treat for the children and us parents to see a variety of animals including giraffes, bisons, polar bear lion, tigers, penguins and every other type of animal one could think of -white peacock- it was simply fabulous. We then rushed to the hotel where we changed in a jiffy and caught the tram back to the city to meet tablers from Vienna.
It was a lovely evening organised by Tabler Harry where we all introduced ourselves and
our families to one another. We also exchanged flags and pins while the we guzzled down gallons of beer. This was followed by an extremely sumptuous dinner.
While some of us took our families back to the hotel others waited back and had a
couple of shots with the Austrians. It was indeed an evening filled with excitement, happiness and surprise.
The next day we all were up by 6:00 a.m. ‘coz we had to drive to Salzburg by bus. After having another “Pure Vegetarian Breakfast” at the hotel we all left for Salzburg which was a 5 hour journey filled with desi music, and of course desi snacks. The countryside was extraordinarily scenic, well landscaped hillocks, beautiful houses and crystal clear water bodies. We took a short snack break with some heavy cakes, waffles, sandwiches and pasta all resulting in a nap on the bus and before we knew it we were at Salzburg. We started the city tour with the beautiful Mirabel gardens and then walked across the river to see Mozart’s birth place and the church. The city tour was over in the next three hours and we walked through the narrow streets of Salzburg charmed by the size and vibration of the city. After a short burger nap at Mc Donalds, we headed back to the Bus and returned to Vienna. As it was pretty late, we requested to be dropped of at the City Centre where ended our day with dinner at a Chinese restaurant.
The next day was relatively relaxed. The first few hours we spent on packing since we had to leave the same afternoon for cologne. Later we all left the hotel at 11:00a.m. to go to the city centre to do some last minute shopping. We grabbed a bite at the city- centre and then went back to the hotel to pick up our bags and then headed for the airport. It was about an hour and a half to reach Cologne by air. The children were give some scribble pad and colouring books at the aircraft, so this kept them busy till we reached Cologne. We reached Cologne at around 8:30pm and the ladies made some delicious Indian food at the hotel. Later a few of our friends decided to explore the night life of Cologne and got back to the hotel at three the next morning.
After a lavish breakfast at the hotel, we were all set for the Cologne sight-seeing tour. We first headed off to the Panorma cruise on the river Rhine. It was an one and a half hour cruise and then visited the Cologne cathedral. It was a nice cathedral with beautiful stained glass. We then grabbed a bite on the street outside the cathedral before visiting the old town hall and then the Diocesan museum. Here we were joined by the Tubingen Tabler Till who accompanied us for the rest of the day. This was a day long tour and we reached the hotel by 5:00 pm only
to be informed by the ladies that they wanted to explore the neighbouring mall to explore their wallets and they did just that as the were there the next morning as well – obviously as they had not visited each and every the shops. The next day we were joined by Pooja alias Kaj alias Abhijit’s wife and there was loads of excitement at the Breakfast table with each of us telling her what she had
missed out on and how we had not missed her. Later it was time to visit the mall and before we knew it we were bag boys for our wives and by twelve we were so stressed out that we decided to have lunch at the mall. Late afternoon we freshened up at the hotel and were out at five to visit the chocolate museum and the beer garten. It was a fun filled evening as we took the kids to a small play-area adjacent to the beer-garten which had a small water-body to amuse the children. We then had our dinner at an Indian restaurant “Jaipur” where we had satisfied Indian bellies along with a very fat bill.
The next day we had our breakfast at the hotel and then headed off to Tubingen by bus. This was a 6 hour drive from Cologne to Tubingen, however some friendly advice from tabler Till ensured our halt at Heidelburg where we took a 2hour halt at the palace. The Castle here is located on a hill and it was a one of the steepest climbs we had ever encountered as the prams kept going the other way. Ultimately when we reached the pinnacle we found our climb to be worth every while as the view was breathtaking from every angle.
Finally we reached Tubigin at 6:00p.m. and each and every host was waiting to welcome us. In typical German fasion they gave us a sheet of paper with their snaps,names, addresses and their contact no. in case we got lost. They also clicked our family picture with our names for their reference and ultimately showed us how to be a good Indian Boy. We then headed off to our respective hosts’ residence. My host was Stefen and Annette Lachenmann. The same evening there was a house dinner and Tablers/Hosts staying closeby hosted a common dinner for their hosts. We went to Jens’s house where tabler Dhawal Shah was staying and feasted on some barbeque, salads while the children played on the lawn.
On Sunday, our fellow Germans had organised a Picnic and a visit to the Hohenzollern Castle. We all were ready at around 10:00a.m. and met at the Tubingen castle by 11:30 to take the shuttle up to the castle. As we waited outside the castle for our tickets we all feasted on some ice-creams. It was about 45min tour inside the castle. The castle tour was followed by a lovely picnic where each host had brought some home cooked food. They had nice variety of cakes and sandwiches and fruit platter. They also got some Frisbees and balls for the kids to play.
Later we returned back to our hosts house, and freshened up for a pool party at Tabler Frank’s house. The food here was made by a West Indian Chef and was pure Vegetarian to cater to our Taste Buds. The evening ensured a few of us in the swimming pool while the rest guzzled some beer as the night progressed.
On we went to a neighbouring host’s place for breakfast, from thereon we went sightseeing. There we could hire bicycles and go for a short ride. The cycles also had a small seat so as to carry our children too. We also walked through the narrow lanes of Tubingen and visited a nice small church and then had a nice meal at a nearby restaurant. After this we spent the afternoon at the shopping malls along the streets. We then went for a nice boat ride at the bridge, where we met that morning. The boat ride was disrupted towards the end due to a sudden downpour and most of us ran for cover to the closet location. The evening plan altered and we had dinner with our hosts.
On Tuesday we drove down to Stuttgart, to visit the Mercedes Benz museum. It was one of the best museums we had ever seen. The whole tour around the museum took us about 2 to 2.5hours which flew by very fast as we got engrossed in the history of cars right from the vintage to the future.
The afternoon was what most of us had been looking forward to – Visiting the Mercedes Benz plant. As the ladies proceeded for what the do best- spend money, we tablers were driven the the Merc plant which has an area of 2.2sq. km. We were given a very warm welcome by the Head of Indian Operation and even the Indian flag was hosted for our visited, thus making us feel extremely proud. The plant visit started with a ten minute AV presentation on the plant and lasted for a couple of hours where we were shown the body shop which was 99% automised and the assembly line which boggled our minds. By the time all of us stepped out of the plant all our fellow industrialists were full of ideas for their Pune plants.
That same evening we had our 100th table meeting along with Tubingen-Reutlingen 182 which was a joint meeting. The meeting was organised in the Tubingen tower which was a dungeon in the earlier years. The meeting was one of the most memorable meeting our table as had as Chairman Vikas exchanged flags released our 100th meeting pin, presented our token of appreciation to the German Tablers with hand crafted Elephants and RTI beer mugs which were engraved with both the table logos. It was an evening filled with loud cheer, claps and
flashes.
Our last day in Tubingen was absolutely amazing-like they say save the best for the last. We left home at about ten to visit our hosts workplace from where we were picked up by steven who escorted us into the serene hills of Tubingen for some adventure sports – The Dare Devil Types which included rope climbing, walking swinging, swaying etc etc etc.
After the initial hesitation and leg pulling we all decided to go for it and harnessed ourselves before we were given the safety drill. Some of us actually did the advanced stages as well as this rope-climbing adventure had 8 levels. The whole day was spent amongst the trees by the tablers while the wives and kids played on the open field adjacent to the park.
After a very adventurous afternoon, we proceeded to an apple winery owned by one of the tablers father where we were showed the process of apple wine. This was followed by some sumptuous onion cake which is the speciality of the area. The night moved on slowly as we chatted with one another and invited each of our hosts to visit us in India.
The next morning we left Tubingen by six am for Stuttgart as we had an early flight back to India via Vienna. It was truly a memorable trip as enjoyed ourselves thoroughly and we gelled extremely well with one another to return back as a stronger and larger family.
Compiled and Written by
Amol Hatkar Fellowship Convener –PHRT 182

RRT-169 Fellowship Event Dance social

Raipur Round Table 169
Fellowship Report July 2008
Fellowship Event 1st Dance Social was organized after the 6th AGM of RRT 169 at Funky Town in Hotel Babylone with the theme SINGH IS KKING in honour of our new Chairman Ravindra Singh Chawla (Nitu). The Occasion was graced with the presence of Area Board Member Tr.Rocky from PSRT 177 PUNE.
All the Tablers were dressed aptly for the Occasion with the traditional sikh turbans looking typical Sikh(kings).And the Circlers and Ladies were dressed up as Punjabi Kudis,so as the Twinklers.Special Prizes were awarded for the best Dressed Singh King and the best dressed Punjabi Kudi and also for the twinklers.Special prize was also awarded for the best dressed Couple and for the best dancing Couple.
The awards for the best dressed King was given to Tr.Ravindra Chawla and for the best dressed Punjabi Kudi to Cr. Poonam Sethi.The best Dressed family Award was given to HT Neeraj Sethi Family.The best Dressed Twinkler was given to junior Nitu Tanay Chawla.The best dancing Couple award was given to Sq leg Rubin Sethi and Cr.Poonam.

RRT 169 OUTBOUND SOCIAL AT HYDERABAD

FELLOWSHIP EVENT 2ND OUTBOUND SOCIAL AT HYDERABAD
DATE 25TH AND 26TH AUG 2008
After the Area AGMthe team of RRT 169 decided to stay back at Hyderabad for two dayz for the out bound Social.all the 25 heads had a wonderful time in Hyderabad for the two dayz.
On 1st day all the team had a tour of Ramoji Film City.Twinklers had a special attraction in the tour visiting wonderful movie sets and game shows at fundoostan and other places in the Film City.
On the 2nd day we had city tour of Hyderabad going to Salarjung Museum,Charminar,SnowWorld etc.Ladies enjoyed doing shopping at the Pearl market .
It was nice team enjoying snowfall in Hyderabad experiencing the alps of Switzerland.Also enjoyed having wonderful Lunch and Dinner at Chutneys and at Eat Streats.

Celebrating Birth Day of Celebrity of RTI

"Yeh dosti Kabhi na Todega"










Who is Manish? If you find it in first attempt - Cake is yours











There is a woman behind every successful man.











I am actually not able to make out who came first, the chicken or the egg.










Aise kya dekh rahe ho!! Not because of Chairman, I actually have a smiling face.

Tr.Prakash Udeshi
Chairman ART40

Invitation of Celebration for awards in AREA from BRT49