Tarang: August- 2022

Tarang

Dear Rotaractors!

We hope everyone has been doing great lately. We are proud to present the August edition of Tarang. This newsletter is a small step towards the larger goal of the Rotaract Club of Bangalore. In the current issue, we have covered the events organized by us in August. This month, we saw some impactful projects including Independence day, fellowship activity, and the program on financial literacy. Let us keep our Rotaract spirits high and continue working on meaningful projects. We are enthralled to witness your energy, and we wish to see many more members grabbing any opportunity presented to shine. We will continue to have exciting and impactful projects in the future as well.

As promised, We are continuing RCB’s Got Talent, a section in our newsletter solely dedicated to showcasing our achievements, talent, and creations in their personal and professional life. Having said that, we have also added a couple of new features going forward. We are always open to your suggestions regarding the addition of new features to our newsletter.

We once again encourage our members to make use of Tarang’s special column, RCB’s Got Talent. We love seeing our members accessing their creative side!

We hope you enjoy reading this edition of Tarang as much as we enjoyed creating and designing it for you!

Rotary Theme Of August

August is Membership and New Club Development Month.

Installation: Genesis

On 30th July, we had our installation ceremony. It began with the lighting of the lamp, multifaith prayer, and reciting of the Four Way Test, followed by an invocation dance. The outgoing President Rtr. Nandan Jog & Secretary Rtr. Pujashree delivered a report. The incoming President, Rtr. Saravanan was installed by our parent club’s President, Rtn. Sanjay Udani, who also installed the Board of Directors. The DRR of RI Dist. 3190, Rtr. Rtn. Joseph Wilson inducted the new members. Other dignitaries along with the DRR and President of Rotary Club of Bangalore, such as DRCC Rtn. Kiran C V, DYSD Rtn. Hemanth Bekal, YSD of Rotary Club of Bangalore, Rtn. Hemanth Manay and the Chief Guest Mr. Velpandiyan addressed the gathering, thereby encouraging our Rotaractors to make a huge impact and utilize all opportunities at our disposal. We released the theme for the year, along with our newsletter, Tarang and letterhead, and we concluded the installation ceremony with announcements, well wishes and the vote of thanks.

Events Of August

Club Service Fellowship Activity

The Club Service Avenue planned for a fellowship activity in The Living Room on August 13th, 2022. On reaching the venue we were informed that “The Living Room” had been booked by another team completely. So, we decided on another venue “Azure Café” on the spot and started moving towards the same. By the time we settled in, it was already 1.30 PM.

We ordered a few snacks and Pizzas. We had a good chat along with food, discussed various projects, and overall made it a fun day. Further, we proceeded to RHF for video creation and photoshoot

Independence Day

On account of the 75th Independence Day, all Rotarians and Rotaractors gathered at Rotary Bangalore Vidyalaya by 8.30 am and flag hoisting was done by Rotarians in the presence of school teachers, students, and parents. Cultural events were conducted followed by an inspirational speech by Rtn Sanjay Udani sir. Fun activities were organized by the Rotaract club of Bangalore Community service avenue. Food, biscuits, and juice were distributed to all students.

RCB Speaker Series: Financial Literacy

The project “Financial Literacy” was a part of RCB Speaker Series, by the speaker Vinod Kumar. He was mentored by Deepak Rao, founder of Simplus Financial consultancy, and follows the principles of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffet. He has been taking sessions and educating people through online platforms. The session touched upon the basics of inflation, good financial habits, power of compounding, investment avenues, and non-investment platforms. The session started by illustrating the basic examples of daily life like college fee, milk /groceries price 10 years ago and now to understand inflation.

The objective of this webinar was to fill the gap in the consultancy industry and create awareness of investment principles and strategies. Keeping this in mind, Vinod Kumar shared his principles of financial management such as saving a minimum of 30% of the net income, reducing debt, investing early, investing regularly, investing for the long-term, and investing a dominant portion of the money into wealth-enhancing investment avenues.

He also gave the idea of major investment avenues like debt funds, equity, real estate, and gold, and explained how insurance is risk management but not a wealth management investment. Vinod also explained trading, crypto, chit fund, co-operative society deposits, chain linked schemes are not good investment ideas. By explaining financial behaviors like loss aversion, endowment effect, status quo bias, sunk cost fallacy the session was concluded.

Rotary Quiz

RCB's Got Talent

Mandala Art

I don’t get free time very often but when I do, I draw! This time, I drew a mandala and I enjoyed making it.

- Rtr. Ria Jain

Awards

BCA department of Surana College (Autonomous) has numerous clubs for the students welfare, one among that club is Esoteric The IT Club. This club conducts various events and programs to encourage students extra Curricular activities and skill development competitions as well.

Rtr S. Andrew Simon bagged 3 awards. The awards are:

3rd Place in Ted Talks

3rd Place in Business Environment

1st Place in Business Interplay and Analysis

Talent Night

On the occasion of Talent Night, held by the Rotary Club of Bangalore, our very own Rotaractors, Pujashree, Chaula, and Andrew took the opportunity to perform a comical satire on News Broadcast. The team says, "The skit turned out to be hilarious and was enjoyed by the audience. We had an amazing experience planning, preparing, and performing the skit. It is a memory that will stay with us. We thank the Rotary club of Bangalore for this awesome opportunity and look forward for more!"

Rtr. Sahana and Rtr. Mohanapriya performed a fusion dance of Bharatnatyam and Freestyle for Rotary's Talent Night