Fourth Monday program as on 26 Th December 2011 at India community center,Cupertino,CA.
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Shakuntala Bahdur introduced Murali Krishnamurthy who presented the karaoke musical program along with his Group. The other members of the Group were Nirmalkumar, Sudha and Shobha.. Murali Krishnamurthy is a music lover Even Though professionally he is Engineer. He is also one of the founders of ‘Sankara Foundation’. Murali Krishnamurthy informed that they had started building ‘Eye Hospitals under ‘Sankara Foundation’ since 1998 and now they are having 8 Hospitals. He added that one more is already under construction at Punjab.
The Group was welcome by Prema Santhnam, and Mrs Rastogi with flowers.
Thereafter Sudha started with old Hindi movie songs. she presented classical and semi classical songs. She also sang duet with Nirmal Kumar and Murali. Murali also presented few hit song of ‘Shanker Jaikishan’ . Nirmal kumar also presented few Hindi songs .
Shobha and Sudha also presented Tamil songs. Murali Krishnamurthy presented song’ Jina Isika Naam Hai’ very well. It was received very well. Sudha’s song ‘Bolere Papiharaa ‘was also very well presented. Nirmalkumar song ‘Nil Nil Amber Ho’ was also very pleasant. Anu Jagadeesh introduced some of the Guest who were present. She presented singer couple Rishi and Seema who presented one song from film’ Lage Raho Munnabhai’. She also introduced the President of ‘Kannada Sangh’
The group was felicitated at the end. Pradeep Joshi proposed vote of thanks.
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THIRD MONDAY PROGRAM ON ‘SPIRITUALISM’ AS ON 19 TH DECEMBER 2011 AT ICC CUPERTINO,CA -I.E. ON “CHRISTIANITY”
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(In the above top photos from left members and on the right Lady member is offering Devotional music on Piano. In the next row Huge Riddell is addressing the members. In the bottom photo Huge Riddell and his family involve in discussion.)
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The program was started with the melodious music over Piano. Dinesh Bajaj introduced Huge Riddell a speaker of the day. Huge Riddell is former High School Teacher of the Cupertino, CA. Bajaj also added that he is also on the Boards of ‘YMCA’ and ‘Churches’ respectively. Sunila Fondekar welcomed the guest with flowers Buckie.
Huge Riddell gave the brief history of Christianity and the difference between Judaism and Christianity. He said since the time of Roman Empire the Jude believed that God has not yet come on this earth but they had strong belief that all calamities are brought by God. While Christan believed that God has come on the earth in the form of Christ. However the foundation of Christianity was laid by the close disciples of Christ after his death on cross.
The Roman Emperor Constantine accepted the God on Cross. Thereafter the Christianity was well established. The Roman Catholic Christian accepted the Pope as their Head. Catholic believed in one God. They also believed that all Christan goes to Heaven. The several Sub Sects were developed in the Christianity with the course of time .The English Church was established in the time of King Henry wherein king was made the head of the Church. Martin Luther King from Germany also supported Protestant Church. Baptist and Mormon are also different outlooks in Christianity.
Huge concluded that the Christmas celebration has its own meaningful purpose. It is a celebration of sharing of noble and spiritual ideas including sharing of financial wealth.
Dinesh Bajaj, Jayshree Vasavada, Rangan, M Santhnam and Bharat Desai took active part in question answer session. The program was ended with summing up and vote of thanks by Dinesh Bajaj.
Thereafter ‘Yoga’ was conducted for one hour by Mahendrabhai.
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The Second Monday Program as on 12 Th December 2011 under ‘Friends On Same Wave Length’ at India community center, Cupertino CA
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M K Rao presided over the program which was addressed by Vikram Grover,Senior Manger,(SPD), Google, San Jose CA. M Santhnam welcomed the Chief Guest and Dinesh Bajaj introduced him.
The program started with prayer. Thereafter Vikram Grover made power point presentations on’ The creation of maps in India and its Associated challenges’.
Vikram Grover pointed out the general difficulties faced by Google to prepare the Maps India as
1)The Cities are generally not planed
2)The Addresses are Vague
3)The Names of the streets are also not clear
4)They have to face difficulties from the Government on Security Ground
5) The General mapping also become Controversial due to Border Disputes
He further added that in spite of all those problems we have been able make very good progress. We achieved that with the help of Local Authorities, Yellow Pages, Business Circle, and Local people. The satellite technology has been also very helpful in this matter.
He also briefed regarding the advantage of mapping technology as under
1) It guides Regarding Roads and Address of the destination. It also saves the waste of time
2) It can also show the time consumption during the journey
3) It also provides Telepone nos,Bus and Train Timings
4) It can guide you regarding the points of interest.
5) Some time business people can supervise the activities of their employees in the field.
6) It indicates Hotels, Restaurants and Petrol Pumps etc of the Area.
The information available is upgraded through feedback on our website or through our people in the field. Besides that all information is being supervised by google. He added that technology is meant for general use of the people.
He also briefed regrading the latest projects of google.i.e.The Introduction of fast Internet Engine and, Free wireless facilities,
Hari Varma suggested to take help of the Indian postal department’s in the Mapping efforts in India. Manisha Shah pointed out the misuse of such technology by certain elements. Dinesh Bajaj and PK Banga also took part in the discussions.
A Narayanaswami proposed vote of Thanks.
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Chhajuka Chaubara Program as on 7th December 2011 at India community center, Cupertino, CA
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The Program was started by the musical presentations by P K Banga and Manilal Jagtap.
Jagtap also presented one of the Hindi movie songs on mouthorgan. Avtar Kaur also presented devotional song.
Thereafter Amrita Verma presented the talk on how Capital from Calcutta to New Delhi was shifted under British Rule. She also gave very good picture how New Delhi was built up those days.
Parthsarthy discussed the happiness and unhappiness and reasons thereof. He gave positive aspects of happiness like Love, Affection and the maintenance of Good Health. However he added that we become unhappy some time because of worries, anxiety and hatred. He concluded that out all worries 90 % are Baseless, 5% are because of What other think about us while 4% are created by our imaginations.Therefore remaining 1% worries are only genuine. Hence we should create a state of mind whereby we can get rid of worries and make our self happy.
Dr Akur Srinivasan talk on ‘The investigating journalism’ which should be responsible and based on truth. In this connection he referred several cases from 1872 including Water Gate,(USA) Mundra, Boffers and 2 G Spectrum cases. He further added that investigating journalism is not easy wherein journalist has to examine truth, and to do undercover operation. They have to even take photographs to substantiate their contentions if necessary.
Thereafter Anuradha Jagdeesh along with Group leader Shobha Prabakar presented the devotional songs including in Kannada. Raghavan Embar was on Tabala.
The coordination in presentation of the program was excellent. The group presented the devotional songs related to all Indian deities.i.e. Siva, Ganesh, Kartikya, Ram, Krishna, Ambaa, Lord Ayyepan, Tulsi, Laxmi, etc. They created very pious atmosphere by their melodious Bhajans From Meera, Dayanand Saraswati and other Saints. The program was concluded with the world peace song ‘Maitree’ written by Chakravarty Rajgopalchari.
B K Rao made sum up at the end and thanked the group for presenting such nice program.
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THE BOOK CLUB MEETING AT ICC, CUPERTINO,CA AS ON 2ND DECEMBER2011
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Kalyani Subramonian was introduced by M K Rao. She reviewed a book Title “Sons and Lovers” by D H Lawrence.
Kalyani Subramonian presented the said book in very analytical manner. She informed that book described the love between mother and son and between son to his wife. The story turn ultimately wherein father and son left apart. She added that it is a story with note of optimism.She further commented that love should reflect on the both side and it can not be one way. However son loves more his mother while daughter’s love is always more for her father. She was talking about love which reflects in the novel under review. It also describe the problem in life but we have to live with it. It also indicate the lesson has to be learn from the life. some where it also indicate the nature of woman.
T P Subramonion also gave his comments on the book. He said it is book of positive and negative feelings. Love should be mutual which is being also implicated in the book. The author was ahead of time and his views were not accepted then by society but it was accepted latteron. He concluded that it mainly deals on Relationship.
Bharat Desai and Manilal Jagtap took part in the discussion. Manilal Jatap was of opinion that writing should always reflect the life of the concerned period.
Bharat Desai presented his two Books one is in English Title ‘ Rainbow’ and another one in Gujarati ‘ Huj Ishwar Chhu’ i.e. ‘I am God’. The ‘Rainbow’ deals with the short stories based on Friendship, Love, Jealousy, Revenge, Broken Family, and Mental problems. The other Book ‘Huj Ishwar Chhu’ is on subjects which are related to ‘Inner developments'.
M K Rao proposed vote of Thanks.
Thereafter M K Rao took yoga classes for remaining one hour.
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Fourth Monday program of 28th November 2011 at ICC, Cupertino, CA
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Sunila Fondekar informed regarding the agenda of the program.
Thereafter Dinesh Bajaj introduced Pradeep Joshi and his close association with In-do American community service center, CA to the present India community center . He also congratulated Pradeep Joshi on his receiving ‘ Award ‘from Santa Clara County.
Pradeep Joshi gave details regarding the formation of In-do American community service Center, CA Which was formed in the year 1988. He gave due tribute Smt Matra Mashruwala who formed ‘ICSC’ at Sandipani, San Jose. He also informed regarding his services to the community as a commissioners in various capacities with Santa Clara County and city of Sunnyvale.
He further added his views on ageing and said that ‘Aging is not a curse if you have positive approach. He added illness, forgetfulness, total dependence on others, and depression brings misery to seniors life. However it can be tackled by Mediation, Yoga, Physical Exercise. Besides that seniors should develop interest in Hobbies like writing, music, dance,Sports and other Cultural Activities.
He concluded that all problems and difficulties are temporary. It has to be faced in positive manner. It will bring less misery and more happiness in seniors life.
Mahipal Ghemawat pointed out the adverse effects of plastic on human life. He gave details regarding the same wherein he informed that 3vPVC, 5PP, 6PS Plastic are very much unsafe for the human life
Mahendrabhai taught Yoga to seniors for about one hour at the end. His style
was humorous and lively.
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'Friends On Same Wavelength'(FOSWL) as on 14 Th November 2011(Second Monday Program)
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(In the above photo on the top Acharya Prabhod Chaitanyaji addressing the members. Below on left 'Members' while on right Pradeep Joshi is being facilitated. Below on left and right photos wherein members are seen in serious discussion)
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T P Subramonian Chairperson gave introductory remarks wherein he stressed importance of Gita in day to day life. He added that there is a message in Gita from individuals to Politicians Employers, Employees and even on Management level. Gita deals with Karmayoga so it covers all the aspect of life. He concluded that we have right of actions but not on its fruits.
M L swamy gave the welcome address and gave brief Histroy of all units of FOSWL at Hyderabad, Chennai, Los Angles etc.
Bharat Desai introduced Acharya Brahmachari Prabhodh Chitanyaji,Resident Acharya of Chinmaya Mission, San Jose, CA to the members.
Acharya Prabodh Chaitanji explained Essence of Gita in a very simple manner which is applicable to day to day personal life. However he jocularly said that he has become child in the presence of all seniors.
He said we make our best efforts to get immunity from external surrounding in order keep ourselves Healthy. Similarly efforts are also requires to clean our selves internally.We are some time depending on other and we expect them to behave in certain manner. We always become unhappy when we fail in our expectations. Therefore it is better if we are not depending on others. We should not make others also dependable on us in order avoid unhappiness.
We should also understand the basic principles of Gita as follow
1)The Atma is Eternal and it is not connected with karma
2)The body is only destroyed on death and not Atma.
3)Hence there is a life even though there is no expression
4)We are witness only as we see and experienced. Therefore those things should not affect us much. He explained that there are people who remember bad experiences for a while and they are wise. The mediocre will remember for long time while inferior persons will remember for whole life. Person who develop within can become happy and can attain 'Anandswarupe'.
There was question answer session at the end wherein he explained difference between Atma and Soul.
Pradeep Joshi was also facilitated for the various awards received by him
for the services rendered to seniors.
The vote of thanks was proposed at the end
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THE FOURTH MONDAY PROGRAM OF OCTOBER 2011 AT ICC,CUPERTINO
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(IN THE ABOVE PHOTOS FROM TOP PREMA SASTRY CONDUCTING YOGA SESSION. BELOW IN SECOND LINE SENIORS DISCUSSION. IN THE THIRD LINE 'POWER POINT PRESENTATION' BY SATYA KALRA ON 'CHAKRAS' AND THE LAST IN THE BOTTOM DINESH BAJAJ IS INTRODUCING SATYA KALRA. ON THE LEFT SITTING SATYA KALRA)
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Dinesh Bajaj Introduced Satya Kalra who took the first hour session for Self-Healing through Cleansing and Balancing the Energy of the "Chakras”.
She explained the seven Chakras as shown below. Besides that she also briefed regarding the causes and symptoms which imbalanced the Chakras' Energy.
1)Sahasrara-Crown chakras-Connected to top of the Head.
2)Ajsna-the Third eye chakras-" " Third eye.
3)Vishuddha-Connected to Throat
4)Anahata- " " Heart
5)Manipura-Solar Plexus- " " Navel area
6)Swadhisthana-Sacral- Connected to Thai and Spinal cord
7)Muldhara- Base chakras-Connected to Ovaries and Prostate.
She showed the way how to eliminate Back Pain, Neck Pain, Joint Pain, and Any Other Type of Physical Pain, through Yoga. She said Balance and the Endocrine System, Relieve Stress, Achieve a Higher Sense of Well-Being, Eliminate Negative Emotions and Get More Enjoyment out of Life by Self-Healing through Cleansing and Balancing the Energy of the Chakras.
She domanstrated practical breathing exercises with chanting of "Ohm" at the end.
Thereafter The second half program of Yoga was conducted by Smt Prema Sastry.
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