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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