Ps io%%, SERVE TO Rotary w CHANGE LIVES i DIAN f OI AN DEW BULLETIN OF ROTARY ALLAHABAD GRAND, District: 3120 | 06: SAHARA ARG Co Cue moe ele SCAU URC COC REC July - August - 2021Rotary 5) | ly States RI essage 's Shekhar Mehta President 2021-22 ‘August 2021 ‘As we focus on membership in Rotary this month, | ask you to help make history this year. For more than 20 years, our membership has stood at 1.2 million. Rotary is a vibrant organization with a 116-year history, members in more than 220 countries and geographic areas, and a rich legacy of work in polio eradication and other humanitarian programs. Rotary has changed so much in our own lives and the lives of others. As we Serve to Change Lives, don't youthink Rotary could have an even greater impact on the world if more people were practicing Service Above My vision is to increase Rotary membership to 1.3 million by July 2022, and the call to action is simple: Each One, Bring One, This year, | want every Rotarian and Rotaractor to introduce a new person into their club. We are a membership organization, and members are our greatest asset. You are the ones who contribute 0 generously to The Rotary Foundation. You are the ones who dream big to bring good into the world through meaningful projects. And of course, you are the ones who have put the world on the brink of eradicating polio, ‘As we make membership a priority this year, let us focus on diversity by reaching out to younger people and especially to women. Every club should celebrate its new members, and every Rotarian who sponsors a member willbe personally recognized by me. And those who are successful in bringing in 25 or more members willbe part of ‘our new Membership Society. Even as we share the gift of Rotary with others, let us be sure to engage these new members, because an engaged Rotarian is an asset forever. And remember that engaging our current members and keeping them in our ‘clubs is just as important as bringing in newcomers. Let us also be ready to form new clubs, especially flexible ones. | ‘am very bullish on clubs that hold virtual or hybrid meetings, and satellite clubs and cause-based clubs can also be very effective ways of growing Rotary. ‘As you grow more, you will be able to do more. Let us keep empowering girls through our work in each of the areas of focus. Scholarships for girls, toilets in schools, health and hygiene education — there is so much we can do. Projects focused on the environment are also attracting interest the world over. Do participate in these projects locally and internationally to make this world a better place for us and for all species, Each of yous a Rotary brand ambassador, and all of the wonderful work done by Rotarians around the world needs to be shared outside the Rotary community Use social media to tell your friends, colleagues, and relatives the stories of Service Above Selt Finally, 'm challenging every club, during the coming year, to plan at least one Rotary Day of Service that will bring together volunteers from inside and outside Rotary and will celebrate and showcase the work of your club in your community. Visit rotary.org to find out more about all of these initiatives, along with other ways to Serve to Change Lives. ROTARY ALLAHABAD GRANDRotary 5) | ly States essage 's Chair John F. Germ Trustee Chair 2021-22 August 2021 In August, we focus on membership — exploring ways we can expand Rotary's ranks and reach. As we form new clubs and answer RI President Shekhar Mehta's call of Each One, Bring One, let's consider how these efforts will have a positive impact at every level of our organization. Rotary's two greatest assets are its members and The Rotary Foundation, and they are linked. Our organization is made up of more than 48,000 Rotary and Rotaract clubs, and without our dedicated club members, we can't perform service. Our members also carry out the Foundation's mission of doing good in the world, by working on grassroots projects and making contributions that support countless Foundation programs and grants. With more members in Rotary, the Foundation could do even more good in the world. We would have more hands to set up water, sanitation, and hygiene projects, so that more people could access clean water. We would have more minds to plan global grants projects that support prenatal services, so that more babies could live. We could fund more district grants that support literacy, so that more people could learn to read. Today, roughly a third of our members actively support the Foundation through annual giving or other means. Imagine how we could extend Rotary's reach if we were to increase that engagement, even by usta little, More Rotarian contributions would mean additional funding for the Rotary Peace Centers, as well as more matched contributions to help eradicate polio, thanks to our partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Rotary Foundation is a powerful force that efficiently carries out impactful and sustainable projects around the world; Charity Navigator has recognized The Rotary Foundation with a fourstar rating annually for 13 consecutive years. All Rotary members can be proud of this. And how great it would be if all Rotarians would support the Foundation in whatever way they could. Ihave a simple request this month. Please take 10 minutes during your next club meeting to discuss ways to get more involved in the Foundation this year. It could be planning an online fundraiser to. benefit the Foundation or partnering with other clubs for a global grant project, Whatever you do, remember that our members — all of us — drive Rotary's efforts and sustain our Foundation. ROTARY ALLAHABAD GRANDRotary 5) | ly States essage Chair Rin Rohit Agrawal President-2021-22 NEVER, did limagine becoming the President of Rotary Club of Allahabad GRAND during a world-wide pandemic that isolated us in our homes & put us in masks. Ithas caused so much financial stress in our community and the world, along with the mental anguish of notbeing able to shake hands, or be socially close to our family and friends. But here | am, the inducted President of this club preparing to take over leadership during these unusual and difficult timesinthe history ofpresent generations, ‘AsRotarians, welook at these changes and challenges as atime of opportunity! How disconnected our club would have become without the web-based video conferencing tool, Zoom, that allows us to meet on-line together, safelyin the convenience ‘of urhome as we continue our workas the ‘People of Action” in our community and around the world ‘As Wayne Dyer once said, “Change the way you lookat things and the things you look at change!” Let's embrace the new technology this century has to offer. Le’s try new ways of doing things. Let's move our club forward into the world that our children just take for granted. Thisis the word of our future members, the ones full of new ideas, spiritand energy. We need them on our Rotary Club of Alahabad GRAND's team because we wantto continue the service And | would be remiss if | did not thank my Father PHF Shri Ravi Krishna Agrawal, for it was because of him, that lama Rotarian. I came to appreciate Rotary and the values it upholds, the dedication to service ofits members through the projects that were successfully undertaken locally byhis club, Rotary Allahabad Midtown, ‘And so, feel honoured and humbled to become the President of the Rotary Club of Allahabad GRAND for 2021-22 and with the help and support of this year's executive, Board Members, and alll of the Club Members, | know we will be able to work together to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities of this coming year. This coming year will be no exception! As President, this year, | promise to lead this club, by always being mindful of Rotarian's 4-Way Test concerning the things | think, say ordo— Isitthe TRUTH? IsitFAIR tall concemed? Willtbuild GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS? Willitbe BENEFICIAL toall concerned? ‘And as our recently approved vision statement of our organization states: “Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, andin ourselves.” ROTARY ALLAHABAD GRANDThe topic itself sounds like a myth wherein people have lost lives, shops were closed and are struggling for living, then how are covid & business related. Sounds absurd but reality is that covid has forced almost each of us to look at alternative ways of working so that we can keep up the standard of living while maintaining social distancing and locked down remain the ‘mantra’ for survival. Boundaries were drawn not just across nations but across states too. Each one of us right from a vegetable vendor, to an IT professional have been reinventing the way of working for his/ her survival So, what has happened? The exploitation of the e- ‘commerce platforms to a larger and deeper region, social adoption of e wallets right from the likes of Paytm, UPI, BHIM, Airtel / Vodatone/ Jio wallet, etc. Paytm has approx. 350 milion users today and has attracted investment from Softbank. This stupendous growth became a reality ina short span of time and has taught sellers and buyers the new "mantra’ of business. Paytm mall, Amazon fresh, Big Basket, Milk Basket grew exponentially while new players like Ottipy came into the market creating a platform from seller to buyer cutting down all middle men in the vegetables & fruits market. Some of the large IT companies gave the flexibility to ‘operate from home which leadto a large chunk of workers to shift their base from large metro's like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad to Pankaj Kumar Singh ROTARY ALLAHABAD GRAND i COVID & BUSINESS their hometowns which are B class Cities like Allahabad, Lucknow, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Madurai, Mysore, etc This new resident of a small town wanted connectivity so Telco's data and mobile connectivity expanded in B class towns as customers from Metro's migrated to smaller towns. At one end, the commercial and residential value of Metro's was declining while on the other end, it started growing in B towns. This led to the creation of a buyerseller model with the B town ecosystem, including local farmers, shopkeepers along with creating a need for new workforce like delivery agents. This all resulted in the growth of new sales for 2 wheelers in these B towns along with absorption of new workforce Online meeting platforms like zoom, google classes, Microsoft teams have grown exponentially. Zoom grew from having 10 million customers to 300 Million customers. Online food delivery agents like Swiggy transformed themselves into supplying even grocery. On the other end, a lot of mom & pop shops and home food ventures mushroomed up. Many small entrepreneurs who were hesitant in getting into the business due to high CapEx were seeing entering no entry barriers as they could cook and supply from their homes. Itwas a WIN WIN situation for both customers who started getting the food at very economical value. The facilitation of WFH (work from home) also led to a new employee segment which were educated housewives who weren't able to work due to home responsibilities. They could easily be employable again thanks to connectivity and also to e education, People sitting in India can teach SERVETO Rotary 5) | ly States students in any part of the world including India, USA & Europe. This has been only possible due to online teaching becoming a fact and adoption of new teaching techniques. Everyone knows about Byzus which is valued at $16.5 billion, making it the world's most valuable educational technology company. Think about it - a middle class family girl who was a typical "bahu" so far as she couldn't join a multinational firm due to the limitations of handling family responsibilities and commute issues, is now making a presentation to the audience in California. This is transformation and creating opportunities from the pandemic. This is beautiful and if this model sustains which certainly would, the world's balancing act is done wherein we have farmers from Pratapgarh (near Allahabad) selling to customers in NCR at good rates, MNC' like TCS, Wipro, Google, Facebook having working professionals operating out of Buxar in Bihar and Midnapore in West Bengal, the development of a nation is not just centered around Metro cities while i's spread across the country. This would lead to real estate prices normalization, lesser consumption of fuel due to decentralized growth leading to less importof ol Iam excited for the time wherein I can shift my base from a metropolitan city to my hometown Allahabad which is like a dream coming true. This is a blessing in disguise and thanks to adoption of new ways of working and new avenues of business. "Writer is the regional sales head for INDIA & SAARC region in a leading telecom MNC"rotary 2 | iy Sas OLYMPICS AND THE BRIGHT ERA OF SPORTS IN INDIA The outstanding performance of India's contingent in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 has been the highest number of medals in the history of our Participation in Olympic Games. Let's have a brief look at the evolution of these games and its significance; the Olympics are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating this year Looking at the history of these prestigious games starting from 8th century BC to the 4th century AD they were held every four years, back then of all the games held throughout Greece, the Olympic Games were the most famous. They occupied such an important place in Greek history that in late antiquity historians measured time by the interval between them—an Olympiad. The Olympic Games, as per the old folks were held in honour of Zeus at Olympia in Ancient Greece. The modern day Olympics were founded by Baron de Coubertin who was a French educator and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee in 1894, leading to the first moder Games in Athens in 1896. Rin Dr Manisha Yadav The Tokyo Olympics happened amidst the Covid 19 yet with unwavering & undeterred sportsmanship spirit. While India faced the disastrous first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic the training of its athletes suffered drastically during these Challenging times. However, as they say that it takes a struggle of alifetime to deliver a single Olympic medal, the ROTARY ALLAHABAD GRAND i spectacular performance of our super seven outweighed all the odds and ‘our champions bloomed with flying colors. “With seven medals - one gold, two silver, four bronze - Tokyo 2020 has been the most decorated Olympic Games in India’s history” ‘Tokyo Olympics wenta step further ahead of Rio campaign, adding gold by the star Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra to this equation. Apart from Neeraj Chopa’s historic effort, weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya won silver Star shuttler PV Sindhu, boxer Lovlina Borgohain, grappler Bajrang Punia and the Indian men's hockey team won bronze Chopra's gold took India into the top 50 of the overall medal tally Recent success in Tokyo Olympics -2020 has spread a strong wave of sports enthusiasm among youngsters. For tapping this opportunity all the stakeholders should put in efforts to compete in future with sports giant Countries like the USA, China, Russia who are investing a lot in sports, First & foremost the Indian government too needs to match the funding so as to put equivalent impetus in the sports arena. Indian athletes are equally talented, with just the right facilities and world class coaches, academies, stadiums our emerging sports persons can reach new heights and bring more laurels to the nation. Sports infrastructure has improved manifolds over the recent years. Yet a lot needs to be done for ‘our Young emerging talents, Time and again our athletes are outperforming their personal records and performing superbly well in intemational level events like Olympics, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World Championships and Paralympics etc. Despite being Overshadowed by successful sports like cricket in our nation, the rising passion of other sports among the youth is unwavering; even with more pace now post the successful Tokyo Olympics. India has a great future in sports in the upcoming years as the central government, various state governments, sportspersons, corporates, civil societies, NGOs, are taking big initiatives for this. They are developing infrastructure, nurturing talents and designing specialized programmes for overall development of sports, During the Khelo India initiative launched in 2019, the Prime Minister Hon'ble Shri Modi exhorted the young sportspersons to remember that they are the brand ambassadors of Aatmanirbhar Bharat and has asserted that the world evaluates India through their performance in the sports arena. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has also decided to establish 1,000 Khelo India centers across the country out of which 360 centers have already been notified ‘The next 2024 Olympics India will definitely surpass all the previous records, The nation looks towards the bright young talents with hopes of bright future of sports in our country. “Sports brings everyone together and through sports,we can create a healthy society and when we have a heatthy society, we will surely have a healthy state or a healthy nation’ - Renedy Singh "The Writer is an Assistant Registrar at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad”rotary 2 | iy Sas LOSING WEIGHT IN 2021: A NUTRITIONIST, FITNESS INFLUENCER, LIFESTYLE COACH AND FOUNDER OF HEALTHY DONUT Most of us have already [0 planned a New Pg Year fitness Mh resolution to lose weight and Stay fit, maybe 1 imple Mishra by following Keto, Paleo or any other type of fancy/fad diets that encourages curfew on nutrients like carbs, fats or proteins for weight loss. But i's not going to help you with age. It has been proved that fad diets don't work and tend to gain weight back eventually, and in between you may end up even damaging your metabolism, digestion and your wonderful relationship with food. It's better if we get on a resolution to adopt a more sustainable diet now, 2021 diet should be the one that can be in 2031 andalso 2051. Ithastobe a diet which your children can adopt or a that is good for your parents too and that allows you to come together as a community to celebrate festivals, So, this 2021 instead of demonizing foods, we should work on developing the practice of "Mindful eating’ What i mindful eating? Most humans eat more than their bodies required. Especially with the massive choice of culinary delights, the eye appealing deserts, the food is plated etc... And that's OKWe all love to enjoy delicious ROTARY ALLAHABAD GRAND — stuffs. The problem is, we eat too much of it and then our body don't know what to do with the extra unnecessary calories we eat. So when you see your fat starts to expand, that's your body telling 'you are eating too much’. Now how to recover from this problem of overeating? By changing habits of eating. By connecting with yourself, away of eating by paying attention to your body's hunger cues & using alll your senses while eating & respecting your own inner wisdom That's what mindful eating is all about. Make mindful eating a part of your 2021 New Year fitness resolution. The beginners guide to mindful eating - 1. Practice portion control: Portion control is very important but why is practicing it so difficult? That's because we miss those signals our body provides to make us stop eating when it's time. To practice it you have to pay attention to the food you're eating by keeping away from gadgets, using smaller plates, and taking a deep breath before you start your meal. 2. Eat slowly: Ideally you must aim to finish every meal in 20 minutes. This is the time range for our fullness hormones- leptin, Ghrelin and some neuropeptides to reach our brain and signal the satiety centre to feel full and stop eating Stay away from emotional eating: “Eating to fulfil an ‘emotions and not the stomach: Ask yourself if you are really hungry or just eating because of boredom, anger, frustration, anxiety ete. Emotional eating is the reason of feeling guilty after wards.To overcome this problem you need to keep patience and discipline by distracting yourself with work to pass of the emotional storm Lear to stay active: 'The more you move, the more you crave a healthier diet’. The researchers have found that learning new skills and improving in one area of life automatically triggers a desire for improvement in another. In this case, exercise triggers diet, which is why you might see someone start eating more healthy not long after starting a new gym regime- even if diet changes were not originally part of the plan, . Practice eating with 3 'S' stand for Senses, Silence and Sitting down. 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