He started with praise for the Rotarians in general. To put it in his own words “ The greatest help that a man can do to himself is to make him harmonious and propagate that harmony to the rest of the world”. He called for a feel-easy life, as beauty is a feature of those who feel happy. He also compared and contrasted Indian life with Philippines, where he had worked for many years. Indians land up being tensed as against their Philippinno counterparts who takes things easily. Father finished with a thiruppavai song and gave an harmonious ending to his speech. Eranians wouldn’t leave a man of such high knowledge without getting the best from him as they asked a lot of questions which was well answered by Father. - Annet Jayakumar |
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The President, in a hall filled with Rotarians, Anns, Guests and District Officials, called the meeting to order. Ann.Shrimathi Swaminathan gave the meeting a devotional start with her melodious voice in a prayer. Secretary Selvam while welcoming the chief guest gave a poetical explanation for the topic on cards - Ethalum Isaipada vazthalum- a phrase introduced by the Tamil great, Tiruvalluvar. The topic is something easy to grasp, but hard to apply. Father Jagath made this application simple by his speech filled with anecdotes and his hymns.
Tom Haynes , an Australian, visited Chennai in 1983, when he was 17 years old, as an International Exchange Student sponsored by Rotary International. He remained in India for a period of 6 months, where he learned Classical Dance, Flute, music from TM.Krishna, Yoga at the Krishnamachari Yoga mandiram, and an experience of various religions of our country. Deeply into the love and holistic life he had in India, says that it was a vacuum, when he returned to Australia. Then onwards he searched into spirituality and creative innovations, and reached to destiny as a successful Architect, specializing in the field of Green Buildings. He learnt Sanskrit and the Vedas (for nearly 5 years) at America. He learnt Marshall arts and Meditation. He visited the Madras Dyslexic Association (MDA) (19-9-07), and rendered a soulful discourse on his experiences, agony, struggle and outcome of Dyslexia. He was a blessing to the lighted up faces of the students and faculty of MDA. He came to share his thoughts on a holistic approach to sustainable community development and Dyslexia on 20-9-2007, as our speaker for weekly meeting. The meeting started with innovation by our little nightingale Annet Shreya and the speaker was introduced by Annet Hariharan M in a poetic manner as follows: Rotary Greeting to all present here! We have today with us an Australian by birth Rotary sent him here from Australia on student exchange He went back to become an architect He loves and designs green building In India, he has a passion for dance and flute He, his wife and son are dyslexic He proved to be successful in spite of being dyslexic His strengths are networking, design and holistic system This man who excels in management and leadership He lighted up many faces at our M.D.A yesterday Ladies and Gentlemen: This meeting was attended by six member team headed by Smt.Shubba from Madras Dyslexic Association. Many Sharing Presidents and Guests.
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On the 12th of September,we met at Ann. Sunitha Kumar’s residence. Ann.Sujatha Mahesh joined hands with Ann.Sunitha as a host. We played games followed by heavy lunch with fruit pudding. We dispersed after a gala time. The hosts have planned to go to ‘Paradise Home’ – a spastic center near Muthukadu on October 7th. The home has children ageing from 5 to 44. They are planning to conduct games and distribute prizes. - Ann. Sreemathi Swaminathan |
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