Meeting #1101

Theme: Means or the ends???
Date: 16th March 2018	Time: 6.30 - 8.45 pm
Members Attended: 26	Guests Attended: 34

WOD: bloviate (v) talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way.

Role	Role Taker
Sergeant-at-arms	Chandler Shekar
President	Nithin B
Toastmaster of the Day	Balachandran Das
TableTopic Master	Sapna
General Evaluator	Sanklap
Timer	Alok Simma
Ah-Counter	Sathvik Shetty
Grammarian	Eisha Khan

Prepared Speeches
Speaker	Evaluator
Sujatha Saman	Vivek Vijayan
Aaqib Jabbar H J	Aiyappa A Ponnachanda
Adarsh Tadimari	Sowmya Raman
Sumitra Manamohan	Godfrey Soans

Table Topics
SPEAKER	TOPIC
Theresa	Remember to look up at the stars not down at your feet.
Richard D’souza	The greater enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.
Rahul Bhuyan	Calling Karan. Caller - I am completely in Love with Anushka Sharma but she married Virat Kholi. What should I do?
Sreejith	Karan
Sudipto Gosh	Calling Karan. Caller - My wife irritates me. What should I do?
Guest	Karan
Dr. Vikram Jain	You have just received 15M USD in funding for your startup that is competing to Ola. Explain to the media how your product is better than Ola/Uber and how it is better.
Shashank	You have just launched a public speaking app. Tell the audience how your app works and why it is better tham TM.
Puneeth Jain	You have just banged your new car and its pretty badly damaged. Explain to your spouse why it was a good thing.
Shilpa Samuel
Deepak	You have just recently launched a book - "dating after Demonetization". Tell us what inspired you to write this book.ed a booY

Awards
Breaking the Ice	Sujatha Sanam
Best Role taker	Balachandran Das
Best Table Topic Speaker	Guest
Best Speaker	Sumitra Manamohan
Best Evaluator	Godfrey Soans

Announcements

The first speech craft session for the term is in progress. Urged the members of the club to be attend the speech craft session to encourage and support the participants and co-ordinators of the programme.

Reminded the members about the club fees which is due now

Requested everyone who attended to post a feedback on social media.

Area level contest D5 on 14th April, requested members to attend, support and encourage the club  contestants.

The link to the videos is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvldYcmG1bV7iDpBlLs1tRqq_BrTCyPsJ

A special Thank You to Dr.Vikram Jain for handling the camera and helping with the recordings of the meeting.

Sowmya Raman

Club Secretary