Meeting # 1108

Theme: It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Date: 4th May 2018	Time: 6.30 pm - 8.42 pm
Members Attended: 31	Guests Attended: 35

Word of the day:  charlatan -  a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill. "a self-confessed con artist and charlatan”

Role	Role Taker
Sergeant-at-arms	Melvyn Smith
President	Nithin B
Toastmasters of the Day	Vaidyanathan Duraisamy
Table Topic Master	Johnson Bruno DSouza
General Evaluator	Sumitra Manmohan
Timer	Shashank Sai Kudkuli
Åh-Counter	Rajesh
Grammarian	Sowmya Raman

Prepared Speeches
Speaker	Evaluator
Smitha Roshy	Prakash Ashokrao Tamhankar
Gautam Sreekumar	Sudipto Gosh
Deepika Das Pereira	Robinson
Thanmaya Prakash	Abhay Kothari

Table Topics
Speaker	Topic
Guest - Dinakar	Do you prefer ballot or EVM?
Sriharsha	Is social media influencing elections?
Drishanth Kaushal	Should Voting made compulsory?
Sujatha Sanam	We talk so much about gender equality. Why are there so many less women candidates contesting elections?
Puneet Jain	Candidate who lost an election by just one vote
Dikshita Mehta	Should high school students be allowed to vote?
Ankit Kumar	Impact of celebrities on election
Rahul Bhuyan	Should there be minimum educational qualifications for politicians?
Sujay Simha	Why would you vote and why?
Hemanth Kumar	Should we have the power to recall an elected representative?
Guest - Sachin	Should politicians be held responsible for their performance?
Vikram Jain	Why do politicians dress differently?

Awards
Best Role taker	Vaidyanathan Duraisamy
Best Evaluator	Prakash Ashokrao Tamhankar
Best Table Topic Speakers	Puneet Jain & Sujay Simha Sairam
Best Speaker	Deepika Das Pereira

Members who attended the meeting
Abhay Kothari	Prakash Ashokrao Tamhankar	Sudipto Ghosh
Abhijeet Bhaskar	Puneet Jain	Sujatha Sanam
Adarsh Tadimari	Rajesh Harinath Nookhul	Sujay Simha Sairam
Alok Simha	Rita Saldanha Das	Sumitra Manamohan
Ankit Kumar	Robinson D'Souza	Umesha Basavaraj
B Nithin	Shashank Sai Kudkuli	Vaidyanathan Duraisamy
Deepika Das Pereira	Smitha Thomas Roshy	Vikramraj K Jain
Gautam Sreekumar	Sowmya Raman	Drishtant Kaushal
Johnson Bruno DSouza	Sreejith Kizhakkilot	Nimisha Khandelwal
Melvyn Smith	Sriharsha	Rahul Bhuyan
		Dikshita Mehta

Announcements

The meeting was rated at 4

The second newsletter will be coming out soon and all members are requested to contribute articles towards it.

The president urged all members to send suggestions for a social outing for all members including families.

The elections for the committee members for the next term will be held on the 15th June. The nomination committee is headed by Godfrey Soans and consists of Sumitra Manamohan and Richard D’souza. The president urged all members to take up leadership roles and sent in the nominations to the committee.

Speech craft session is midway thru’ and going very well.

Thank you Adarsh Tadimari  for helping with recording the videos.

The link to the videos is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvldYcmG1bV6HxcsNWTLtfSzvD1J-rtLX

Sowmya Raman

Club Secretary