Beena Shetty takes charge as the new President of Winners Club Toastmasters
Mangaluru: The new team of Office Bearers of Winners Club Toastmasters for the year 2019-2020 led by President Beena Shetty took charge at a glittering ceremony on Sunday 07 July 2019 at The Gateway Hotel, Mangaluru.
“Communication needs to be nuanced so as to foster human relations between people to establish a productive and peaceful society,” Dr. GG Laxman Prabhu, Professor and HOD, Urology, KMC Mangaluru who was the chief guest of the event emphasized, while providing instances from his experiences as a surgeon.
In his address to the gathering, the chief guest stressed on the need to be accepting of different ways of communication. “We are quick to take offence these days, whereas the need is to see how we can get along with people.” he pointed out. Quoting the Upanishads he reminded the listeners how our scriptures tutored us to convey even bad news with consideration to the listener.
Toastmasters Area 2 Director Dr. Oliver D’Souza administered the oath of office to the new team of office bearers for 2019-2020, led by the President Beena Shetty. The team includes Geeta Pereira (Vice-President – Education), Sony Rodrigues (Vice-President – Membership), Bharathi Shevgoor (Vice President – Public Relations), Sweetha Shetty (Secretary), Joan Mascrenhas (Treasurer) and Matharani Mathias (Sergeant-at-Arms)
Phyllis Maria D’costa, Lyra Pinto and Florida Almeida rendered the invocation. Matharani Mathias welcomed the gathering and Geeta Pereira and Sony Rodrigues presented the annual report through a Power Point presentation highlighting the achievements done by the club during the past year. Bharathi Shevgoor introduced the chief guest. Flexon Fernandes presented an innovative concept of passing on the baton from the old team to the new, keeping in mind the theme of indigenous languages, on which the programme was based. Malini Hebbar introduced Beena Shetty to the audience.
Outgoing President Manisha Daithota thanked her team and club members for their cooperation during her tenure. In her acceptance speech Beena Shetty expressed her vision and goals to be achieved by the club during her term. Since indigenous languages was the theme of the installation ceremony, the office bearers and some of the presenters had dressed up in costumes of the states which speak different indigenous languages.
District Administration Manager Savitha Salian, Division F Director Shivani Baliga, Area F4 Director Vidya Shenoy, Kavitha Kamath (Mangalore Toastmasters), Rajat R (Infosys Toastmasters Mangalore SEZ), Dr. Reshma Karkera (Inspiron Toastmasters) and Dr. Ashrita Shetty (ProAct Toastmasters) and M. N. Pai felicitated the new officer bearers.
Sweetha Shetty proposed the vote of thanks. Roshan Madtha, Reena Monteiro, Praveen Pinto and Deborah Lobo were the Masters of Ceremonies.
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Tickets booked for 'The Kerala Story 2' being refunded, film not released: Lawyers
Kochi (PTI): The tickets booked during the day for 'The Kerala Story 2-Goes Beyond' were being refunded and the film has not been released, the lawyers for the petitioners who opposed the movie's screening said on Friday.
Advocate Maitreyi Sachidananda Hegde, who represents one of the petitioners -- Sreedev Namboodiri -- told PTI in the afternoon that she will not be moving a contempt plea against the film's producer as the movie has not been released and the ticket sales were being refunded.
Hegde, in the morning, mentioned before Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas that despite a stay on the release of the film, ticket bookings for the film were going on.
She mentioned it before the single judge even as the matter of the release of the movie was before a division bench which had reserved order regarding it on Thursday after a late night hearing.
She also told Justice Thomas that she will verify whether the film was being screened in theatres during the day and accordingly, will file a contempt plea.
In the afternoon, Hegde said that on verification she found that "the film has not been released and the ticket amounts were being refunded".
"So, I will not be moving a contempt petition," she said.
Justice Thomas on Thursday stayed release of the film for 15 days saying that prima facie there was a manifest non-application of mind to the requirement of law by the censor board, CBFC.
The judge also said that "the possibility of communal disharmony or denigration of a community also being prima facie involved in the movie", its release without scrutiny by the higher authorities would be legally improper.
The court had further said that the content of the film's teaser has "a prima facie potential to distort public perception and disturb communal harmony".
Later in the night, the producer -- Vipul Amrutlal Shah -- moved an appeal before a division bench of justices Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and P V Balakrishnan which reserved order in the matter after hearing extensive arguments from all stakeholders. However, the bench did not issue any interim direction staying the single judge's decision.
