Society Scenes

Addiction awareness
Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) observed the World No Tobacco Day’ on May 31 with a function at the Jogging Park at Bundgarden. In continuation of their efforts to prevent cancer and increase awareness about cancer the society arranged for eminent speakers to elaborate on addiction’. Dr Kalyan Gangwal, spoke at length on addiction to gutkha and other tobacco products among today’s youth, who, according to him, were aping filmstars and cricketers as shown on television. Noted psychiatrist Dr Ulhas Lauktuke spoke on how to manage stress and emphasised on a positive state of mind for a faster healing process. CPAA director, Dolly Rizvi exhorted the importance of awareness and urged citizens to help create an atmosphere where they could declare more places as No Smoking Zones’.

Tying the knot
Agarwal Samaj, Raviwar Peth, is organising the Agarwal Yuvak-Yuvati Parichay Sammelan’ on the Sunday, June 14 at Agrasen Bhawan, 1088, Raviwar Peth. Interested Agarwal parents/ guardians may send the name of their wards eligible for marriage to Agarwal Samaj on the prescribed form for inclusion in the directory being published on the occasion. Parents or guardians and their children are requested to report for the registration at 8.00 am at the venue. For details in participating are requested to contact Agrasen Bhawan or contact on phone at 476165 and 477756 between 10.00 am and 8.00 pm.

A hearty dance
A dinner and dance nite was held at the Panchgani club, Panchgani on May 30 to raise funds for a intensive care unit and cardiac care centre for the Bel-Air Sanatorium at Panchgani. Taking care of the music was a Pune-based group – No Limits, featuring Philip Robert, Rudy and Neha belting out a number of crowd favourites. A unique Beauty and Brains’ contest was the highlight of the evening. Prizes were sponsored by Mapro’s and given away by Marium Mody of the Panchgani Club committee. Here’s to dancing for a good cause!

Women at work
The Kaka Saheb Supanekar Foundation and Dnyan Prabhodini have initiated an Kaka Saheb Supanekar Entrepreneurship Award’ in an effort to further the ideals of a man they have described as, “…far ahead of his times.” The award was given away to four women entrepreneurs – Sorabji Satpute for starting her own ice delivery business by driving her own vehicle, Vaijayanti Dhole and Surekha Wagle for building up the printing business they call Step-in-process’. An award was also presented to Manjiri Chunekarb of Dyna Micro, Thane who is a manufacturer of anaeboric jars besides other microbiological diagnostic aids. Each of the entrepreneurs received a cash prize of Rs 5000, a citation and a memento. Speaking at the occasion, Anu Aga, Chairperson of Thermax group of companies, exhorted them to be more dynamic and urged them to create more role models for their children and society.

Joy to the world
In this fast-paced world, how much importance do relationships hold for us? Do we actually stop and ponder about how we can improve our relations with others. A workshop on Joyful Relationships’ was organised by Arun Wakhlu of Pragati Learning Systems Pvt Ltd at Hotel Tourist on May 30. This was part of the monthly meeting of Agarwal Club. Wakhlu spoke about different kinds of relationships, their drawbacks and how one can avoid them.

The ladies cell of Agarwal Club has arranged for a special workshop for members on Saturday, June 13 from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm. Dr Kamlesh Bokil will speak on breast cancer while Dr Sunita Tendulwadkar will speak on gynaecology-related problems.

Swimming to success
With the heat getting out of bounds, it was the ideal time to conduct a few swimming competitions. The Tushar Agrawal Memorial Swimming competition was held at the Residency club on May 31. The chief guest at the event was Dr K H Sancheti, who gave away the prizes. Among the winners in the boys’ category (age group four to eight years) the first position was won by Aditya Molasi with the second and third prizes going to Devesh Chobe and Swapnil Kanitkar respectively. In the girls’ section, the top honours went to Surabhi Agarwal.

Abhijit Chowgule was placed first in the 9 to 13 years age group and Aditya Jadhav and Ajit Chowgule were the first and second runner-ups. Among the girls, Tasneem Bagaraswalla won the first position and Naseem Bagaraswalla was placed second in the same age category. In the older kids’ category (14 to 18 years category), Anand Mishra walked away with the honours followed by Calvin Paes (second) and Varun Manghani (third).