designated areas, inconveniencing other members. Many members bring their own snacks and liquor to the Club, not wanting to pay the corkage charges. Many members introduce their local guests as outstation guests or do not inform the front desk at all. Members spit their pan masala and scatter cigarette butts at club premises. Members break rules to make their maids sit on their tables, interestingly, not facing them but on the opposite side.

It pains me to say that the list is long. Some photos in the inside pages will illustrate what I mean. We must realise that the Club is OURS. If we break rules, we are going against the rules set by US. If we litter the premises, we are littering OUR own house. If we inconvenient other members, we are inconveniencing OUR own family members. We need to do serious introspection. After all Ranchi Club is our home, albeit a second one. How can we have a watch dog for ourselves at our own home? I call on members to pledge to uphold the sanctity of this great institution and treasure its heritage.We have a host of events lined up for you during the coming month. Do enjoy Ranchi Clubbing.

Ajoy Chhabra President

Dear Members,The year 2016 will be the 130th year of existence of Ranchi Club. The Club has existed this long and is growing stronger by the day speaks volumes about the members it is made up of. It will also once again be time to salute our fore fathers and realise the value of the family heirloom they have passed on to us to treasure.We have a task at our hands. We must ensure we handover Ranchi Club to our next generation in a condition better than what we inherited from our forefathers. This will be possible only if we uphold the positives and do away with the negatives. There is no doubt that a handful few members give a bad name to the remaining majority. These few must be made to realise that they can’t succeed in their mission. I admire our senior member Mrs. Usha Garg for her letter, expressing concern over lack of discipline amongst few members of the Club. At the Club, it has been noticed, that while watching movies some people hold on to vacant seats, even though others are waiting to be seated. Some members and drivers park their cars not caring for the

President's ImpressionsHOUSE JOURNAL OF RANCHI CLUB LIMITED

June 2015

I N S I D ELast month's club activities:• Retro Disco Nite – Blast from the past

• Workshop on Child Abuse

• Cine Play - Hasmukh Saab ki Wasihat

Members Pages:• Did You Know?

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Kids Page :• Pictorial Quiz on Vintage Cars

Forthcoming Programmes :• Movies• Tambola• Swimming Competition• Rain Dance

Retro Disco Nite:

Blast from the past

Dear Readers, The heat is on. A heated debate is on too at the Club. Most of us feel that RCL is our

second home. Are we really treating our Club as our second home? It does not seem so, at least looking at the photographs featured in this issue of RCL Times. Some body said, we should feature only the good things of our Club in the magazine. RCL Times is the reflection of the Club and if we do not bring out the negatives, we will not be doing justice to the Club or its members.

So let us take at look at the dark side of Ranchi Club. Should we allow some members to give the others and such an esteemed club a bad name? Our forefathers have given us such a wonderful heritage, should or shouldn’t we hand over this wonderful heritage to our next generation in a better condition? Let’s get our thinking caps on.Do enjoy another interesting edition of RCL Times with all the regular features.

Editorial

Editorial

R.N. Shah DeoEditor

Letter to the President - "I love my club, so I am speaking from my heart."

Dear Mr. Chhabra,

At the outset I must congratulate you and your team for the good work you are doing for the Club. Hope it continues in future too.

However, when I look back, I realise I am a stranger in the Club. When we joined the Club, behaviour and etiquette were of prime importance. I regret to say that due to some members, these have become a rarity in the club.

Some members feel it below their dignity to respect women. They are not aware of even normal etiquette. They feel burping and letting off in public is correct. When they are corrected, they say it’s natural. Some of them feel it is quite ok to sit with their feet up on another chair. They don’t care whether they are prop-erly dressed for the Club or not. Sometimes even their clothes are dirty. Some members abuse the bearers at times. I do feel ashamed of such members. These members don’t feel it neces-sary to bring their better halves to the Club, possibly due to the

reason that they would not approve of such behaviour.

In good clubs, strict discipline is adhered to and one is even not even allowed to talk on cell phones. In our Club, some members use the card room as a lounge. It seems their complete business dealings are done over the phone at the card room itself.

It is high time we clearly spell out rules and regulations of the club. We must educate the members about etiquette and disci-pline. We must reprimand the erring ones. We should plant more CCTV cameras at strategic locations. I love my club, so I am speaking from my heart.

Thanking you, Yours Sincerely,

Usha Garg

This is the Ranchi Club given to us by our forefathers...

Editorial

Beside the Club Reception

Cigarette Butts thrown near the cards room

Card counters thrown in the urinal

Rear side of Ranchi Club Complex.

Staircase leading to old Billiards Room

Another view of Rear side of Ranchi Club Complex.

Members inappropriately dressed at the Main Bar & Front Lawns Another member's Commercial Vehicle occupying the Parking lot

Member's Commercial Vehicle occupying the Parking lot

... is this the Ranchi Club we want to give to our children?

Club Activities

Saturday, 16.05.2015 Retro Disco Nite – Blast from the past at RCL Main Bar.

Friday, 08.05.2015 Right touch and wrong touch- A workshop on

child abuse conducted by Dr. Rajlaxmi, organised by RCL in association with Round Table-160.

Club Activities

Saturday, 16.05.2015 Retro Disco Nite – Blast from the past at RCL Main Bar.

Sunday, 24.05.2015 Screening of IPL Finals on Big Screen.

Movies screened during the month

02.05.2015 09.05.2015 23.05.2015

Club Activities

Saturday, 30.05.2015 Cine Play at the Tamarind

Passing Shot

Bazaar Buzz

Members' Page

Did You Know?

Q. Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left?

A. When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left. Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid's right! And that's where women's but-tons have remained since.

Q. Why do ships and aircraft use 'mayday' as their call for help?

A. This comes from the French word m'aidez - meaning 'help me' - and is pronounced approximately, 'mayday.'

Q. Why are zero scores in tennis called 'love'?

A. In France , where tennis became popular, round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called 'l'oeuf,' which is French for 'egg.' When tennis was introduced in the US , Ameri-cans (mis)pronounced it 'love.'

Q. Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses?

A. In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X rep-resented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.

Q. Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called 'passing the buck'?

A. In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility of dealing, he would 'pass the buck' to the next player.

Q. Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?

A. It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by

offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simul-taneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would only touch or clink the host's glass with his own.

Q. Why are people in the public eye said to be 'in the lime-light'?

A. Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and the-atres by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theatre, a performer 'in the limelight' was the center of attention.

Q. Why is someone who is feeling great 'on cloud nine'?

A. Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud. If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.

Q. In golf, where did the term 'Caddie' come from?

A. When Mary Queen of Scots went to France as a young girl, Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Scots game 'golf.' So he had the first course outside of Scotland built for her enjoy-ment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to ac-company her.

Mary liked this a lot and when returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her. In French, the word cadet is pronounced 'ca-day' and the Scots changed it into 'caddie'.

Q. Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?

A. Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called 'pygg'. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a container that resembled a pig. And it caught on.

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Pictorial Quiz on Vintage CarsCan you identify these vintage cars?

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Pictorial : Quiz

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3. Toyota SA 4. Studebaker Champion

5. Porsche 356 6. Pontiac Streamliner

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Club Information1. Celebrations Hall is booked on 3, 4, 9, 10 June 2015. Hence, members are requested to use the Club road side entrance on such days.

2. The squash court is open. Only non marking shoes are allowed on the court.

3. Please inform the Club Office incase you are not receiving your bills, RCL Times and SMS.

4. Members are requested :

i) not to bring attendants/ bodyguards beyond permissible limit of Club premises.

ii) not to bring eatables from outside, into the Club.

iii) to park their vehicles in the designated parking space and respect the non parking zones.

iv) to ensure that ayahs are restricted only in the playpen and children playground area in the front lawns.

v) to respect no smoking restrictions.

5. As per the Club Bye laws, members are requested not to introduce local guests. Local guests can only be introduced with prior permission of Hony Secy.. Local guests will not be permitted to use the club on Saturdays, Sundays and club program days. Members are requested to co-operate and fill up the guest form completely.

6. Dependants are not allowed to introduce guests at the Club.

7. A Suggestion box has been placed at the Club Reception for Members.

8. Members can collect new stickers for their vehicles from the Club Office. One sticker will be provided to each member free of cost. Additional stickers can be purchased @ Rs. 30/- per piece. Stickers will be issued/sold against registration numbers of vehicles.

9. Members can now make payments to the Club through Net Banking. The facility has been made available by Yes Bank. The IFSC Code is YESB0000080. Each member will have a separate account no. Members will have to add their four digit membership no. after 9260. i.e. 92600677. (The last 4 digits are your membership no.)

10. Members are requested not to ask the club to send club staff for their household/ private functions since such services hamper the services at the club.

Published by : Ranchi Club Limited, Main Road, Ranchi-834 001, JharkhandPhone: Off.: 0651-2208999, 3290290; Reception: 0651-2331272 | Guest House: 9234338999 | Telefax: 0651-2208999

E-mail: ranchiclub@gmail.com | Website : www.ranchiclub.org

May i help you : Rakesh Kumar, Asstt. Secretary : +91 9431591832, Debashish Choudhary, Deptt. Manager-F&B : +91 9835341881, Ashok Kr. Pandey, Deptt. Manager-Bar : +91 9631240882

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Forthcoming Programmes

Movie ShowSaturday- 6, 13, 27 June,

2015, 8 PM

TambolaSunday- 7, 14 ,21, 28, June,

2015, 8 PM

Swimming CompetitionSunday- 14th June, 2015

Rain DanceSaturday- 20th June, 2015

Sandeep KapoorHony. Secretary

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Congratulations

Sri. Binod Poddar, Senior RCL member and Senior Advocate of the Jharkhand High Court has been appointed as the new Advocate General of Jharkhand. He also served as the first Additional Advocate General of Jharkhand appointed in the year 2001 and was also entrusted with the responsibility of Acting Advocate General for quite some time.

Aditi Singh Sharma, wife of RCL member Ravi Mithilesh Sharma, a clinical psychologist, has been appointed as an International Expert on the Transnational European Union Schools Project – “Towards a Healthy and Responsible Adulthood” being implemented across the European countries. As a part of the project,

Aditi will be in Europe from 16th May to 7th June, 2015.

Dr. Rohit Singh a 3rd generation permanent member of Ranchi Club and grandson of Late Dr. R.P.Singh and son of Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh received the ‘Good Teacher Award’ for 3rd time in a row and the prestigious ‘Distinguished Alumni Award’ from Kasturba Medical College of Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka.

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