IFMR India

Monthly ride to Kotilingeswar Temple
2023-12-03

Felicitation function of Mental Health Awareness Riders
2023-11-17

Monthly Ride - Shivgang
2023-11-09 08:00 - 17:00 UTC

World Polio Day - Bike Rally
2023-10-28 08:00 - 17:00

IFMR Sub Chapters from Thrissur and Cochin members visit Bangalore for their Cause Ride.
2023-10-19 08:00 - 2023-10-25 20:00
October 19th – Sub Chapter Thrissur and Cochin members visit Bangalore for their Cause Ride.

Our IFMR Sub Chapters from Cochin/Thrissur were on a Cause Ride to southern states of India, covering 2.5k km, with 12 riders.

Their scheduled arrival to Bangalore was 19th October coming from Cochin. It was the turn of IFMR India Chapter to host our biking friends from Kerala for the first time. As per our culture and tradition of Bharat, Athithi Devo Bhava, a small team of 7 members was formed to organise a good stay, lavish dinner and felicitation was planned. Unfortunately 3 of the senior members from IFMR India, including the President Rajesh AR were unavailable due to the prior travel schedule but they ensured that nothing was left to chance.

The venue for the stay and Dinner party for Kerala riders was The Century Club. Invite was sent to all the members of IFMR India Chapter well in advance to join the event. Both our DG from 3191 and 3192 were invited to join the meeting and understand the cause for which this ride was organised by Kerala riders. Already DG from Kerala were in touch with our DG’s. Around 8 pm all the riders reached the venue, got delayed due to back to back club meetings on their way to Bangalore en route. After 15 minutes of refreshments, the meeting started, it was chaired by Secretary Rtn Vinod Agarwal and assisted by Treasurer Rtn Raghvendra Inamdar. Rtn Shyam and Rtn Rajesh from Kerala made an excellent presentation on their cause of helping rural areas with a medical kit costing 25k which reduces the mortality rates of pregnant mothers while delivering babies. Instantly over 5 to 6 kit commitments were received from the members present. Rotary Junction promised to support 2 kit and Past President of Lakeside Rtn Prassanna Kumari promised to support one kit. A few more commitments were received. Both DG’s Rtn Srinivas Murthy and Rtn Uday Bhaskar were asked to speak and both lauded the efforts of Kerala riders. Both promised to do their best for the cause. Soon it was time for felicitation by Ifmr INDIA CHAPTER to all our Kerala riders. Chairman of the evening Rtn Vinod Agarwal, requested all the PP present in the hall, Rtn Ramdas Pai, Rtn Jayaprakash, Rtn Prashanth Babu and Rtn Arun Belur along with both DG’s to do the honours of felicitating each of 12 Kerala riders, with a world famous Kannada flag colors scarf and a goodie bag with our merchandise items. Rtn Punit had organised these beautiful scarves, thanks to him. The flag exchange took place between both the chapters. IFMR INDIA CHAPTER also felicitated the DG’s too in a similar way of giving scarves and presented a hand crafted special pin, they had received from Pune Baner club. Soon it was a photo opportunity time for all, many group and solo pictures were taken. Rtn Raghvendra Inamdar proposed the vote of thanks and profusely thanked each and every member for coming to the meeting and people who worked behind the scene to make this event a grand and memorable one. The meeting was adjourned and the dinner party started soon, it was a great bonding and bonhomie time for all.

It was decided to flag off the riders the next morning at 6 am, Rtn Punit, Rtn Raghvendra Inamdar and Rtn Vinod Agarwal had come at 6 am to give a send off to our Kerala riders. After a few group photos, all riders were flagged off by Rtn Vinod Agarwal. Rtn Punit and Rtn Raghvendra Inamdar joined them for a good 40 km ride up to Chikballapur. A good event came to an end. Long live IFMR INDIA

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World Mental Health Day
2023-10-10 08:00
World Mental Health Day- 10th October 2023

After completing our Awareness bike ride last month for 12 days in spreading the message of Mental Health Matters. We were invited to join the District 3192 event on World Mental Health Day at Orion Mall by none other than the DG Rtn Srinivas Murthy ji. Out of 8 riders only 4 could attend as the rest 4 were traveling. It was a grand meeting with over 200 people attending it.

Many programs were organised by the Mental Health Chair Rtn Rashmi Tankshali. All the riders present were introduced and were recognised, DG spoke in length about our ride. IFMR INDIA President Rajesh AR was asked to share the experience of the 12 day ride, covering 4 states, 4000 km, 10 Districts and 28 cities. He spoke in detail about the same, thanking each and every District official in making our ride a very meaningful one. It was a 100% successful mission.

Attaching a few pictures from the event of 10th October evening. Thank you District 3192 for the felicitation.

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IFMR Monthly Ride : Sunday 1st Oct 2023
2023-10-01 08:00 - 2023-10-11 00:00
Monthly ride : Sunday 1st Oct 2023.
As much as IFMR believes in “more the merrier” it also follows “the show must go on”. Although there were just 8 riders today we in the true IFMR spirit had a wonderful disciplined ride to MandarGiri some 53 kms from KLE DENTAL Yeshwanthpur . The riders as usual gathered on a wonderful overcast Sunday morning. After briefing by Mandar Dixit and the customary prayer by Shirish Nene we started our trip. The weather was great but the traffic on NH 4 was predictably high.
The distance was quickly covered in less than 1 hr and after a cup of hot tea we visited the Jain temple atop the hill.
The Jain temple we were told is over 1200 yrs old and was recently renovated. The members who visited the place 4 yrs back will
find the place changed . The view from the top of the hill was quite breathtaking , there was a strong breeze Flowing which made the experience awesome. After the usual sightseeing we started our return journey having a sumptuous breakfast at “Namaste Bangalore” .
Most of us were back
Home by 12 noon.
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Mysore City Bike Rally
2023-09-02 15:00 - 2023-09-03 11:00
SEP 2 AT 3 PM – SEP 3 AT 11 AM
A bike rally in the morning of 3rd September, going around the City of Mysore to create an awareness on Avoidable Blindness, an event organised by multi districts of Rotary.

Annual Group Photo shoot at Madhavan Park
2023-08-27
Date was informed to all the members one month in advance so that they can schedule their travel plans. Finally we had 43 members, 3 Anns and 3 District dignitaries joining us for the photo shoot. All had come on time, all were colour coordinated with Riding Vest and Club Jersey. It was a great bonhomie time for many as few don’t join for ride meets and were meeting after long time.

President Rajesh AR, welcomed all for the morning event, requested all to observe a minute silence for an ex-members sudden demise last night. After which our ace Photographer Rtn. Chandru from Rotary District took the centre stage, made everyone sit in order and started the photo shoot by taking pics in various orders, sitting, standing, without vest, Past Presidents group picture and Core Committee group picture. Many did not lose the opportunity for their solo and their close friends group photos. Soon we were joined by District members, PDG KP Nagesh, PDG Nagendra Prasad and Rtn Kiran. They all addressed us and thanked IFMR India for being the most popular, disciplined and best organised Fellowship group in Rotary. President Rajesh AR requested our own member and DGE Mahadev Prasad to unveil new merchandise for our members, a Luggage Tag and ID acrylic cards with individual names in a set of two cards were released, first set was presented to Past Prez and Founder member Rtn Zarryl Lobo and requested others to collect their set from Secretary Vinod. This was a public image and publicity idea to spread awareness about Rotary in general and IFMR in particular and members not to lose their luggage while traveling. It was highly appreciated by one and all. All district dignitaries were given one set each.

Close to 9 am, all were asked to join for breakfast at the adjacent restaurant Brahmins Coffee and Tiffins, soon all our members had taken over the restaurant, filled with only our members, all were exchanging pleasantries and happy to have joined for the photo shoot. A great event came to a close around 10 am, all bid goodbye and left for the home.

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Overnight Ride to Coorg
2023-08-12 08:00 - 2023-08-14 17:00
August 12th to 14th Overnight Ride to Coorg. Covering 600 km

Participating Members: Ajit SR, Vijay Mane, Prashanth Babu, Y C Roy, Ravish, Jayaprakash, S Raju, SR Raju, TV Rajan, Adarsh, Manjunath, Krishnan, Rajasekhar, Ashok, Mandar, Punit, Prashant Mishra, Rajesh AR, Karate, Ganesh, Dipesh, Jeet, Vinay, Asad, Vinod, Sanjay, and Sathyakanth with his son.

Thrissur Sub Chapter members: Shyam Mohan, Pualy, Ameesh and Stanley

This rides announcement had created a big buzz among all the members, over 38 members had shown initial interest immediately after its announcement twenty days before the event itself.. Finally 36 members registered for it and 4 had to drop out due to health/personal commitment. But the final 32 itself was one of the biggest contingents of riders for an overnight ride in IFMR India.. It had 28 members from India Chapter, Bangalore and 4 riders joined from Thrissur Sub Chapter. Another unique feature in this ride was that we had 6 past and present presidents joining and icing on the cake was 11 riders from a single Rotary Club – Cubbon Park, had there been an award for highest participation from a single club award, it would have gone to them. What a great camaraderie they share.

As usual on the 12th morning all the riders were at the start point on time, President Rajesh had a briefing session, group/riders sequence was announced and prayer was recited by Secretary Vinod. Our first stop was at Dhruvtare restaurant, a clear 90 km from the start point. All the restaurants were running packed due to heavy traffic on the highway due to an extended weekend holiday, Dhruvtare was no different but the staff were familiar with our riders and without putting us on the waitlist we were accommodated despite a houseful board outside. All enjoyed the breakfast and took an adequate break for the long journey ahead. Soon we were on the highway, weather was perfect for riding, stopped at one or two stops for refueling of petrol and tea break and reached for our lunch break at Somwarpet, an authentic vegetarian restaurant, Kalyan Bhawan, was booked before hand by President Rajesh, and ably guided by our member Dayanand Allapur who owns a huge coffee estate nearby. After a sumptuous sit down lunch all visited Dayanand’s estate and kingdom. All were greeted by him and his family, he took us around his new house under construction and gave a detailed overview of his estate, after spending close to one hour and a few group pictures we started our final leg of the trip to Hodduru, Coorg. It started raining on the way and all stopped to wear their rain gears, all riders were rain compliant and without any break continued the ride. Reached our resort and President Rajesh friend Mr Rajendra’s house close to 5 pm, all were welcomed by him and all were made comfortable in their respective rooms and decided to join for evening get together at 7 pm. After a quick coffee for all, we were taken to a village temple of host Rajendra ji and President Rajesh AR nearby, it was a 500 years old temple which their family trust have given a new structure by retaining the old idols and original place, this temple is maintained by Rajendra ji family. It was good to see how people are religiously committed by donating their wealth for a good cause.

The party started sharp at 7 pm and all were enjoying the hospitality of Rajendra ji and President Rajesh, all were treated to some authentic Coorg cuisine food, drinks, dance and Masti continued till midnight as if there was no tomorrow. We were joined by 3 Rotarian Ann, including President Rajesh wife Rama ji. She too sang many songs. Amongst us we had a guest member, past president of IFMR India Chapter visiting from Kuwait, Rtn Sathykant, he was introduced to all by President Rajesh and as a token of goodwill gesture our pin was presented to him, he had joined this ride with his son. Soon there was an act by Dipesh, Vijay and Prashanth Babu, where they roasted a few of our IFMR members with their stand up act, it was good to hear what people think of other members. Slowly all retired to their rooms.

The next morning the schedule was to visit an irrigated paddy field owned by Rajendra ji, which is slushy and play all kind of games like volleyball, tug of war, running in the slush etc. All had come prepared to experience this event, unique for people living in cities. All spent close to two hours here playing and doing mud spa. After a clean wash, all had breakfast, again with Coorg cousine preparation. President Rajesh had planned a bike ride in and around Coorg covering offbeat places after the Breakfast. All joined in this adventure trip covering 120 km. It had all the elements of fun and thrill, off roading, steep climbing and many water crossings too. Saw some beautiful rolling mountains, the hidden secrets of Coorg natures beauty, stopped at many places and took some stunning pictures. Close to 2 pm reached our venue for lunch, East End hotel, a very popular restaurant in Coorg, to our surprise our Hassan Sub Chapter riders numbering over 23 were present there, they were returning from their bike ride from Mahe, they had come in 15 bikes and two cars. It was a great bonhomie time for all. Took a few group photos with over 55 IFMR’IAN together. Bid goodbye to them and returned to our base for our second day’s fellowship in the evening, all were little exhausted but the party continued for the second evening, our Thrissur members took over the centre stage and belted out few karaoke numbers, we had a new induction of member from Thrissur Sub Chapter, Stanley, President Rajesh pinned IFMR India pin and welcomed him to the world of IFMR. The party continued till 11 pm and all had an early dinner with new delicacies of Coorg cuisine especially the non vegetarian ones. The next morning we had to return back all retired early. After an early breakfast next morning all were ready to saddle up for the return journey to Bangalore. All expressed their thanks and gratitude to our host Rajendra ji and his wife for going out of their way to give us some lifetime memorable moments. All took many group pictures with them, thanked them and bid goodbye and started our return journey to Bangalore. With few tea/lunch breaks in between, all were home by the evening with lifetime memories. Biggest thanks goes to our President Rtn Rajesh AR who had worked and planned on this trip with his friend Mr. Rajendra long ago, whatever he had thought of was executed perfectly.

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Over Night Ride August 2023
2023-08-12 07:45 - 2023-08-14 14:00
August 12th to 14th Overnight Ride to Coorg. Covering 600 km

Participating Members: Ajit SR, Vijay Mane, Prashanth Babu, Y C Roy, Ravish, Jayaprakash, S Raju, SR Raju, TV Rajan, Adarsh, Manjunath, Krishnan, Rajasekhar, Ashok, Mandar, Punit, Prashant Mishra, Rajesh AR, Karate, Ganesh, Dipesh, Jeet, Vinay, Asad, Vinod, Sanjay, and Sathyakanth with his son.

Thrissur Sub Chapter members: Shyam Mohan, Pualy, Ameesh and Stanley

This rides announcement had created a big buzz among all the members, over 38 members had shown initial interest immediately after its announcement twenty days before the event itself.. Finally 36 members registered for it and 4 had to drop out due to health/personal commitment. But the final 32 itself was one of the biggest contingents of riders for an overnight ride in IFMR India.. It had 28 members from India Chapter, Bangalore and 4 riders joined from Thrissur Sub Chapter. Another unique feature in this ride was that we had 6 past and present presidents joining and icing on the cake was 11 riders from a single Rotary Club – Cubbon Park, had there been an award for highest participation from a single club award, it would have gone to them. What a great camaraderie they share.

As usual on the 12th morning all the riders were at the start point on time, President Rajesh had a briefing session, group/riders sequence was announced and prayer was recited by Secretary Vinod. Our first stop was at Dhruvtare restaurant, a clear 90 km from the start point. All the restaurants were running packed due to heavy traffic on the highway due to an extended weekend holiday, Dhruvtare was no different but the staff were familiar with our riders and without putting us on the waitlist we were accommodated despite a houseful board outside. All enjoyed the breakfast and took an adequate break for the long journey ahead. Soon we were on the highway, weather was perfect for riding, stopped at one or two stops for refueling of petrol and tea break and reached for our lunch break at Somwarpet, an authentic vegetarian restaurant, Kalyan Bhawan, was booked before hand by President Rajesh, and ably guided by our member Dayanand Allapur who owns a huge coffee estate nearby. After a sumptuous sit down lunch all visited Dayanand’s estate and kingdom. All were greeted by him and his family, he took us around his new house under construction and gave a detailed overview of his estate, after spending close to one hour and a few group pictures we started our final leg of the trip to Hodduru, Coorg. It started raining on the way and all stopped to wear their rain gears, all riders were rain compliant and without any break continued the ride. Reached our resort and President Rajesh friend Mr Rajendra’s house close to 5 pm, all were welcomed by him and all were made comfortable in their respective rooms and decided to join for evening get together at 7 pm. After a quick coffee for all, we were taken to a village temple of host Rajendra ji and President Rajesh AR nearby, it was a 500 years old temple which their family trust have given a new structure by retaining the old idols and original place, this temple is maintained by Rajendra ji family. It was good to see how people are religiously committed by donating their wealth for a good cause.

The party started sharp at 7 pm and all were enjoying the hospitality of Rajendra ji and President Rajesh, all were treated to some authentic Coorg cuisine food, drinks, dance and Masti continued till midnight as if there was no tomorrow. We were joined by 3 Rotarian Ann, including President Rajesh wife Rama ji. She too sang many songs. Amongst us we had a guest member, past president of IFMR India Chapter visiting from Kuwait, Rtn Sathykant, he was introduced to all by President Rajesh and as a token of goodwill gesture our pin was presented to him, he had joined this ride with his son. Soon there was an act by Dipesh, Vijay and Prashanth Babu, where they roasted a few of our IFMR members with their stand up act, it was good to hear what people think of other members. Slowly all retired to their rooms.

The next morning the schedule was to visit an irrigated paddy field owned by Rajendra ji, which is slushy and play all kind of games like volleyball, tug of war, running in the slush etc. All had come prepared to experience this event, unique for people living in cities. All spent close to two hours here playing and doing mud spa. After a clean wash, all had breakfast, again with Coorg cousine preparation. President Rajesh had planned a bike ride in and around Coorg covering offbeat places after the Breakfast. All joined in this adventure trip covering 120 km. It had all the elements of fun and thrill, off roading, steep climbing and many water crossings too. Saw some beautiful rolling mountains, the hidden secrets of Coorg natures beauty, stopped at many places and took some stunning pictures. Close to 2 pm reached our venue for lunch, East End hotel, a very popular restaurant in Coorg, to our surprise our Hassan Sub Chapter riders numbering over 23 were present there, they were returning from their bike ride from Mahe, they had come in 15 bikes and two cars. It was a great bonhomie time for all. Took a few group photos with over 55 IFMR’IAN together. Bid goodbye to them and returned to our base for our second day’s fellowship in the evening, all were little exhausted but the party continued for the second evening, our Thrissur members took over the centre stage and belted out few karaoke numbers, we had a new induction of member from Thrissur Sub Chapter, Stanley, President Rajesh pinned IFMR India pin and welcomed him to the world of IFMR. The party continued till 11 pm and all had an early dinner with new delicacies of Coorg cuisine especially the non vegetarian ones. The next morning we had to return back all retired early. After an early breakfast next morning all were ready to saddle up for the return journey to Bangalore. All expressed their thanks and gratitude to our host Rajendra ji and his wife for going out of their way to give us some lifetime memorable moments. All took many group pictures with them, thanked them and bid goodbye and started our return journey to Bangalore. With few tea/lunch breaks in between, all were home by the evening with lifetime memories. Biggest thanks goes to our President Rtn Rajesh AR who had worked and planned on this trip with his friend Mr. Rajendra long ago, whatever he had thought of was executed perfectly.

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August 12th to 14th Overnight Ride to Coorg
2023-08-12 - 2023-08-14

August 8th - Installation of the new team of IFMR Hassan Sub Chapter
2023-08-08
August 8th – Installation of the new team of IFMR Hassan Sub Chapter.
Invite was received from Hassan Ifmr club well in advance and there was a special request from the most popular and God Father member Rtn Mohan to India Chapter members to attend the same. A total of 14 members decided to visit them, three cars were arranged and Rtn Manjunath Saligram decided to ride his bike to Hassan. All had reached sharp at 7.30 pm to the venue, Hotel Aarya Mansion, a star hotel in Hassan. There were over 40 members present to receive us from Bangalore, two couple members and Rtn. Manjunath were allotted rooms in the hotel as they opted to stay overnight after the function.
The installation function started without any delay, the chief guests were PDG Nagendra Prasad and Ifmr India Chapter President Rtn Rajesh AR. A new team for 23/24 was installed by PDG, few speeches and presentations followed, many were honoured with gifts, mementos, plant saplings and specially crafted scarfs. Rtn Venky was installed as the new President of Hassan Sub Chapter for 23/24. Rtn Vijay Mane was asked to show his dancing skill on signature dance steps on the popular tunes of Jerusalema. All just loved it and were trying to match with him on stage. After close to two hours of fun meeting all joined for a lovely dinner and bid goodbye to our hosts Hassan Sub Chapter. Best wishes to Hassan Sub Chapter for a great year.
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Rangasthala Ride
2023-08-06 06:45 - 10:45
August 6th, Sunday – ride to Rangasthala, Chikballapur. Distance 120km total.

Participating members: Ajit, Adarsh, Dipesh, Sanjay,Karate, Sudershan, Manjunath, Krishnan, Rajesh Sinha, Paul Sudhakar, R Raju, Mandar, Jai Shankar, S Raju, Venkateshwarn, Ashok, Ranga, Venky, Rajshekhar, Rajesh AR and Vinod

Prospective members: Jeet, Akash, Sudhir, Anand, Parikshit and Surendran

Despite back to back rides planned in a gap of the next 6 days, we had a record breaking participation today 21 Members and 6 Prospective, totalling 27 riders phew, some number to manage. All the riders had come on time, 6.45 am to the starting point. President Rtn. Rajesh AR took the centre stage, informed all about today’s ride and route, guided all with the safety instructions, especially to prospective riders. Gave stress on hand signals and safety gear adherence. Secretary Vinod read out the groupings of today’s ride with Lead, Sweep and riders sequence numbers, 3 groups were formed with 9 riders each and kept 2 prospective riders in each group, for better understanding of their riding skills. Rtn. S Raju was asked to offer today’s prayer for the success and safety of today’s ride and riders. Soon one by one the group started the ride with a gap of 5 minutes.

The weather was absolutely fantastic, it was overcast with a cool breeze, and the highway was with decent traffic to cruise at 80km. All the 3 groups covered 50 km and reached the breakfast point at Durga Sree Grand restaurant at Chikballapur, it was our Rtn Sudhakar Reddy’s find as he is a local boy of Chikballapur, thank you Sudhakar. All spent close to 45 minutes here, bonding over breakfast. The last leg of the ride was just 7 km, covered in no time, all visited the Temple of Rangasthala, offered prayers, understood the history of the temple and gathered for many group pictures around the temple. Local boy, Rtn Sudhakar Reddy and President Rtn Rajesh AR decided to wander inside the village side by covering small and scenic roads before we started our return trip. Around 10 km of village roads were covered before we headed to the Nandi hills road to exit to the main highway for a return trip. Just before Nandi Upachar, all stopped for regrouping and to disperse and say bye to all, as few wanted to go to different locations. It was great to see many members who were not seen for a very long time coming for today’s ride. Overall a great ride in IFMR. Thanks to all who had joined today’s ride.

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August 6th, Sunday - Ride to Rangasthala, Chikballapur
2023-08-06

IFMR India is Organising an International Ride
2023-07-28
Ifmr India is organising an International Ride for our friends from member countries. Details are as follows.
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July 22nd, Saturday Ride for a cause
2023-07-22 08:00 - 17:00
July 22nd, Saturday Ride for a cause
Today, 6 IFMRians along with other riders of Cubbonpark did a ride to Bandipur to give away the note books and other stationery to all the kids of the Government school of Mangala village.
1. Ravish
2. Adarsh
3. Kalya
4. Srinivas Raju
5. Rajan
6. Roy
We took off at 645 am and reached Mangala village by 1130 am. After distribution of the stationery kits , we went into the forest and we were lucky to sight 7 elephants from a close range. The weather was excellent with rains when we took off from Mangala village. On an average we did close to 500 km in a single day. I will post a few pics of the ride

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July 16th - Thanksgiving get-together.
2023-07-16
July 16th – Thanksgiving get-together.

Date, venue and time was fixed in advance for this party, members started arriving by 11 am and by 12 noon most of the members who had promised to attend were at the sprawling brand new bungalow of Rtn Prashanth Babu and Mrs. Shobha. All were in a relaxed mood and were enjoying the hospitality of the hosts.

Close to 1 pm, President Rtn Rajesh AR took over the centre stage and started the meeting proceedings, welcomed one and all and requested IPP Rtn Arun Belur to take over the further proceedings. IPP Arun, thanked each and every one for a great year of rides and activities in 22/23, he explained the three long rides done during the year, Unity Ride, International Ride of Rajasthan Escapade and grand finale was Spiti Valley Ride. All applauded the efforts of the outgoing team and gave a standing ovation. He then presented the completion and participation certificate of Spiti Valley Ride along specially made T Shirt to all the riders of Spiti Valley. All took many pictures of this presentation.

IPP Arun Belur requested Editor Vinod Agarwal to release the Annual copy of REARVIEW, which he did and distributed the ordered copies to members present and released the soft copy in the WhatsApp group of IFMR India. IPP Arun Belur felcitated member Devesh Agarwal for all his exploits during the year, reaching the world’s highest motorable road and riding over 12k in a few rides. He was presented with a specially designed memento. IPP Arun Belur also recognised the efforts of Past Secretary Prashant Mishra during the 22/23, a special scarf and a plaque was presented to him.

After all the official ceremonies, the party was full on, non stop, all were enjoying bonding over drinks and food, entertainment incharge Rtn Raghavendra Inamdar took over as the lead Karoke singer along with ladies present, non stop music, dance continued for the next few hours. People were busy taking solo, selfie and group pictures all over, as if there was no tomorrow. The party continued till 5 pm and slowly all left. Big thanks to IPP Arun Belur and Past Secretary Prashant Mishra for sponsoring the food and drinks and bigger thanks to Shobha ji and Prashanth Babu for hosting the party at their home.

The great party ended with a lot of memories. Members who could not make it were missed, over 40 members were present.

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Felicitation of IFMR members of Rotary Club
2023-07-14
July 14th, 2023 –
Felicitation of IFMR members of Rotary Club of Junction by their own club.

Invite was received from Rotary Club of Junction to IFMR India that they would like to felicitate their club members who are active members of Ifmr India on 14th July and would like other members of Ifmr India to attend the same. Despite being a Friday, week day few Ifmr India members attended the event.

It was a great event, attended by all the members of Junction who were Ifmr members also. Past Secretary Prashant Mishra was asked to speak about the activities of IFMR who is also member of Junction and all the members present were felicitated and recognised by giving a box of chocolates to all and many group pictures were taken with Ifmr members.

All the members of Junction appreciated the activities of IFMR India and were awestruck with the various rides undertaken in the past. Secretary Vinod Agarwal made a presentation on how the fellowship group works in Rotary.

Overall a great evening with great fellowship moments with Junction members.

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2nd July 2023 Monthly Ride
2023-07-02
July 2023 Monthly Ride
Date: 2nd July
Destination: Avani, Kolar
Distance : 185 km, two ways.
Members Present: AR Rajesh, Vinod, Ajit, Prashant Mishra, Raghavendra Inamdaar, Shrikanth, Mandar, Sashidhar, Sudhakar, Punit, Vijay, Vinay, Venkatesh, Babbana, Manjunath, Nikhil, Dipesh, Avinash, Shanmugham, Jaishankar and Mahadev Dambal.
3 Prospective member’s: Anil Agadi, Rajesh Rao and Jeet Bhatia
3 Pillion Riders: Rahul Dixit, Jaishree Mane and Jr. Shrikanth
Being the first ride of the year 23/24, the response to it was overwhelming, over 25 riders had joined at the start point at ITI Colony gate at 6.45 am, despite a few last minute drop out which got adjusted with last minute joiners. We were having the highest riders for any ride in the recent past as commented by IPS Prashant Mishra. Big thank you to all the riders who joined this morning for the ride. We had two surprise members coming in for the flag off, World President Rtn Sunil Telkar and Rtn Asad Hajjibhoy, it was good to see them, despite their busy schedule they came to see all of us. Thank you Sunil and Asad.
President Rajesh AR had his meeting with all the riders, welcomed all to the first ride, gave a small detail of today’s route and destination, requested Rtn Mandar to offer the prayer, and what best way to start first ride by invoking Lord Ganesh Mantra, for today’s successful ride and everyone’s safety. Riding sequence of 4 group was announced before hand with respective Lead and Sweep, accordingly each group left with a gap of 5 minutes.
The weather was perfect for a morning breakfast ride, it was overcast but no traces of rain and only cool breeze was blowing, all managed to get out of initial traffic and slowly were on a clear highway and cruising at good speed with everyone’s comfort zone. Our first stop was at Highway Star for breakfast in Maiya’s. All took time to have a relaxed breakfast and close to 9.15 am, left for the last 20 kms to Avani town/temple. Soon we were there, this place has a lot of historical importance, all spent over one hour visiting the temple and taking group photographs.
Few opted to Trek on to the hillok nearby. Soon it was decided to leave back for Bangalore and disperse point was after Hoskote Toll plaza, after cruising for nearly one hour all were at the Toll plaza to say goodbye and thanked each other for their company. A great start to 23/24 had begun.
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Ride to Shravanbela Gola - 130 km one way
2023-02-28 08:00 - 17:00
There were 17 riders and 2 guest riders ready at the starting point, KLE Dental College gate at 6.30 am. President Arun Belur welcomed everyone and informed us about today’s route and stoppages.
