Inner Wheel 329
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| 2009- 10 IIW THEME |
SNIGDHA BARAT - A PROFILE
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Snigdha Barat PHF Home Club:Calcutta DownTown Wife of Rtn.Debashis Barat PHF, AG Dist: 3291 Birthday 13th March Wedding : 26th June |
Born in to a renowned family and cradled in a lullaby of music and literature, she graduated in English (Honours) from Calcutta University. Thereafter, after brief stints at British Paints (India) Limited and Price Waterhouse Associates Limited, she wounded up at the multinational pharmaceutical company, Boehringer-Knoll Limited, as an executive in the Finance division. She was associated with Calcutta Dooradarshan (Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata) for a decade as an announcer. In the year 1990, she joined the Inner Wheel Club of Calcutta Down Town and have had the honour of serving terms as President (thrice), Vice President (twice), Secretary (twice) and ISO (thrice) therein. It was in the I.W. year 2004-05 that she joined Inner Wheel District 329 as Editor and then continued as ISO, Treasurer, Secretary and Vice-President. During her tenure at the District, she attended the 13th and 14th International Inner Wheel Conventions held in Christchurch (New Zealand) and Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia) in May 2006 and May 2009, respectively, as a voting delegate, and, the Triennial Conferences in Pune and Mumbai in the years 2004 and 2007 respectively. In the year 2000, she became a Paul Harris fellow. She is an honorary member of a number of prominent NGOs and have served these in different capacities, always being immensely satisfied with the work. Her hobbies are singing, acting and gardening. It is her aspiration to endeavor to bring happiness in the lives of underprivileged children and senior citizens. The motto of her life is to try and look on the bright side, evermore, for the true pursuit of contentment. She had been fortunate to have had the opportunity to widely travel abroad. Her husband, Rtn. Debashis Barat, is also a Paul Harris fellow and a Past President of Rotary Club of Calcutta Down Town; he is currently the Assistant Governor (Youth Service) of RI District 3291.She is the proud mother of a son, Deborshi, who has graduated from the West Bengal National University of Juridicial Sciences, Kolkata and is now working with a reputed corporate law firm in New Delhi as a legal consultant.
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE Action, albeit essential, is merely a secondary parameter in manifesting our external reality. The primary factor is consciousness. No matter how active we are, what quantum of enterprise we invest, our state of consciousness creates our world; if there is no change at the inner level, no amount of action or effort will make any material difference. Hope is one such pristine element in the mosaic of our inner consciousness; it captures the illumination of the dream of a better tomorrow from the spectrum of destiny. It is this hope that protects us from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and gives us the courage to toil on in the gathering gloom My dear friends, we all have plans and aspirations for our respective futures; not just for ourselves, but also for the ones we love. However, there are others out there who would like to tuck away a handful of blessings for their sons and daughters but have no means to even contemplate such a possibility. It is unto these dark corridors of humanity that we must sweep in much-needed light and sunshine. Hope is not everything, but it’s the first step. At a time when people around us lose faith in themselves and stop believing in the world, let us try, to the best of our ability, to help bring hope. And who is to say that our best efforts will be futile?
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Author's Name: Basabi Mitra |
