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District 41`s probably the first ever and one of the most powerful “women`s only roster” was introduced by Delhi Junction Toastmasters club on Saturday, 29th of July, 2017. The club has conducted a one of a kind ‘Women Special Meeting’ in order to celebrate Women Empowerment. On this occasion, women Toastmasters of 6 different clubs joined hands to make this event memorable. The session marked  attendance from 9 different clubs and District Officers including Nimish Joseph (Division Director, Division F), Shahid Ansari (Area Director, Area H1) , Arun Karkara (Area Director,E2 ), Neha Gupta (Past Area Director 2015-16 , Area C2), Arun Padmanabhan (Immediate Past AreaRead More →

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  Not all Sundays are for sleeping, running errands or fixing the broken. Some Sundays are for creating history. A history that has legacy. a legacy, that can be passed on and written in golden words. That’s exactly what happened at Division D, District 41, on Sunday 23rd July 2017 when Jaipur hosted its first ever Gavel’s Club meeting at Vatsalya Legacy Preschool, Adarsh Nagar, Jaipur. TM Siddharth, TM Shweta, TM Nisha and TM Nidhi had begun the preparations a month ago. We started reaching out to our personal contacts. Practically, no one had ever heard of Gavels Club before. We requested them to comeRead More →

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The first COTP for the newly formed division of District 41 – Division L was a huge success, with a grand opening ceremony for a grand entity coming into existence. And the host ITB-STP made event remarkable one for the quality they showcased. One can only dream of such an event where all the masters of public speaking come together to share their knowledge and soothe the mind of listeners with vibration of amazing speeches. All the EC roles were explained in detail by people who are top dogs in these domains. People attended this event even when the rainy weather tried to ruin theirRead More →

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On 22nd July 2017, IIM Calcutta Toastmasters Club organised their 66th Toastmasters Meeting themed “No Guts No Glory”. Given the inclement weather it was indeed a display of guts by special guests who travelled for more than 35 kms to attend the session making it glorious. The session witnessed an ice breaker speech by Abhishek Arya, the IIMC VP Membership. This was followed by a speech about the ‘Benefits of Smoking a Cigarette’ by Anik Dutta, VP PR from TCS Kolkata Toastmasters Club. Archita Tiwari, VP Membership Kolkata Toastmasters Club and Division K, PQD conducted a special workshop on “Interview Skills” which was the highlightRead More →

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The illuminating ‘Leaders Conclave’ – COTP and JTP for Division-D (Rajasthan), District 41 took place at SKIT Jaipur on July 22, 2017. Experienced toastmasters from various corners stepped in to light the candles of effective leadership. AD2 Avjot Singh Ghai opened the program by welcoming and addressing the prestigious guests of honor. It was carried forward by CDM Siddharth Balasaria and DTM Navin Parwal who enlightened everyone with their experiences. Everyone then broke into multiple parallel sessions for COTP chaired by DTM Pallav Verma, DTM Navin Parwal, TM Khushbu Gupta, TM Devina Chaturvedi, TM Pragya Gandhi, TM Avjot Singh Ghai, TM Sangeet Rajoria and TMRead More →

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  The Pinkcity Toastmasters Club, Division-D (Rajasthan), the first ever community club in Jaipur, celebrated its 101st meeting on 16th July 2017 at a jazzy café Celebrazio owned by TM Devanand & TM Sanjeev. The celebration started with Immediate Past Area Director TM Siddharth sharing his success story and inviting the PCTC’s Past Presidents TM Nitesh, TM Karan, TM Naoki to travel down the memory lane. The nostalgia which could have continued forever was curbed by the Timer Card flashing and what followed was a sparkling show of speeches. The youngest speaker of PCTC, TM Sana Shajahanan articulated her thoughts beautifully in her speech “Be You”,Read More →

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American author Hilary Hinton once said “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”. With this quote as the motto, Tech Mahindra Bhubaneswar Toastmasters Club was kicked off.. Since then, it drove a long way. Especially, in the last year, Tech Mahindra Bhubaneswar Toastmasters Club has been really proactive in all respects. The club has organized COTP training in June 2016 for which it has bagged the “Best Host Ever” Award and has always been known for its innovative initiatives. However, the immediate noticeable change came within the last 2 months with each member working to theRead More →

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Infosys Toastmasters Bhubaneswar SEZ Celebrates 50th Session The 50th session of Infosys Toastmasters Bhubaneswar SEZ was held on the 6th of July from 3 PM onwards. The gala event was indeed a first of its kind because it was the first time a speech marathon was held in Odisha. The event was kicked off by the Sergeant-at-Arms who laid down the ground rules for the session. The session was formally declared open by the new president, TM Swayam Sarkar. The host and anchor for the session TM Smita Pati next invited DTM Saurabh Chandra Tripathy for hosting the EC installation ceremony where the club officersRead More →

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Ethos – an event for all non-toastmasters Ethos, the annual birthday celebration, marks the jubilation of excellence for the toastmasters of Infosys Bhubaneswar Development Centre. Like every year, this year too, the event saw whole-hearted participation from the Development Centre (DC) fraternity including non-toastmasters. Celebrated on 5th July, Ethos consisted of three events – Tall Tales, Table Topics (extempore) and Ad-Mads (maddening advertisements). The event was kick started by a keynote speech from DC-HR Manager Bobby Patnaik  followed by inaugural speech from Club President Panchanan Mishra. Graced by the presence of senior DC leaders and members from HRD, the event also saw the presence ofRead More →

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The 41st meeting of Delhi Toastmasters, New Delhi, was yet another iconic meeting. The club witnessed passing of the baton of DTM’s excellence from the outgoing EC into the able hands of the incoming EC. The pretty eventful and fun-loaded meeting was convened by outgoing Secretary and TMOD Shreya with her apt theme-of-the-day “For men may come and men may go, but I’ll go on forever”. There were some engrossing speeches followed by an innovative and gripping table-topics session conducted by the outgoing President Vaibhav Jaisingh. Then was the time for exchanging of gratitude and acknowledgements by the outgoing EC. The “Vote of Thanks” wasRead More →