FORMER UN UNDER-SECy Shashi Tharoor spouts Gandhi, green cause
The FORMER UN UNDER-SECRETARY GENERAL FLAGGED OFF CYCLE RALLY and walkathon on Saturday 19th September in the run-up to the Commonwealth Youth Games. Both events will started at 7 am from Sambhaji bridge in DeccanGymkhana and ended at Sanas grounds near Nehru Stadium.
At the party hosted by the CTG organizing committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi at Laguna-Panchshil Tech Park on Airport Road, Tharoor was in his elements while responding to the introduction made by socialite Monica Trivedi.
“Us President Johnson once said that this is the sort of introduction that would have made by father proud and my mother would’ve believed it.” He lauded Kalmadi’s efforts for taking up the green cause. “Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan would often say that the earth is not ours, it is a treasure to keep for our children. The treasures have been tarnished by two hundred years of industrialization and we have to undo the damage.”
Reminding Pune of Gandhi’s legacy he said that the green cause had a champion in the Mahatma. “In the last 60 years we have forgotten that the man never threw even an envelope and wrote behind it, so as not to waste even a little space.” He said.
Appreciating Pune’s green stance with the token planting and watering of a plant, he said “Pune will be an inspiration to a greener Delhi in the Commonwealth Games in 2010. After all, the you are the flag bearers of the future.”
A Kathak recital by Manisha Sathe’s troupe made a case for not cutting trees. Among those present were Yohan and Michelle Poonawalla, Sagar Sribala Chordia, Sumeer Kalmadi, Kumar Gera, Vishwanath Karad with son Rahul Karad, Aseem Sarode, Satish Khot, police commissioner Satyapal singh, municipal commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi, Tehsen Poonawall, IT honcho Deepak Shikarpurkar, Madhur Bajaj and Sabina Sanghvi.
Delia Maria from FOGM attended the CYG dinner
Kalyani Sardesai & Preeti Devnani, Pune DNA 20-9-008
At the party hosted by the CTG organizing committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi at Laguna-Panchshil Tech Park on Airport Road, Tharoor was in his elements while responding to the introduction made by socialite Monica Trivedi.
“Us President Johnson once said that this is the sort of introduction that would have made by father proud and my mother would’ve believed it.” He lauded Kalmadi’s efforts for taking up the green cause. “Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan would often say that the earth is not ours, it is a treasure to keep for our children. The treasures have been tarnished by two hundred years of industrialization and we have to undo the damage.”
Reminding Pune of Gandhi’s legacy he said that the green cause had a champion in the Mahatma. “In the last 60 years we have forgotten that the man never threw even an envelope and wrote behind it, so as not to waste even a little space.” He said.
Appreciating Pune’s green stance with the token planting and watering of a plant, he said “Pune will be an inspiration to a greener Delhi in the Commonwealth Games in 2010. After all, the you are the flag bearers of the future.”
A Kathak recital by Manisha Sathe’s troupe made a case for not cutting trees. Among those present were Yohan and Michelle Poonawalla, Sagar Sribala Chordia, Sumeer Kalmadi, Kumar Gera, Vishwanath Karad with son Rahul Karad, Aseem Sarode, Satish Khot, police commissioner Satyapal singh, municipal commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi, Tehsen Poonawall, IT honcho Deepak Shikarpurkar, Madhur Bajaj and Sabina Sanghvi.
Delia Maria from FOGM attended the CYG dinner
Kalyani Sardesai & Preeti Devnani, Pune DNA 20-9-008
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