Highlights:

The 149th meeting was conducted with a creative format with two TMODs for the evening. MTM Sudha Rao and CC Sunil Shenoy brought out the essence of women and men through their interesting address. The theme of the meeting was ‘Men are from Mars and women are from Venus’. The TMODs were successful in grasping the attention of the audience and lightening the mood of the meeting.

We also had two evaluators for each speaker with a view to train the new toastmasters in effective evaluation. The stars of the evening were TM Mahesh Prabhu who won the best speaker award, TM Avinash Pangarkar was voted the best table topic speaker, TM Ajit Jain won the best evaluator award.

Project Speeches, Evaluation and Table Topics:

TM Mahesh Prabhu introduced himself through project 1 speech which was evaluated by TM Sandeep Rungta and CC Supriya

TM Ravichandran V delivered project 2 speech which was evaluated by TM Bala and TM Avinash

TM Ciby Joseph delivered project 6 speech evaluated by TM Vineet Borar and CC Ajit Jain

TM Shaju Perinchery delivered his P9 and was evaluated by CC CL Ganpat Kumbhat

Roles :

Table Topic Master:

Razack Aslam was the Tale Topic master.The participants for the Table topics wereTM Avinash, Mr. Nagaraj, TM Usha Bolan, TM Ciby Joseph.

Word Master: TM Unnikrishnan Sukumaran introduced the word Misandry meaning hatred towards men or boys and its antonym Philandry.

Timer :TM Vinod Kumar was accurate in time keeping a time check

Grammarian :TM Wilson Lewis highlighted the incorrect expressions used during the meeting. The grammarian was appreciated by the general evaluator.

General Evaluator:

CC Biji Daniel was the General Evaluator of the meeting.He appreciated he manner of speech evaluations.His suggestions were that there should be a Greet master. Word of the day should be restricted to one word. Agenda of meeting to be printed and circulated among the audience. He suggested that the logo on the banners be revised to the new logo launched by TMI.