 It is my pleasure to be your Toastmaster of the day for this wonderful event. I see many guests in the audience and most of you must be curious to know what is this Toastmasters? How can it benefit me? This is what I want to answer in the next five minutes. Toastmasters first of all is a worldwide organization. When you join Toastmasters, you are not joining an organization that exists in a country or a few countries, it exists all over the world. We have 300,000 active members. Toastmasters is available in 149 countries. As of now, there are 15,800 clubs. All right, so it's a worldwide organization available in many countries, but what can it do for you? Toastmasters as an organization existed since 1924 that helps people to build their communication and leadership skills. As an organization, we provide opportunities for you to practice your public speaking skills. And as you may know, public speaking is something many of us fear, if not all of us. People fear public speaking more than they fear death. Can you imagine you'll rather die than stand in front of a large crowd and speak? And I used to be one of those until I joined Toastmasters. You also get opportunities not only to practice your public speaking skills, but to practice leadership skills, skills that can help you at work because you can take up leadership roles in this worldwide organization starting from your club going up to an area, division, district. The program of learning and developing yourself is self-paced. You decide how fast you want to learn or whether you want to take a break. It's all up to you. We provide an environment that is positive and supportive. All of this will help you to gain a competitive advantage at workplace. If you practice your skills in leadership and communication in Toastmasters, within a year or so, you will find that you have improved yourself at a work in the social environment everywhere. Club is the heart of Toastmasters. And in each club, usually there are around 20 members, can be more, can be slightly less, but 20 is considered an optimum number. Why is that an optimum number? Because we meet just two times in a month, two hours each meeting, four hours in a month. And so these 20 members should get an opportunity to practice the skills within those two meetings. If the club was made up of 100 members, it would be very difficult for everyone to get an opportunity. You get an opportunity to deliver prepared speeches. You get an opportunity to deliver what we call impromptu speaking on the spot. Most important aspect of Toastmasters is that you just don't practice your skills, but you get feedback. What have you done well? Where can you improve yourself? And this is really the area that allows you to develop yourself. And also we can take up roles like the role that I am taking today as a Toastmaster of the day. This helps me also to practice my skills, talking to an audience. Every role that you take up gives you an opportunity to practice your skills. So that, my friends, is Toastmasters.