Mangalore: Laugh your way to healthy life - Bondel-Kadri Laughter Club launched

Media Release

Mangalore, Dec 22: J R Lobo, MLA, on Sunday December 22 inaugurated the Bondel-Kadri Laughter Club at Kadri Park by unveiling the banner of the Club to the lusty cheering by scores of participants in the first session.

Speaking on the occasion, Lobo outlined the benefits of laughter and smiling in terms of individual, collective and reciprocal happiness. He said that cities like Bangalore have several laughter clubs functioning in public grounds, parks and gardens. He welcomed the starting of such a Club in Kadri Park and urged people visiting the Park to take advantage of this new facility.

Lobo said that Indians are cheerful people who easily smile, unlike the people of some other countries. He welcomed the initiative of the organisers of the new Club and hoped that a large number of people would take advantage of this new and popular venue for physical exercise and relaxation to cope with the tensions of urban life.

The Club is being promoted and anchored by John B Monteiro, a noted author and journalist in English.
 
Conducting the function, Mohan Monteiro, the anchor’s son, explained that his father has been in the laughter club mode for the past thirty years, first in Mumbai and then in Mangalore, with the launching of Bondel Laughter Club in 2002 – which still survives and is being merged with the new club. The Bondel-Kadri Laughter Club is to take advantage of the hundreds of footfalls in Kadri Garden.

Mohan said that though the inaugural session was held at 7.30 am to catch the daylight, the daily sessions would start at 6.30 am and would last 20 minutes.