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Getting wings through spoken English

Rasheeda Bhagat

It is with a lot of confidence that Koshika Mariappan, a Class 11 student of S Shunmugasundara Nadar Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Authoor, near Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) in Tamil Nadu, holds a conversation with me

PolioPlus honour for PRIP Saboo

Rasheeda Bhagat

At a glittering event in Chandigarh, The Rotary Foundation trustee chair Holger Knaack conferred Rotary’s International PolioPlus Service Award to Past RI President Rajendra Saboo, who is widely accepted as a pioneer in India’s journey to become polio-free. The citation

Talent is equally distributed in India, but opportunities are not

Jaishree

At the Lead25 Rotary Leadership Conclave, Rajya Sabha MP and movie icon Kamal Haasan was recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his ‘service to humanity through art’. Kamal Panpaattu Maiyam, the social and cultural foundation led by Haasan, signed

India’s dramatic rise in space technology

Rasheeda Bhagat

A very informative and entertaining session at the Lead25 Conclave in Chennai was an exhaustive, and yet entertaining hour-long talk by ISRO chairman V Narayanan, He took the audience through a journey of what India and its capabilities were when

MMM contributes $250,000 for renovating Paul & Jean Harris home

Team Rotary News

At a special dinner hosted in Evanston by Rotary International and the Paul and Jean Harris Home Foundation on Oct 13, RI Director M Muruganandam was recognised for his contribution of $ 250,000 towards the renovation of the home of

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M Muruganandam

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K P Nagesh

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Rasheeda Bhagat

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Bharat Pandya

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Project Vignettes – November 2025

Team Rotary News

Smart glasses for visually-impaired RID 3080 launched Project Su-Drishti, an initiative to empower visually-impaired students through smart technology. As part of the project, 25 students from the Institute for the Blind received AI-powered, smart visual aids. The project was supported through CSR donations. IPDG Rajpal Singh, DGE Dr Rita Kalra

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Mumbai’s municipal schools taste e-learning

V Muthukumaran

In 2019, a six-member team from the Rotary Club of ­Bombay ­Mid-Town, RID 3141, led by the then club president Abuzar Zakir and project chair Ashwin Shah, ­visited 150 municipal schools (­Mumbai ­Public Schools) for a spot study on their classroom ­facilities, atmosphere and the quality of ­teachers. “Our field survey broke the social myth

Rotary sparks cosmic curiosity

Kiran Zehra

The century-old Institute of Science, Fort, came alive in August with over 1,500 school and college students from across Mumbai gathering to celebrate the National Space Day 2025. The event, organised by RC Mumbai Sion, RID 3141, in collaboration with Dr Homi Bhabha State University, offered students an opportunity to

Mumbai Rotarians deploy CPR and AEDs to save lives

Rasheeda Bhagat

The Rotary Club of Bombay Airport, RID 3141, has made a mark in donating AED (Automated External Defibrillator) machines to various organisations and conducting

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