Month: August 2015

Eat well now because you won’t get anything till lunch time,” I overheard a mother tell her 10-year old who was insisting she was ‘full’

  This book made me curious about two things. First, of course, was the title: what in heaven could it be about? The second, after

Project Azmat is an endeavour by the Rotaract Club of SRCC Panchshila Park and its parent club Rotary Club of Delhi Panchshila Park, District 3011,

Fire accident survivors often find themselves in an unimaginable hell — disfigured and deformed, they battle depression on one side and societal rejection on the

About 45 years ago, when an Indian, working in the UK had a problem in communicating while on a train in Germany, he was helped out

December 26, 2004, while holidaying with her family at the Nilavelli Beach Resort in Sri Lanka, DG Gowri Rajan, District 3220, was almost swept away

Going to Israel?” Are you mad? Do you want to get killed? These were the comments we heard when we decided to make a trip

Imagine a group of Assamese children, who have little to eat and hence end up consuming 10 kg of betel nut a day to satisfy

As is evident from my name, or should be, I am a Tamil Brahman. But I have lived 97 per cent of my life in

Literacy was my priority for the year 2014–15, during my tenure as District Governor, because we wanted to support Rotary’s Literacy Mission,” said IPDG Satpal

There is a general view that the Northeastern States — Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (the Seven Sister States) and the

Puppetry has seen a downward gradient from being an art which lit up Indian streets and courtrooms, to being pushed to hopeless anonymity reduced by

Doing good with TRF help For Tanmay who can only crawl, Devyanshu who cannot walk or stand, Charu who cannot speak and Gargi who cannot

For any organisation, growth is the most important goal to achieve. As it moves ahead in years, it sets new benchmarks of achievements. The bar

What the availability of water near their doorstep means to rural women was driven home to the head honcho of a Pune company who had

I am glad to be here, one of the Districts that I have admired always,” said PRIP Kalyan Banerjee during his recent visit to RC

In the 1930s, Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Danish carpenter, had a wooden sign hanging on his wall that read, Det bedste er ikke for god:

Those of us who have grown up reading, rereading and holding in a corner of our hearts its upright and adorable hero, Atticus Finch, who

Her story reads like a combo of a fairy tale-cum-thriller where the heroine battles severe adversities and emerges triumphant. The feisty Shamlu Dudeja from Kolkata

As I begin to write this piece after much contemplation and meditation and, of course, personal experience, I wonder: Am I carrying coal to Newcastle?