Month: October 2015
रोटरी समाचार – अक्टूबर 2015
अक्टूबर 2015 Print edition has been uploaded , Please click on रोटरी समाचार – अक्टूबर 2015, Volume: 33, Issue 04
Rotary News – October 2015
October 2015 Print edition has been uploaded , Please click on Rotary News – October 2015, Volume: 66, Issue 04
Doctor, heal thyself
It was a ride on the wild side. Super-charged with adrenaline, I paced the space like a caged tiger, mind on fire, words crying to
Where physiotherapists excel
The story of little Raghav, who was facing death in February 2011, is heartrending. The four-year-old child had damaged his neck bone in an accident
Microcredit to the rescue
Ganapi Kumbhar, displaying her new potter’s wheel bought with a loan from her Self Help Group (SHG) says, “With one wheel my husband and I
Payyanur’s tryst with forgotten flora
Hopea parviflora, Actinodaphne malabarica, Cynometra beddomei — Sounds Greek and Latin? These are the botanical names of some of the plant species on the verge
Jharkhand’s barefoot auditors
A lilting tribal tune catches the attention of a group of women gathered at the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) centre in Jidu Pandra village,
Towards a Clear Vision
It’s a tortuous and bone rattling journey full of potholes and long stretches of broken road. As his driver negotiates the Innova through the horrendous
A Swiss diary – Of greying stewardesses and thirsty cows
On a Swiss Air flight from Delhi to Zurich last month, as a woman who has opted not to colour her hair and allow the
No chequebook charity for him – Vintage Rotarians
Not all Rotarians in India would be aware that one of their biggest triumphs — winning the battle against polio — began in a major
Swiss delights
Since so many journalists from around the world were coming, we specially ordered the rains today to wash our mountains and fill our lakes,” said
The media over the years
A few years ago, a local TV channel in Delhi sent a very young girl to get a ‘bite’ from a very senior minister after
Oliver Sacks, who has taught us so much, now teaches us the art of dying
Like millions of readers I had a lump in my throat as I read Oliver Sacks reveal his diagnosis of terminal cancer earlier this year.
Enjoy a meal … end polio
Afflicted by the polio-virus as a child, when Susanne Rea was made District 9550 (Australia) Chair in 2013, she decided to use the social media to
All set for Seoul
Seoul pronounced ‘Sole,’ the capital of Republic of Korea (South Korea), is a modern, hi-tech, bustling metropolis, on the banks of the Hangang, commonly referred
Lighting up lives
Ansu goes to the local taluk school and can now “come back home instead of staying at the Ashram,” that houses many other tribal students
Girls rule the roost
If you think of women’s empowerment, Gujarat isn’t the foremost State that comes to mind. But a quiet gender revolution is taking place in the
A Think Tank takes shape
It was a power-packed group that met in Mussoorie in the last week of September. Put together by RI Director Manoj Desai and labelled his
Gifting smoke-free kitchens
We used to collect wood, chop and store it, but in the rainy season with the wood getting damp, we struggled to light it and
TRF Chair Message – October 2015
The 2016–17 Rotary Year will be the centennial year for The Rotary Foundation, which started at the 1917 Rotary convention in Atlanta. This issue is