Month: April 2017
Rotary plans a ‘splash park’ for the community
With about half the money needed for a splash park already in hand, the Westville Rotary Club (Canada, RI District 7820) is prepared to break
Beware of fat-burning myth
The concept of weight loss and fitness is shrouded with several myths and misconceptions, the most common one being eating certain foods that will burn
A collaboration for better health
Rotary District 3110 represented by DG Ravi Mehra and the Indian Medical Association (IMA) represented by its President for the Uttar Pradesh chapter Dr Vinay
The Dos and Don’ts for a DG
The gold standard of great leadership in Rotary was simple; “to be the kind of leader about whom every Rotarian in your district says,
Ikkat… the interlock of colours
In my journey through textiles, I have been fascinated by ikkat, a jagged melding of colours as warp marries weft in patterned symmetry, creating poetry
Making the world better for 100 years
As we near the end of our year-long celebration of The Rotary Foundation’s 100th anniversary, let’s stop to think about what the world would be
See y’all in Atlanta
Dear Fellow Rotarians, As you read these lines, final preparations are well underway for our 108th Rotary International Convention, June 10–14 in Atlanta. We’re looking
Pay up your magazine dues
The print media has undergone unimaginable changes in the last few decades, but here I will talk only about magazines as my message this month
Celebrating Suchitra’s extraordinary feat
That the daughters of India need a leg up has been reiterated time and again, and by none less than Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself,
When needed, I’m there…
He brought water “as a core area to the Rotary platform; from the early 1990s, I felt water will become a critical global concern,
Revolutionising learning for hearing impaired children
It is eerily quiet for a school. Even in the corridors, the usual buzz is missing. Enter a class via the back door, no
Rotary Chatsworth adds colour, joy to Rainbow Creche
American lecturer and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The children of this world are the true gems of this universe.” It is with this
Low performance, high reward
On the day this year’s IPL started the anchor asked Sunil Gavaskar: who were more important in the T20 format, batsmen or bowlers? Gavaskar said
South Asia Literacy – the road ahead
Total Literacy and Quality Education were the core planks of the three-day Rotary South Asia Literacy Summit that saw eminent persons discuss ways and means
Literacy Focus
School Survey Campaign The cause of education has received the highest CSR funding from corporate companies says a recent report. With RILM’s TEACH programmes becoming
Get to know ‘Rotary Employee of the Year’
I feel like I’ve been blessed,” Rita Groome said after receiving her plaque naming her the Office Employee of the Year by the Opelousas Rotary
IGNITE your passion for a literate India
Let’s all work with josh to make India fully literate if not by 2018, then not later than 2020,” declared PRIP and TRF Trustee Chair
Affordable Dialysis at a Rotary Hospital
The Rotary Central Margaret Sidney Hospital (RCMSH) epitomises Rotary’s motto of Service above Self, says PRID P T Prabhakar. With the addition of a new
A peek into the Indian financial system
Why don’t Indian banks care a fig for their customers? Why does the government take bank depositors for granted when it announces largesse such
Asha-Kiran get a face
Every time we think of literacy, we think of a child who needs to go to school. The children who are helped by the Rotary