Month: February 2021
Rotary, Lions can complement each other: RIPE Shekhar Mehta
Each one bring one will be the new membership slogan that will be launched in the first week of February, along with Rotary’s annual
Jalandhar Rotarians distribute winter jackets
In a multipronged initiative, more than 20 volunteers from RC Jalandhar, RID 3070, came together to distribute winter jackets to 550 underprivileged families. “We formed
Need to mount a campaign against climate change
The need to save the environment and our planet so that future generations can live safe, secure and happy with plenty of trees and
Rotary facilitates paediatric heart surgeries
Sixty-six little children hailing from underprivileged families were surgically treated for congenital heart diseases at the Satya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital in Palwal, Haryana, thanks to
Letters to the Editor – February 2021
Salute to Rtn Chakravarthi for donating his son’s organs Strategic planning is a must to achieve success in all areas of life including Rotary, as
Meet your Governors
Despite Covid, he wants to add 1,000 members Over long years, Pandian has led many district projects that saw a participation of large number of Rotarians
Teaching is all about giving
Ranjit Sinh Disale, a teacher at the Zilla Parishad Primary School in Paritewadi village, Solapur, Maharashtra, won $1 million as Global Teacher Prize 2020 for
Unveiling the mystery of the cosmos for children
We were so happy to visit the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, where we learnt so much about science and found how in olden days people used
A nostalgic trip to my alma mater
Last month a small group of us decided to visit our old college in Delhi University, the academically venerable but very low profile Hindu College.
Helping children walk
What happens when a team of orthopaedic surgeons and physiotherapists get together? A slew of corrective surgeries that will put little children back on their
Quintessential Vajpayee
When former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee passed away in August 2018, there was a spontaneous outpouring of grief. Even from those who are opposed to
Flying to Ever Ever Land?
When you see Madhukar Talwalkar’s strapping, athletic physique and hear his strong, clear voice declare, ‘I’ve just completed 87 years of a wonderful life,’
Where schools are a ‘fragile lifeline’ for girls…
Even as RI President Holger Knaack advised the incoming district governors at the zone institute aptly titled ‘The Odyssey’ to embrace the digital era, the
Crucial public healthcare lessons from the Covid pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has taught scientists engaged in public health many valuable lessons, and the first one is that investment in public health is
Our diversity allows us to be so brilliant & shine brightly: Jennifer Jones
The future of Rotary is what you have created here… the kind of technological leap Rotarians across the world have made in the last 10
Let us embrace the digital age: Holger Knaack
The Covid pandemic, while bringing so much suffering to the entire globe, has also enabled Rotary to open opportunities in many different ways, such as
Time to “upscale our performance”: Shekhar Mehta
I miss shaking hands and exchanging warm hugs in picturesque Kochi, but in this new normal, this outstanding institute has been organised virtually. The human spirit
Birla defines “new paradigm of corporate citizenship”
The very definition of the conventional role of corporates and social responsibility of business as merely pursuing legitimate profit and shoring up shareholder value