Month: July 2021
A guide to the updated Rotary Foundation funding model
The amount of money The Rotary Foundation has awarded annually in global grants has more than doubled since the grants were introduced: from $47.3 million
Two Delhi clubs construct a check dam in Rajasthan
Indian Rotarians’ interest in greening Rajasthan through replicable and sustainable water projects continues, despite the challenges posed by the Covid pandemic. In June this year
Saluting our doctors
I have seen the TV serial The Good Doctor. A doctor is always good. This is a noble profession and the doctors are bound by the
On the racks
Hisila Author : Hisila Yami Publisher : Penguin Random House India Pages : 384; Rs.499 Hisila Yami in her political memoir writes about her life as a Nepali
Meet your Governors
Over 10,000 desks-benches for 500 government schools Once Covid restrictions are lifted and normalcy returns, “we will be taking our Africa Medical Mission to
The absconding mali… and the impacted GDP
Last week I had another fight with my wife because although we have been married since 1981, neither understands how the other’s brain works. This
How a wedding reception led to creating a rural eye hospital
It all began with the wedding of a young photo journalist Satya Padhi on March 11, 2018, in an Odisha village. “We returned to Bhubaneswar
Are you working out at the right intensity?
You’ve been instructed to walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes every day. You saunter along listening to music, wondering what to have for
RC Sunam sponsors a new Rotaract club
As an auspicious start to the new Rotary year RC Sunam, RID 3090, donated fodder and jaggery to a gaushala. The club has also chartered
Governors take charge, ready for the challenge
DG Pankaj Shah – 3131 “Let’s turn the wheel together and reach out with our hands, heart and soul so that humanity thrives. We have
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Bicycles for students at Naxal-hit villages in Maharashtra
With an aim to promote cordial relations between villages hit by Naxal violence in and around Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, RC Chandrapur, RID 3030, in association
Covid will meet its match in Rotary: Bruce Aylward
You have a vital role to play in changing the course of this pandemic. You have the knowledge and experience honed from decades of battling
Chak de India, say Odisha girls
Four years ago, Kamla Singh and Mary Condorlna, both 16, from remote villages in Odisha, would not have imagined in their wildest dreams that they
A Rotary restaurant easy on the pocket
This Rotary restaurant offers idli, tea, vada, bonda for ₹5 each and a plate of variety rice for lunch costs just ₹20. It is the
RID 3132 holds national symposium for Interactors
Interact chairs from 15 RI districts came together to share notes and showcase their projects at a one-day symposium organised by the district Interact chair
A Jaipur limb camp in Guwahati helps people walk
A distant voice crackles over phone in broken English: “Me Sat Singh Tamong, the ‘one-legged man’, as the children here call me.” Two years ago,