Month: September 2021
Letters to the Editor – September 2021
Let’s promote diversity and women’s empowerment President Mehta’s mantra to empower girls through club projects across India like scholarships, giving bicycles, toilets in schools; his
Rotary Oxybanks save Covid patients in Odisha
During the Covid second wave, like most other cities, Bhubaneswar was also reeling under oxygen shortage and with surging demand, price of oxygen cylinders skyrocketed
RID 3141 builds low-cost houses for Palghar villagers
An ambitious low-cost housing project Aashiyana of RID 3141 for Adivasi families living in mud-reef huts across various padas (hamlets) in the Palghar district of
Making the visually-challenged digital-savvy
Rotary Club of Thane West, RID 3142, along with RCs Thane Green City, Khargar Midtown and Creekside, distributed Braille Me devices to 15 visually-challenged people
Helping Covid patients fight anxiety
In most cases, Covid patients suffer mental agony and depression during quarantine and hence need counselling along with recreation to overcome the psychological stress, says
Kishori Amonkar (1932–2017): The Lonely Perfectionist
Geet Gaya Pathharon Ne.’ This lovely song from the 1960s Hindi film of the same name had me wrong-guessing the identity of its singer. Was
On the racks – September 2021
Service Above Self – The Biography of M K Panduranga Setty Author : Vedam Jaishankar M SatyanarayanPublisher : Vimal PublicationPages
Solar lights keep elephants away in Assam villages
Living in constant fear of wild elephants, villagers living in mud huts at Kherjan and Dhekiajan, a cluster of 10 villages to the east of
Books can be like a hockey team
We’ve been uplifted, and the icing on the cake was the calm, confident, graceful gold medal-winning demeanour of Neeraj Chopra. So young, so dignified
In Brief – September 2021
Tom Daley knits a medal case for his gold medal After winning gold in the synchronised 10m platform diving at the Tokyo Olympics, Tom Daley,
Meet your Governors
He’ll transform Puttur into a clean city More than 70 out of 85 clubs in his district have resumed weekly physical meetings and 100 per
Powered by the wind
In today’s world, at home or at the workplace, energy has become the basic source to power every one of our requirements — be it
Medical equipment for Covid centre in Mumbai
Medical equipment worth ₹20 lakh were donated by RC New Bombay Seaside, RID 3142, to the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation for treating patients at its
Let’s aim for quality education for all children
The last few weeks have been hard. In addition to the pandemic, we were witness to an earthquake in Haiti, uncontrolled fire in Greece and
Gordon McInally selected 2023–24 RI President
Gordon R McInally, a member of RC South Queensferry, Lothian, Scotland, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International for 2023–24.