Month: April 2023
Waterwheels for a tribal community in Maharashtra
Rotary Club of Dombivli Midtown, RID 3142, distributed waterwheels to 52 families in Mokhada district located 150 km from Mumbai. The families reside in two
Think big, act big
In a letter to his brother Theo in 1874, Vincent Van Gogh wrote: “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” You can
Introducing the Rotary Youth Network
Introducing the Rotary Youth Network How do you take the best from the worst? None of us will forget how the pandemic altered our world
Rotarians of RID 3150 set up a special bond with thousands of villagers
With our help and support, hopefully we can slowly arrest migration of villagers to cities. Many of our villages are dying, and have been
‘Ride for Rotary’ to connect Rotarians
Forty-two foreign Rotarians from 16 countries went on a 11-day motor rally from Mahabalipuram, a Pallava-era beach town near Chennai, to Mangaluru in Karnataka via
Project Surya lights up tribal homes in Wai
Reading a Marathi daily one morning as part of her daily routine, DGE Swati Herkal, RID 3132, was aghast at the hardships faced by the
Panchayat school students build a telescope
When most of us watched the recent Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the evening sky with our naked eyes, the students of the Thudiyalur Panchayat Union Middle
Naushad – The Kohinoor of Bollywood music
In 1946, music maestro Naushad and legendary singer K L Saigal came together for the first time in Shah Jehan. Saigal usually needed a drink of
Do You Read Me?
To be perfectly honest, I visit my local bookstore simply because it’s in the neighbourhood. Each time, I drop by hoping that it will
Rotary trains women drivers in Chennai
She rolls the car out of the parking lot, takes a left turn to the main road, drives over a kilometre, and takes a smooth
Nari shakti myth and reality
A caveat first… I don’t set much store by International Woman’s Day… or any other day “celebrating” mothers, fathers, sons and so on. These are
A renal care centre in Jaipur
RC Jaipur Round Town, RID 3054, and RC Rajdhani, RID 3292, Nepal, collaborated to establish the Renal Sciences Centre at the Rajasthan Hospital in Jaipur
Dialysis equipment donated to govt hospital, Ernakulam
DG Rajmohan Nair handed over five multipara monitors worth ₹5 lakh for dialysis units to the superintendent of Government Hospital, Ernakulam, as part of the
Project Vignettes – April 2023
Dialysis machines for Dindigul hospital RC Dindigul, RID 3000, in association with RC Saitama Shintoshin, RID 2770, Japan, and TRF, sponsored 10 dialysis machines to
Making entrepreneurs in Aligarh
Several small businesses run by entrepreneurs from small towns and villages near Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, are ready to begin after participating in a start-up competition