Day: January 2, 2024
Success mantras for incoming leaders
Dream, connect, persist – these are the guiding principles that RIPN Mario de Camargo emphasised to the DGNs at the Bengaluru zone institute.
Institute Moments
In more ways than one zone institute 2023, titled RISE, was an elaborately planned and meticulously executed event of the year. While convenor and RI director Raju Subramanian was the visible face of the three-day event organised in Bengaluru, and secretary PDG Sameer Hariani was often seen on the stage as the compere, the chairman of the institute PDG K P Nagesh, who had headed the entire team and provided direction and exemplary leadership in ensuring the smooth conduct of the varying sessions, kept a low-key profile and remained mostly behind the scenes.
Tribal homes get tap water
Rotary Club of Mumbai Kandivli West, RID 3141, has helped each one of the 183 households in the tribal village Chhotyachi Wadi, 120km from Mumbai, in Palghar district, get water at their homes through its rural development project.
Weaving livelihoods
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RC Chennai Sea View, RID 3232, provided 10 motorised sewing machines and repaired 25 old machines at the Guild of Service Seva Samajam Boys Home. These machines will help provide vocational training for the inmates to aid them in income generation. The club installed an RO plant at the Home to provide safe drinking water for them.
RC Thane Hills sets up autism centre in Mumbai
The genesis of the freshly minted Dr V Subramanian Autism Centre in Navi Mumbai, an initiative of RC Thane Hills, RID 3142, dates back to nearly two decades. The 100-odd children who will ultimately become students here, and the 1,000 children who will receive various kinds of therapies through special educators, may never know it, but the facility has become available to them, thanks to the sensitivity, concern and passion of one man… immediate past president of the club Jayaram Mendon.
People in Places
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by the South Korean writer Cho Nam-Joo was our book club’s November read.
RC Mansa Royal conducts a cancer detection camp
Under a global grant partnership with RC Taipei Tungteh Taiwan, RID 3522, and RC Delhi Rajdhani, RID 3011, RC Faridkot, RID 3090, handed over the Rotary Gunwati Bansal Memorial Cancer Detection Van worth $200,000 to the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, in 2017–18.
TRF donors make India proud
At a grand and elegantly executed sit-down dinner, with personalised menu cards on every table for every guest, held on the eve of the Bengaluru zone institute, senior Rotary leaders led by RI President Gordon McInally, RI directors Raju Subramanian and Anirudha Roychowdhury, TRF vice-chair Bharat Pandya and several other RI leaders and senior leaders from Rotary India, toasted The Rotary Foundation.
Continuity and teamwork the need of the hour
I am not a fan of the expression — ‘my year’. It is not ‘your year’ either. It is Rotary’s years.
RC Jaipur Gurukul focuses on women’s healthcare projects
Eighty per cent of the members of the Rotary Club of Jaipur Gurukul (RCJ Gurukul), RID 3056, out of a total of 264, are women, so it is but natural that most of the projects done by the club, especially those related to physical and mental health, are women centric.
Meet your Governors
In 2008–09, DG Subbarao Ravuri joined Rotary with a focus on fostering fellowship and networking.
Of aggression and bizarre behaviour
In 1992 I was giving a lift in Delhi to a colleague who was visiting from Calcutta. We came to a traffic signal which had
Mantra for health & longevity
Look around and you’ll generally find that the next generation is taller than yours, and life spans have increased. Yet, a longer life is not necessarily better. Life expectancy has quite a bit to do with expectations of life. American writer Dan Buettner’s documentary Live to 100 is indeed a lesson in longevity. And his 263 centenarians are personifications of that. Moreover, as he explores the happiness-health habitat, we realise that life is profoundly simple. And simply profound.
Join the ranks of the green warriors in 2024
The New Year begins with a countdown to 2030. That will be a landmark year in the global effort to heal the earth and contain global warming. Time moves rather steadily and seventy-two odd months from now, the nations of the world will subject themselves to an environmental audit to see if the sustainable goals they had set for themselves have been achieved. Have we collectively delivered or not.
8-year-old Indian mountaineer sets world record
On the snowy slopes of Mt Elbrus, the tallest peak of Russia, 8-year-old Saanvi faced a tough climb with her team of 50 trekkers, including
End Polio car rally in RID 3212
An End Polio car rally was organised jointly by RCs Pearl City Tuticorin and Tirunelveli Avira, RID 3212, on World Polio Day (Oct 24) to mark the birth anniversary of Dr Jonas Salk, who developed the first successful polio vaccine.
Rotary stalwarts honoured
At the Rotary zone institute, two Rotary stalwarts in India, both past RI presidents — Rajendra Saboo and Kalyan Banerjee — were presented lifetime achievements awards.
Light the path out of dark days
In difficult times like these, it’s impossible to avoid feeling heartbroken over the devastation and loss of life caused by war and destruction. Rotary always
Rotary’s absence in Gaza explained
If as Rotarians concerned about the escalating and relentless humanitarian crisis in Gaza you have been wondering why RI or The Rotary Foundation has not stepped in to provide any humanitarian aid in that conflict zone, as Rotary does during most conflict situations, you have your answer from the very interesting session titled Frankly Speaking at the zone institute in Bengaluru.
Convention is for families
Picture this: You get the chance to treat your family to an unforgettable vacation in one of Asia’s top sunny destinations.
Rotary’s focus on healthcare
As we revel in the joy of the holiday season, let us not forget the immense power we hold to make a profound impact on