Month: September 2024
Well done, India!
The Rotary Foundation is the backbone of Rotary, the shining jewel in Rotary’s crown. It allows us to put our service, thoughts and ideas into action.
Olympic spirit
As a child in the 1950s, Ernie Peterson remembers watching the Olympics on TV. “I sat there absolutely fascinated and thought, ‘You know, it would be nice to attend one day.’”
RI seeks solar heroes
Rotary International, in its quest for environmental protection and sustainability of the earth’s resources, has launched a drive to encourage the transition from traditional to renewable energy sources to combat climate change and ensure a sustainable future for the present and future generations.
Rotary springs into action to help Wayanad victims
On July 30, two villages in the Wayanad district of Kerala — Chooralmala and Mundakkai — virtually disappeared overnight, hit by devastating landslides triggered by torrential rains.
RID 3233 takes special children to Tirupati
More than 1,000 differently-abled children from Chennai were taken to Tirupati in a chartered train for a special darshan of Lord Balaji by RID 3233 under Project Sri Balaji Darshan with God’s Children.
DEI comes into focus again
The horrendous rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at the RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata has once again put the spotlight on the unsafe environment for women in today’s India.
Rotary uses AI-aided device to screen rural women for breast cancer
Just as I was reading a tweet from industrialist Anand Mahindra about an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-induced technology which can detect breast cancer some five years before it develops, commenting that “if this is accurate then AI is going to be of significantly more value to us than we imagined and much earlier than we had imagined”, came an email from the Rotary Club of Bangalore Lakeside, RID 3191, about a strikingly similar initiative.
Independence Day fervour on Kazakh peak
For 87 Rotarians from RIDs 3100 and 3141, led by RID 3100 DGN Payal Gaur, it was a double celebration of 78th Independence Day and Rotary fellowship at Shymbulak, the largest ski resort in Central Asia, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Incoming directors felicitated
In Nagesh we have a winner — 1,725 new members, 52 new clubs, 160 Rotaract clubs and a contribution of $2.2 million to TRF — incredible,” said PRIP K R Ravindran, addressing a meet organised by RIDs 3191 and 3192 to felicitate incoming RI directors K P Nagesh and M Muruganandam in Bengaluru. He was recalling RIDE Nagesh’s record-making feat as DG of RID 3190 in 2015–16. Ravindran was the RI president during that year when the district topped the world in membership and TRF-giving.
The meaning of family
The Magic of Rotary is belonging, and it’s a feeling that can appear when you least expect it. Earlier this year, I was in Slovakia
Smearing paint spreading joy
Members of RAC Sriganganagar Visionaries, RID 3090, offered gentle guidance and encouragement to a group of children sitting in front of a canvas about to begin a painting.
New friends, old friends
The Rotary magazine labelled the 1953 convention in Paris “an exciting adventure in friendship.”
Walk your way to good health
At some stage in almost everybody’s life, comes a time when she feels insecure. Though the sun in her life is at its zenith, she is more conscious of the twilight over the horizon.