Day: April 1, 2025
Letters to the Editor – April 2025
RI President’s call for action in this designated month of ‘Water, sanitation and hygiene’ (March issue) can make a huge impact, even with small interventions.
Project Vignettes – April 2025
PRID Venkatesh: Moderator at RI Assembly Past RI Director A S Venkatesh made history as the first Indian to serve as moderator at the 2025 Rotary
Club matters – April 2025
RI District 2981 All the eight Rotary clubs in Mayiladuthurai, TN, jointly hosted a job fair that saw 450 candidates attending on-the-spot placement interviews. In
Rotary honours six People of Action Champions of Peace
Rotary recognised six members and alumni as People of Action: Champions of Peace in January. This honour celebrates the recipients’ work to build peace around the world. Their ambitious and wide-ranging efforts include teaching technical skills to refugee children and promoting sustainable agriculture. The honorees exemplify Rotary’s values and the dedication it takes to make a lasting impact. Their projects empower farmers and refugees, heal postwar trauma, and establish dialogue among diverse groups.
Showcasing Interact talent
It was a rare opportunity put to good use by over 1,300 Interactors from RID 3201 as they interacted
Surgery camp in Dondaicha
This year’s Rotary Day (Feb 23) was a memorable one for the Rotary Club of Dondaicha,
RID 3234 puts up an impressive maiden discon
It is up to the 1.4 million Rotarians to create the right impact in the world through service projects, the kind of new members they bring in, and showcasing our brand for the “magic of Rotary to happen,” said Trustee Ijeoma Pearl Okoro, RI president representative in her inaugural address at the RID 3234’s conference (discon) titled Sanghamitra — The magic of friendship in Chennai.
Our words, and in other words
Reading Jayasree Kalathil’s article on translation, ‘Literary translation and its discontents’, in scroll.in recently
Our priorities: Growing membership, strengthening our Foundation
Dear Fellow Rotarians, Nature thrives on balance — every creature, from the smallest insect to the tallest tree, follows an unspoken code, existing in harmony
The tragedy of illegal Indian immigrants
As a proud Indian citizen, I’ve squirmed, as I’m sure you’ve done too, at the painful sight of planeloads of handcuffed and chained illegal Indian
An open cupboard to clothe women and children
Quite often, it comes naturally to women to find simple solutions to major problems. This has been proved once again by members of the all-women Rotary Club of Dindigul Queencity, RID 3000, Tamil Nadu. In a remarkable act of community service, these women Rotarians have placed three open cupboards filled with clothes for women and children at the Dindigul Government Hospital (two) and the Rotary Hall in the city. These cupboards offer free, round-the-clock access to used clothing for those in need. “Ours is an all-women’s club and we felt that if we allow the choice to the women to select the clothes they want, and without their being supervised, it would give them a lot more dignity, than somebody handing out the clothes to them,” says club member Aarthy Mukesh, who edits the club’s bulletin.
Sustainable stewardship
As my 26 years of Rotary leadership at the international level winds down, I’ve been reflecting on favourite memories and the extraordinary opportunities Rotary has
A personalised master class
Among the most anticipated parts of the Rotary International Convention are the breakout sessions that give you the chance to design your own master
Meet Your Governors
Mega projects to boost PR A greenfield hospice, Nimmathi ($1 million) will be set up by RC Bangalore Midtown with club donations, CSR/GG grants and fundraisers.
Championing Polio immunisation in the Himalayas
Our trek to the Everest Base Camp wasn’t just about reaching a destination;
Flamingos, special children, women police… Mumbai Rotarians serve them all
When members of the Rotary Club of Bombay Bay View, RID 3141, found that the breathtaking sight of flamingos wading through the mangroves in Navi Mumbai was marred by a startling reality… the ecosystem that attracts and sustains these beautiful winged creatures being choked with plastic waste and debris that was thrown indiscriminately here, they decided to act.
Making a difference
A two-day artificial limb fitment camp was hosted by RC Manipal, RID 3182, to celebrate the birthday of its senior member
Baramati farmers get AI boost
An interesting development in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proving transformative
Journalism of sense and nonsense
For the last 45 years I have been a journalist. Not just any journalist, but an economic journalist. Mind, not a business journalist but an economic journalist. Someone asked me why I chose this utterly boring specialisation. I hadn’t ever thought about it. But when I did, it quickly became clear that (a) very few journalists knew economics; (b) amongst those who knew economics, very few could write English properly; and (c) amongst those who knew both, hardly any wanted to become low-paid journalists. I was thus rare as a pig with wings and newspapers gave me a job very readily. The pay wasn’t great but the editors by and large didn’t know economics which means they left me alone practically all the time. I could write on any subject. I could write ill-informed articles and, as long as the English was okay along with a modicum of economic jargon, I was the cock of the walk. Not that I wrote nonsense, of course. My father, even though not an economist, knew enough of it to keep me in line. And of course, there was the punctilious girlfriend who would criticise any loose sentence or grammar.