Month: May 2025
The Golden Sparrows of Chennai
Apart from being a daughter, wife, to mother and family matriarch, a woman has to overcome many challenges in her personal and professional life, said Chennai mayor Priya Rajan at the inaugural of Golden Sparrow, a one-day women’s carnival in Chennai, organised by RID 3233 led by DG Mahaveer Bothra. “Women should be celebrated in society; we have got innate capabilities to succeed in life despite odds and pitfalls.”
Skilling rural women
The Rotary Club of Silk City Ramanagara, RI District 3191, led by its president K N Shridhar, has successfully completed a vocational services project that has transformed the lives of 285 village women.
Project Vignettes – June 2025
The Save Vembanadu project, led by RI District 3211, is an environmental initiative to clean and preserve Vembanad Lake in Alappuzha, Kerala
A marathon for special children
Cheers erupted as over 350 specially-abled children laced up their shoes and held hands tightly with their “buddies,” and set off on a 3km
Meet your Governors
Club members are well-acquainted with Rotary’s legacy of global service, “as the more they learn about Rotary, the better Rotarians they become. Hence, as a priority initiative, all the district clubs conducted a Rotary Knowledge Quiz, and zonal competitions were held at six places. In the district finals, 12 teams contested in November last year,” says Santhosh Sreedhar. With 2,865 Rotarians across 84 clubs in the Malabar region of Kerala, his target is to add 500 new members, of which 280 have been inducted already. The DG has chartered four new clubs, and will form 15 more by June-end.
Rotary miracles do happen
The Rotary Foundation is the one that “keeps all of us together as it is the very soul and spirit of Rotary,” said PRIP K R Ravindran, addressing delegates at the district conference of RID 3231 in Chennai titled Raj Utsav. The Foundation enables ‘dreamers’ to become ‘doers’ as Rotary is now in the formidable business of literacy, healthcare, helping people to live in dignity by providing opportunities, all of these possible due to the strong roots of TRF, he explained. “We need peace, good health, clean drinking water and sanitation facilities to live with dignity, support for women and child care, education, and to help communities to grow — all these form the six focus areas of RI,” he added.
Reviving rivers in Nashik
Around 45 families have benefitted from a river desilting service project carried out by the Rotary Club of Nasik, RID 3030, across the Nandini River near Mahiravani village. Excavators were engaged to remove silt down to a depth of 2m deposited across the 1.5km stretch of the river which also has a bund to store water. “At least 60 million litres of water can be stored in the bund after this desilting activity,” says club member Vinayak Deodhar.
Neyveli Rotarians transform a slum
The residents of Ayyanar Street in Neyveli, Tamil Nadu, had a reason to rejoice when their once dark and dismal street lit up, thanks to the installation of solar street lamps by the Rotary Club of Neyveli Lignite City, RID 2981. This narrow street, comprising three lanes and lined with 34 dilapidated mud huts, is home primarily to elderly couples, with just two families having school-going children attending the local government school.
Meticulous planning behind a magical project
This was the first time in my life that I did Tirupati darshan without any Aadhaar card, PAN card or a security check and the experience was magical,” says an excited Mahaveer Bothra, DG of RID 3233. He is talking about the special darshan he had organised for 1,650 special children and their attenders soon after he took over as the newly carved district’s governor.
Empowering rural youth in Bengal with Bosch’s help
During its endeavour to improve employment opportunities for the youth, particularly those from rural areas and lower middle classes, Rotary Club of Calcutta Presidency, RID
Fun events cheer children in Agra
It was heartwarming to look at the happy expressions on the faces of children, and hear their delighted squeals as they watched puppets perform to
Letters to the Editor – June 2025
I loved the article on solar energy lighting up lives written by Rasheeda Bhagat. Especially, since over 25 per cent of our population lives in
Free radiation therapy for cancer patients in Pune
A cutting-edge technology in radiation therapy has been set up for free and affordable cancer treatment through a partnership between a research centre and a private hospital facilitated by RC Pune Pristine, RID 3131, in the form of a CSR fund-based Rotary Foundation India grant of Rs.4.2 crore.
Transforming lives
This past year, my wife, Gay, and I have been privileged to witness the impact of The Rotary Foundation. From dialysis centres in India to
A Calgary sneak peek
Attention last-minute adventurers: Many of you still have plenty of time to join thousands of members in Calgary for the Rotary International Convention, especially our
Cabin Schools of Pune
For many children in the slums of Sangvi, Pune, the idea of sitting in a classroom and learning the alphabet was once a distant dream.
A school transformed by Rotary’s love
In a quiet corner of Taraimal, a village 231km from Raipur, Chhattisgarh, the once-faded walls of the Dhanwarpara Government Primary School now gleam with fresh
The final bow — quite a jolly good journey
Dear Rotarians, As I sit down to pen what the publishers rather ominously call “the last word,” I’m struck not by melancholy, but by a