Month: June 2025
The magic of fresh air
An ounce of oxygen leads to the bounce in your body. As you inhale, your lungs pluck the oxygen from the air, which includes nitrogen and other gases like carbon dioxide. The lungs then circulate the oxygen through your body. The pure oxygen is absorbed by your red blood cells into your haemoglobin and these tiny sponges of oxygen bob in your bloodstream and feed the tissues (muscle, bone, nerves). A group of cells form a tissue, and a group of tissues form your organs — heart, lungs, stomach, etc. These sponges squeeze out the oxygen and absorb the waste carbon from your tissue. They then bob back to your lungs from where the waste gas is expelled as you exhale.
Tiny drops make mighty oceans
When you live in a coastal city like I do, you become deeply aware of the vast expanse of sea, its smells and sounds. The vast expanse of water impacts our life. Recently, we were enlightened about the sea and its linkage to humanity, animals and plants at an event in the Alliance Française of Madras, in collaboration with the French Institute in India and the French Embassy.
Driven by green dreams
It’s unusual to see a team sustain an initiative for seven years with unwavering commitment and purpose. But the Rotary Club of Chennai Meraki, RID 3233, an all-women’s club, has done just that: taking its environmental message across the country through an annual car expedition, now in its seventh year.
A Rotary project providing funeral management service
In a unique initiative, the Rotary Club of Kozhencherry, one of the oldest service clubs in RI District 3211, has expanded its 37-year-old ambulance service to a full-scale funeral management project titled Pranama, that was launched in Jan 2025.
A medical mission in Morena
Learn with passion, earn with integrity, return with compassion.” This is a doctor’s sacred oath, and it serves as a gentle reminder of a deeper, nobler purpose for those in the medical profession.