Author: Rotary News
Chefs go down childhood culinary lane
Chefs talk about their mothers as their source of inspiration. Here they go down memory lane and share their stories of love in the form of interesting recipes. Enjoy their memorabilia with some delicious home-style dishes. Nolen gur payesh
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Clup HOP – September 2021
RC Mannargudi Midtown — RID 2981 A health camp was held at the club’s adopted village near Thirumeni lake in which around 200 Narikuravas, a homeless tribe, were screened for various ailments. ______________________________________________ RC
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Letters to the Editor – September 2021
Let’s promote diversity and women’s empowerment President Mehta’s mantra to empower girls through club projects across India like scholarships, giving bicycles, toilets in schools; his vision to increase membership from 1.2 to 1.3 million, are noteworthy. Of the six new members inducted in our club, three are women
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Rotary Oxybanks save Covid patients in Odisha
During the Covid second wave, like most other cities, Bhubaneswar was also reeling under oxygen shortage and with surging demand, price of oxygen cylinders skyrocketed and black marketing for the lifesaving gas was rampant. IPDG Saumya Rajan Mishra handing over
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RID 3141 builds low-cost houses for Palghar villagers
An ambitious low-cost housing project Aashiyana of RID 3141 for Adivasi families living in mud-reef huts across various padas (hamlets) in the Palghar district of Maharashtra has so far completed 110 pucca, concrete houses, while 215 units are under construction. The project team led by district project
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Making the visually-challenged digital-savvy
Rotary Club of Thane West, RID 3142, along with RCs Thane Green City, Khargar Midtown and Creekside, distributed Braille Me devices to 15 visually-challenged people in Thane and Mumbai. Seated (from L) Parimala Bhat, founder Snehankit Helpline; Kedar Vidwans, president,
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Helping Covid patients fight anxiety
In most cases, Covid patients suffer mental agony and depression during quarantine and hence need counselling along with recreation to overcome the psychological stress, says Mohammed Tasleel, past president, RC Bangalore Manyata, RID 3190. Under Project Co-heal, the club has set up a Covid care centre at
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Kishori Amonkar (1932–2017): The Lonely Perfectionist
Geet Gaya Pathharon Ne.’ This lovely song from the 1960s Hindi film of the same name had me wrong-guessing the identity of its singer. Was it Asha Bhosle or Geeta Dutt, I wondered. I could not make up my mind, for the voice sounded slightly different from
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