On the racks – September 2021
Service Above Self – The Biography of M K Panduranga Setty Author : Vedam Jaishankar M Satyanarayan Publisher : Vimal Publication Pages : 292 With a foreword by RI President
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Author: Compiled by Kiran Zehra
Home turf bids adieu to President Shekhar
At a glittering, gala event organised in Kolkata by the chairman of global membership Kamal Sanghvi, senior Rotary leaders from India felicitated RI President Shekhar Mehta and Rashi on the first day of his assuming charge as RI president. The participants included RI Director
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RI President on the move
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Solar lights keep elephants away in Assam villages
Living in constant fear of wild elephants, villagers living in mud huts at Kherjan and Dhekiajan, a cluster of 10 villages to the east of Digboi in Tinsukia district of Assam, seek refuge at concrete homes during night. “Some of us even stopped going to paddy fields
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Books can be like a hockey team
We’ve been uplifted, and the icing on the cake was the calm, confident, graceful gold medal-winning demeanour of Neeraj Chopra. So young, so dignified in execution and victory. Then came news of some people ‘celebrating’ the defeat of the women’s hockey team in the semi-final. They stood
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In Brief – September 2021
Tom Daley knits a medal case for his gold medal After winning gold in the synchronised 10m platform diving at the Tokyo Olympics, Tom Daley, an LGBTQ icon, was spotted knitting while watching the women’s 3m springboard final. Pictures of
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Meet your Governors
He’ll transform Puttur into a clean city More than 70 out of 85 clubs in his district have resumed weekly physical meetings and 100 per cent of the members are vaccinated.
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Powered by the wind
In today’s world, at home or at the workplace, energy has become the basic source to power every one of our requirements — be it a light bulb, refrigerator, mixer, mobile or laptop. And with the climate change crises looming over our heads and being felt across
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Memorable moments
RI President Shekhar Mehta met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Delhi and discussed, over a 45-minute meeting, various development programmes, where Rotary can work with the GoI. Rashi Mehta, Rajya Sabha MP PDG Vivek Tankha (RID 3261) and PDG Ashish Desai (RID 3054)
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Medical equipment for Covid centre in Mumbai
Medical equipment worth Rs.20 lakh were donated by RC New Bombay Seaside, RID 3142, to the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation for treating patients at its Covid care centre in Vashi, Mumbai. This project was done with support from GN Hearing India which had donated for this cause
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Let’s aim for quality education for all children
The last few weeks have been hard. In addition to the pandemic, we were witness to an earthquake in Haiti, uncontrolled fire in Greece and the developments in Afghanistan. While our thoughts are with those affected, incidents like these only reinforce the relevance
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