The calm of a Sunday morning was destroyed by the shouting of an angry father next door, telling his 10-year-old daughter… “Just go and die. Jump down from the top of the building.” He does this often; my shock was compounded when the chubby child once told
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We believe good healthcare is everyone’s right. Yet 400 million people in the world can’t afford or don’t have access to basic healthcare. Disease results in misery pain and poverty for millions of people worldwide. More than 100 million people
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When as the DGE of RI District 3201, Madhav Chandran was preparing to undertake one of the most exciting journeys of a Rotary leader’s life, that to the International Assembly in San Diego, in January 2019, like most governors-elect, he too was scratching his head on what
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An audit report card on the content, design and visual appeal of regional Rotary magazines is on the cards to expand its reach among Rotarians and others. This annual report will also consider the feedback received from a readership survey to be done in 2020–21 to understand
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Reading and rereading classics is a constant source of joy for me. It amazes me that every couple of years when I revisit my favourites such as Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, or Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss; Harper
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Nail in the pillow: Collection of Twisted Tales Author : Mohan Menon Publisher : Notion Press Pages : 200; Rs.299 Shock
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RID Bharat Pandya and Madhavi honour
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Good health and good thinking are our most precious possessions, good health being the most important. Only if health is good, everything else follows. A sound body keeps not just the mind but all else sound. But we don’t pay attention to our health in
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The tragic news that 39 people were found dead in a container in Essex on October 23 is a reminder that smuggling of illegal immigrants from the Continent into the UK still continues. The tragedy brought to mind events from 25 years ago, when I was on
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Golden Jubilee Governor He is a second-generation Rotarian. His father, Pradyuman Shah, was a Rotarian for 40 years and mother Hansaben had served as District Inner Wheel Chair in 1987–88.
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It was ideas galore as delegates from four districts gathered at a menstrual hygiene management (MHM) seminar hosted by RC Seven Hills Dharwad, RID 3170. Discussions ranged from why men should also understand menstruation and how they can help in making it easy for women, to how girls need not stay
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