RC Roop Nagar conducts crucial training to save lives

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 Rasheeda Bhagat

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When he was on a tour last year to a famous winery in Waiheke Island of New Zealand, a very famous tourist destination, Dr BPS Parmar, past president of the Rotary Club of Roop Nagar, RID 3080, noticed, while disembarking at the ferry station, an automated external defibrillator (AED) installed at the waiting area. “I noted that this device, which delivers an emergency shock to the chest in a bid to revive a victim of a sudden cardiac arrest, had been donated by RC Waiheke Island,” recalls the laparoscopy surgeon who has specialised in metabolic surgery.

Book Review Wordsworld

On the reading highway

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 Sandhya Rao

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Where do I begin to tell the story of how engaging it was to read Amor Towles’s The Lincoln Highway, all 576 pages of it in smallish print? Possibly for the first time in over 60 years of reading, I fell in love with a chapter.

From the Editor's Desk

When the privileged wreak havoc

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 Rasheeda Bhagat

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The shocking incident in Pune of an intoxicated 17-year-old overspeeding in a Porsche at nearly 200kmph, and that too on a narrow lane, and killing two young techies returning home after a get-together, has sent shockwaves across the country.

Book Review

A journey to chaos… and back

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 Rotary News

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The Fall of Kabul — Despatches from Chaos by journalist Nayanima Basu, (Bloomsbury; Rs.599) promises a lot, but ends up a tad disappointing. Make no mistake about it…any journalist who has landed in the Afghan capital in August 2021, barely 10 days before its heartbreaking capitulation to the Taliban without any fight or resistance, will have a captivating and gripping story to tell.

People of Action

60 children treated for clubfoot

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 V Muthukumaran

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Couple Ravi Bawri and Tusu Devi from Seetaldih village at Chandankiyari taluk, 23km from Bokaro, Jharkhand, found to their dismay that their newborn had clubfoot, a congenital foot deformity in which the limb is curved inwards with toes glued together.

People of Action

The Rotary buzz in Kolkata

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 V Muthukumaran

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RIPE Stephanie Urchick was impressed going through the super speciality wings of Rotary Techno Netralaya, the largest among the 13 eye hospitals being run by RID 3291, at Salt Lake, Sector-5, the IT hub of Kolkata.

People of Action

Rotary clubs celebrate 118 tribal weddings

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 Kiran Zehra

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RC Bombay Queen City, RID 3141, through its interactions with the Yuva Parivarthan, a Mumbai-based NGO, discovered a concerning situation in Kasa village, Palghar, near Mumbai.

People of Action

E-autorickshaws for women

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 Team Rotary News

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Eleven women hailing from economically weak families in Bengaluru received battery- operated autorickshaws through a community service project led by RC Bangalore West, RID 3192, in association with its funding partner ATOS Global IT Solutions and Services.

Messages

Thank you and keep dreaming big

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 Barry Rassin

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Every June, we in Rotary look back at our accomplishments and plan for what’s next. For me, this month is the end of seven years in Rotary leadership that began as president-elect of RI.

News

RIPE Stephanie weaves the Rotary magic across Mumbai and Pune

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 Jaishree

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Invite your prospective members to a service project first, and not to a club meeting. Because a club meeting can be intimidating to someone who does not understand the language. They must see what we do and who we are.

Cover story

The woman who always says YES in Rotary

Jun 2024Jun 03 2024 Rasheeda Bhagat

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Believe it or not, but when she was growing up, your incoming RI President Stephanie Urchick wanted to become a spy! “I wanted to become a spy and work for the government,” she says with a twinkle in her eye.