A kind of serendipity Elif Shafak’s new novel stirs up memories and emotions nostalgic and troubling.

I am an Elif Shafak fan. This remarkable writer with over 20 novels under her belt writes in Turkish and English.

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North India on a plate

North India, or at least the part of it that lies to the north of Agra, has invented many foods, especially after partition in 1947. Butter chicken. Kulcha a la aloo, ie stuffed kulchas. Chow mein avec tadka, which was our revenge against the Chinese for mauling us in the 1962 war. (Avec means ‘with’ in French, by the way). Dosas stuffed with kheema, which was a specialty of the Coffee House in Delhi. I think it reminded the Keralites who ran it of their kothu parottas back home. And in the 1980s a friend told me that Indian Airlines even tried putting kheema in idlis. Ouch!

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Tales of inspiration How they dreamt it and achieved it.

The first of January should, in real terms, be another day. But it is happily not just that since we attach a special significance to it. As someone put it, we see it as a reset time when we start afresh, dream a new dream, and set new goals. The day serves as an opportunity to start on a clean slate, think anew and even seek inspiration from those who have successfully ventured into areas we haven’t and made a difference or achieved a measure of success.

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A school comes to life

As the Interactors from Utterbuniyadi ­Vidyalaya in Amalsadi, a tribal village near Surat, Gujarat, worked on their cleanliness drive, the wind seemed determined to make their job harder. “The moment we started sweeping, paper bags and plastic bottles flew right past us like they had grown feet,” says Sahil Rathod, the president of the newly installed Interact club. “We couldn’t stop laughing, it was as though the wind was playing games with us. One of us even chased down a plastic bag that had taken off with the breeze.”

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Untapped CSR resources and underutilised cadres

The magic of Rotary doesn’t just happen among senior leaders. It happens where you are — in your clubs, in your communities, every time you act on an idea and change someone’s life. Thank you for all you do to create a better world,” RI President Stephanie Urchick said at the TRF seminar, prior to the Kochi Institute. Urging Rotarians to continue donating to TRF, she shared a couple of her experiences highlighting TRF’s role in transforming lives and communities.

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