Rassin signs off from an “incredible year of service”
Summing up an “incredible year” at the closing session of the Hamburg Convention, RI President Barry Rassin talked about “the amazing people” he
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The Past is Prologue
It’s two weeks before Christmas in northern Alabama, and the Rotary Club of Decatur is in full Yuletide mode. Last Saturday, working alongside members of the Church at
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Rotary continues to expand my horizon: Bharat Pandya
Incoming RI Director Bharat Pandya very obviously does not wear the power of his position on his sleeve. A soft spoken and erudite man and a voracious reader, he takes the trouble to note down striking lines/quotes from what he is reading. He engages his audience with
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Spirit of service defines Indian Rotarians: Maloney
RI President Elect Mark Maloney reached his Rotary leadership milestones at a rather young age; becoming the President of his club (RC Decatur, Alabama) at 31, District Governor at 34 and RI Director at 44. A practising lawyer, he has decided to set apart five days a
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Reconstructing anganwadis and changing lives of children
After a bumpy, 90-minute ride through the Kabini Reserve forest, 60 km from Mysore, we reach Brahmagiri Haddi, a remote Kurumba tribe settlement. Amidst the thatched roofs and makeshift huts stands the village’s reconstructed anganwadi, a neatly painted concrete building overlooking a coconut farm. Peep over its compound wall and you
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Let us not build barriers to Rotary
An important message that RI President Elect Mark Maloney left behind for the Presidents and Secretaries- elect of Districts 3250, 3232 and 3030 was not to build “barriers” that stopped people from joining Rotary. RIPE Mark Maloney, RID C Basker,
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A Rotarian partners with a Colonel to change lives in the North-East
Jawaharlal Nehru famously called it the Jewel of India; it is also the birthplace of polo and raasleela, and famous for its exotic landscape, gently undulating hills, emerald green valleys, dense forests and of course its unique Loktak Lake. When I first visited Manipur in 2002, the
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A Black Tie dinner celebrates generosity
Peace is part of Rotary’s DNA. Our work for peace does not happen at conferences or in diplomatic circles. It happens through personal relationships developed over time across national borders. The presence and strength of Rotary clubs is a litmus test for the health of civil societies
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An RI President comes calling… to Chandigarh
The one project in Chandigarh that RI President Barry Rassin showed a lot of interest in and spent some time interacting with the beneficiaries, particularly children,
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Be the Flamingos of Change: Barry Rassin
At this moment Rotary is at the crossroads and we
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From a stump to a hand…
The seven-year-old strikingly beautiful girl with sparkling eyes, Afsha Tabassum, from Kishtwar, about 212 km from Jammu, was jumping with joy after getting a brand-new hand, which was a replacement for the hand she had lost in a burn accident when she was only a year old.
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