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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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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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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At this moment Rotary is at the crossroads and we
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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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On any Rotary platform when statistics are being discussed vis-a-vis polio, a set of impressive numbers are given to show the impact Rotarians have made by getting most of the world rid of polio. Prior to Rotary’s PolioPlus programme, 350,000 children in 125 countries were being crippled
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When a Rotarian donates a whopping sum of Rs.100 crore or $14.7 million to The Rotary Foundation, the first question you ask him is how and when the idea was planted in his head. D Ravishankar, President, Rotary Club of Bangalore Orchards, D 3190, travels back over
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Several miles off the shoreline of Nassau, Barry Rassin, the 2018–19 President of Rotary International, balances in the bow of the bobbing Rat Bat. There are no colossal cruise ships out here, no noisy jet skis, only the occasional passing pleasure boat and the sound of water
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Incoming RI President Barry Rassin is answering a question on the importance of India to the Rotary world. “India is a very critical country for Rotary; it has the greatest membership growth, a strong Rotaract programme and is one of the top leaders in Foundation giving. While
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It is not Delhi, Mumbai or Chennai, but just the small town of Sonkatch in a relatively underdeveloped State of Madhya Pradesh with a population of barely 20,000. It is only a tehsil and not a district headquarter. A small but extremely vibrant Rotary Club of Sonkatch
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In the corridor of a modest building, which has now been covered nicely with a decent roof thanks to the largess of a Rotarian in Pune, Renu Gavaskar, famous in Pune as Renutai, is interacting with her 50-odd children. What she is doing for them restores your
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