A single club in Bengaluru, RC Bangalore Lakeside (RCBL), has been carrying out projects at a breathtaking speed, participating with full gusto as the lead club in many of the larger projects of RI
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For me, it’s a dream come true… this place is wonderful, fantastic, unimaginable. Particularly as I have watched in the last two years how hard these Rotarians have struggled against all odds associated with Covid and fundraising, etc to give us this wonderful place… itney chhotey chhotey
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At long last some cheerful news is coming for Rotarians on the polio-eradication front from one of the two polio-endemic countries. In January 2022, Pakistan reported an entire year — 365
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Sometime before the festival of Rakhi this year, Ajay Agarwal, past president of RC Rourkela Royal, RID 3261, while scanning through his Whatsapp messages was stuck by a particularly moving message. It contained the video of a Cadbury ad in which a little girl ties rakhi on
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What a wonderful sight it is to see nearly 700 people in this auditorium. It has been months now and all of us were itching to meet and greet each other… we have been zoomed out, zooming from one online meet to another. It is great to
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If I ever had to write a piece for the Reader’s Digest magazine on the most unforgettable character I had ever met, then Sushil Gupta, a Rotarian, would surely be the one I would write about. He is unforgettable because Sushil was a man of many parts
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When Johan Maertens, vice-president and chair, Scientific Committee, of the Rotary Action Group for addiction prevention (RAG-AP) invited me to chair this action group, as he felt that I will be able to draw in more Rotarians for this cause, I decided to
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I believe we are trustees of the wealth god has given us; before we were born it belonged to someone else, after we die, it will go to someone else, says Vivek Gour, one of the three trustees of the Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust,
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RI President Shekhar Mehta, RIDs Mahesh Kotbagi and A S Venkatesh at the hospital. Also present (from L): DG K Sundharalingam (2982), Rtn K K Vijayachandran, S Senguttuvan, PDGs A Karthikeyan (3203), E K Sagadhevan (3203), Kishore Kumar (3020), C Sivagnanaselvam (2982), P M Sivashankaran (3203), DG Shanmugasundaram
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I must have been barely 10 when I visited Bombay and my newly minted brother-in-law was all eager to show off the Bombay magic to his wife’s kid sister. So what do you want to do, he asked me. “Watch Dilip Kumar films,” I shyly told him.
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Over the years, I caught glimpses of Shekhar Mehta when he came to One Rotary Center in Evanston, Illinois, for Board of Directors meetings. I met
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