Following the devastation caused to several areas in and around Bengaluru, due to the recent heavy rains, Rotarians from a few clubs in the metro were pained to read about the plight of the tribal residents of a bunch of 28-odd tribal hamlets about 250km from the city.
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A 50-year old Afghan citizen Shadaab, with limited means, was diagnosed with a defective heart when a tertiary centre in India conducted a cardiac screening camp in Kabul. He needed a pacemaker and Shadaab, who owned a small farm in Kabul and was the sole earning member
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At a training seminar for Rotary club presidents-elect at a Dallas hotel in February, sergeants-at-arms wearing yellow vests and stetsons lead participants, grouped by Rotary district, into a small
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Can you imagine human beings who cannot have a bath even once a year simply because they do not have the luxury of water available to do so? Nor can they wash their clothes. Appalling, isn’t it? But the 1,363 people of an entire village in Nepal,
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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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