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The calm of a Sunday morning was destroyed by the shouting of an angry father next door, telling his 10-year-old daughter… “Just go and die. Jump down from the top of the building.” He does this often; my shock was compounded when the chubby child once told

Within six years of joining Rotary, Shekhar Mehta, Rotary International President Nominee (RIPN), became the club president in 1991–92, DG in 1999–2000 and RI Director in 2011–12. He was only 38 when he became DG, and he got elected unopposed.

Twelve years ago, in 2007, Raj Miniyar, who was elected ­President of the Rotary Club of Solapur, RI District 3132, one of the older and larger clubs in

  Summing up an “incredible year” at the closing session of the Hamburg Convention, RI President Barry Rassin talked about “the amazing people” he

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

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

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

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,