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

The most scintillating and enjoyable session of  D 3131’s district conference in Pune titled adhyay18 was arguably the one in which Indian cricket’s two most celebrated cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Zaheer Khan were interviewed by Vikram Sathaye. Apart from being extremely articulate and good friends, the two

I love sports… in many ways it’s a metaphor for life. You can’t always win, especially if it happens to be a team I am supporting! But sports emphasises the importance of teamwork because when we work together, we achieve more than the sum

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has called upon Rotarians from both India and Bangladesh to fight the “divisive forces” that were trying to undermine the unity of their countries. He told Indian Rotarians “to be courageous and oppose the divisive activity happening in the country and counter

Ranjani Vaidya makes khichdi for the children in the Zilla Parishad primary school in Gundewadi, about 10 km from Jalna, a town in Maharashtra famous for making quality seeds. The distance might be short, but a part of the ride is rickety as the road is pothole

It was past six in the evening on Friday, July 28, when we drove into a little village in the town of Tororo in Uganda. Having landed at the Entebbe airport, the drive from Kampala to here was about four hours. The Ugandan Rotarians had kindly arranged

After an exciting and rewarding career in the IT industry, a prominent part of it as a founder of the IT services firm Mindtree, barely a few days after he had stepped down as its Executive Chairman on March 31, 2016, Subroto Bagchi got an unexpected call

To understand the true impact of the adage ‘He came, saw, overcame’, you had to be present in the huge hall at the Atlanta Convention in the mammoth Georgia World Congress Centre when Microsoft Founder Bill Gates held the audience in rapt attention