As you can see from the Letters column this month, one point made by RI President Barry Rassin at the Chennai Institute that has resonated with many readers is his response to the question raised by Past RI President K R Ravindran on what he found “the

If the barometer of any Zone Institute is the level of the gung-ho mood in the participants, then the Chennai Institute with the theme Passion to Serve notches up a very high score. Whether it was RI or Rotary’s leadership in the zone, led by RI President

While barely a month ago we had the sensational news of a single Rotarian from Bengaluru — D Ravishankar — making a stunning donation of Rs.100 crore to The Rotary Foundation, this month we have heartwarming news of the alacrity and speed with which Rotarians in Kerala

The last few weeks have brought a lot of grief to India. When Sanjaya Baru, an editor and media advisor to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tweeted “No Indian politician has been so universally loved as Atalji,”, one spontaneously agreed with him. It could have been argued

It’s been a season of heartbreaks, but also generosity and triumph of the human spirit. Let’s take the heartbreaks first from the FIFA World Cup or Russia 2018 to the iconic Wimbledon, where the king of tennis, Roger Federer was sensationally knocked out of the tournament, surrendering

It is not by design but a random selection of the new District Governors’ interviews that Jaishree and I already had in our news basket that we have featured this month’s DGs. It is remarkable to note that in these short snapshots, four out of the five

I  was barely a little over a year old in Rotary News, when on a fine February morning in 2016 I got a letter by snail mail all the way from Washington County in the US. It was on the letterhead of a past RI President called

The anguish and outrage that have erupted across India over two recent rape cases, in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir and Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, are almost unprecedented. The last time we saw such outrage, protests and candlelight marches, was over the rape of Nirbhaya in 2012.

Forbes recently came out with its latest list of billionaires and while Jeff Bezos of Amazon has overtaken Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, it has been a record year for women billionaires with an all-time high number of 256 women making it to

The recent spate of mega frauds carried out against our banking system, and running into thousands of crores of rupees — diamond jeweller Nirav Modi is alleged to have stacked up a fraud of Rs.11,400 crore against the Punjab National Bank, and Rotamac Pens’ Vikram Kothari another

Very often when we see celebrities, particularly professional sportspersons who reach the pinnacle of their particular sport and play the game so effortlessly, we tend to miss the trauma and pain, grit and determination, long and silent suffering that are hidden somewhere in the aura of the