Within just one year of Rotary making environmental protection one of its areas of focus, we are facing a man-made disaster in Joshimath, located in the Himalayas. Fortunately, before the government gag order, we learnt from the National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation)

Post-pandemic, the meet-and-greet mega meetings of Rotary are picking up steam and this was proved at Visakha Vista, the zone institute held recently in Visakhapatnam, which garnered some 1,000-odd registrations. It was organised under the bold conceptualisation of RI director and convenor Mahesh Kotbagi, and efficient and

With preservation and protection of the environment now being a focus area of Rotary, global climate change meetings are getting active participation from top Rotary leadership. Last year, at the COP26 meet, the then RI President Shekhar Mehta had participated and this year, at the COP27 held

As the war continues to rage in Ukraine, with no end in sight, and lives are lost on both sides, and violence continues to devastate the country, violence and conflict situations around the world have once again come into focus. Bringing peace into the world is one

Ascribe it to the ironic times in which we live that a world torn apart by aggression, strife, war, and divided so deeply along regional, communal and class lines, where the havoc caused by the Covid pandemic coupled with ferocious natural disasters have sent several nations reeling

Another Independence Day has come and gone, this more special than others, being the 75th year of our freedom. Over 75 years, as we have moved towards progress and development, explosion of industrial output, excellence in science and technology, particularly IT, the struggle Indian leaders underwent under

In the Rotary world, it is a great honour to get a visit from a serving RI president. Well, before June 2022, the last time the Rotary News Trust office in Chennai had an RI president calling in was in 2007 when President Wilf Wilkinson visited our

It is no exaggeration to say that she has stormed into the Rotary world like a breath of fresh air. When Jennifer Jones, the first ever woman president of Rotary walks onto the stage, or even a room, or a large conference hall, you cannot miss her

Can you imagine the sheer helplessness, humiliation and desperation of a human being, in this day and age, who cannot have a bath even once a year? Impossible, you might say, or think. But as the cover story of this issue reveals, the entire population of a

While the brutal attacks on Ukraine have been hogging media headlines, and rightly so, the unprecedented crisis in the tiny island country of Sri Lanka, with which we have such close ties, has failed to attract the world’s attention. Power cuts and blackouts for 15 hours, long,

As we wind up this issue of Rotary News, the war in Ukraine continues to rage; its cities are bombed, and people’s homes and offices reduced to rubble. Overnight, just in the flash of an eye, thousands of people have been rendered homeless. Those who’ve managed to