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

The most welcome and salient feature of the Kuala Lumpur Zone Institute was the candour, honesty and openness from senior leaders who did not pull any punches when articulating the shortcomings and problems of Rotary in India. A sizzling session was moderated by Past RI President K

Move over Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru; at this magazine, we have decided to turn both our time and energy to focus also on the smaller clubs that are not located in the metros of India but where the members are doing their bit to improve the

Some of the most beautiful things come in small packages, it is said. But small is much more than beautiful, it has the potential to bloom into a much larger image or clone of itself. A small and simple idea that is replicable and can be scaled

In his Independence Day message from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a new slogan — India Jodo (Unite India). Spelling out his vision of a new modern India that was free from communalism, casteism, corruption and terrorism, he said every Indian

Rotarians and Rotary clubs, or Districts, that undertake well planned and meticulously executed projects that benefit the local community, transforming people’s lives, naturally want them known to other Rotary clubs. Many of you feel there is no better way to do this than to showcase the project

July has been a tragic month for Rotarians, as they lost an irreplaceable senior leader who had been elected as the incoming RI President for 2018–19. As Indian Rotarians prepared to go to bed on July 13 there flashed on their mobile screens, through facebook, whatsapp or