International Women’s Day left behind mixed feelings. Heartwarming was this statement: “I didn’t climb the Everest with an amputated leg. I did it all with my heart and mind,” said Arunima Sinha on becoming the first female amputee to do so. The message is clear: look at

The shocking, heinous and heartbreaking terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, that caused the tragic loss of 40 CRPF men, has immersed our entire country in a pall of gloom and grief. This tragedy once again puts the spotlight on what

When two dreamers, who are also doers, come together with the perfect match in vision, compassion and generosity, then magic happens. I discovered this in one of the most amazing assignments I have done for Rotary News, during a three-day trip to Manipur. This

Change is the only constant that keeps the wheel moving in our lives. In four of the five States that went to the polls last month, incumbent governments were voted out, with the electorate opting for change. A major reason that upset a chunk of voters in

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