Reading and rereading classics is a constant source of joy for me. It amazes me that every couple of years when I revisit my favourites such as Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, or Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss; Harper

While I am not an admirer of little girls being made to walk the ramp, or sing and dance in television competitions, a news item of 9-year-old Daisy-May Demetre, a physically-challenged girl from Birmingham, walking the ramp in Paris caught the eye. This because she was endorsing

After the Godhra tragedy and the riots that followed in Gujarat in 2002, I went to Ahmedabad as a journalist to report on the ground situation. Seventeen years have gone by, but I vividly remember, as though it had been told to me yesterday, the reply I

In countries like India, which are not welfare states in the true meaning of the word, unlike, say, the Nordic ones, that take total care of the medical, nutritional and housing needs of their senior citizens, helping the elderly to live with dignity is a huge challenge.

It was with grief and a deep sense of loss that the Rotary world in India digested the news of former Governor of Uttarakhand and Past RI Director Sudarshan Agarwal’s demise. That he will be missed could be seen from the outpouring of grief and reminiscences on

If any evidence was required of Rotary International really embracing youth energy, enthusiasm and leadership, and walking the talk when it comes to making Rotaract a member of RI through the recent CoL resolution, it was amply evident at the Hamburg Rotary Convention. Every senior RI leader,

As a Rotary year ends and one set of leaders lays down office at the clubs and districts-level to make way for another, it is a good time to take stock of the work done at the ground-level. As the topmost leaders in Rotary keep reiterating, Rotary

Once again it is time for that opportunity we get only once in five years, our General elections. This time, in the world’s largest electoral exercise, 900 million voters will democratically elect our next government in a seven-phase exercise that is already underway. To a mature and

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