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. What better way to do this than to showcase the project in Rotary News, which is circulated to

How conscious and receptive the entire world has become of the urgent need to improve the lot of girls and women is amply evident from two different, and yet related, issues. As can be seen from his social media posts, and interview to Rotary News, RI President

As I watch horrific images emanating from Afghanistan of desperate women behind a barbed wire fence at the Kabul airport screaming for help saying “the Taliban are coming for us”, RI’s new focus on the girl child and DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) gain a sharper focus. Having

Each time the members of a Rotary club in the world, particularly in India, build a gender-segregated toilet in a school; talk about menstrual hygiene and provide girls easy-to-use and sustainable MHM kits; hold awareness sessions on the importance of educating daughters along with sons, campaign against

A major focus area of RI President Shekhar Mehta this Rotary year will be empowering the girl child. In recent years I’ve watched several Rotary clubs working passionately for the girl child, building thousands of toilets for exclusive use by girls in schools across India under the

As the second wave of corona pandemic rips apart India, almost every family we know is dealing with a personal loss. Of the untimely death of an otherwise healthy person. The sudden onslaught of this virus, which we now know mutates and returns in new variants or

The second, and much more devastating wave of the Covid pandemic has brought India and its citizens down to their knees. With over three lakh new cases being detected every single day, we have become untouchables in countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc. And as

In December 2019, at 34, Sanna Marin from Finland became the youngest prime minister in the world. Isn’t it marvellous that so many young leaders, many of them women, are taking up global leadership positions? Jacinda Ardern, 41, who became New Zealand’s PM at 37, is my

Finally, the Rotary world is making a serious bid to right the historic wrong of admitting women members only in 1987, and that too after litigation. But for 2–3 decades after that, there wasn’t much of an attempt to take more women into Rotary. It is only

Even as RI President Holger Knaack advised the incoming district governors at the zone institute aptly titled ‘The Odyssey’ to embrace the digital era, the organisers managed to pull off a remarkably impressive virtual institute. Rotary India’s trio comprising RI director Kamal Sanghvi, RIDE Mahesh Kotbagi (who

As this, the most uncertain, horrendous, terrifying and devastating year in my living   memory, comes to a close, I wonder if there are even a handful of people across the world who would be sad to see 2020 coming to a close. Aptly enough, a December issue