Last month I had written about my short, three-month sojourn at the University of Cambridge in 1983. I had gone there to write a paper on the Latin American debt crisis. Six years later I applied to, and was invited by, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH) in Oxford. I was to spend a
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All of us have at some point or the other received invitations for what are billed as ‘green events’. These are happenings where the organisers profess to follow broad sustainability guidelines from planning to implementation. This is understandable given people are increasingly becoming environment conscious. In fact,
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If you’ve been to a South Indian wedding or a festival celebration in the south, you would’ve probably seen rows of people sitting cross-legged on the floor — with plantain leaves placed in front of them — patiently waiting for the servers to first place salt on
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When earthquakes devastated villages across the island of Lombok, Indonesia, in 2018, the collapse of homes and school buildings displaced thousands of people and temporarily stopped the education of 4,000 students. The clean-up and restoration efforts have taken years. But an Australian-based charity has found a novel
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Four decades ago, I won a journalism fellowship at the Cambridge University in the UK. It was for just three months, for what they call the Michaelmas Term there. The college was Wolfson and it had a couple of Pakistani civil servants too. They were from the Pakistani equivalent of our
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They say it is best to take one step at a time to reach a goal. And if your goal is to make the planet a better place, it is best to start 2023 with green resolutions and commitments. Promises to keep rather than make and forget.
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Srivatsan Sankaran’s photographs glow with energy and vitality. The work of this 32-year-old engineer-turned-travel photographer is a celebration of people and nature — festivals, landscapes, the drama of everyday life. Take his photographs of the Kumbh Mela, the Kerala boat race or the bull-taming festival in Madurai.
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A delegation of Rotary senior leaders including past RI presidents Rajendra Saboo and Kalyan Banerjee, past RI director Ashok Mahajan, India National PolioPlus Committee chair Deepak Kapur and PDG D N Padhi (RID 3262), along with Rajashree Birla, chairperson, Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development,
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Raising the bar in membership growth with a new benchmark in RID 3142, RC Dombivli East president Vijay Dumbre inducted 56 Rotarians in August, Rotary’s membership month, at a
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All houses everywhere need to be repainted from time to time. But in India the problem is more acute because of our climatic conditions. Northern and central India have an excess of dust that turns the walls brown. Regions in southern, western and eastern India have an excess of humidity that
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A wildlife photographer for 16 years, Sanjay Danait from RC Koregaon Park, RID 3131, has won the Sony-BBC Earth Award for his photograph in the wildlife category. Avid photographers covet such a recognition from Sony-BBC Earth, an Indian TV channel owned by
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