Following the massive deluge that swept Uttarakhand in June 2013, Rotary India immediately reached out with food and support to the flood victims and decided to reconstruct 32 schools that were devastated by the floods in Rudraprayag
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I often think of my year as President of my club way back in 1987, perhaps the most enjoyable assignment I have ever had, and in retrospect, I know that this was a turning moment of my life for it set me up for everything else in
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A well-attended and well conducted workshop for the EMG and CSR Chairs of Districts in Zones 4, 5 and 6A, was recently held in Delhi with the lead trainers being EMGAs PDG Ashok Panjwani and PDG K P Nagesh. Aided by a team of experts from the
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Young Nandita Venkatesan, a TB survivor, got the undivided attention of the assembled District Governors at the seminar ‘Towards a TB-free India’ presided over by PRID Yash Pal Das, when she compared the huge lesions in
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Fifty new Rotaract clubs were installed in District 3232 this year. The new presidents and secretaries received their
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Atlanta is no ordinary city in the US. The first chord it strikes is that of Margaret Mitchell’s incomparable literary work Gone with the Wind, with its riveting characters Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara immortalised in the 1939 Hollywood blockbuster by Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh. It is
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After the concluding session at the 2017 International Assembly, all African DGEs and other leaders were assembled in the suite of RI President Nominee Sam Owori. I was one of few privileged non-Africans in the crowded room; when I commented on the privilege of being there even though not born African,
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When Jamling Norgay said, “It was like touching my father’s soul. I felt at home being on the Himalayas. I belong there,” it gave me goosebumps. And more so,
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It was said of Arch Klumph in 1917 that he was a dreamer of colossal proportions. But I believe that our Foundation can surpass even his most colossal dreams. How gratified he would be to learn his struggling creation has become a world-class
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It was a gay and colourful twin birthday party that was celebrated at the South Asia Reception in Atlanta — Trustee Chair Kalyan Banerjee’s 75th birthday and The Rotary Foundation’s 100th. But while a celebration of the latter is what the Atlanta Convention was all about, at this well organised Indian
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Welcoming Bill Gates to the Atlanta Convention in a hall that was bursting to capacity, RI President John Germ said that Rotary’s fight against polio began when “every single year 350,000 children were crippled by it. We knew it didn’t have to be like this and we
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