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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She was initially reluctant to join the IPS, “being more interested in dance, dramatics, debates and didn’t fit the stereotype of a police officer, being neither athletic nor masculine.” But her father convinced her
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Let us shift the focus to quality from quantity in the
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Ask Juliet Riseley what her husband, Rotary International President Elect Ian Riseley, enjoys the most about Rotary, and without a moment’s hesitation she says: “It is clearly the people. There is a New Zealand saying (a Maori proverb) he tangata, he tangata, he
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How many 11-year-olds have a sapling planted in their honour or have had the spotlight turned on them? K P Suchitra of Kamarahalli village in Karnataka can boast of both.
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These days there is a lot of talk within The Rotary Foundation on sustainability; how does TRF define sustainability? When the Future Vision plan committee was set up, we did a survey and
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At the age of 22, in 1985, after graduating in Commerce, he left his home because his father gave him an ultimatum: either join as a clerk in the school where he had studied in his village in Kerala, and where
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In a world where globalisation is the new mantra and we’re all connected with each other through high-speed internet, air travel and so on, “we are getting disconnected with each other in our hearts. We are squeezing inside ourselves and getting localised with
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There was both energy and adrenal in the hall as for the first time ever, a
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