Have you seen the movie ‘The Twister,’ asks Rakesh Jain, President of RC Calcutta Mahanagar, referring to the Hollywood thriller which

Have you ever wondered – Why is November our Rotary Foundation Month? It is well-established that The Rotary Foundation is the focus of attention in the month of November, and we try our best to publicise our Foundation programmes and to raise money to fund the programmes during the entire month! But why November?

We all know November is The Rotary Foundation month. Our Rotary Foundation Does Good In the World! Any doubts? Well, the best proof is personal experience. Here is my real life story: Just after a successful DTA at Surat in 1997, we decided to take a three-day break in my uncle’s farm in a remote

Dear Fellow Rotarians, One sunny morning at the end of June 1991, a van drove through the busy, rush-hour streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Winding through traffic to a northern suburb, the van arrived at the Forward Command Headquarters of the Defence Ministry. Security guards stopped it for inspection. When they did,

After the innovative QR codes installed in the city’s heritage monuments and artefacts to promote tourism, the discovery of the ancient underground canals comes as yet another feather in the cap for Bidar, the heritage city in Karnataka. The underground

In 1893, 122 years ago, Swami Vivekananda ­travelled to Chicago from Calcutta, to speak at the very first of these Parliaments. He spoke of ­Hinduism: his religion, and mine. He spoke of the idea of ­tolerance, universalism,

Sitting on the banks of the sparkling Kodai Lake and listening to stories of leadership from the life of Dr APJ Kalam is everything I could ask for, says an emotional participant of D 3000’s CLIFF RYLA 2015. The chief guest Dr V Ponraj, former Scientific Advisor to Kalam, completed his 55 minute lecture

When the members of RC Nasik, D 3030, visited the rural communities surrounding Nasik for a dental cum health check-up camp, reality knocked them hard on their faces when they saw the villagers suffer from lack of clean and safe water. “We saw women folk walk miles daily to collect water from open holes dug

A multi district seminar on public image of Rotary was organised by D 3030 on October 11. Named Chhavi (Marathi for ‘image’), it was chaired by PDG Kamal Sanghvi

Thousands thronged the 150 camps in and around Mumbai on September 13; it was an anti-TB campaign organised by the Rotary clubs of D 3140 with support from pharma major Lupin Limited to the tune of Rs 3 crore, to enhance awareness and ensure timely diagnosis and treatment for those afflicted with TB.

A stitch in time saves not only nine, but can also be an income generating vocation for women struggling to make ends meet. To empower underprivileged women, Rotarians of D 3011, in association with Singer India Ltd,