PDG A S Venkatesh, RID 3232, has been chosen to serve as RI Director for Zones 5 and 6 for 2021–23. He will be elected at the 2020 RI Convention in ­Honolulu, Hawaii. Venkatesh, ­popularly known as Venky, is ­member of

Golden Jubilee Governor   He is a second-generation Rotarian. His father, Pradyuman Shah, was a Rotarian for 40 years and mother Hansaben had served as District Inner Wheel Chair in 1987–88.

A Rotarian since childhood   In a sense, I am a Rotarian for 41 years since my father Y P Nagpal became a member of the same club,” says Sunil Nagpal. He

Safe drinking water is his priority   With heavy rains lashing Odisha this monsoon, doing safe drinking water projects is a major  priority for Debasish Mishra this year. Project Jaldhara

First woman DG of the District   She thanks her district’s Rotarians for “trusting a woman to lead them.” And her husband, PDG Ashish Desai takes pride in calling himself the

Literacy and WinS are his focus   He was a Rotaractor from 1987 to 1993 and then became a Rotarian. “I love Rotary and the magic it does in transforming people

It was five ‘o clock on a sun-kissed May afternoon in the pretty Schleswig-Holstein town of Ratzeburg, 40 minutes’ drive north-east of Hamburg. Holger Knaack was tending the tidy garden of his home in this picture postcard town which rests on an island surrounded

From compulsion to enjoying Rotary   I was compelled to become a Rotary member in 1990 by the late Rtn Dharav who was a GSR then. I respected