[two_third] Christmas came early this year for Angel Guild, thanks mostly to the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor (Washington, US…
[three_fourth padding=”20px 20px 20px 20px”] A training workshop for young women to protect themselves from molesters and stalkers was conducted…
[three_fourth padding=”20px 20px 20px 20px”] Every year, as part of its literacy and community development initiatives, RC Pune Camp, D…
[three_fourth padding=”20px 20px 20px 20px”] Innovation and technical expertise of Rotarians came to the fore with RC Bagha Purana, D…
[two_third] Communities all over Australia, including Nowra and Gerringong Rotarians (D 9710), have rallied together to help farmers who have…
PRID and RILM Chairman Shekhar Mehta headed a panel discussion organised by the National Literacy Mission Authority (NLMA) of the…
[one_half padding=”20px 20px 20px 20px”] The good, bad and ugly of Rotary The Chennai Institute theme Passion to Serve was…
[two_third] Most of the world, except Pakistan and Afghanistan, is polio-free. Still Rotarians urge people to continue immunising their children…
[two_third padding=”0px 0px 0px 0px”] In a tete-e-tete with RIPN Sushil Gupta and Vinita, PRID Shekhar Mehta fired a series…
[two_third padding=”0px 0px 0px 0px”] Responding to the felicitations on his nomination as RI President 2020–21 in Kolkata, RIPN Sushil…
[two_third padding=”0px 20px 0px 0px”] At 11,562 ft above sea level, a duff pair of lungs gasps for breath. It…
I have been officially a ‘working woman’ for nearly 40 years, meaning I have woken up in the morning…
[two_third padding=”0px 0px 0px 0px”] As you can see from the Letters column this month, one point made by RI…
An interesting session at the Institute was one in which Past RI President Rajendra Saboo pitched questions regarding the…
After smallpox, how did polio capture the imagination of the world to become the largest mass immunisation programme in…
[two_third padding=”0px 0px 0px 0px”] The campus of Bright Minds Vidyodaya School at Walajapet, in the suburbs of Chennai, resonated…
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On the sideslines of the Rotary Zone Institute in Chennai, RI District 3232 organised a Leaders meet Leader programme,…
As the entire Rotary world looks forward to eliminating the last cases of Polio from Afghanistan and Pakistan, at…
At the Chennai Institute, RC Bangalore Orchards President, D Ravi Shankar, who recently donated Rs.100 crore to The Rotary Foundation, was the cynosure of all eyes. As most of the RI officers congratulated him and made a beeline to pose with him for pictures, Ravi Shankar brushed off the accolades and insisted he was no hero. What struck me the most was that during a nearly an hour-long chat, he mentioned the figure of Rs.100 crore only once, and that too in passing. In a chat with D 3190 DG Suresh Hari and Anita, Ravi Shankar and Paola regaled the audience with their answers.
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Inspirtational speaker Mahatria Ra, addressing the Chennai Institute, gave a new perspective to the RI President’s theme — Be…