The Fall of Kabul — Despatches from Chaos by journalist Nayanima Basu, (Bloomsbury; Rs.599) promises a lot, but ends up a tad disappointing. Make no mistake about it…any journalist who has landed in the Afghan capital in August 2021, barely 10 days before its heartbreaking capitulation to the Taliban without any fight or resistance, will have a captivating and gripping story to tell.
Couple Ravi Bawri and Tusu Devi from Seetaldih village at Chandankiyari taluk, 23km from Bokaro, Jharkhand, found to their dismay that their newborn had clubfoot, a congenital foot deformity in which the limb is curved inwards with toes glued together.
RIPE Stephanie Urchick was impressed going through the super speciality wings of Rotary Techno Netralaya, the largest among the 13 eye hospitals being run by RID 3291, at Salt Lake, Sector-5, the IT hub of Kolkata.
RC Bombay Queen City, RID 3141, through its interactions with the Yuva Parivarthan, a Mumbai-based NGO, discovered a concerning situation in Kasa village, Palghar, near Mumbai.
Eleven women hailing from economically weak families in Bengaluru received battery- operated autorickshaws through a community service project led by RC Bangalore West, RID 3192, in association with its funding partner ATOS Global IT Solutions and Services.
Every June, we in Rotary look back at our accomplishments and plan for what’s next. For me, this month is the end of seven years in Rotary leadership that began as president-elect of RI.
Invite your prospective members to a service project first, and not to a club meeting. Because a club meeting can be intimidating to someone who does not understand the language. They must see what we do and who we are.
Believe it or not, but when she was growing up, your incoming RI President Stephanie Urchick wanted to become a spy! “I wanted to become a spy and work for the government,” she says with a twinkle in her eye.
Over the last two-and-half years, the Mother’s Milk Bank set up at the Sri Ramakrishna Hospital by RC Coimbatore Cotton…
With its recent completion of two more Happy Schools, the Rotary Club of Dombivli, RI District 3142, has so far transformed, over the last four years, 18 government, government-aided and privately managed schools located in rural and tribal areas surrounding Murbad and Shahapur taluks in Maharashtra. The total amount spent on this project is over Rs.1 crore to help improve the conditions in which children learn.
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Feeling gung-ho over the newly carved district 3191, Udaykumar Bhaskara says, “in the coming years, our clubs will do wonders in membership growth, TRF-giving and CSR projects.”
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Students who feel diffident to talk and read in English are identified and trained for one hour on Mondays…
Tata Power’s Mumbai headquarters was lit in blue in April (Autism Awareness Month),
Water warriors India could become a water scarce nation in the near future due to mismatch between the resources…
RC Nagapattinam — RID 2981 The phase-II of microforest project was inaugurated at the Government ITI in the presence of…
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