AKS And You Shall Receive

THE ROTARY CLUBS OF BOMBAY, MUMBAI MALABAR HILL AND BOMBAY HILLS SOUTH CO-HOSTED AN INTERACTIVE EVENING WITH AKS MEMBERS TO COMMEMORATE ARCH KLUMPH SOCIETY DAY FOR DISTRICT 3141, ON APRIL 12TH, 2021. THIS WAS DONE BY CELEBRATING AND REMEMBERING THE BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF PDG LATE JYOTINDRA VAKIL, THE FIRST ARCH KLUMPH SOCIETY MEMBER OF ASIA IN 2002.

A stellar mix of Rotarians weighed in on issues as personal as what giving means to them to the organisational details that clarified the workings of The Rotary Foundation. While Past RI President Kalyan Banerjee remembered encounters with PDG late Jyotindra Vakil, DG Sunnil Mehra launched the GML, Governor’s Monthly Letter, at the hands of Past RI President Rajendra K Saboo.

Incoming RI President Dr. Shekhar Mehta shared his thoughts via video while RID Dr. Bharat Pandya thanked AKS members for their contributions and complemented the Foundation team for their work and support. RID-elect for ’21-23 Dr. Mahesh Kotbagi further addressed members with words of encouragement.

DG Sunnil Mehra, brought perspective when he said: “We will always have problems, but they only seem more because we count, analyse and measure them. If we count our blessings, we will see that they outnumber our problems. So let us continue to give.”

A rapid-fire session threw questions at AKS members. RCB’s own TRF Trustee Gulam Vahanvaty was asked how his term as trustee had progressed. He said, “Our virtual meetings have been very fruitful because physically, we met four times a year but now, we have a meeting every month. So that productivity, with tremendous savings, makes me believe that the future is going to be a hybrid. Yes, we want some form of physical meetings at the club level but the Board and trustees will come with a hybrid version.”

RCB’s PP Arvind Jolly, who was asked about his Rotary journey, said: “What inspired me to contribute to AKS was that I always believed: youth is spent in learning, middle age in earning and golden years in returning. The more you give, the more you get.”

RCB President Framroze Mehta then rounded up the evening with a vote of thanks that recognised words of wisdoms from all the attending luminaries and also the effort of his fellow co-hosting Presidents, DG Sunnil Mehra, AKS members and Rotarians.