Speaker / Gateway

Pranay Vakil’s career history is steeped in real estate. He laid the foundation stones of international property consultants Knight Frank India. Even since quitting in 2012, he has remained a [...]

We were honoured to welcome to our meeting last week Padma Bhushan recipient, Dr. Farokh Udwadia, physician extraordinaire. Eloquent and intelligent, this man is one of the most reputed [...]

Last Tuesday, the Rotary Club of Bombay was honoured to welcome to our meeting Rtn. Narinder Nayar, a well-known industrialist and a member of our Club for decades. What he is not as familiar for [...]

The Rotary Club of Bombay was honoured to invite one of India’s most spiritual dynamic leaders, Swami Swatmanandaji, to our meeting last Tuesday. Swamiji introduced his topic of ‘Oneness [...]

Founder and Director of the Mumbai International Literary Festival and Literature Live, Anil Dharker, is a columnist, writer, and literary genius. We were privileged to hear his insights on the [...]

We were honoured to host Gateway House’s Amit Bhandari for the meeting last Tuesday. Gateway House is a foreign policy think-tank that has been researching and conducting analytic exercises to [...]

If someone were to tell you that a couple – grandparents to three grandchildren – travelled 16,500 kilometres by road all within 49 days, you probably would not believe it. Well, the [...]

In today’s world, there is not a more universal topic of discussion than that of food and nourishment. This week, ‘gourmet queen’ Asha Khatau introduced us to a wealth of ideas to help make our [...]

Cancer is currently the big bad wolf in our world. Director of the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, Dr. Anil D’Cruz, spoke to us about the facts and myths about cancer and where we stand in our [...]

The Rotary Club of Bombay was honoured to welcome some of the nation’s most accomplished individuals to the meeting last week: Ms. Aparna Popat, nine-time national badminton champion, silver [...]

The Nawaab of Bombay House, Ishaat Hussain, began his talk last Tuesday by telling the Rotarians why he chose to speak on corporate culture. The innumerable corporate misdemeanors globally, and [...]

Padma Shri recipient Sooni Taraporevala has permanent displays for her photographs in the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her work has also [...]