Dear Friends, Very warm greetings. The Monsoon Session of our 17th Lok Sabha began on June 17th, 2019. Scheduled to end on July 26th, 2019, it was extended until August 7th, 2019 (and is probably the longest session in the past 14 years) in order to complete legislative business. During this session, Lok Sabha had sittings for...
CAMARADERIE, bonhomie and fun were the lietmotif of the three-and-a-half day Rotary trip to Pondicherry (Puducherry) and Mahabalipuram (Mamalapuram). The early morning flight landed in Chennai to a sumptuous breakfast awaiting the 36 Rotarians/Rotarian Partners at Radisson Blue GRT. Then, a super luxury Volvo sped to Pondicherry’s beach-side Le Pondy Resort, getting us there by early...
RTN. SHEKHAR MEHTA, Rotary Club of Calcutta, Mahanagar, Past RI Director, is the choice of the Nominating Committee to serve as RI President 2021-22. Mehta acknowledges that present participation patterns are a challenge and says that membership development should be Rotary’s most noteworthy need. He accepts that concentrating on local plans, effectively progressing Rotaractors...
RTN. PTN. EKTA SHAH availed of Ananda Yaan’s Ananda Seva to celebrate her birthday. Members of RCB’s Byculla Ananda Yaan Centre, in partnership with Dignity Foundation, experienced the pilgrimage of a lifetime. On July 18th, 2019, Byculla Centre members visited not just one or two but four holy places in a span of 12 hours! Fifty-eight senior...
Conservation architect Vikas Dilawari warns that meaningful restoration is suffering from indifference EXPERIENCE counts and so it was a delight to hear Conservation Architect Vikas Dilawari at the Club meeting last Tuesday. Vikas’s beautiful presentation packed fabulous images of before and after restoration works that kept the audience engrossed. The conservation movement started with the World Wars...
Health coach Ashdin Doctor talks about different kinds of energy and how to replenish them FIVE years ago, Ashdin Doctor collapsed. He had been overworked and overstressed, he had been in an emotionally-abusive relationship and that had taken its toll. He says, “I was getting ready for a presentation. I was putting on my shirt when...
FOR those who don’t know, Super 30 is a film based on the life of mathematician Anand Kumar, who prepares underprivileged students for entrance to IITs under his Super 30 programme. It stars Hrithik Roshan in the lead. Last week, 15 Bhavishya Yaan students were not only overjoyed to watch the movie together and see the...
THE Child Welfare Committee would like to thank the Sadhu Vaswani Mission who celebrated Dada’s 101st birthday with our Lighthouse Children on July 31st. A DJ involved the children in a variety of games as soon as they arrived. Small gifts and biscuit packs were handed out as prizes to the lucky winners. The game session...
Dear Friends, Very ‘warm’ greetings from Mamallapuram. The last few days have been hectic and still very enjoyable. Having a pleasant walk on Puducherry’s seafront promenade full of historical sights, visit to the famous Auroville and Aurobindo Ashram, evenings filled with lots of fun, music and dance, we now are in Mamallapuram. Most visited the famous sites...
“SOLIDARITY on Wheels” (Ruedas Solidarias) is a social support programme through which the Rotary Club Punta Gorda, in Uruguay, in cooperation with the Uruguay Automobile Club (Automóvil Club del Uruguay - ACU) enables and reacts to situations of need which exist in numerous parts of the country. To enable a wide variety of service projects across...