“Four years have passed. Ananda Yaan, the elder day care project of the Rotary Club of Bombay, with its partner Dignity Foundation, has achieved its objective of spreading happiness amongst the underprivileged elders in the heart of Mumbai. The two centres at Byculla and Dr. E. Moses Road have a carefully structured activity programme for five...
The Rotaract Club of Hinduja College, RCB’s Partners-in- Service, organised a quiz competition for students of Grades 1 and 2 on July 22nd, 2021. The topics were national symbols and general knowledge. Each grade got questions as per their educational level. A winner from each standard received an e-certificate. The Child Welfare Committee thanks the...
Countries like Norway are seeing a 50 per cent adoption of electric cars. There are targets to reduce carbon dioxide and the best way to do that is to move away from internal combustion and to look at alternative sources. Electric cars have gathered momentum around the world but not so much in India. What are the...
The Rotaract Club of Hinduja College’s team International Service organised its flagship event ‘Nelson’s Legacy’ on July 18th, 2021, Nelson Mandela Day. The two-day initiative with the Gilder Lane Municipal School, Mumbai, was packed with a mental math session, a module on table etiquette, and a two-part segment on English vocabulary. [gallery size="full" link="none" ids="26971,26972,26973,26974,26975,26976"]...
For weeks now, I have been wanting to start a page in The Gateway bulletin that taps into the generosity of our Rotarians. I am very sure that a page where we list out small, meaningful gifts would bring more pleasure to us, the donors, than even the recipients. It may mean nothing for us to spend...
Electric cars have really gathered momentum around the world but in India, not so much. I would like to set a background of electric cars vis-à-vis the usual internal combustion engine which has been around since the car was invented in 1885 and it is still around very much but obviously, we are seeing the...
I was an active player until 2015, when I retired to increase focus on and publicity of the women’s cricket team. Therefore, I chose the field of media. The 2017 Women’s World Cup final was painful for all of us. I was in the press box for that final, one of three Indians covering the tournament...
The Rotary Club of Bombay and Ishira Kumar (The Little Fish Picture Co.) are raising funds to organise private vaccination camps for the family members of the Mumbai Police Force. Ishira recently conducted two vaccination camps in Worli – fully fundraised by donations from generous Worli residents. She vaccinated 800 people over two days – the...
Rtn. Natasha Treasurywala has been nominated for Asian Legal Business’s (ALB’s) Woman Lawyer of the Year. Natasha shared, “I am happy to be among the 20 women nominated from the 800+ nominations received.” Natasha is a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions as well as debt capital markets. In the past year, she has worked...
The Rotary Club of Bombay has signed a LoU (Letter of Understanding) with the Oxford India Centre of Sustainable Development (OICSD), Somerville College, Oxford University, UK, to peer review a curriculum on Environmental Science and also establish Rotary-Oxford scholarships for pursuing post-graduate studies at OICSD in Environmental Science (EVS) and Sustainable Development (SD). DGE Sandip Agarwalla,...
“Rotarians love challenges,” RIP Shekhar Mehta has said, throwing this gauntlet: ‘Each One Bring One’. Membership to the Rotary has hovered around 1.2 million for the past two decades. To be able to do more through service, Rotary needs to increase membership. Thus, RIP Shekhar’s ‘Each One, Bring One’ initiative asks every member to bring...