Ananda Yaan members went all out, dressed in red, to celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Rotaract Club of H.R College. Our Rotractors explained the true meaning of Valentine’s to our senior citizens and broke the common mindset of only a boy and girl celebrating Valentine’s together. They played various fun games with them that were accompanied...
Shobha Mohan, founder of ‘Rare’ and a storyteller, took Rotarians through a virtual tour of some hidden gems across India [gallery columns="1" size="full" link="none" ids="25462,25463"]...
ASSESSING THE BUDGET Every year, Budget Day leaves people a nervous wreck. This year, specifically in light of the Covid situation, people were on the edge trying to anticipate which way the cookie would crumble and how would it impact their businesses, their personal lives and the economy in general. Rumours were adrift that taxes were...
The teachers of Shankar Mahadevan Academy put up a music show on February 8th, at 7:30 pm. The senior citizens of Ananda Yaan watched the one-and-a-half-hour-long live entertainment together on a big screen at the Dr E Moses Road centre while others logged in from their homes. Our 80 Ananda Yaan elders, 40 Bhavishya Yaan children...
The Anusuya Devi Taparia Junior College in Talwada was set up in 2008 with a magnificent donation of Rs. 45 lakh from Rtn. Bharat Taparia. In the past 12 years, however, the Junior College needed repairs and renovation. When our Club approached Mr. Bharat Taparia, he magnanimously sanctioned Rs. 25 lakh for the same. We have...
PP SHAILESH HARIBHAKTI: It was very thoughtful of you to have given us the topic of reflections of the Budget because I think we have allowed a sufficient amount of time to be spent in truly doing that. So, I am going to talk to all of you about the 3 hundred-billion-dollar idea which I see...
On International Inner Wheel Day, Inner Wheel Club of Bombay hosted Sports Day for Underprivileged Children at Shantivan, Panvel ...
SUPER TRACK RECORDS As the local trains start this week for the first time since the lockdown, here is but a mere glimpse of her rich history...
Covid-19 was an invisible enemy and on May 8th, when the Government of Maharashtra appointed me Municipal Commissioner of the city, I remember I had read an e-newspaper early that morning that there had been a death on a road divider in Dharavi. A dead body had been lying there, a dead body in an...
Seeing the success of the earlier challenge, the Sports Committee has introduced the Steps Week Challenge for Rotary members. This is an eight-day challenge where participants need to walk 5000 steps every day for eight days. Seeing the popularity of the challenges, the Sports Committee is planning some more interesting challenges soon....