The Rotary Club of Bombay thanks its volunteer art teachers Ms Urvi Shah and Ms Divya in their commitment to tutor the children of G K Marg in art, online. A successful architect and interior designer, teaching art is a passion for Urvi. Thus, she has been teaching art to underprivileged children through Bhavishya Yaan for...
On September 22nd, 2020, the Rotary Club of Bombay donated four German make Fresenius Dialysis machines to the Rotary Dialysis Centre at Aastha Hospital, Manor, Palghar. Responding to an appeal by RC of Palghar, RCB facilitated this donation – one earlier this year through its member Rtn. Swati Jajodia and the balance three through a Global...
IN 2017, RICHARD HAAS WROTE A WORLD IN DISARRAY: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CRISIS OF THE OLD ORDER. IN IT, HE SAID THE 21ST CENTURY WAS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT FROM THE PREVIOUS ONES WHICH CONSTITUTED THE MODERN PERIOD. HE REFERRED TO MARK TWAIN’S SAYING, THAT HISTORY MAY NOT REPEAT ITSELF, IT RHYMES; SIMILAR...
The Fellowship & In Camera Committee held an In Camera event “Magnificent Moscow & Elegant St. Petersburg” on September 25th. Over 70 members & their partners enjoyed a virtual tour of these fascinating cities in Russia. The presenters Meher Framjee & Rahul Sapte from Holidays @ Leisure gave us wonderful glimpses of cultural highlights and...
THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY IS ONE OF THE MANY WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED DUE TO THE CURRENT COVID PANDEMIC. With no stable source of income over the past five months they have been struggling to survive. Trivni Samaj Vikas Kendra is a community based organisation working closely with over 1800 community members in Malvani area, Malad. During...
TEA TREATS OR SOMETHING’S BREWING As we have spent so many months at home now, one turns to hobbies to pass time. After all there is just so much television one can watch. Music is a great companion in these distressing days where gloom and doom are permanent bedfellows. Listening to classical music brings me to the topic...
BY ANDRÉ J.J. BAPTISTA (PHD) ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY, CULTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY THE TALK LOCATED THE HISTORY OF THE BASSEIN FORT, JUST NORTH OF MUMBAI, INTO THE LARGER NARRATIVE OF PORTUGUESE CONQUEST, RULE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE WEST COAST OF INDIA, PARTICULARLY THE NORTH KONKAN. André began with a political history of Bassein or Vasai from Bahadur Shah...
The Rotaract Club of Hinduja College, with the aim to allow creators on Instagram to grow their content and donate the amount received for a social cause, initiated the event “Expand Explore Discover” (a social media intiative). The event was a collaboration with “The Robinhood Army” for the ‘Mission30Million’. A hundred participants achieved 50 per cent...
WHEN I WAS A STUDENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, THERE WERE JUST THREE GIRLS IN MY CLASS. ALL OF THEM WERE SMARTER THAN ME AND IF I TRIED TO GET LUCKY USING ANY CHEAP LINES, THEY SAW RIGHT THROUGH ME. MY ONLY OPTION WAS TO TAKE UP PHOTOGRAPHY WHICH I ENJOYED THOROUGHLY. MOST KIDS IN THOSE...
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