The Rotary Club of Bombay inaugurated a new Jal Jeevan Safe Drinking Water Facility at Yusuf Meherally Vidyalaya (YMV) at Tardeo, Mumbai on March 25, 2019. YMV is a co-educational Marathi medium school established in 1963. It provides an almost-free education to children from lower income groups. The facility was inaugurated by Moti Saraf (father of...
By Chairman Priyasri Patodia The environment-friendly, energy-saving façade and landscape lighting at the CSMVS Museum is in tandem with the solar plant installed by RCB in the same premises. CSMVS is a Grade-I Heritage building of the city housing an outstanding collection of about 50,000 artefacts. The CSMVS museum has been issued a Platinum Certification...
PRIP (2011-2012) Kalyan Banerjee The word ‘good’ has many different aspects. It’s like a well-cut, polished diamond that shines no matter which way you look at it. Rotary is a bit like that diamond. But nowhere else is Rotary as good as it is here and in your Rotary Club of Bombay. Truth to tell, I have...
Dear Friends, Greetings from Taiwan! We are 30 members travelling to Taiwan-Korea for a 10-day visit. We will be back right in time before the next meeting. Meanwhile, RCB has successfully installed another drinking water facility at the Yusuf Meherally Vidyalaya at Tardeo under the Jal Jeevan project. The heat wave seems to have hit us already but...
Rtn. Ptn. Mridula and Rtn. Nandan Maluste hosted an intimate gathering of Rotarians and spouses at their beautiful residence on March 20, 2019. The talk was well attended. The speaker was eminent lawyer Rtn. Anil Harish. His talk on the essentials of making a will was engaging and informative. Beginning with: does one need to...
Rather than be a parasite devouring all of Earth’s resources, mankind must develop more sustainable ways to fuel its engine of growth CAN POLICYMAKING integrate a scientific approach into development? This was the question thrown up by last Tuesday’s guest speaker Dr. Deepak Apte (Director, Bombay Natural History Society). Although Dr. Apte was speaking of India specifically,...
Rtn. Naresh Jain and Rtn. Mohit & Rtn. Ptn. Radhika Jain hosted a wonderful Holi fellowship at their residence on March 21, 2019. Rotarians and partners enjoyed playing Holi with flowers and colour with live music and a fabulous spread of Delhi Chaat. ...
The dialogue between Bombay’s Rotary and The Taj Mahal Hotel began with the Club’s inauguration in 1929 and has still not ended, the subjects of exchanges between them being the size of tables, rooms, microphones, the quality of food and the charges for using the Hotel’s facilities. In the beginning, The Taj Mahal Hotel had...
THANK YOU! PP Rtn. Nandan Damani has given US$ 20,000 to The Rotary Foundation (TRF) Annual Fund. He is a Major Donor Level 3. President Vijay Jatia and the TRF team thank him for his generosity....
Holi Hai is a project organised by the Rotaract Club of H.R. College along with the Ananda Yaan Committee. Twenty-five members of the Club celebrated Holi with 70 senior citizens at the Ananda Yaan Centre in Byculla. To break the ice in the start, and to make the senior citizens feel comfortable, everyone played antakshari. Post...
Members of Ananda Yaan, Byculla made hats at a creative origami workshop taken by Bobbie Vijayakkar on March 15. Bobbie Vijayakkar or Bob, as everyone calls him, is a 65-year-young acclaimed architect and interior designer by profession and an origami enthusiast. Bobbie graduated from Sir JJ college of Architecture, Mumbai in 1977. “I’m just...
