Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! Historically, business models have been quite standard with certain key factors and then had some variations on a case-to-case basis. In the early twentieth century, the ‘bait and hook’ or the ‘tied products’ model was popular, where the basic product is sold at a very cheap price in order to make profit by...
RCB conferred the Social Service Award to Pratibha Pai and the Sohrab Godrej Award for Science and Technology to Dr. Laxman Singh Rathore last Tuesday Pratibha Pai Many Rotarians might be aware that I was involved, in my own way, in the launch of your flagship education programme Bhavishya Yaan. My BMS students of HR College were the...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! It is irresistible – eaten, when happy, sad or celebrating – an incredibly important and delicious aspect of people’s lives across the world, it’s difficult not to drool while talking about ‘chocolate’. As someone said, “Chocolate is happiness that you can eat”. The word ‘chocolate’ conjures up images of luscious bars, pralines, truffles,...
A vintage Rotary club which once had JRD Tata as its member, the Rotary Club of Bombay, RID 3141, was one of the first clubs in India to spring into action to help the Maharashtra government, especially the beleaguered city of Mumbai, which has been groaning under the brutal impact of Covid-19, deal with the...
ANANDA YAAN Life has been getting stressful for our Ananda Yaan seniors at the Byculla centre. The essentials provided by the ration shops were not enough for the full family. We, at Dignity Foundation and Rotary Club of Bombay, swung into action and arranged for 100 ration kits, each having 12 essential items of good quality...
Ajit Ranade, Group Executive President and Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group casts an eye on the way ahead for the Indian economy Our objective has always been to have inclusive growth. But before inclusive growth you need to have economic growth, the expansion of opportunity, the expansion of income, revenues and profits. So, I am especially happy...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! ‘Varsha Ritu’, ‘Borsha’, ‘Varsham’, and ‘Kar’ in different parts of India. The English word monsoon is believed to originate in the Portuguese ‘moncao’, the Arabic ‘mawsim’, and the Dutch ‘monson’. Monsoon and amchi Mumbai have a poetic bond. The turbulent lashing sea, black clouds and dark overcast skies herald its arrival. This is...
On May 15, Rotary Club of Bombay in association with Salaam Baalak Trust distributed essential ration and basic hygiene supplies to 24 families of street children. Parents of these children, who have lost their livelihood and find it difficult to make ends meet, are being supported by the Child Welfare Committee of RCB. These are the...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! It is said that William Wordsworth — called a ‘poet of nature’, whose poetry is filled with tramping up hills, through dales, forests, around lakes, and along public roads, walked as much as 180,000 miles in his lifetime i.e. an average of about six and a half miles each day, starting...