For a short perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900 in the USA. Many would think that that was a pretty simple time of life. Then on your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war, including many of your friends who...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! For coffee connoisseurs, there is nothing better than the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and that stimulating high from ‘caffeine’. Also, there is a culture associated with coffee. Coffee culture is defined as a lifestyle or a social activity characterised by drinking coffee, especially in coffee houses. Coffee has its origins on...
And the life lessons I learned: entrepreneur Aditya Gupta at last Tuesday’s meeting ONE night, at the Everest base camp, we started climbing higher. One typically started at around 1 o’clock in the night and climbed for about three hours into the Khumbu Icefall which is one of the most dangerous parts of Everest. There is...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! Most of us are confined to the comforts of our homes, working from our homes and limiting our travel for essentials, while on the other hand, there are those many who are expected to do, and are doing, exactly the opposite - yes - the doctors, healthcare workers, police, sweepers and...
11 ventilators installed at the Thane Civic Hospital – all contributed by the Rotary Club of Bombay. The Covid-19 outbreak resulted in the curtailment or restrictions on patients going to nearby towns for dialysis. To alleviate their suffering and danger to the life of these patients, the Rotary Club of Palghar recently established the Rotary...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! Last week we were fortunate to have with us (on our web meeting), Mr. R. Gopalkrishnan. His talk on “THE SHAPER – how the shaper of an institution thinks, behaves and acts differently from the CEO of a good company” was indeed interesting and thought-provoking. These days, with the ‘lock down’, just...
Shapers Of Business Institutions is a book series that explores the shaping of Indian businesses that have withstood the test of time to become institutions in their own right. Co-author R GOPALAKRISHNAN shares his key findings. 1. People relations HR is the least celebrated function in many companies but it comes right on top of the shapers...
At the time of writing this report, India has 11,201 active cases of the Novel Coronavirus which have resulted in 437 deaths. The silver lining is that 1,748 people have been cured and the death rate in India is amongst the lowest in the world. Being a highly infectious virus and seeing the global carnage due...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! I hope we all are safe and sound. From time immemorial, music has formed part of our evolution history as human species. Music is a pattern of sounds. Music is found wherever the human species inhabit, in every known geographical region, culture and religion, past and present, varying widely between times and places....
PP Rtn. Ramesh Narayan is back with his campaign specially created for our elders. Kudos to his committed and sustained efforts towards spreading awareness. The Covid-19 crisis has put the focus on the susceptibility of our elders to this virus. It is a time to specially take care of them. Our Non-Medical 1 Avenue of Service...