Vol 67 Issue no 43
May 19, 2026
PAST ISSUE ARCHIVES
What’s the Good Word? A Spirited Afternoon of Wit, Wordplay, and Friendly Rivalry
May 17, 2026
What’s the Good Word? A Spirited Afternoon of Wit, Wordplay, and Friendly Rivalry One of the club’s most eagerly awaited in-house events, What’s the Good Word?, returned this year with all the charm, humour, competitiveness, and linguistic brilliance that Rotarians have come to love over the years, curated and conducted by the ever-graceful Rtn. Sabira Merchant transformed...
Vol 67 Issue no 42
May 11, 2026
Rotary Club of Bombay Indira Suresh Kotak Award for Conflict Resolution through Mediation and Conciliation to Justice Akil Kureshi
May 9, 2026
Good afternoon, everybody. We have this National Judicial Academy, which our friend mentioned a couple of times in his address, where we judges all get together, exchange thoughts and ideas, and education programmes go on. The post-lunch session is described as a graveyard session. It's difficult to keep the audience awake with a sumptuous lunch and...
Vol 67 Issue no 41
May 5, 2026
Kalpana Sham Munshi Award for Excellence in Performing Arts & Culture to Mr. Anupam Kher
May 4, 2026
Kalpana Sham Munshi Award for Excellence in Performing Arts & Culture to Mr. Anupam Khe. Yes, good afternoon. Thank you so much. To look important on an occasion like this, where I think people are more qualified than I am, I dressed up differently. I rarely wear a suit. I do not usually wear a suit...
Vol 67 Issue no 40
April 28, 2026
Former Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria in conversation with former editor of Femina Ms. Sathya Sara
April 27, 2026
Former Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria in conversation with former editor of Femina Ms. Sathya Saran on the Book ‘When It All Began: The Untold Stories of the Underworld’ Ms. Sathya Saran: I have read this book not once, but twice, because every time you ask me to do a moderation, I read the book again. And it's...
Vol 67 Issue no 39
April 21, 2026
ACTRESS-TURNED-JEWELLERY ENTREPRENEUR AND DESIGNER, TAMANNAAH BHATIA IN CONVERSATION WITH RTN. PRIYA TANNA ON REINVENTING THE SPOTLIGHT
April 18, 2026
Rtn. Priya Tanna: Thanks for joining us, Tamannaah, it is such a pleasure to be in conversation with you. Guys, before we begin, I just have to say this on her behalf: all the jewellery you ever buy from her store, do not imagine that it is going to look on you the way it looks...
Vol 67 Issue no 38
April 7, 2026
The Gallery of Upside-Down Women: A Conversation on Voice, Mysticism and Poetry Arundhathi Subramaniam, Shernaz Patel and Anahita Uberoi
April 4, 2026
Arundhathi Subramaniam: Thank you so much, and thank you for having us here. I should tell you something about what to expect before we actually plunge into this reading. The Gallery of Upside-Down Women is a book of poems I wrote, published last year by Penguin. It is a book that marks the culmination of...