75 key events from India’s recent past were covered by the Bhavishya Yaan kids in video format, to celebrate India’s 75th Independence Day, on August 15th, 2021. Events were assigned to each BY school and the teachers worked with the children to research the event and prepare their speeches. The children made their own videos, and...
Miyawaki is a technique pioneered by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, that helps build dense, native forests. The approach is supposed to ensure that plant growth is 10 times faster and the resulting plantation is 30 times denser than usual. It involves planting dozens of native species in the same area, and becomes maintenancefree after the...
Rakhi with Khaki was a community service initiative by the Rotaract Club of Hinduja College to celebrate Raksha bandhan with our police force. The event was conducted in three states – Maharashtra (Mumbai) at V.P Road Station, Rajasthan (Jodhpur) at Sardarpura Police Station, and Madhya Pradesh (Gwalior) at Morar Police Thana. The police were kind enough...
Prize distribution for SSC scholars of Bhavishya Yaan was carried out offline by each school separately. About 60 students of 2020 and 70 students of 2021 were awarded prizes, with the overall toppers receiving mobile phones, top 8 from each school receiving wireless earphones and others above 70% receiving wired earphones. While we carried a...
Check out our dancing elders of Ananda Yaan (in association with Dignity Foundation). Lightfooted and sure, they were out in full force to celebrate Independence Day. Competitions like open mic, best dress, and a quiz about India were organised. Mr Roshan Singh of Fitfuda Fitness Centre, who teaches our members Zumba, graced the event with...
As part of RCB’s outreach to the Vaidu community to rehabilitate them, rations were distributed to a hundred such needy families in Jogeshwari East areas. These families earn their living by working as construction site workers, delivery persons, door to door salesmen, vegetable vendors, drainage cleaners, etc. Before the lockdown, they earned over Rs 6000 to...
The Rotary Club of Bombay has organised free Covid vaccine camps for the tribal residents of Palghar district. was essential because tribals were not getting vaccinated due to the prohibitive cost, unavailability of vaccines and the various dogmas in their mind. RCB is vaccinating the tribals free of cost. DGE Sandip Agarwalla, who initiated the...
RCB’s Parsi Nite fellowship hosted by Kunal Vijaykar had Rotarians turning out in their traditional best ...
A few weeks ago, President Shernaz Vakil wrote about the varied community service projects undertaken by Rotarian children. While editing our Know Your Rotarian column on Rtn. Anand Dalal this week, we came across another gem, his daughter Naisha. We’ll let her proud papa say it in his words: “Naisha is currently at Grade 9 at Bombay International...
If Mahatma Phule were alive today, would he be happy to see the progress India has made? What about Dr. Ambedkar or Gandhiji? That’s what our Lighthouse students portrayed while stepping into the shoes of famous personalities. This thought-provoking piece was amongst the many items showcased on August 15th, 2021, to celebrate 75 years of India’s...
You had a wonderful and brief journey in Bollywood, but you made a mark; how did you stumble upon this path? Even as a little girl, I enjoyed the performing arts. I did ballet for 12 years, elocution and was always on the stage in school. I never realised I would be an actor. It happened...