Fellow Rotarians, A year ago at my ‘Installation’ function at the Taj, I delivered my “acceptance speech”, outlining our goals and tasks, to be accomplished during my year as President of our great Club. Twelve short months later, the time has arrived to review our progress and for me to shortly demit office. This for me, has been...
Dear SMART President PREETI, I take this opportunity to congratulate, compliment and commend you for the exemplary leadership you have provided to RC Bombay in SMART year 2019-20. You are leading the club with distinction, charisma and aplomb and have raised the bar, setting new benchmarks for your successors to emulate. RC Bombay is the PRIDE of...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! It originated in Wuhan, China and soon spread like wildfire all over the world. In a matter of a few weeks, our lives changed in such drastic ways, making us aware of the importance of very many things which otherwise one simply took for granted. Global economies are impacted and on a...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! HE VISITS MY TOWN ONCE A YEAR. HE FILLS MY MOUTH WITH KISSES AND NECTAR. I SPEND ALL MY MONEY ON HIM WHO, GIRL, YOUR MAN? NO , A MANGO. -AMIR KHUSRAU (Sufi musician, poet, scholar (1253-1325) and spiritual disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya, Delhi) Mango, the quintessential summer fruit, the ‘King of Fruits’ and...
Fellow Rotarians, Very Warm Greetings! Street food: probably, few countries can match the extent, variety, flavour and taste of Indian street food. This is ready-to-eat food sold in streets or public places by vendors usually from portable outlets. But, in India, it covers both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes across roadside carts, holes in the wall, small stalls,...
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...
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...
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...