Talwada- 26/11. Be there! Dear friends, For too long we have associated 26/11 with something dreadful and something very sad. While we will always respect the memory of what happened to Mumbai and Mumbaikars on that fateful 26/11, we want to now give the date a more cheerfull and positive context. It is going to be a...
Dear friends, Many of you’ll know young Pooja the emcee at my Installation who was spotted and picked up by Rtn. Ashrafi Matcheswala to do a vocational course. Well, she’s doing well and is enjoying the laptop that the Scholarship Committee gifted her. One more young life impacted by the Rotary Club of Bombay....
Dear friends, I am very glad that Diwali was celebrated by members of our Club with great enthusiasm at the Fellowship organised by Sandip Agarwala and his team. This issue of the Gateway and a few issues after this will carry reports received by us for the second Club Assembly. Please read them carefully. The Club Assembly is...
Dear friends, Diwali is the biggest festival in India. Let it be a festival of giving and sharing. With minimum noise and air pollution. I am very glad the Environment Committee is taking on the Bay View Marina Park at Cuffe Parade as anexample of what a truly Green park should be. It's not just about the...
Our Cotton Green medical centre began with Dr. Batra's Homeopathy Clinic. It now has a dental chair, an optometrist and a collection Centre of NM Medical. All these provide vital medical care to the underprivileged. And the beneficiaries do not have to pay for these services. Very soon we intend opening a Maternal and Child...
Dear friends, Firstly, heartiest congratulations to our very own member PDG Gulam Vahanvaty on his appointment as Trustee of The Rotary Foundation (TRF). Gulam, you make us feel so proud. Our best wishes are with you. The Rotary Foundation has been at the forefront of providing relief and succour to good causes all over the world. Its war...
Dear friends, As Mumbai got battered by rains it was time to think of the environment. We really should be doing something, however small, as our contribution to a greener future. It could be as small as switching off the lights and fans which you don't need. It could be by supporting visionaries who are rallying for our...
Dear friends, The Animal Welfare Committee has kicked off an ambitious plan for the year ahead. Chaired by Bipin Vazirani and Priyasri Patodia, the Committee has kicked off a community project along with the Cuffe Parade Residents Association (CPRA) to sterilize approximately 55 stray cats in the neighbourhood. They will also be donating a couple of animal...
Dear friends, The Shankar Mahadevan concert to raise funds for Bhavishya Yaan the widely acclaimed student enrichment project of the Rotary Club of Bombay (RCB) was a winner in more ways than one. It proved to be a great effort to actually raise money for a good cause. It brought members of our Club together, united by a...
Dear friends, We are a little over a month into the Rotary Year. And what a month it has been. Ananda Yaan our new Elder Day Care Centre has been launched. The media embraced it warmly. The kind of mainstream media attention it has garnered has seldom been seen in Rotary circles. This in itself goes to...
Dear friends, There are some unique activities that the Rotary Club of Bombay has to its credit. One of them is the In Camera Committee. This is really an informative meeting with a speaker, combined with a dinner hosted at the residence of one of our generous Rotarians. So this could very aptly be described as...
The Rotary Year begins. I wish to thank you all for the good wishes you have conveyed to me over the last few days and I commit myself to furthering the cause of Rotary and strengthening our Club. We need to concentrate on a few things. Our on-going projects are all well-conceived and properly planned. Let's...