Pranay Vakil’s career history is steeped in real estate. He laid the foundation stones of international property consultants Knight Frank India. Even since quitting in 2012, he has remained a media darling and often been quoted on a variety of subjects. Chairman of Praron Consultancy India Pvt Ltd since 2012, he has shared his views...
We were honoured to welcome to our meeting last week Padma Bhushan recipient, Dr. Farokh Udwadia, physician extraordinaire. Eloquent and intelligent, this man is one of the most reputed physicians, professors, and music enthusiasts - a triple treat, indeed. Dr. Udwadia wowed us Rotarians as he engaged us with snippets of three essays from his...
Last Tuesday, the Rotary Club of Bombay was honoured to welcome to our meeting Rtn. Narinder Nayar, a well-known industrialist and a member of our Club for decades. What he is not as familiar for is his role as Chairman of Mumbai First, an initiative to make the city a better place to live, work,...
The Rotary Club of Bombay was honoured to invite one of India’s most spiritual dynamic leaders, Swami Swatmanandaji, to our meeting last Tuesday. Swamiji introduced his topic of 'Oneness and Humility,’ choosing to explore it through the environment’s perspective. He grabbed our attention with a few equations. The first one being: Action minus vision equals division....
Founder and Director of the Mumbai International Literary Festival and Literature Live, Anil Dharker, is a columnist, writer, and literary genius. We were privileged to hear his insights on the Indian bullet train project. Beginning his discussion, Dharker forewarned us Rotarians, “The topic of the talk is "Shoot the Bullet, not Shoot the Messenger.” He hoped...
We were honoured to host Gateway House’s Amit Bhandari for the meeting last Tuesday. Gateway House is a foreign policy think-tank that has been researching and conducting analytic exercises to understand China’s investments. Bhandari’s insightful revelations gave us a more thorough understanding of the current eco-political relationship between China, India, and each country’s allies. He began...
If someone were to tell you that a couple - grandparents to three grandchildren - travelled 16,500 kilometres by road all within 49 days, you probably would not believe it. Well, the Jatias will change your mind. R/anne Vatsala and Rtn. Ashok Jatia journeyed through 18 countries during their voyage by car from India all the...
In today’s world, there is not a more universal topic of discussion than that of food and nourishment. This week, ‘gourmet queen’ Asha Khatau introduced us to a wealth of ideas to help make our meals more nourishing and more delectable. Khatau has run cooking classes for the past fifteen years at Epicure, a brand...
Cancer is currently the big bad wolf in our world. Director of the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, Dr. Anil D’Cruz, spoke to us about the facts and myths about cancer and where we stand in our fight against it. Currently, there are about 14 million cases of cancer worldwide. Two-thirds of those cases are in...
The Rotary Club of Bombay was honoured to welcome some of the nation’s most accomplished individuals to the meeting last week: Ms. Aparna Popat, nine-time national badminton champion, silver medalist at the 1996 World Junior Championships, two-time Olympian, and four-time medalist in three Commonwealth Games appearances; Dr. Kaustubh Radkar, who has participated in the Ironman...
The Nawaab of Bombay House, Ishaat Hussain, began his talk last Tuesday by telling the Rotarians why he chose to speak on corporate culture. The innumerable corporate misdemeanors globally, and especially locally, in the last two years are a cause for concern and confusion. What is wrong with the corporate world in our status quo?...
Padma Shri recipient Sooni Taraporevala has permanent displays for her photographs in the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her work has also been exhibited in art galleries across the USA, France, and in the Tate Modern Gallery in London. A rendezvous with legendary photographer Raghubir Singh after...