As DG Harjit Singh Talwar congratulated the Rotary Club of Bombay for a job well done these past years and outlined the path ahead, an air of pride and determination dominated RCB’s Tuesday meeting last week AT THE OUTSET let me congratulate and compliment all the Past Presidents of this Club, 90 years’ service to the community,...
Even as India and the world celebrate the quick lockdown effected upon 1.3 bn people in the world’s largest democracy, P SAINATH throws light upon a total miscarriage of justicebillion On May 17th, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued an extremely strict curfew order which said: ‘Movement of individuals is strictly prohibited between 7 pm and...
PADMAJA RUPAREL, co-founder, Indian Angel Network, talks start-ups, disruption and how to harness their energy to drive India’s growth What have start-up and innovation done for this country? First, let’s look at what India was before colonization: it contributed to 25 per cent of the world’s GDP in the 1700s, almost the same as China at...
RICHARD REKHY talks about business continuity and how to reinvent the future Planet Earth is closed. The global economic impact has been tremendous. There are four to five impacts of Covid-19. First, is Covid itself. Second is the oil crisis that hit us immediately on the back of Covid-19. Third is the health impact due to...
Rtn. (Dr.) Aashish Contractor provides an overview of where we are today with COVID19 ACCORDING to the official data from the Ministry of Health, we have 21000 active cases and we have 934 deaths as of April 28th, 2020, 8 am. The curve shows a slight upsurge in case of India, but considering how populous we...
And the life lessons I learned: entrepreneur Aditya Gupta at last Tuesday’s meeting ONE night, at the Everest base camp, we started climbing higher. One typically started at around 1 o’clock in the night and climbed for about three hours into the Khumbu Icefall which is one of the most dangerous parts of Everest. There is...
Shapers Of Business Institutions is a book series that explores the shaping of Indian businesses that have withstood the test of time to become institutions in their own right. Co-author R GOPALAKRISHNAN shares his key findings. 1. People relations HR is the least celebrated function in many companies but it comes right on top of the shapers...
Rtn. Shariq Contractor talks about government policies during the Covid-19 lockdown. There are many changes that have been brought in during the Covid-19 lockdown. The first that was announced recently was that the due date of filing returns has been extended to June 30th. This has been postponed not only with reference to Income Tax but...
RCB HAD ITS FIRST-EVER E-MEETING NEEDED IN TODAY’S SOCIAL DISTANCING TIMES PP RTN. SANDIP AGARWALLA I am a part of the Government of Maharashtra’s CSR-Medical Equipments and Supplies group as well as the GoM Food group. Every now and then we receive messages that food supplies are not reaching this corner and that corner. I am happy...
As my teacher Swami Chinmayanand says, ‘Success is a tribute that life pays to excellence’. When we cultivate an excellence of mind, then success is a natural offshoot. And, so, everybody desires success. Each one aspires to be successful; many become so because success makes us feel good about ourselves, gives a sense of accomplishment...
Hemendra Kothari, who received the Taru Lalvani Award for Environment Protection last Tuesday, talked about conservation and wildlife along with Dr. Anish Andheria Hemendra Kothari is the chairman of the India chapter of Nature Conservancy, the largest conservancy in the world of which 73 countries are a part. “I realised the impact of climate change in the...
Amit Chandra spoke to Rotarians last Tuesday about the role philanthropy can play in our lives In my life, I have had the privilege of building two institutions: one along with my Guru Hemandra Kothari, DSP Meryll Lynch, which went on to become India’s premier Investment Bank before it was folded with Bank of America. And,...