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,...
Adm. Robin Dhowan spoke to Rotarians about India’s place in the maritime world In the Indian Ocean region, we have about 120,000 ships which transit through here every year and these ships carry 66 per cent of the world’s oil, 50 per cent of the world’s container traffic and 33 per cent of the world’s cargo...
Take care of your memories, guest speaker Nasreen Munni Kabir told Rotarians, last Tuesday Many of us must have photographs of our parents or grandparents. Do you look after these photographs well now because technology allows you to digitise everything? But the one thing you must remember is if you have a grandparent, you must ask...
Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year-old pilot from Mumbai, became the world’s first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA) last year. She spoke of her experiences at the Rotary meeting last Tuesday Rotarians gave a rousing welcome to the 23-year-old pilot Captain Aarohi Pandit who smashed multiple world records as...
Tushar Arun Gandhi on the Mahatma 150 years after the Mahatma’s birth, do we deserve to be the bearers of his legacy and do we deserve him? He did what he had to do in his lifetime and whether or not he is relevant today does not matter; the pertinent question is whether we deserve to...
Prasoon Joshi shares his inspirations, his influences and his belief in people in an interview with Rtn. Farhat Jamal at last Tuesday’s meeting Your parents are trained classical vocalists; what influence did it have on your life as a creative person? I lived in the mountains in Uttarakhand. Those were not the great days of television and...