Mr. Phiroze Andhyarujina In keeping with the buzz of the Union Budget that has consumed the majority of the last week, RCB invited two relevant experts to decode the same for the Club Meeting. Rtn. PP Dadi Engineer, eminent Solicitor and Advocate and Sr. Partner with Crawford Bayley& Company, Solicitors and Advocates, and among other subjects,...
Viral Shah The 9th of February saw the young software prodigy Viral B. Shah address Rotarians on how we should all strive to move towards a 'Cashless India', which would result in saving enormous time, effort and money for the government, and more importantly, bring in the much needed convenience for the Indian layman to go...
Rtn. Sabira Merchant CB never ceases to amaze its members, and those who attended the Club Meeting on the 2nd of February will be in complete agreement! Because perched atop the Taj Rooftop, at the ' Rendezvous' that Tuesday afternoon, in addition to the cordial weekly lunch and informative Rotary announcements, the Rotarians had a gala...
Shaheen Mistri My life has been about trying to do whatever I can to catalyse all of us together to work for all children. I'm incredibly humbled to be amidst people who have already done so much work for society and have the capacity to do so much more. I wake up each morning and ask...
Brig. Behram Panthaki The Club Meeting held on the 12th of January, 2016, is one that will surely stay back for a long time in the minds of all present. There were two very charismatic speakers instead of one, and they spoke of a man who defined the very essence of that word! It was indeed...
Dr. Prakash Baba Amte Dr. Prakash Baba Amte is a medical doctor and social worker from Maharashtra. Son of the famous Magsaysay awardee, Baba Amte, he along with and his wife, Dr. Mandakini Amte, have also been jointly felicitated with the Magsaysay Award for 'Community Leadership', or as the citation reads, for "enhancing the capacity of...
Air Marshall Matherswaran As India enters the seventh year memorial of the dastardly 26/11 terror attacks that had held Mumbai under siege for four days and resulted in the appalling killings of numerous innocents, there is hardly a Bombayite who doesn't look back and wonder could the Government have handled that situation with greater effectivity. Providing...
Gopalakrishnan Go home and do this today… get a banana, peel it, eat it and taste it. Next wash your mouth and after a while have another banana, but this time with your nose pinched, so you can't breathe," was the uncharacteristic note on which our esteemed guest speaker, R. Gopalakrishnan, started his address! And as...
Mr. Daniel Hanan The afternoon of the 3rd of November will stay etched in the minds of all the Rotarians as it marked the combined entreaty of two of the more powerful European Union parliamentarians, Nirj Deva and Daniel Hanan, who addressed and impressed upon us all their special mission of exploring and promoting the UK-India...
Shyam Sundar Paliwal For a week we had been looking forward to meeting the man who had revolutionized both – the regressive rural social outlook as well as the ecology of a state, not known to rank amongst one of the nation's developed ones – Rajasthan. Hailed as the 'Father of Eco-Feminism', the first impression that...
Rtn. Aashish The weekly meet on the 20th of October was one that will stay back with the Rotarians for a long time – not simply because it was a debate instead of the usual Speakers' address, but because it was a debate in which the Rotarians participated with much enthusiasm and got the audience really...
Mr. Justice Mohit Shah Professionals are encouraged to provide their services free of charge, business and private enterprise are looked down upon, and the profit motive is criticised as evil. Such is the practice of socialism in India for over 40 years, bringing things to a pass where mediocrity rules over everything. Whenever the question of...