Are you safe? Is anyone safe from cyber hackers? No, says Dr Harold D’Costa IT SHOULD BE DIFFICULT TO SHOCK a group of seasoned Rotarians. After all, with years of community service in their pocket, Rotarians have first-hand exposure to all the horrors faced by those they aid. Yet, Dr Harold D’Costa, President of Cyber Security Corporation,...
Is it possible to get teenagers interested in becoming vehicles of change? Rishabh Shah says yes WHAT MAKES A BOY LIKE ANY OTHER exemplary? What makes a member of India’s 300 million plus passive youth (in the ages 13 to 19) engaged in the country around him and passionate to effect changes? Rishabh Shah, who...
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...