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...
Narrating an incident from a few years ago, Vijay Jatia took to the stage for the first time with his new title - President Jatia. Once, while travelling from Mangalore to Mumbai with his son Mudit, his son was stopped at the boarding gate. The official at the gate asked Mudit, “Are you a Jatia?...
With an unending list of accolades and accomplishments up her sleeve, Dr. Vandana Shiva’s introduction already had the audience awestruck. Dr. Shiva was originally trained as a physicist, who used to “sleep and dream the quanta,” until her attention turned to agriculture after the two tragedies of 1984: the eruption of Punjab violence and the...
Despite being the Managing Director of Bain Capital and a board member of Tata Sons Limited, Amit Chandra’s business acumen and knowledge of banking and equity is not what awed the Rotarians last Tuesday; it was Chandra’s incessant drive to give and better the world that brought the assembly to applause throughout the meeting. When asked about...
Last Tuesday afternoon, Rotarians were privileged to witness a panel discussion between legendary stock market expert Bharat Shah and accomplished macro trends expert Manish Chokhani about the current state of the stock market and the prospect of investing in a seemingly mature bull market. Moderated by Rtn. Dipan Mehta, the discussion was an informative dialogue...
According to Uday Kotak, the Tuesday speaker, Indian corporate governance can be measured by four quadrants. To most Indians these quadrants are already known, but from the speaker’s narration, they were recalled in a manner that will definitely make them hard to forget. “The top right quadrant is the Rama quadrant,” as we all know Lord...
The week before last, we heard Deepak Parekh’s perspective on the government’s development efforts in our city. As the chairman of the Housing Development Finance Corporation, he was very optimistic about the government's plan for our city. The same optimism percolated into the speech of Niranjan Hiranandani, the speaker last Tuesday. As you well know, he...