The Rotary Club of Bombay (RCB) has many large on-going projects. HTEC and ADMC at Talwada, Women's Empowerment at the IWA Clinic, Urban Heritage at the Asiatic, Jal Jeevan in Mumbai's slums, the new RCB Cotton Green Medical Centre and Bhavishya Yaan (BY) in five Municipal schools. A study of the budgetary requirements revealed that BY...
Jamaica, despite being a smaller country than our own, has won more Olympic medals than India. And it took Sundar Raman only thirty minutes to tell us why, providing answers to many of our pressing questions about sports in India. Only the other day, Usain Bolt ran his last race. To the dismay of his fans...
Our Tuesday meeting was bustling with energy and chatter when the call to take one’s seat was announced. Perhaps this only paralleled the noise that our speaker, Faye D’Souza from the newly-inaugurated TV news channel Mirror Now, would discuss during her speech: With all the noise and clamor that surrounds Indian media, and news especially,...
Good health is good business and sometimes, good business can also be very good health,” began Anuj Rakyan, who belongs to the young breed of entrepreneurs who have found a way to market their passion. The importance of maintaining a healthy diet and keeping fit “was ingrained in [him] from a very early stage by...
Rtn. Shailesh Haribhakti was grateful to be the ‘opening batsman’ for the new president; a well chosen analogy, considering that he was the first speaker to inaugurate the new term, and that the inauguration took place at the Cricket Club of India. He was invited to speak about the Goods and Services Tax and give everyone...
On Tuesday 13th June, the weekly meeting began with more excitement than usual. As a group of unassuming, young girls approached the familiar stage, the audience wondered what kind of business these youngsters - who must have been at least a third of their own age - had at one of the most esteemed meetings...
Back in 1972, Kalyan Banerjee began his journey as a Rotarian in Vapi, Gujarat. Forty years hence, he has served as the 101st president of Rotary International, and is, at present, the International Chairperson of TRF. While every senior Rotarian has played a character in the story that sums up this triumphant journey, each one...
India’s nuclear power programme was first initiated in the 1950s by Homi Bhabha, a nuclear physicist and the founding director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Bhabha pioneered the nation’s long-term energy independence, but last week, the Rotary Club of Bombay and Bombay Airport were honoured to meet the man continuing Bhabha’s legacy and...
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” These words were written by Shakespeare for a play well-known as ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ but in life, or the larger play in which we all perform our roles, there are several instances when these lines resonate just...
To see the Taj Ballroom filled to the brim with rotarians was a welcoming sight. As the seats found themselves occupied and the room echoed with excited whispers, a sagely but wide-smiling man took to the stage’s podium. “I feel grateful for the opportunity to meet you all,” he began. “I have come here to learn...
“The world will change,” began Aditya Puri, the current Managing Director of HDFC Bank, after accepting the prestigious Ramkrishna Bajaj Award for Good Governance. As the pioneer of HDFC’s digital banking services, Mr. Puri was of course talking about Digital India and how technology has changed the way our nation’s markets currently function. Before the inception...
Despite Mumbai’s intricate and seemingly wellconnected public transportation, our city is often missing from top 10 international rankings of public transport systems. In fact, studies show that the average Mumbaikar using the suburban railway spends one and a half hours commuting from their homes to work every single day. So, how do we solve this...