“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...
How many times have we drowned ourselves in the complexities of our life’s problems and tried to suppress their effects, rather than using them as stepping stones on the path to a better future? In a world where we often hide our dilemmas and troubles, Sameer Dua showed us how to turn our "breakdowns into...
In the digital age, it may seem as if the romance of the written art is slowly disappearing. With the advent of instant messaging and emails, the chitthi letterhas become almost extinct, remembered only for its vintage appeal and the nonchalant way it can flood us with a sense of nostalgia. Though the practice of...
Many of us may have been glued to the screen of our televisions on the morning of the 1st of February. Hoping for the revolution boasted on billboards across the city, you perhaps eagerly watched Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley deliver the much-awaited Annual Budget of 2017. But before one of the most televised events of...
After we extended a warm welcome to Mr. Bhushan Gagrani, the distinguished IAS officer and the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Cidco, we had our very own Rtn. Purnima Advani talk about him to the members at our RCB meeting. She introduced him as an esteemed visionary, and also a successful planner and achiever. His...
Members were in for a surprise when they attended the RCB meeting on 17th January with guest speaker Seema Mehta – an expert practitioner and performer of Kathak Yoga. The sound of ghunghroos filled the space while President Nominee Rtn. Jagdish Malkani started the meeting with announcements covering the upcoming events, birthdays of the week,...
The RCB meeting of 10th January saw an impressive turnout of people to hear Dr Chintan Chandrachud, Associate, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP London . The happy occasion saw RCB President Dr Mukesh Batra announce that Past President (PP) Dr Rumi Jehangir had through the AH Wadia Trust made a donation of Rs 25...
RCB was privileged to have hosted Professor Dr. Nikhil Dhurandhar, Department Chair at the Department of Nutritional Science, Texas Tech University at the 27th December weekly meeting held at the Taj, Colaba. Professor Dhurandhar, is a past President of the Obesity Society (North America chapter) and a homeopathic practitioner who immigrated to the USA from...
Continuing the focus on educators and their vision for our society, RCB invited Don Gardner, Principal B.D. Somani International School to talk about 'Learnings from Shakespeare'. "400 years after his death, Shakespeare is still making a very positive influence all over the world. Like elsewhere, he has fans all over India too. Which is probably...