Rotary history was created on January 12th, 2008, when 17 Rotarians teed off at the United Services Club for the First Golf Tournament of the Rotary Club of Bombay initiated by Rtn. Moy Biswas. Since then this tournament has been held every year and its ever-growing popularity has led to a roaster of no less...
This year the Club hosted 2 golf tournaments to support Adult Literacy. Held over the weekend of the 11th and 12 of January, the events brought together golf enthusiasts and philanthropists to champion our cause. These tournaments — the Anand Rathi Wealth Rotary Golf Classic and the Phillip Capital Rotary Golf Challenge — showcased the...
Seventh Table Tennis Fellowship Skill and enthusiasm were on show as 28 Rotarians and kin turned up on Sunday, 10th November for our Club’s Seventh Table Tennis Fellowship, held, as before, at the YMCA at Colaba. Proceedings were kicked off by Jamshyd Vazifdar explaining the format, after which participants were paired up and divided into two...
The Rotary Club of Bombay (RCB) has long envisioned including bridge in its annual calendar of sports events. At the start of this Rotary year, a survey among RCB members revealed strong interest in the game, leading to a decision to incubate bridge as a featured activity. Encouraged by PP Arun Sanghi, Sports Committee Chairman Rtn. Moy Biswas, and President...
Remembering Arvind Jolly The Fifteenth Golf tournament of the Rotary Club of Bombay was held on Saturday, February 3rd, 2024, at the Willingdon Sports Club, in the memory of Trustee, Past President and above all a fellow golfer, Arvind Jolly. History was created 16 years back, on January 12th, 2008, when 17 Rotarians teed off at the...
As part of Rotary Club of Bombay’s literacy initiatives, we partnered with Rotary India Literacy Mission to raise funds to help make millions of adults literate. We organised a golf tournament, the Anand Rathi Wealth Rotary SAFGR Asia Golf Classic, 2024, at Oxford Golf Resort, Pune, from January 13th-15th, 2024. The event was a grand...
HIGHLY ANTICIPATED 14TH ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT COMING UP SOON. Like in the last several years, the Sports Committee plans to continue with the motto of spreading goodwill and fellowship through sports. What started off as a challenge on the greens of the US Club in south Bombay on January 12th, 2008, has flourished and blossomed into a...
The 7th Annual Tennis tournament and Fellowship was held on December 11th, 2022. stalwarts PP Rumi Jehangir and Rtn. Dinesh Daftary were joined by PP Ashish Vaid, Rtn. Mehernosh Dotivala, PN Satyan Israni, Rtn. Raj Ajmera , PND Bimal Mehta, Rtn. Jamshed Banaji, Rtn. Mehul Sampat, Sports Committee Chairman Moy Biswas and co-chair Anand Dalal, 3rd...
During the weekly meeting of Rotary Club of Bombay on November 29th, 2022, President Vineet Bhatnagar made a brief presentation on the visit by the Sports Committee to Prakash Padukone - Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence (PDCSE) in Bangalore on November 12th, 2022. The Centre and the Academy are formed with the sole purpose of encouraging...
President Vineet Bhatnagar, accompanied by Rtn. Jaidev Merchant, PP Ashish Vaid and Rtn. Moy Biswas visited the Padukone-Dravid-Bindra Centre for Sports Excellence (CSE) in Bangalore on November 12th, 2022. CSE is a world-class integrated sports complex built on 15 lush acres, near Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport. The delegation from RCB was delighted to witness state-of-the-art facilities...
SKILL AND ENTHUSIASM WERE ON SHOW AS 36 ROTARIANS AND KIN TURNED UP ON SUNDAY, September 18th, 2022, for our Club’s Fifth Annual Table Tennis Tournament held, as before, at the YMCA at Colaba. Proceedings were kicked off by Rtn. Jamshyd Vazifdar explaining the format, after which participants were paired up and divided into two groups....
RCB HISTORY WAS CREATED ON AUGUST 27TH, 2022, WHEN OUR FIRST BRIDGE TOURNAMENT WAS HELD AT THE ROYAL BOMBAY YACHT CLUB. It has been a long-held view that bridge should get included in the annual calendar of sports events conducted by RCB. Encouraged by PP Arun Sanghi and a very willing Sports Committee chair Rtn....