RC Singapore was formed in 1930 and has a 200+ member strength. The club meets every Wednesday at the Tanglin Club. President Louis Lim welcomed him, and the club raised a toast to RC Bombay and Rotary International. We exchanged club flags. The club discussed the four-way test and had an interactive session. One of their...
He joined Rotary as a ‘Loans Officer’. But his inter-provincial travels almost cost him his membership. Fortunately for Rotary he didn’t, as he became Calgary Club President in 1919/20, the old Zone 4 District Governor in 1923/4 and was nominated as one of two Honorary Commissioners by the Canadian Advisory Committee to extend Rotary to...
Only a few countries in the world don’t permit Rotary Clubs and one of them was, until last year, Vietnam when two clubs in Ho Chi Minh City, the erstwhile Saigon, were founded. On the occasion of the recent visit of RI President Shekhar Mehta to Ho Chi Minh City, Rtn. Peter Born, who lived...
There are many Afghan students in India. With the severe crisis (on various levels) in their home country, many of them are stranded: without food or shelter and some without both. With uncertainty staring at their faces, they try to make ends meet. This includes lapsed visas, bleak job prospective, difficulty in returning home...
It was a proud moment for us when this picture dropped into our inbox: our Global leader RI President Shekhar Mehta (and Rtn. Ptn. Rashi, not in the frame) at Rotary Global headquarters in USA. It was August 15th, 2021, and we were happy to see our country’s flag in the office of the Rotary International...
Director-in-charge: Rtn. Peter Born Chair: Rtn. Christopher Bluemel Co-Chair: PP Paul George Members: PP Gul Kripalani, Rtn. Meera Alreja, Rtn. Zeenia Master, Rtn. Mehul Sampat, Rtn. Mudit Jain Members: 7 Meetings so far: 18 James Wheeler Davidson platform (joined with RC Madras) Almost all JWD-Clubs (plus Calgary) have nominated their “JWD-representatives” The platform for all JWD-founded Clubs has been created Aim is to foster Rotary...
ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY THANKS PHILLIPCAPITAL (INDIA) PVT. LTD., FOR BEING INSTRUMENTAL IN PROVIDING FOOD TO THOUSANDS OF UNDERPRIVILEGED PEOPLE ACROSS MUMBAI. RCB, in association with PhillipCapital, distributed food to 6000 under served people at 17 different locations in the months of February and March 2021. The beneficiaries included orphan children, street children, children living in shelters,...
Our new sister Club RC Jerusalem remembered the Rotary Club of Bombay and our regular meeting place with a longer article in their monthly bulletin. The article is on nothing else but RCB’s regular Tuesday’s meeting place: The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel. Taj opened its doors on December 16, 1903. It is almost...
Being a part of Rotary International, which is working on 34 Clubs belonging to James Wheeler Davidson founded Clubs, our Rotary Club of Bombay (RCB) being one of them, we were on the lookout for other Clubs to join us as Twin Clubs. When we realised that Rotary Club of Jerusalem (RCJ) was also part of...
JAMES WHEELER DAVIDSON WAS THE FOUNDER OF RCB AND 33 OTHER ROTARY CLUBS. THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY EXISTS BECAUSE OF HIS VISION AND ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT 91 YEARS AGO. ON NOVEMBER 24TH, 2020, WE HAVE A SPEAKER WITH US WHO IS THE AUTHORITY ON JWD. He spent many years researching and has, until now, published two...
THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY ADVANCES ITS HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS TO RTN. DR. MAHESH KOTBAGI, ROTARY CLUB OF PUNE SPORTS CITY, DISTRICT 3131 FOR BEING ELECTED NEW ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR 2021-23 FROM ZONE 7. For Rtn. Dr. Mahesh Kotbagi, Co-Chair of Rotary India Literacy Mission, the said appointment is one more feather in his illustrious cap. He...
On an auspicious (for most of us) date, 24/7, RC’s Bombay and Madras held their first joined international committee meeting. Nine Rotarians from Madras and six from Mumbai brainstormed more than 90 minutes on how to best build the James-Wheeler-Davidson-Platform and how to bring all JWD-founded Clubs on board – across different time zones, cultural...