The Crust of Life

सूरज की गर्मी और बादल की नरमी एक कली को फूल बना देती है दुनिया के फासले और दिल की मोहब्बत हर रिश्ते को मुक़म्मल बना देते है मेहनत और मशक्क़त के ज़ख्म कामयाबी के मरहम से भर जाते है ज़िन्दगी का हर एक लम्हा ज़िन्दगी का एहसास दिलाता है ग़म से मायूस न हो मुस्तन ग़म ही ख़ुशी का ज़रिया बन जाता है

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde Such a simple quote that sets you free from the shackles of "have to be" and you start floating freely and aimlessly in celebration of this freedom "to be". Celebration, as usual, lasts only for a few moments that make you happy and cheerful - make you forget the pain that you had to go through number of times to earn this moment of celebration. In this moment, everything is forgotten and everyone is forgiven. Sadly, this moment is also destined to the confines of good, cherishable  memories. Memories are deceptive. Moments that you really want to forget crop up every now and then and make you cringe. Hastily you try to shrug it off by getting busy in doing something that you did not plan to do. Somehow those painful memories cry out louder to get your attention. Once it succeeds in getting your attention, it curses you for causing such memories! How thankless these memories can be! You ...

In 2003, Rotary Club of Bangalore, the premier Rotary Club in Rotary International  District 3190, decided to recognize excellence in the vibrant voluntary sector of the city  – to identify and honour organizations working for the community - and give an annual ROTARY SERVICE AWARD. As the voluntary sector is very large – over 2000 NGOs in Karnataka and 1000 in Bangalore – they select one group or activity each year for recognition. Rotary Club of Bangalore, recognizes eminent people and organizations in many areas, annually. The club give the Corporate Citizenship Award to a company who achieves social responsibilities with excellence, the Citizen Extraordinaire Award to true leaders in Bangalore, and the Vocational Service Award to people working in services like the BBMP or State Transport, or in an NGO. Equally, they recognize young persons for their scientific inventions, debating and quizzing. For this year we invite appli...