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A dream sighting of the Big 5 in Africa

N Ramakrishnan

Maasai Mara and the Serengeti. They conjure up images of prides of lions, herds of elephants, zebras, giraffes, cheetahs and leopards. The opportunity to see one of the predators hunting a prey. Not to

The best chapter of Rotary yet to be written: Bharat Pandya

Rasheeda Bhagat

There are moments in life when words seem inadequate; 37 years ago, when I joined Rotary, little did I know it would take me on a journey and a point where I will be standing here as the 2028–29 RI

A silver jubilee celebration through service

Rasheeda Bhagat

This Rotary club in Mumbai has a great record when it comes to innovation in service; it has over 150 members and is celebrating its silver jubilee this year with a simple but catchy theme: Bayview Cares. We are talking

Chandigarh Rotarians transform a village

Rasheeda Bhagat

In 2022–23, when Ved Prakash Kalra was the district governor of RID 3080, his clarion call Rotary chale gaon ki aur (let Rotary concentrate on villages) was taken very seriously by at least one club — the Rotary Club of

Chennai Annets scale Kilimanjaro

Jaishree

At 2am, the mountain was dark, the wind biting and the summit still hours away. For Ovium, a Class 10 student of The School KFI, Chennai, and three other Annets aged 13–18, the final ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro was about

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RI President

Olayinka Babalola

RI Director

M Muruganandam

RI Director

K P Nagesh

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Rasheeda Bhagat

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Jennifer Jones

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A S Venkatesh

Projects

A cancer awareness run in Bengaluru

Team Rotary News

Over 500 participants including students, youth, Rotarians and Rotaractors joined together to create awareness on cancer, and spread the message of peace, healthy living, and community bonding at the sixth edition of Rotary 5K Cancer Awareness Peace Run on Gandhi Jayanthi (Oct 2) in Bengaluru. The annual run was hosted

PDG Prem Aggarwal honoured

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People Of Action

Zoo Day for children

Kiran Zehra

Sixty buses brought 3,234 schoolchildren from schools and institutions across ­Chennai to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur as part of Magnum Carnival, organised by Rotary District 3234 and RC Madras Magnum (RCMM). The club has been organising this programme annually for the past seven years, taking children from less privileged families each year

Go Green

Health & Fitness

Wordsworld

Rotary Elsewhere

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