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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

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

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

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

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

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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

Project Vignettes – November 2026

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Self-defence training RC Indore Uptown, RID 3040, trained 1,245 girls, including 52 visually-impaired students, in self-defence at three schools under its Sankalp Suraksha initiative. The programme focused on personal safety, confidence and self-reliance, with specialised, inclusive training for visually-impaired students. Cervical cancer awareness RC Humanity Kolkata, RID 3291, partnered with

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Raising the bar in RID 3262

V Muthukumaran

Odisha Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati presented the Times Icon Award at Bhubaneshwar to RID 3262 IPDG Manoj Kumar Tripathy for transforming communities with impactful service projects across the district. “It was a proud moment for all our 120 Rotary clubs and over 4,000 Rotarians spread across 25 revenue districts of Odisha,” says Tripathy, a member

Making a difference

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Stitching livelihoods

V Muthukumaran

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Health & Fitness

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