Just as I was reading a tweet from industrialist Anand Mahindra about an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-induced technology which can detect breast cancer some five years before it develops, commenting that “if this is accurate then AI is going to be of ­significantly more value to us than we imagined and much earlier than we had imagined”, came an email from the Rotary Club of Bangalore ­Lakeside, RID 3191, about a strikingly similar initiative.

In Nagesh we have a winner — 1,725 new members, 52 new clubs, 160 Rotaract clubs and a contribution of $2.2 million to TRF — incredible,” said PRIP K R Ravindran, addressing a meet organised by RIDs 3191 and 3192 to felicitate incoming RI directors K P Nagesh and M Muruganandam in Bengaluru. He was recalling RIDE Nagesh’s record-­making feat as DG of RID 3190 in 2015–16. ­Ravindran was the RI president during that year when the district topped the world in membership and TRF-giving.