The recent depression over the Bay of Bengal caused widespread flooding across Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Telangana. The rainfall which began on August 30 intensified through the first week of September, with AP bearing the brunt. Over 27 per cent of the state’s annual rainfall occurred in just 48 hours; an IMD report explains that this extreme weather event was driven by a land-based cyclone, which drew moisture from both the Arabian Sea and the land heat of eastern India, the combination of which led to the two states witnessing an astonishing 500mm of rain in just 24 hours on August 31.

Give a gift that keeps giving…. This is the motto of the charitable trust that Janet ­Yegneswaran, a past president (2017–18) of the Rotary Club of Bangalore ­Koramangala (RCBG), RID 3191, set up in memory and name of her late husband Rajanet ­Yegneswaran, a Rotarian of the same club, some 20 years ago.

Whether it is enhancing farmers’ income in tribal villages, ­providing wells in villages where women earlier had to walk across several km to carry water over their heads, giving modern ­educational aids to children in rural schools, or organising group ­weddings for ­Adivasis, the Rotary Club of Bombay Bay View, RID 3141, has done it all.