The spine of Shivaji Maharaj · the fire of Bose
Dr. Rohan Raj Kulkarni
Lawyer · Entrepreneur · Change Leader.
Civic accountability, practised in public.
Featured
1 Day as a Leader - Theme Song
The challenge, accepted - the anthem behind the movement.
Web series · Telugu · 2024
Kaizer: The Rise of RoKu
Inspired by Rohan Kulkarni's journey: the causes, the challans, the newsroom. Biography · Drama, streaming now.
Interviews · On camera
On camera
From the Malkajgiri campaign to the Jubilee Hills fight: interviews, counters and the movement, on camera.
In the press
On the record, in print
Telangana Today · Jan 2025
Top 10 digital news channels in Telangana: who's leading the race?
Kaizer News Telugu ranked #3 with 27.1 lakh subscribers, "rewriting the rules of digital journalism" with investigative, rural-first reporting.
↗Telangana Today · Mar 2023
Minister Malla Reddy joins Rohan Kulkarni's Revolution Youth Festival
3,100 youth at the Holi Bash; the Rohan Kulkarni Foundation, Project M startup training for 1,000 young people, and a 9-month youth engagement program.
↗Also covered by The Filmy Charcha
Outlook India · Jun 2025
IIM Kozhikode elects new Executive Committee to lead 7,000+ global alumni
Elected to the AANRP Executive Committee from Hyderabad for 2025–27, with plans for an alumni podcast, a job-referral platform and a startup funding program.
↗Successpreneur Awards · 2023
Successpreneur of the Year: Social Services
Awarded to Rohan Raj Kulkarni as founder of the Rohan Kulkarni Foundation, for work in social services.
↗Founder Stack · Sep 2026
Kaizer News founder Rohan Kulkarni plans a civic-governance app for Hyderabad
The plan on the record: a Hyderabad-wide civic-governance app, digital AI governance, and AI education for people.
↗The Venture Republic · Sep 2026
Rohan Kulkarni's plan for a Hyderabad civic-governance app, and what it does not say
What his reporting record shows, and what the Hyderabad civic-app plan does not yet say.
↗LaunchCode · Sep 2026
Rohan Kulkarni's civic-governance app for Hyderabad, and the phrase he uses: what it says, and what it does not yet
What the digital AI governance plan says and what it does not, with Vaksy as the precedent for AI plus accountable humans.
↗Venture OS · Sep 2026
Rohan Kulkarni wants a civic-governance app for Hyderabad. Here is the stack that plan implies
The plan read as a product: intake, routing and tracking, with Vaksy and Kaizer News as the precedents.
↗StartGrid · Sep 2026
Rohan Kulkarni says he plans AI education, after Sharkify's vouchers and Bose Educator's classrooms
AI education as the next programme, after Sharkify's vouchers and Bose Educator's smart classrooms.
↗Silicon Fund · Sep 2026
From a newsroom to legal AI to civic tech: one way to read Rohan Kulkarni's Hyderabad civic-governance plan
Kaizer News, Vaksy, Sharkify and Roku Taxi read as one thesis, with the civic app as the place to test it.
↗Mint Street · Sep 2026
Digital AI governance: what Rohan Kulkarni has and has not said about his plan for Hyderabad
The phrase digital AI governance weighed against the record: what is confirmed, and what is not.
↗Career
The work
- 2024 – Now
Founder
Kaizer News · Hyderabad
- 2026 – Now
Founder
Vaksy · Legal tech platform · India & UAE
- 2024 – Now
Founder
Sharkify · India
Country Manager, India - Cross-Border Payments
D24 · Bengaluru
- 2021–2023
Director
Magno Pay Pvt Ltd
- 2019–2020
Area Manager, Government Business
Pine Labs · Hyderabad
- 2017–2019
Territory Relationship Manager
American Express
- 2014–2017
Business Manager
Rocket Media · Hyderabad
Beyond the reels
On the ground
Sharkify, Roku Taxi and Bose Educator: the initiatives behind the headlines.
Every Sharkify intern gets a ₹50,000 education voucher
3,248 internships offered through Sharkify in 2024, each paired with a ₹50,000 voucher toward the intern's own education.
Roku Taxi: free accidental insurance from day one
A community taxi-hailing app for auto drivers, launched with free accidental insurance cover for 2,000+ drivers on the platform.
Bose Educator: free education at the Jawahar Nagar dump yard
Free, quality education with smart classrooms (and daily meals) for children living near the Jawahar Nagar dumping yard, Karmika Nagar.
Short-form · Civic record
The Reels
Short-form civic accountability. Dumping yards, challans, election machinery, the people who would rather you looked away.
From the field
Stills
Frames from the field, and from the rooms where the reels get answered.