Hyderabad, India · on the record
Dr. Rohan Raj Kulkarni
Lawyer · Entrepreneur · Change Leader.
Civic accountability, practised in public.
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.
Web series · Telugu · 2024
Kaizer: The Rise of RoKu
A web series made on the 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.
↗Career
The work
- 2021 – Now
Country Manager, India - Cross-Border Payments
D24 · Bengaluru
- 2024 – Now
Founder
Sharkify · India
- 2024 – Now
Founder
Kaizer News · Hyderabad
- 2024 – Now
Founder
Vaksy · India & UAE
- 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.
About
Credentials on the record
Accountability is not a campaign. It is a habit, practised in public, on the record.
IIM
Honorary Doctorate, USA (Honoris Causa)
Stanford
NALSAR