Oct 26, 2017
Mandar Apte, change maker and founder of From India With Love spoke to ideaXme about his mission to bring love to the world, furthermore he told us who he would like to meet and the question he would like to ask that person.
Questions were posed to Mandar from Jennifer Sertl, Futurist and author and Amit Sharma, HR Manager Du.
From India With Love is a social initiative to reinvigorate nonviolence. The mission starts with encouraging non-violence in the United States. It's objective is to spread its positive message across the world.
From India With Love designs transformational expeditions for America's leaders to experience India's ancient culture and wisdom of nonviolence and thereafter support them to design solutions that will promote compassion and harmony in their communities. The initiative inspired for From India With Love originates from by the transformational journey that was taken by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when he had visited India in 1959 to deepen his understanding of the teachings of nonviolence as used by Mahatma Gandhi. On returning from India, Dr. King wrote “I left India more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to people in their struggle for freedom and human dignity. As a result of my visit, my understanding of non-violence is greater and my commitment deeper."
The inaugural trip to India in March 2016 was filmed and turned into a documentary film that shares the transformational experience of a group of Americans (who have all suffered from violence) in search of solace, healing and wisdom. It is a story of hope and inspiration that showcases what is possible when even in the face of violence, suffering and loss we choose love. Mandar is based in Houston, Texas. This interview was filmed recorded directly after Hurricane Harvey, so there were wifi connection challenges!