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In 2013, he won the Ashoka Accenture award, League of Intrapreneurship and in 2018, received the Hindu American Foundation Award for community service.
The 2018 premiere of From India With Love’ at Paramount Studios, by the Community Relations Division of the LAPD
Cultural melting pot in Tulsa
From designing oil and gas pipelines to teaching Sudarshan Kriya to gang members is quite a philosophical leap but Mandar’s life has never been limited to the straight and narrow.
He is a Light vocalist, Music composer, live show performer, and Playback singer. We Indians tend to value our culture only when we move away,” Mandar says. “He had never imagined (who would, really), that he would visit these places, “but I have walked into them without fear, met gang members and even made friends within the community. In this show, he sang with music composer Shrinivas Khale, music director Ashok Patki, Marathi poet and composer Yashwant Deo, and Prabhakar Pandit, a composer.
“Looking back, I wonder why I wasted my time on benzine rings! “I got into the Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) in Mumbai because it was an easy way to get a scholarship the US.” Graduating with a first class, he did get the funding he had sought and headed off to Tulsa.
A graduate programme in petroleum studies wasn’t quite what Mandar had dreamed of but he revelled in a “melting pot of cultures, with friends from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Brazil and several oil producing countries.” As they exchanged stories from home, he realised that he knew very little about his motherland.
“They didn’t miss a single session during those eight weeks. ” I had no special love for chemical engineering,” he chuckles, during his chat with Global Indian. It was a stressful job, however and took its toll on his health.
So, in 2002, making a bid to better his physical health, Mandar arrived in Texas for what turned out to be an Art of Living workshop.
It was her first trip out of Chicago, where she and her nine siblings were all entrenched in gang culture.
"In a gentle way, we can shake the world." --Gandhi
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“I can only imagine him landing in India and being welcomed with a tikka and aarti – it’s a show of love and warmth that one can only here.”Mandar Apte decided it was an experience he had to share.
Two years later, he was trudging through America’s most crime-infested neighbourhoods, offering to teach yoga and Pranayama in America’s most impoverished, crime-infested neighbourhoods.
I know the police as well.
With Cheryl Lawson and her father, Rev. Bill Lawson – Civil Rights Leader and friend of Dr. King
Bringing India to L.A.
At one screening of the documentary at a church in South LA, attended by had Deputy Chief Tingirides of the Los Angeles Police Department, Mandar Apte followed up with his customary group meditation.
We know of the ‘business of war’ – that will promote conflict for the upside that it brings with it – greater sale of arms, ammunition, services, etc. We believe that there is a much bigger ‘business for peace’ if only we can help organizations to reframe the definition of peace – as not just an absence of conflict.
Working on oil and gas offshore projects around the world gave him the chance to travel and to make many friends. Mandar Apte is a multitalented personality who has spread his talents in various fields. In 2004, he became a teacher at Art of Living, then began teaching meditation at Shell, too.
Receiving the Hindu American Foundation award from Democrat Tulsi Gabbard
In 2016, he arrived in India on vacation and was reading the autobiography of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
in which “King wrote that “he would visit any other country as a tourist, but to India, he came as a pilgrim,” Mandar says. By the end of it, he was wondering where yoga had been all his life. Recently, through this initiative, he has brought together LAPD officers, former gang members and community activists in a nonviolence bootcamp. The initiative seeks to go beyond violence reduction to active promotion of peace: “to not only reduce the effect of violence that rattles cities around the world, but to go a step beyond – in creating a powerful and sustainable mechanism to initiate, establish and propagate peace via existing establishments of civic engagement, law enforcement and community groups.”
Until 2016, Mandar worked at Shell for 17 years at Shell International.
It is now high time that corporations and their C-suites take a bold step in the right direction,” Mandar writes.
“Peace and prosperity are two sides of the same coin,” he notes. And in those moments of rare respite, rival gang leaders sit together in peace with the police officers and even victims of gang violence, doing Sudarshan Kriya together and speaking of peace.
In 2017, his documentary From India, With Love was premiered at Paramount Studios, Hollywood by the Los Angeles Police Department.
This is where Mandar Apte, the founder of Cities4Peace, likes to go, with his big smile and the ability to make everyone feel like a friend. “I’m leveraging India’s soft power, he says.