Mandar Apte

If The Corona Virus Could Speak…

A few years ago, I had a key moment of truth – that I would not do anything about any social issue e.g. the mass shootings in US schools, unless and until it directly affected me or happened in my neighborhood school. I was so profoundly disturbed by this realization that I ended up making a documentary film that is now being used to promote nonviolence education in classrooms. The calling was intense and the experience, transformational.

2020 Has Asked Us “How Much Do You Really Care”?

Nine months ago, when the first “stay at home” order was given in Los Angeles, I wrote this blog, not knowing the extent of suffering that the COVID-19 pandemic would unleash – so many lives lost and the world order, disrupted.