Birad Rajaram Yajnik is a
speaker, author and curator. His name is synonymous with fine print production
and his books have been translated in nine international languages. In 2012,
when invited to speak to the delegation at Harvard Model UN India, he delivered
an interactive talk on Mahatma Gandhi in the 21st Century and then created the
‘Ahimsa Harley’ as a catalyst for change. The bike is now a mascot for Peace
around the world.
In his interactive talk at HMUN
India 2013, he spoke to the delegates about “Tea, Salt & Whites only” –
where he linked the Boston Tea Party, The Salt Satyagraha and The March on
Washington to show the power and ability to cause change, change that created
Leaders of Humanity and not just nations.
Interactive Installations by him
are now present in three continents. The KING Gandhi Wall at Howard University
in Washington DC, The Mandela Gandhi Digital Exhibition at Constitution Hill
and The Mandela Gandhi wall at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg as
well as the largest engagement wall in the world on Mahatma Gandhi at the Peace
Truth Ahimsa Museum in Hyderabad – which he curates.
At Harvard Model UN 2014, he
spoke to the leaders of tomorrow on the concept of Global Citizenship and
introduced them to an idea – ‘The World Citizen Passport’, a tool that he
believes can engage the entire population of the world to turn them into
citizens of the world, hence doing away with the concept of boundaries and
borders and feelings of communal territorialism. He issued 1300 of these
passports at HMUN 2014 in a bid to kick start this process as an experiment.
His blog “Gandhi in the 21st
Century” has over 50,000 visitors, he speaks to the youth around the world on
how to become the next Mandela, Gandhi or King.
He learns from the young and
explains to the old, on why the future is in your hands. His blog can be found
on www.biradrajaramyajnik.blogspot.com
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