The Freethought Society and the American Ethical Union are pleased to host Chetan Ahimsa via Zoom on Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 6:45 PM EST/3:45 PM PST. Ahimsa is an actor from Kannada, India and a political/social activist.
The 15-minute pre-event chat social will highlight some of the films Ahimsa has appeared in.
Ahimsa is known for his efforts protesting against the Indian caste system. In June 2021, Ahimsa was arrested by Basavanagudi police who were following a complaint from the president of a little-known organization called “Yuva Vipra Vedike.” Read more at: bit.ly/3Ilf31P
Chetan Ahimsa
Ahimsa fights for equality, justice, rationality, and non-violence. He will tell us what motivates him to be a social activist.
Ahimsa credits his mother, Mangala Kumar, and his father, Amar Kumar (both doctors), for providing him with the willpower to continue his important activism work, but as a young adult Ahimsa studied the writings of Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy.
Revered as “Periyar,” Ramasamy was an Indian social activist and politician who started the Self-Respect Movement called Dravidar Kazhagam. He is known as the Father of the Dravidian, a social movement that advocates to eradicate the ills of the existing caste system including untouchability. Ahimsa will talk about Periyar’s importance in India’s rational thinking movement, the acceptance of atheism, and to himself personally.
Register for this Zoom event at: https://bit.ly/chetan-ahmisa
Leave a Reply