<p>When language fails, art takes over, said world renowned neuroscientist V S Ramachandran at an interaction here recently.<br /><br />The observation fits 17-year-old Anjali Chandrashekar, who started using visual arts to serve social causes like health and environment. <br /><br />Anjali is not only the youngest Indian but also the only Asian to be invited as a “global changemaker” for attending the prestigious World Economic Forum (WEF), annual meet at Davos in Switzerland being held from January 26-30. The British Council has chosen her as part of the “Global Changemakers Initiative”. <br /><br />“The WEF is one of the biggest fora and I look forward to be a part of it,” Anjali told Deccan Herald.<br /><br />She is leaving next week for a six-day training programme for youth participants in Zurich before the WEF meeting.<br /><br />A class XII student of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Junior College in Chennai, Anjali will be joining four others—a girl each from Israel and Brazil and a boy each from New Zealand and US—to get a feel of the world’s “Ideas Lab” at the WEF.<br /><br />“The ‘Global Changemakers’ is a network of young social entrepreneurs and activists from 110 countries who come together to share ideas and work together on projects impacting lives of the poor,” according to the British Council (BC).<br /><br />A commerce student, Anjali has been into painting and sculpture making from the age of four.<br /><br />She learned the arts from students of the Government College of Arts, Chennai.<br />“I have been learning alongside them, though I did not have a formal tutor,” she said. <br />Putting her art to use for fund-raising for social causes, Anjali teaches blind children to make sculptures and volunteers for Unesco and Unicef. <br /><br /> Anjali’s painting of a logo for the 2010 International Biodiversity Year will be published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation this year.<br /><br />In November 2010, she was one of the 60 people from 37 countries to participate in a ‘Global Youth Summit’ near London. From that group, she was one of five youths selected for the WEF.<br /><br />She gets her Karnataka connection from her mother, Anuradha, who is from the state. Her father, P V Chandrasekhar, is a Railways employee.</p>
<p>When language fails, art takes over, said world renowned neuroscientist V S Ramachandran at an interaction here recently.<br /><br />The observation fits 17-year-old Anjali Chandrashekar, who started using visual arts to serve social causes like health and environment. <br /><br />Anjali is not only the youngest Indian but also the only Asian to be invited as a “global changemaker” for attending the prestigious World Economic Forum (WEF), annual meet at Davos in Switzerland being held from January 26-30. The British Council has chosen her as part of the “Global Changemakers Initiative”. <br /><br />“The WEF is one of the biggest fora and I look forward to be a part of it,” Anjali told Deccan Herald.<br /><br />She is leaving next week for a six-day training programme for youth participants in Zurich before the WEF meeting.<br /><br />A class XII student of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Junior College in Chennai, Anjali will be joining four others—a girl each from Israel and Brazil and a boy each from New Zealand and US—to get a feel of the world’s “Ideas Lab” at the WEF.<br /><br />“The ‘Global Changemakers’ is a network of young social entrepreneurs and activists from 110 countries who come together to share ideas and work together on projects impacting lives of the poor,” according to the British Council (BC).<br /><br />A commerce student, Anjali has been into painting and sculpture making from the age of four.<br /><br />She learned the arts from students of the Government College of Arts, Chennai.<br />“I have been learning alongside them, though I did not have a formal tutor,” she said. <br />Putting her art to use for fund-raising for social causes, Anjali teaches blind children to make sculptures and volunteers for Unesco and Unicef. <br /><br /> Anjali’s painting of a logo for the 2010 International Biodiversity Year will be published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation this year.<br /><br />In November 2010, she was one of the 60 people from 37 countries to participate in a ‘Global Youth Summit’ near London. From that group, she was one of five youths selected for the WEF.<br /><br />She gets her Karnataka connection from her mother, Anuradha, who is from the state. Her father, P V Chandrasekhar, is a Railways employee.</p>
