About Fellowships & Awards

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I believe everyone can create impact in their own small way and the greatness of that impact is felt only when it ripples out through our own small circle of influence into the world impacting 100s of thousands human lives. For instance, 5 years ago while dining with my family at a restaurant, I overheard someone at the neighboring table, recite a poem to his friends. The poem was about how people are treating their old parents. I went up to the gentleman and requested him to recite the poem again and was moved by the poem. I felt and knew that the poem if recited in the right circles would stir-up emotions and bring about change.

The poem titled Peeche Walla Kamra (The room behind!) is about how a young couple has isolated his old parents in the room behind. I told the gentleman Mr. Anshuman Bhagwat that I am nominating him for the fellowship and Karmaveer Chakra award. He was surprised and after a GOOGLE search about the awards on his phone, came up to me and said “Sir, I am in the events and exhibition business and have not done anything much to serve society. I said to him Anshuman the idea of the award is to empower champions of change like you to shoulder more responsibility and get you on the path to serve society simply by making an impact with your poems. I told him that The council of fellows would process his nomination soon and then I said Adios after dinner. When Anshuman received his nomination, after his initial hesitance, he decided to complete the form and accept the fellowship and award. After filling up the form he wrote to me that the fellowship form itself is an award and made him aware of all his strengths and potential that he had ignored over the years.

At the REX CONCLIVE Anshuman received his fellowship and award. He also recited the poem when he was invited to speak. Seated in the audience was Karmaveer Puraskaar award recipient and son to a million elderly parents Sailesh Mishra who is the founder of Silver Innings that works with the UN for Elder Rights. Sailesh collaborated with Anshuman and REX Karmaveer Global Fellowships to produce a video of the poem for The World Elders Abuse Awareness Day event organized every June 15th by The International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) and United Nations . From 2015 the poem is played in several forums and events for Elder Rights, organized by UN and other groups around the world and is impacting millions of lives. This is the impact and THE POWER OF ONE. We at REX Karmaveer Global Fellowships sincerely believe that each and everyone of our 7 billion people in the world is a champion of change and Anshuman’s example proves that.

Each and all of us human beings are blessed with the ability and potential to be the change and make difference to create a better, safer, egalitarian, just, humane and responsible world. Our endeavour at REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship is to bring one and all together so that we can make a HUGE DIFFERENCE collectively. Thus my fellow curators, council of fellows and I are always on the lookout for people making the big difference with their small actions, besides the social crusaders and people working for social change.

Fellows Speak

With his powerful thought leadership and eloquent facilitation, Jerry helped the senior editorial and management team build a winning strategy together and for the first time Editorial and management are on the same page with various ideas.

- Shashi Shekhar, Editor-in-Chief of Hindustan Times

This was a brilliant training workshop. Just the right stuff that one needs to learn to be a leader. Thank you.

- Meena Vaidyanathan, External Communications Head of HCL Technologies

You have trainers and then you have firebrand Rockstar trainers and Jerry is the biggest Rockstar. When Jerry trains, he connects and changes something within you.

- Dr. P. Giridharan, Jt. Director, Institute of Chartered Accountants in India

Jerry helped us to create a focused vision despite having various agendas and agree to work together as one team rather than a network of several organizations.

- Luke Samson, Director of Indian Harm Reduction Network promoted by the Global Fund