Teachers also spoke to us on climate change and I started questioning why people were worried about it.
After a point my teachers couldn’t answer my questions.
He was able to answer many of my questions,” states the young man.
That was when he joined the Climate Reality Project as a volunteer.
Meanwhile the NGO Walk for Water also offered him the position of state head for Karnataka, after which he organised a Grand Water Conservation Walk in Bengaluru, which was attended by over 1,500 walkers.
When I first came to Bengaluru in 2004, water scarcity was not a problem.
It is only when a problem spills out of villages into cities that people start working towards it,” he observes.
So whenever I am working on a project, I tell my friends — from Pakistan to Africa and the US — so there is a global initiative.
“It’s not easy to make people understand they can’t take me for granted because of my age.
“When I give presentations to children they they love it, simply because it is by one of them.