Chanchalapathi Dasa- Vice Chairman of Akshaya Patra Foundation

Chanchalapathi Dasa (former name S Chandrashekar), was born in 1963 in Bangalore, India. While an undergraduate student in PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, he became interested in the message and mission of Srila Prabhupada, the founder-acharya of ISKCON. Later he joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for the Masters program in Electrical Communication Engineering. In 1984 he became a full-time dedicated member of ISKCON, Bangalore and soon became the Vice President of ISKCON Bangalore . He has been involved in the implementation of the various programs of ISKCON, Bangalore as well as the Akshaya Patra program.