Humanitarian Work
Pritish Nandy has worked for many causes but is best known as the founder of People for Animals, India's largest animal protection NGO that Maneka Gandhi, former Environment & Forests Minister, Government of India, heads and runs as Chairperson. He received the International Humanitarian Award at the Genesis Awards in Los Angeles in 2012, supported by the Humane Society of the United States, the largest animal protection body in the US. On November 28, 2012 Pritish Nandy founded World Compassion Day, a platform for promoting the values of compassion and ahimsa, and the first lecture on the occasion was delivered in Mumbai by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama who spoke on the ethical treatment of animals. The occasion also launched the Humane Society International in India.
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