Firdaus Kharas

Firdaus Kharas MA, LLD , DHum is a social entrepreneur and media producer who uses video and animation to better the human condition around the world. He founded Chocolate Moose Media in 1995 to produce forprofit and notforprofit content for film and television aimed at progressive behaviour change. He was born November 18, 1955 in Calcutta, India, and is now Canadian.

Kharas was born into an upper middleclass Parsi family during Calcuttas most turbulent period of social upheaval, which would influence his entire life. His father was a mechanical engineer and his mother a Britishtrained lawyer. First introduced to progressive causes by his mother, who volunteered for an NGO, he was taught the realities of disenfranchised people and at age eight was taken to Mother Teresas Home for the Dying. At the time he also started writing plays and acting in high school productions first at La Martiniere School For Boys in Calcutta and then at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay. After graduation he was the first recipient of the Rotary Club of Bombays international exchangestudent scholarship. With it he attended an honors year at Commodore Perry High School in Hadley, Pennsylvania. Kharas then studied political science as an undergraduate at Thiel College, Pennsylvania . In his final year he won the National Model United Nations debate.

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