Me

The Hindu and The Episcopalian

Dear Reverend Daniel Cenci and the Vestry of the Pohick Church of Newington,

My name is Chandrashekar "Chandra" Tamirisa.

I am a naturalized American immigrant from India since 2002.

My education at St. George’s Grammar School in Hyderabad, India is one of the city’s oldest and most respected educational institutions, founded during the British colonial period. I led my school as its Chief Prefect in 1985 for its 150th anniversary.

St. George’s is affiliated with the Church of South India (CSI), a united Protestant denomination with strong Anglican roots, firmly within the Anglican tradition, akin to Episcopalian institutions in the United States.

The school’s history and character reflect the broader legacy of British missionary education in South India, emphasizing discipline, service, and a broad, inclusive Christian ethos.

I believe happiness eludes many Virginians and Americans and my platform is for American renewal rooted in happiness in alignment with the founding values of the United States by many of America’s founders - the Virginians George Washington and Thomas Jefferson most prominent among them -

I have always been a happy person.

To achieve happiness I believe and practice in my life “propriety" and ”appropriate" behaviors which characterized George Washington, a vestryman of the Pohick Church of Newington, one of the most historically significant colonial churches in the United States, closely associated with him. Washington, as you know, took an active role in planning the church, helping select its site and contributing to its construction and governance.

1. Conscience

Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation

Rule #110 -

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."

2. Values

Civics

AND

Democracy. The How.

3. Read my post about how to ask for help, engage in a civil conversation online, and the proper behaviors.

4. See my LinkedIn conversation with Ursula von der Leyen, President European Commission.

What is competition?

Though I am a Hindu Niyogi Brahmin by birth and upbringing, non-ritualistic, I do not wear my faith or any faith on my sleeve, and my faith in the letter and spirit of Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to Danbury Baptists and the spirit of America’s founding since The Mayflower Compact of November 09, 1620 and the Separation of Church and State enshrined in the First Amendment of America’s Constitution permits me to be a Christian without having to formally convert similar to how I was educated at St. George’s.

I would like to express of my own free will my interest in being a vestryman at the Pohick Church and I am seeking endorsement from the Pohick Church for my Campaign for Congress.

Thank you,

Chandra

10300 Bushman Drive, Apartment 310

Oakton, VA 22124

716-529-7349

ctamirisa@tamirsa.com

For the Encyclopaedia

Chandrashekar "Chandra" Tamirisa

Chandrashekar (Chandra) Apparao Srinivas Tamirisa is an American statesman and entrepreneur on global #sustainability, political-economist, engineer, and author known for his interdisciplinary work on sustainability, political-economy, and governance. He founded Tamirisa, a global #sustainability initiative, and ran on this platform as an Independent candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District special election in 2025.

Business

Chandra's business is the paradigm shift toward global #sustainability by grassroots Gandhian capitalism. He has been critical of both Nehruvian Fabian socialism and modern oligarchic capitalism in India, advocating for authentic leadership and national pride around the world without jingoistic nationalism, every nation unique to its own history and character but all sharing common human values since time immemorial.

Thought

Chandrashekar Tamirisa is the author of numerous books on geopolitics, political-economy, and cosmology, available through his Amazon author page. His intellectual work includes several conceptual frameworks and business blueprints for execution with an understated estimated value of $120T worldwide through 2050:

1. Founder of interdisciplinary holism he invented for global #sustainability and defined as '#happiness is #OurCommonFuture.'

2. Resonance Modulation Theory - a systems-based model reconceiving equilibrium as resonance in society, politics, and economics.

3. Computational Philology

4. Cognitive Quantum Biology

5. Cognitive Evolutionary Biology

6. Regenerative Feminism – a synthesis of mythological, historical, and biological perspectives exploring gender, ecology, and renewal.

7. Monetary economics and central banking

8. Constitutional reform.

One of his notable early works is "Alternative Constitutionalism: A Revised Constitution of United States of America", early which was cited in John R. Vile’s book Re-Framers. He has been active on platforms like LinkedIn, where he engages the world virtually and specific groups and organizations he has partnered with in-person on global #sustainability and political-economy.

He publishes academic papers and essays on global #sustainability in his Science & Society journal Aufklärung (Substack) and on Academia.edu.

Career

Chandra’s career spans thought leadership on global #sustainability in political-economy, public policy, and science and technology. He is the founder and principal at Tamirisa, an organization focused on global #sustainable development. He co-led national energy the Pickens Plan, where he served as the Maryland State Leader in 2009 for American energy independence after 9/11. His work takes a systems thinking approach on global #sustainability, integrating technology, politics, economics, and governance models. He maintains a professional profile and writings through tamirisa.com and on Substack under the publication Aufklärung. He is affiliated with:

1. Patients First Foundation

2. The Nobel Prize. Hashtag #NobelPrize Global Nobel Prize Dialogue from 2021-'30

3. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

4. Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (Department of War)

5. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Monetary Fund and The World Bank Group

6. The Federalist Society

7. The G20

8. The Elders Foundation

9. T. Boone Pickens Memorial Foundation

10. International Space University

Public leadership

In 2025, Chandra declared his candidacy as an Independent for the U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District following the passing of Representative Gerry Connolly. His campaign committee, TAMIRISA FOR CONGRESS VA-11 (FEC ID C00905885), was registered with the Federal Election Commission on May 21, 2025. The campaign emphasized zero dark money, sustainability, and reform-based politics under the banner “Our Common Future.”

Chandra is a participant in The Nobel Prize dialogs 2021-'30. Was a participant in United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, Rio+20), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2012) where I contributed to the landmark outcome document Future We Want. He successfully led State of Maryland T. Boone Pickens’ national grassroots campaign for American energy independence (2008 to 2011). While an analyst at Federal Reserve, US central bank in Washington, D.C. (1998 to 2010), he contributed to a Clinton White House speech on critical infrastructure protection, led employees to commemorate first anniversary of 9/11, and made a seminal contribution to Fed strategic planning.

Early life and education

Chandrashekar Tamirisa was born as Tamirisa Srinivasa Chandrashekara Apparao (birth and school records in Samalkot (సామర్లకోట) India between 1968-’90 as T.S.C.S Apparao) on October 18, 1968, in Samalkot (సామర్లకోట), India. He later became a naturalized U.S. citizen in Baltimore, Maryland on September 24, 2002, and retains Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) status for optional lifetime residence in India.

He is an applied political-economist and engineer experienced in global #sustainability; future studies; political philosophy; international relations; political and corporate strategy; public policy; economic analysis, modeling, and forecasting; bank regulation; government contracting; business/systems analysis; data analytics; IT governance and audit; document management and digitization; critical infrastructure protection; software engineering; industrial pumping systems; and materials science.

Chandra has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical (Production) Engineering from Osmania University, and Master’s degrees in Mechanical (Materials Science) Engineering and Political Science from University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and Applied Economics from The Johns Hopkins University.

Personal life

Chandrashekar Tamirisa was married in Honolulu, Hawai‘i on September 27, 1992, and divorced in Rockville, Maryland, on July 05, 2011. He has two children, a daughter and a son.

References

1. People Matters Global

2. Personal biography

3. TAMIRISA Statesman and Entrepreneur – Official site

4. Aufklärung – Substack Publication

5. Amazon Author Page: Chandrashekar Tamirisa

6. Academia.edu

7. “Meet the Army – Chandrashekar Tamirisa, Maryland State Leader,” Pickens Plan (December 2009)

8. Ballotpedia – Chandrashekar Tamirisa

9. Indians in America - A LinkedIn post

10. LinkedIn Profile

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