An invaluable contribution towards education by two American-Indians

An initiative to fund the education of bright Indian youngsters undertaken by two Indian-Americans has now acquired a momentum of its own

In 1982, after he sold his stake in a company he had set up in the US for a substantial sum, Prabhu Goel, a gold medalist from IIT-Kanpur and a Carnegie Mellon alumnus found he and his wife had a bank balance they could never exhaust with their Indian middle-class values, upbringing and simple needs. That’s when the duo came up with the idea of giving back, well before philanthropy became the fad it is today. Many around them couldn’t quite fathom their motives but they sounded noble so support was aplenty.
 

Goel himself was acutely aware of the fact