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Seven Indians make it to Forbes Asias Heroes of Philanthropy List

by IBNS 07 Sep 2015, 09:15 pm

Houston/Singapore, Sept 8 (IBNS) A list published by Forbes Asia on August 27 featured seven Indians in its annual philanthropy list from the worlds biggest continent.

Dubai based entrepreneur and founder of education unit Global Education Management System (GEMS), Sunny Varkey, topped the list by donating a share of his USD 2.25 billion dollar fortune.

Also featuring in the list are 4 co-founders of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani, S D Shibulal, Senapathy Gopalakrishnan and Rohan Murthy, son of Infosys honcho, Narayana Murthy.

London based Ramakrishnan Brothers too made the cut. Suresh and Mahesh, the founder of Whitcomb and Shaftesbury Tailors, donated 3 million for the training of over 4000 women in India and victims of 2004 Tsunami victims. 

The list had several people from 13 countries across Asia Pacific.