Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani reveals he met his spouse, Rohini Nilekani, in 1977 throughout a quiz competitors. “Clearly, we gained the quiz,” quipped Nilekani, who described her because the mercurial one and himself because the sedate one.
Nilekani was talking with Nikhil Kamath on his podcast, ‘Folks by WTF’, the place he mentioned that he met Rohini in faculty. “What occurred was we had a quiz competitors, and I used to be representing IIT within the quiz. The quiz was in Elphinstone Faculty. And clearly we gained the quiz,” he mentioned. He added that they’d the idea that they may win the quiz as they have been good at such stuff. “That’s how I met her means again in 1977,” he mentioned.
Nilekani revealed that Rohini is the extra “spontaneous, emotional and mercurial” of the 2 of them, whereas he was the extra “sedate, boring sort”. He agreed that Rohini believes in saying what she is pondering. “Setting is a giant theme for her, a part of her philanthropy. She might be the largest environmental philanthropist in India,” mentioned Nilekani.
The Infosys co-founder mentioned that regardless that he isn’t very actively concerned in environmental philanthropy, it’s one thing he believes in. “I fully agree with what she is doing,” he mentioned.
WHO IS ROHINI NILEKANI?
Rohini Nilekani is the Chairperson of Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies and co-founder and director of non-profit schooling platform EkStep. She had additionally based Arghyam for sustainable water and sanitation throughout the nation.
She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Atree, an environmental assume tank, and has served on the audit advisory board of the Comptroller and Auditor Common of India and the Eminent Individuals Advisory Group of the Competitors Fee of India.
Rohini Nilekani, aside from being a philanthropist, was a former journalist and an creator.
She, together with husband Nandan Nilekani, had signed the Giving Pledge in 2017 that commits half of their wealth to philanthropic causes. “We consider that there’s a large alternative to open up that query in a artistic and collaborative means. Regardless of who we’re, how we have now generated our wealth or what ideologies we espouse, all of us face the identical state of affairs: our want to provide ahead is collectively rising, however our means to create sustainable change is simply not retaining tempo. We’ve the assets, the imaginative and prescient, and the talents to create large-scale market establishments. But, in terms of social change, we study it’s more durable. One thing eludes us. Issues do succeed, however not quick sufficient or with adequate influence. We be ok with attempting, however we despair at rising challenges,” wrote the duo within the Giving Pledge letter.