I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

If you look at the major industries of the future, IT and mobile are way up there.

I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.

STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.

We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.