Indian American donates personal fortune to native village

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About $20 million

August 08, 2007

An Indian-American neurosurgeon has donated his personal fortune -- some $20 million -- to build a hospital, health clinic and other facilities in his native village in Kerala.

According to a PTI report, Dr Kumar Bahuleyan, born in a poor dalit family in Chemmanakary, moved to the US where he made millions as a neurosurgeon and lived a lavish life, owning a Rolls-Royce, five Mercedes-Benz cars and an airplane.

But the 81-year-old's rags to riches story took another turn in the twilight of his life when he decided to donate his personal fortune to establish a neurosurgery hospital, a health clinic and a spa resort in his native Indian village.

"I was born with nothing; I was educated by the people of that village, and this is what I owe to them," Bahuleyan said recently in Buffalo, where he has lived since 1973. "I'm in a state of nirvana, eternal nirvana," he said. "I have nothing else to achieve in life. This was my goal, to help my people. I can die any time, as a happy man."

About 20 to 25 years ago, when he was earning a fortune as a neurosurgeon, Bahuleyan returned to Chemmanakary and was struck by how little it had changed. "Not a road, no school, no water supply, no sanitary facilities," he said. "I looked in the (people's) faces and saw the same people living in the same miserable conditions I had grown up with."

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