{"id":9650,"date":"2010-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/16\/inspired-by-other-billionaires-indian-pledges-to-gear-up-philantropy\/"},"modified":"2010-10-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"inspired-by-other-billionaires-indian-pledges-to-gear-up-philantropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/16\/inspired-by-other-billionaires-indian-pledges-to-gear-up-philantropy\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by Other Billionaires, Indian Pledges To Gear Up Philantropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/6648385.cms?prtpage=1\">economictimes.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 29, 2010: : For a few months now, Bill and Melinda Gates and have been wining and dining with the world&#8217;s richest, gently persuading over 40 US billionaires to pledge at least half of their wealth to fix the world&#8217;s ills. But no one from has yet been able to match that generosity. Very few have even shown an inclination to do so.<\/p>\n<p>At least one Indian billionaire, Shiv Nadar, has taken a first step and is now daring others of his ilk to start making a meaningful contribution to society. The technology czar has committed to put aside well over 10% of his wealth for philanthropic ventures. These ventures, under the Shiv Nadar Foundation, span building and running free schools, a proposed university and a museum of art.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nadar has been influenced by the deep philanthropic resolve of the Gates couple and Buffett, the world&#8217;s richest people, both of whom have pledged almost their entire wealth for charity. &#8220;My wife and I spent a whole evening with them (Bill and Melinda) and we talked about this,&#8221; he says. &#8220;When Buffett dies, there will only be a stone. It shows a very different aspect of life, about people and how they care.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 29, 2010: : For a few months now, Bill and Melinda Gates and have,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}