Donors

Our donors support and gifts are invaluable to our mission of enhancing UC Berkeley's South Asia initiatives. Thank you so much for your continued and generous support. We are deeply appreciative of all that you have done to help. A special thanks to everybody, and in particular to our $5000 and above donors listed below:

21st Century Indian City

  • Ann & Kanwal Rekhi

Amrit Kaur Ahluwalia Memorial Lecture on Sikhism

  • Joginder S. Ahluwalia

Bangla Initiative at Berkeley

  • Pranab & Kalpana Bardhan
  • Kimi & Shankar Bhattacharya
  • Manisha & Somangsu 
    Bhattacharya
  • Anshu & Atri Chatterjee
  • Sunanda & Kali Chaudhuri
  • Chevron Corporation (Ahmed and Leena Badruzzaman)
  • Kamil & Talat Hasan
  • Anjali Morris
  • Sanjay & Anuradha Ray
  • Ratna & Subhas Sarkar
  • Sengupta Family of 
    Walnut Creek, CA
  • Gita & Ashok Vaish

Berreman-Yamanaka Fellowship for Himalayan Studies

  • Keiko Yamanaka

Bhandari Program On Indian Entrepreneurship in the Silicon Valley

  • Chandra & Narpat Bhandari

Bhattacharya Fund on Contemporary India

  • Kimi and Shankar Bhattacharya

FDRI/Berkeley Seminar Series on Indian Democracy

  • Talat & Kamil Hasan
  • Foundation For Democratic
    Reforms In India
  • Anita & Sridar Iyengar
  • KPMG (Arun Kumar)
  • Durga & Srini Madala
  • Matra Majmundar &
    Raj Mashruwala
  • Asha Jadeja & Rajeev Motwani
  • Ann & Kanwal Rekhi
  • Lata Krishnan & Ajay Shah
  • Abha & Venkatesh Shukla
  • The Honorable G. William
    and Ariadna Miller Institute
    for Global Challenges and the
    Law at Berkeley Law

Hart Family Graduate Student Support

  • Kausalya & George Hart

Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada Endowment

  • Rafat Pirzada & Amna Jaffer

Indo-American Chair & Community Lectureship in India Studies

  • Apollo Hotel
  • Baldev Babbar
  • Chan Desaigoudar
  • Birendra Nath Dutt
  • India Club Inc.
  • Romesh K. Japra
  • Sucheta Kapuria
  • Nitin T. Mehta
  • Shailesh Mehta
  • Kewal Munger
  • Chandrakant C. Patel
  • Dahyabhai R. Patel
  • Magan C. Patel
  • Shakuntala B. Patel
  • Suhas S. Patil
  • Raj Prasad
  • A. Salem Qureishi
  • Bipin Ramaiya
  • Rainbow West Motel
  • Vinod K. Sawhney
  • Pratap Shirke
  • Rameshwar Singh
  • Angelo K. Tsakopoulos

Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture Series on Pakistan

  • Rafiq Habib & the Habib family

Padmanabh S. Jaini Graduate Student Award in Buddhist Studies

  • Padmanabh S. Jaini

Qayum Family Foundation Grants for Travel & Conferences

  • Abdul Qayum

Rajendranath Das Bangla Lectureship

  • Satyendranath Das

Ranjit Singh Sabharwal Endowed Fund for Sikh Studies

  • The friends and family of Dr. Ranjit Singh Sabharwal

Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies

  • Vinita & Narendra Gupta
  • Thomas Kailath

Telugu Studies Initiative

  • Vijaya & Chary Aasuri
  • Silicon Andhra
  • Narayana Bulusu
  • Sundari & Pundari C'Ganti
  • Murali Chanduri and the Telugu Society of America
  • Lakshmi & Hanu Damerla
  • Eco Foundation
  • Fidelity Charitable Trust
  • Aparna & Subbarao Gunupudi
  • Global Industry Analysts
  • Nagalakshmi & Satyanarayana Murty Madhira
  • Gopal & Vijaya Nemana
  • Hanimireddy & Lakireddy 
    Foundation
  • Sandhya & Kumar Kalagara
  • Satyanarayana & Prasunamba 
    Kode
  • Sandhya & Venkat Kode
  • Satya & Vimala Majeti
  • Shyamala & Subbaiah Malladi
  • Madhu & Padma Panganamala
  • Satya Pappu
  • Jeereddi A. Prasad
  • Subba & Sanjeev Ravipudi
  • Shanti & Prem Reddy
  • Ramanna V Sadda
  • Jian Sun
  • Potti Sreeramulu Telugu
    University
  • Chandra Turaga
  • Krishna Vemuri
  • Lakshmi Reddy & Sunil Vemuri
  • Uma & Rao Vemuri
  • Vanguri Foundation of America (Raju Vanguri)

Urdu Initiative at Berkeley 

  • Nasreen and Asghar Aboobakar
  • Shaista and Muhammad Akbar
  • Computers and Structures Inc.
  • Vasudha Dalmia
  • Helen and Raj Desai
  • Gunpreet Dhindsa and Safwan Shah
  • Naveeda and Javed Ellahie
  • The Habib Foundation
  • Fariha and Aaref Hilaly
  • Sara and Javaid Iqbal
  • Amna Jaffer and Rafat Pirzada
  • Rehana Kausar and Farooq Khan
  • Uzma and Ahmed Khaishgi
  • Imrana and Muhammad Khalid
  • Ameer Khan
  • Shaheena and Javed Khan
  • Shaq Khan
  • Zareen and Umair Khan
  • Z.A. Khan
  • Aruba and Adnan Lawai
  • Barbara and Tom Metcalf
  • Naila and Khalid Mahmood
  • Sohail Muhammad
  • Irum and Bilal Musharraf
  • Amjad Noorani
  • Pakistani Students Association (Berkeley)
  • Steve Poulos
  • Tabinda and Syed Rahman
  • Shameela and Hasan Rizvi
  • Wasim Siddiqi
  • Jalil Shaikh
  • Naheed and Aamir Shaikh
  • Amir Shakil
  • Sadia and Sajid Sohail
  • Nasir Sufi
  • Clare Talwalker and Munis Faruqui
  • Javed Umerani
  • Paru and Zia Yusuf
  • Aisha and Fawad Zakariya