Mangalore: Philanthropy needs a compassionate heart, mere finance is not enough: Dr Sudha Murty

Mangalore: Philanthropy needs a compassionate heart, mere finance is not enough: Dr Sudha Murty

mangaloretoday.com

Mangalore, Feb 18: Philanthropy needs a compassionate heart, mere finance is not enough. One should have the will to help and must invest one’s wholehearted effort in it. In addition, philanthropy has to proceed on the right path, in the right amount and the right time, said Padma Shri Dr Sudha Murty. She was delivering the Founders Day lecture at the Founders’Day celebration of Karnataka Bank on Tuesday, 18 February 2014 at the bank’s head office in Mangalore.

 

Dr Murty stressed on the role of banks in uplifting the downtrodden in any society. She narrated the sequence of events in which a bank had provided loans to devadasis in Raichur to educate their children, with the objective of helping them to give up their profession and rehabilitating them. Today the whole of Raichur is free of the scrouge of the social evil, she said.

She appreciated the vision of Karnataka Bank and said that it is such banks that lend a helping hand to the poorer sections of society.

Generosity of a few is hope for a million, she opined. The Infosys Foundation, of which she is Chairman, hopes to do much more to provide basic amenities to those who do not have them, she added.

 

Carnatic Vocal Recital by Vidushi Smt. Bombay Jayashri during the Karnataka Bank’s Founders Day Celebration

Sri P Jayaram Bhat, MD, welcomed the gathering. MS Mahabaleshwar Bhat, CGM, proposed the Vote of Thanks. Sri Ananthakrishna, Chairman was also present and promised that the bank would surely do its best to live up to the vision of its Founding Fathers.