Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has once again reiterated that India is an integral part of him and he was fortunate to grow up in a family in the country that cherished learning and knowledge.<\/p>\n
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“India is a part of me. I carry it with me wherever I go. I was fortunate to grow up in a family that cherished learning and knowledge, with parents who sacrificed a lot to make sure I had opportunities to explore my interests,” Pichai said in a blog post late on Friday.<\/p>\n
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He expressed his thoughts after receiving the Padma Bhushan, India’s highest civilian honour, from India’s Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
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Pichai, who was born in Madurai and grew up in Chennai, in 2021 also said that India is deeply rooted in him and a big part of who he is.<\/p>\n
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In an earlier interview with the BBC, he said that “I’m an American citizen but India is deeply within me. So it’s a big part of who I am”.<\/p>\n
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During his earlier visit to India, he had admitted he used to bunk classes during his engineering days at IIT Kharagpur.<\/p>\n
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Pichai completed B.Tech in metallurgical engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1993.<\/p>\n
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Pichai’s mother, Lakshmi, was a stenographer and his father, Regunatha Pichai, was an electrical engineer at GEC, the British conglomerate.<\/p>\n
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His father also had a manufacturing plant that produced electrical components.<\/p>\n
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Pichai completed schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class 12 from Vana Vani school at IIT Madras.<\/p>\n
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Moving to the US, he attained an MS from Stanford University in materials science and engineering and further attained an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
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Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015. He was appointed to the Alphabet Board of Directors in 2017.<\/p>\n
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In December 2019, Google’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped down and Pichai also took over as parent company Alphabet’s CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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