Anand Mahindra is going to donate $10 million to Harvard University, for their departments in humanities. The department will thus be names as Mahindra Humanities Centre as this is the largest amount that has been given to it till now. Anand is doing this support activity in honor of his mother, Indira Mahindra and is being looked upon as the advancement of unique interdisciplinary collaborations led by Centre director, Homi Bhabha Anand is the Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra, Ltd and is one of the top 10 industrialists in India.

He himself is a pass out from the university where he joined as an undergraduate in the film studies programme of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Later, he also did his MBA from the Harvard Business School (HBS).

Talking to media, Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University and Lincoln Professor of History said that the remarkable gift is very significant as it has put humanities at the center stage. The importance of the contribution is more since many human related questions are confronting the world at present.