At the peak of his career when he owned 20 tech companies in several countries, Rajiv took early retirement at age 44 to pursue philanthropy, research, and public service. He established Infinity Foundation for this purpose in 1994. Rajiv has conducted original research in a variety of fields and has influenced many other thinkers in India and the West by providing fresh provocative positions on a wide range of subjects. His latest book is “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds” released in Jan 2021. His past books have included the following game changing titles: Sanskrit Non-Translatables, Being Different; Breaking India; Indra’s Net; The Battle for Sanskrit; and Academic Hinduphobia. He is a popular speaker at international events in USA, India, and Europe. He has authored hundreds of articles, provided strategic guidance to numerous organizations and has over 1,000 video lectures available online. Rajiv has over 7 million followers on Facebook.
Besides his personal work, Rajiv is also the full-time founder-director of Infinity Foundation in Princeton, NJ. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and is adviser to various organizations. Infinity Foundation has given more than 400 grants for research, education and community work. It has provided strategic grants to major universities in support of pioneering programs including: visiting professorships in India studies at Harvard University, Yoga and Hindi classes at Rutgers University, research and teaching of non-dualistic philosophies at University of Hawaii, Global Renaissance Institute and a Center for Buddhist studies at Columbia University, a program in religion and science at University of California, endowment for the Center for Advanced Study of India at University of Pennsylvania, lectures at the Center for Consciousness Studies at University of Arizona. Infinity Foundation has funded and organized dozens of international conferences on cognitive sciences, consciousness studies, history of science and technology, Indology, and wellness. Presently, it holds regular Swadeshi Indology Conferences in India. Among the numerous academic publications that it has funded is the HIST (History of Indian Science and Technology) series, which is a series of 14 volumes thus far.