PHAGWARA: Dr. Arokiaswamy Velumani, the renowned Indian entrepreneur and billionaire with a net worth of over ₹5, 000 crore, addressed students at Lovely Professional University (LPU), sharing his remarkable journey from a modest background to building a global enterprise. Dr. Velumani was welcomed to the campus by Dr. Loviraj Gupta, Pro Vice-Chancellor of LPU, and Dr. Sorabh Lakhanpal, Executive Dean of the Division of Student Welfare.
Dr. Velumani began his talk with a candid and light-hearted recollection of his academic journey. He shared that he had initially enrolled in a B.Com programme simply to obtain a degree, without any particular goal in mind. A month into the course, a mentor questioned his choice and advised him to pursue science instead, even going so far as to pay his admission fees to make the switch possible. “If not for him, I don’t think I would have been standing here today speaking to you, ” he reflected, acknowledging the life-changing role of that intervention.