What made you start the Giving Back Foundation in 2010?
For the last quarter of a century, I have been involved in charitable works with various organisations. I even wrote a book called Giving Back, which shares 75 inspirational stories of giving back to the world and is currently being sold across a dozen nations through Amazon. But when I moved back to the US from Mumbai in 2000, I became even more involved with organised charitable fundraising and giving through the Asia Society, the American Ballet and the Natural History Museum in New York. Finally, in 2010, I decided to get fully organised with my own giving and started the Giving Back Foundation which is a registered tax-exempt organisation in the US and India.

Meera Gandhi with Cherie Blair at a charity event in Mumbai to raise money for Indian widows