GeNEUROsity began as the continuation of a legacy in memory of Dr. T.V. Seshan—who led a life of wisdom and generosity while pursuing an academic career designed to further assist people in need.
But legacies are not made of a single person—they’re made of many people working together.
Both Dr. T.V. Seshan’s and his wife’s, Dr. Surya Seshan’s, parents and grandparents were from reputable families with strong traditions who engaged in charitable activities as philanthropists. Their grandfathers were farmers who understood that the work to provide basic needs came first, followed by the pursuit of dreams. Without the former, you do not get the latter.
One grandfather in Dr. Surya Seshan’s family would give pieces of his land to allow families to build their livelihood. He would provide room and board for students who were going to college, which allowed them to cover their basic needs in order to pursue more advanced goals.
Building on this legacy and history of giving and empowerment, the Seshan family sees service as a matter of helping people meet requirements that included physical needs, security needs, and social needs. Helping to provide these allows the recipient to go on with their ambitions, which in turn creates more good.
But, meeting the needs of one person was not the same as meeting the needs of another. A person can be loved, but be in an unstable financial state. A person can have food and water, but feel isolated from their communities. These people work every day to continue surviving—meeting the other needs they lack with their daily work and energy. They do not have the luxury of pursuing their self-actualization, the opportunity to be the very best version of themselves, with as much momentum as they might if their lower, most basic needs were met.
Both T.V. and Surya learned to identify someone’s needs and strengths to provide the best service and results.
The Seshans come from a long line of charity and ambition. Their grandparents provided for their parents, who in turn provided for them. This generosity was not limited to family. It was, instead, limitless to all who needed it.
In his line of work, Dr. T.V. Seshan was a doctor whose purpose was to facilitate the healthcare system. He was a physician entrepreneur who did whatever was necessary to find the people, funding, and resources needed to help his team, which in turn helped the patients.
When he established his own practice, he based it on the premise that the team speaks up for patients when they cannot speak for themselves. He simply brought optimistic energy and purposefulness in the pursuit of a better world.
The support he provided family, friends, and colleagues is an object lesson in how GeNEUROsity goes about its mission statement:
GeNEUROsity, the Seshan Family Foundation, seeks to inspire and empower the personal passions and talents of motivated individuals in order to transform the world.
Karthik Seshan, son of T.V. and Surya Sehsan, established GeNEUROsity to continue this legacy. He and his mother continue to grow the GeNEUROsity family in the memory and legacy of their father and husband—cultivated by a generational connection of service and charity.
Individuals and organizations have similar needs to fulfill when it comes to fueling ambition. Dr. Seshan saw these needs in the people he cared for and in the communities he cultivated. His actions said more than his words, and the results of those actions speak for themselves.
GeNEUROsity takes this example to a wider world of charity and gratitude, and instead hopes to assist the needs of those groups and nonprofits that are helping the world.
It’s a straightforward mantra:
Help the helpers—and you help the world.
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