Tribute – Dr Bala V Balachandran

HIS NET WORTH WAS HIS NETWORK

HAILING FROM A village near Pudukottai, Bala obtained his post-graduate degree in Statistics/Mathematics from Annamalai University, served as a non-commissioned officer in the Indian Army for a couple of years and later taught at the Annamalai University. A meeting with Prof Landis Gephart of the Dayton University, USA, helped him pursue higher education in the US. His brilliance, shot him up as a distinguished professor of accounting, a stature not attained by many Indian academics.