During his first job, a lot of Nadar’s colleagues had high profile degrees from reputed colleges. Later on in his life, he turned education as his choice of charity. He had never learnt English until he turned 22. Nadar who hails from Moolaipozhi village in Tamil Nadu also started a chain of schools in rural areas.
"Education is, and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it," he said.
He founded SSN College of Engineering in Chennai in 1996 and gifted shares worth ₹1 million to the college. In his lifetime, he intends to donate as much as $1 billion for promoting education.