SUMMARY Personal life He is married to Anjali Pichai, a chemical engineer from Kota, Rajasthan . They met as classmates at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur . The couple have two children. [46] Pichai's interests include football and cricket . Early life and education Pichai was born in Madurai , Tamil Nadu , India. [12] [13] His mother Lakshmi was a stenographer and his father, Regunatha Pichai was an electrical engineer at GEC , the British conglomerate. His father also had a manufacturing plant that produced electrical components. [14] [15] Pichai grew up in a two-room apartment in Ashok Nagar , Chennai . [14] Pichai completed schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya, a Central Board of Secondary Education school in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras . He earned his deg...