Vishal has donated Rs 10 lakhs to Harvard University for creating a Sangam Tamil Chair. He told Deccan Chronicle:
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“When the Ukrainian language spoken by three crore people, and the Celtic language spoken by one-and-a-half crore people have Chairs at the prestigious Harvard University, (which has been functioning for more than 380 years) — Tamil, one of the classical languages of the world which has ancient literature dating back to 300 BC, and spoken by eight crore people — should have one too! Other languages like Sanskrit, Hebrew also have Harvard Chair”
The actor also asked people to donate generously to the cause, as a sum of Rs 40 crores is needed to establish the Chair.