MUKUL K. AGARWALA: 'Here's Lookin'
at You, Kid'
After
he folded an Internet company in San Diego last spring,
Mukul K. Agarwala moved back east to be near his parents
in Kendall Park, N.J., because they were in failing
health. His sense of family extended to his friends'
children, too. "He would call every month to ask for a
new photo of our daughter, Riya," said Neeraj Mital, a
friend since college.
Mr. Agarwala's widow, Rhea Stone, said that his sense
of concern went even further. Not long after they met in
Hong Kong in 1993, she said, he saw a newspaper article
about a mistreated domestic worker who, like Mr.
Agarwala's parents, had come from India. He went to the
Indian diplomatic mission and paid her fare back
home.
Ms. Stone said her husband's enthusiasms ranged from
snowboarding to reading history to old movies. She could
not remember how many times they had watched
"Casablanca." On Sept. 11, Mr. Agarwala, 37, was in his
second day as a research analyst on software for
Fiduciary Trust.
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