India, Nov. 6 -- A Bengaluru-based software developer recently surprised his father with a car, and made thousands of internet strangers emotional in the process. Satyam Pandey, a 26-year-old BITS-Pilani alumnus, gifted his father a brand-new Tata Punch - a move he described as a small way to repay years of hard work and sacrifice.

Pandey told HT.com over a telephone conversation that his father drove a two-wheeler his whole life - and throughout his life, he sacrificed his own comfort so his three children could study well and afford luxuries that they might otherwise not have been able to.

Pandey explained that his father worked as an assistant in the Civil Court of Patna. As the eldest of three children, he himself was well aware of ...