[13] Ramji's father and his maternal uncle, Dr. P. K. Iyengar, former chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission were founder trustees of Agastya International Foundation.
[18] In 1998, Ramji left his commercial career in banking and finance to create Agastya International Foundation,[19] to provide science education to over 25 million underprivileged children and 250,000 government school teachers across India.
Agastya's 172-acre campus creativity lab houses over fifteen experiential science, art and innovation centers, including the Ramanujan Math Park.
[citation needed] In the late 1980s, Ramji met Janaki Ammal, wife of the mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan in Triplicane, Madras.
[23] In 2010 the Government of Karnataka signed a MoU with Agastya International Foundation to establish an ecosystem for hands-on science education in the state.
[33] In 2019 Agastya received an Andhra Pradesh State Green Award for its work in regenerating the ecosystem of its 172-acre campus, documented in a book, 'The Roots of Creativity'.
[34] In 2020 Ramji and Agastya International Foundation were featured in the book, 7 Sutras of Innovation by Nikhil Inamdar,[35] which tracks the journeys of eight organizations that have scaled up to become top players in their own fields and are transforming India.