Ajith was born on 1 May 1971, in Hyderabad, India. His father P. Subramaniam is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. His mother Mohini is from Kolkata, West Bengal. Ajith created the non-profit organisation "Mohini-Mani Foundation", named after his parents, in order to promote self-hygiene and civic consciousness and to help ease the problems of urban sprawl. Ajith was the middle son out of three brothers, the others being Anup Kumar, an investor, and Anil Kumar, an IIT Madras graduate turned entrepreneur.
