In the first of a series of excerpts from Gunjan Jain's book 'She Walks, She Leads', the author speaks to Sudha Murty, chairperson of the Infosys Foundation
Mrs Murty is many things... She is a great seeker, incurable dreamer, tireless doer, passionate teacher, eternal student, storyteller, story lover, selfless giver, childlike life enthusiast, engineer, homemaker... and so very human. But above all, she is an inventor... a leader... because she is inventing the future of those at the fringes of survival in India, slowly changing their what-is to what-could-be.
The Unconventional Bride
The job that Sudha had never coveted led her to the man she eventually married. When I ask Sudha about Murthy, she blushes at the memory of how they met. They had a common friend who worked in Telco, from whom Sudha often borrowed books; several of these bore the signature of NR Narayana Murthy. “In my mind’s eye I pictured Murthy as someone bold and confident, but when we eventually met he turned out to be a shy, soft-spoken introvert. We started meeting regularly as part of a group and much later alone.”
(This story appears in the 22 July, 2016 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)