Leadership sudha murthy

1. My Inspiration
“Nothing is constant in life except change”

3. Sudha Murthy is an Indian social worker and author. Murthy
began her professional career as a computer scientist and
engineer. She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation
and a member of public health care initiatives of the Gates
Foundation. She has founded several orphanages,
participated in rural development efforts, supported the
movement to provide all Karnataka government schools with
computer and library facilities, and established the 'The
Murthy Classical Library of India' at Harvard University. Murthy
also teaches computer science and composes fiction.

4. Sudha Murthy was born on August 19, 1950, in Shiggaon in
northern Karnataka, India. The daughter of a local physician
Dr. S.R. Kulkarni, Murty and her siblings were raised by her
parents and maternal grandparents of the Deshastha
Brahmin Kadim Diwan-Melgiri-Ron family.These childhood
experiences form the historical basis for her first notable work
entitled How I Taught my Grandmother to Read & Other
Stories. Two institutions of higher learning, the H.R. Kadim
Diwan Building housing the Computer Science & Engineering
(CSE) department at IIT Kanpur and the Narayan Rao Melgiri
Memorial National Law Library at NLSIU,were both endowed
and inaugurated by the Infosys Foundation.

5. Murthy completed a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from
the B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology, standing
first in her class and receiving a gold medal from the Chief
Minister of Karnataka. Thereafter, she completed an M.E. in
Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science,
standing first in her class and receiving a gold medal from
the Indian Institute of Engineers.
After graduation, Murthy became the first female engineer
hired at India's largest auto manufacturer TATA Engineering
and Locomotive Company or TELCO. Murthy had written a
postcard to the company's Chairman complaining of the
"men only" gender bias at TELCO. As a result, she was
granted a special interview and hired immediately. She
met N.R. Narayana Murthy while employed as an engineer
at TELCO in Pune, and the two got married.

6. In 2006, Murthy was
awarded the Padma Shri ,
the fourth highest-ranking
civilian award from the
Government of India, and
received an honorary
doctorate for her
contributions in the
spheres of social work,
philanthropy, and
education.

7.  Best Teacher Award in 1995 from the Rotary Club of
Bangalore
 National Award from Public Relation Society of India for
outstanding Social Service to the Society
 Award for Excellent Social Service by Rotary South –
Hubli
‘Karnataka Rajyotsava’ State Award for the year 2000, for
achievement in the field of literature and social work
‘Ojaswini’ award for excellent social worker for the year
2000
 ‘Millenium Mahila Shiromani’ award
Voted as Woman of the Year by RadioCity [BangaloreFM
station] on International Women’s Day [2002]

8. Murthy is a prolific fiction author. She has published several
books, mainly through Penguin, that espouse her philosophical
views on charity, hospitality and self-realization through fictional
narratives.
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read & Other Stories has been
translated into 15 languages including English, Hindi and
Assamese. Her latest book is The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk.
Other notable books by her are Wise and Otherwise, Old Man and
his God and Gently Falls the Bakula.

9.  Humble Nature:
She along with her husband, Narayan Murthy lives a middle class
lifestyle in a two bedroom flat. She does not have a safe in her
house because she has no jewels to keep in it!
 Sense of Serving others:
She has always worked for others. She believes that you shouldn’t
help people to the extent that they become dependent on you.
She helps people through her initiative Infosys Foundation, which
runs solely on 1% profit-after-tax that Infosys contributes to it.
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