Sudha Kulkarni Murthy is an Indian social worker, author and philanthropist. She was born in 1950 in Karnataka and obtained degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. She worked as a computer engineer and programmer at Tata Motors and Infosys. She co-founded the Infosys Foundation with her husband to support education and healthcare. As a writer, she has authored several books in Kannada and English that highlight women's issues and social themes. She continues her philanthropic work through initiatives to promote education, healthcare and women's empowerment.

1. Born: August 19, 1950 (age 60 ) Shiggaon, Karnataka
Occupation: Social worker and writer.
Spouse: N. R. Narayana Murthy
Sudha Kulkarni Murthy is an Indian social worker and author. She is known for her
philanthropic work through the Infosys Foundation but was a computer scientist and
engineer in her early career. She did B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the B.V.B.
College of Engineering & Technology, Hubli. She stood first in Karnataka for which she
received a gold medal from the Chief Minister of Karnataka. She also completed her
M.E. in Computer Science in 1974 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, stood

2. first in her class and received a gold medal from the Indian Institute of Engineers.
Among other things, she has initiated a move to provide all government schools in
Karnataka with computer and library facilities. She also teaches computer science and
writes fiction. Dollar Sose (Dollar daughter-in-law), a book originally she wrote in
Kannada and later translated to English as Dollar Bahu was adopted as a television serial
in 2001.
She was the first female computer engineer employed at (Tata motors), Pune and
worked as a programmer in the early days of Infosys. She had written a postcard to JRD
Tata complaining of the gender bias in Tata Motors (Telco then had a men-only policy)
and she was invited for a special interview by Tata Motors. She was living in Pune from
1974–1981, later she moved to Mumbai. It was her savings of Rs. 10,000 that was
instrumental in the founding of Infosys; N.R. Narayana Murthy proudly mentions this
fact on several occasions.
Sudha Murthy is a writer and has written many stories, mostly published by Penguin,
which deal with common lives and human values such as charity, kindness and self
realization. As a sensitive writer she writes about the suffering of the people. The main
characters in all her books are highly educated, non compromising, highly principled
women.
 Some of them are following –
 The Bird with Golden Wings
 How I Taught My Grandmother To Read

3.  Gently Falls the Bakula
 Dollar Bahu
 Mahashweta
 Old Man And His God
 Wise & Otherwise
 Magic Drum & other stories
Personal details
Mrs. Murthy is the wife of software industrialist N.R. Narayana Murthy, the sister of
Jaishree Deshpande (wife of billionaire telecom tycoon Gururaj Deshpande) and
renowned Caltech astrophysicist Sir Shrinivas Kulkarni FRS, and the granddaughter of
the late Shri Narayan Rao Melgiri, a prominent early 20th century Kannadiga advocate.
The couple have two children - Rohan and Akshata. On Aug. 30, 2009, Akshata Murthy
tied the knot with her Stanford classmate Rishi Sunak, in a well-attended ceremony at
the Hotel Leela Palace Kempinski, Bangalore. Akshata, is a former associate of Siderian
Ventures, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Rishi Sunak, a British citizen of Indian
origin, is a partner at the UK-based charitable hedge fund TCI, The Children’s Investment
fund.

5. Awards received by this great woman63
She was presented with the Raja-Lakshmi Award on November 19, 2004, in recognition
of her outstanding contribution to social work by the Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation,
Chennai. In 2006, she was awarded the Padma Shri, a civilian award from the
Government of India and received an honorary doctorate from Sathyabama University.

6. Project submitted by :
Paras Yadav
Utkarsh Verma
Ashutosh Jha
Varun Vaid
English project work submitted by group:
Inchon Warriors
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