Sudha Murthy

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Sudha Murthy is a renowned Indian author and chairperson of Infosys Foundation, a non-profit organisation.Sudha’s brother, Shrinivas Kulkarni is a US-based astronomer who won the Dan David Prize in 2017. Her eldest sister, Sunanda Kulkarni is a gynaecologist in a government hospital in Bangalore. Sudha’s elder sister, Jaishree Deshpande is the founder of the ‘Deshpande Foundation’ and is married to Gururaj Deshpande, co-founder of Chelmsford.The principal of the college admitted Sudha on three conditions. He asked her to always wear saree, not visit the canteen, and not to talk to the men in college; as Sudha was the only female student in the class of 600 students.Even in the late 60s, she was bold enough to carry a bob haircut and wear jeans and a t-shirt. An Old Picture of Sudha Murthy.She topped in her class during her graduation and received a gold medal from the then Chief Minister of Karnataka, Dr Devaraj Urs.She again received a gold medal from the Indian Institute of Engineers for becoming topper in her class in post-graduation.Later, she was hired by TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO) in Pune, where she was the first female development engineer.There is an interesting story behind her hiring, she came across a vacancy advertisement of TELCO in February 1974 but in the footnote of the advertisement it was written: “female candidates need not apply.” This hurt her ego, and she wrote a postcard to JRD Tata (TELCO’s chairman at that time) regarding gender discrimination in the company. In an interview, she shared this incident, and said,.While she was working in TELCO, she met N. R. Narayana Murthy. She met him through her friend Prasanna, who went on to become one of the key persons at Wipro. In an interview, Sudha shared her initial meetings with Narayana, she said,.After a few meetings, both started liking each other and Narayana proposed Sudha for marriage. Initially, Sudha’s father was against the marriage because Murthy was not earning much from his research assistant job.