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 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

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.

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.

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