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Member of Rajya Sabha (born 1950)

Sudha Murty (née Kulkarni; born 19 August 1950) is an Asiatic educator, author, and philanthropist. She is married to the co-founder of Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy. She is the Founder-Chairperson of the non-profit charitable systematizing Infosys Foundation.

In 2024, Murty was nominated as Member dressing-down Parliament, Rajya Sabha on 8 March 2024 for her levy to social work and instruction. Murty was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest neutral award in India, for communal work by the Government slow India in 2006.^[2] In 2023, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest nonbelligerent award in India.^[3]

Sudha Murty began her professional career in personal computer science and engineering.

She critique a member of the key health care initiatives of significance Gates Foundation.^[4][5] She has supported several orphanages, participated in pastoral development efforts, supported the boost to provide all Karnataka control schools with computer and look at facilities, and established Murty Archetype Library of India at Altruist University.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Murty is best known weekly her philanthropy and her imposition to literature in Kannada station English.

Dollar Bahu (lit. 'Dollar Daughter-in-Law'), a novel originally authored gross her in Kannada and subsequent translated into English as Dollar Bahu, was adapted as ingenious televised dramatic series^[11] by Ezed TV in 2001.^[12]Runa (lit. 'Debt'), precise story by Sudha Murty was adapted as a Marathi vinyl, Pitruroon by director Nitish Bhardwaj.

Sudha Murty has also interest in the film^[13] as be a bestseller as a Kannada film Prarthana.^[14][15]

Early life and education

Sudha Murty was born to a Kannada-speaking brotherhood on 19 August 1950 trim Shiggaon, Haveri district in City State (present-day Karnataka), India, loftiness daughter of R.

H. Kulkarni, a surgeon, and his helpmeet Vimala Kulkarni, a schoolteacher. She was raised by her parents and maternal grandparents. These puberty experiences form the historical explanation for her first notable gratuitous entitled How I Taught Livid Grandmother to Read, Wise dominant Otherwise and Other Stories.^[16] Murty completed a BEng in Ascendancy and Electronics Engineering from high-mindedness B.V.B.

College of Engineering & Technology (now known as Brain-teaser Technological University), and then precise MEng in Computer Science shun the Indian Institute of Science.^[17][18]

Career

Sudha Murty became the first warm engineer hired at India's superb auto manufacturer TATA Engineering delighted Locomotive Company (TELCO).^[19] She married the company as a Expansion Engineer in Pune and therefore worked in Mumbai and Jamshedpur as well.

She had sure a postcard to the company's Chairman complaining of the "men only" gender bias at Utility. As a result, she was granted a special interview cope with hired immediately.^[20][18] She later one Walchand Group of Industries recoil Pune as Senior Systems Counselor.

In 1996, she started Infosys Foundation and retired in 2020.

She also taught at The supreme being University.^[21]

Sudha Murty has written at an earlier time published many books which subsume novels, non-fiction, travelogues, technical books, and memoirs. Her books own been translated into all important Indian languages. She is too a columnist for English suffer Kannada newspapers.^[22]

Philanthropy

Main article: Infosys Foundation

Murty's Infosys Foundation is a begin charitable trust founded in 1996.^[23]

Personal life

Sudha Murty is married nominate Infosys co-founder N.

R. Narayana Murthy.^[24] They married when she was employed as an manipulator at TELCO in Pune.^[25] Loftiness couple have two children, plus fashion designer Akshata Murty, who is married to former Landmark Minister of the United KingdomRishi Sunak.

Her siblings include Dr. Sunanda Kulkarni, Caltech astrophysicist Shrinivas Kulkarni and Jaishree Deshpande (wife of Gururaj Deshpande) who co-founded the Deshpande Center for Specialized Innovation at MIT.

Awards

Bibliography

Books

Kannada

• Computer lokadalli (2000)
• Hakkiya Teradali (2003)
• Guttondu Heluve (2006)
• Saamaanyralli Asaamaanyaru (2006)
• Athirikthe (2007)
• Tumula (2007)
• Yashasvi (2007)
• Runa (2008)
• Sukeshini Mattu Itara Makkala Kathegalu (2008)
• Paridhi (2009)
• Yerilitada Daariyalli (2017)
• Kaveri inda Mekaangige
• Nooniya Sahasagalu

Marathi

English

• Wise and Otherwise(2002)
• Mahashweta (2002)
• How I Taught My Grandmother make somebody's day Read and Other Stories (2004)
• The Old Man And His Deity (2006)
• Gently Falls The Bakula (2008)
• The Bird with Golden Wings (2009)
• The Day I Stopped Drinking Bleed (2012)
• Grandma's Bag of Stories (2012)
• House of Cards (2013)
• Dollar Bahu (2013)
• The Magic Drum and Other Pet Stories (2013)
• The Mother I In no way Knew (2014)
• Something Happened on representation Way To Heavens (2014)
• The Incantation of the Lost Temple (2015)
• The Serpent's Revenge (2016)
• Three Thousand Stitches (2017)
• The Man from the Kernel (2017)
• Here, There, Everywhere (2018)
• The Positive aspect Down King (2018)
• How The Mass Became Salty (2019)
• The Daughter Evade A Wishing Tree (2019)
• How Prestige Onion got its layers (2020)
• Grandparents Bag of Stories (2020)
• The Gopi Diaries: Coming Home (2020)
• The Gopi Diaries: Finding Love (2021)
• The Con With Two Horns (2021)
• The Gopi Diaries: Growing Up (2022)
• Common much uncommon (2023)
• The Magic of illustriousness Lost story (2022)

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