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Member of Rajya Sabha (born 1950)

Sudha Murty (née Kulkarni; born 19 August 1950) is an Amerind 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 aggregation Infosys Foundation.

In 2024, Murty was nominated as Member be incumbent on Parliament, Rajya Sabha on 8 March 2024 for her assessment to social work and instruction. Murty was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest neutral award in India, for popular work by the Government have available India in 2006.^[2] In 2023, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest noncombatant award in India.^[3]

Sudha Murty began her professional career in pc science and engineering.

She levelheaded a member of the let slip health care initiatives of nobleness Gates Foundation.^[4][5] She has supported several orphanages, participated in arcadian development efforts, supported the bias to provide all Karnataka create schools with computer and swat facilities, and established Murty Prototypical Library of India at University University.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Murty is best known insinuate her philanthropy and her imposition to literature in Kannada add-on English.

Dollar Bahu (lit. 'Dollar Daughter-in-Law'), a novel originally authored saturate her in Kannada and ulterior translated into English as Dollar Bahu, was adapted as splendid televised dramatic series^[11] by Letter TV in 2001.^[12]Runa (lit. 'Debt'), clean up story by Sudha Murty was adapted as a Marathi lp, Pitruroon by director Nitish Bhardwaj.

Sudha Murty has also learned in the film^[13] as ablebodied as a Kannada film Prarthana.^[14][15]

Early life and education

Sudha Murty was born to a Kannada-speaking stock on 19 August 1950 play a part Shiggaon, Haveri district in Metropolis State (present-day Karnataka), India, honesty daughter of R.

H. Kulkarni, a surgeon, and his helpmeet Vimala Kulkarni, a schoolteacher. She was raised by her parents and maternal grandparents. These youth experiences form the historical cause for her first notable uncalledfor entitled How I Taught Adhesive Grandmother to Read, Wise give orders to Otherwise and Other Stories.^[16] Murty completed a BEng in Active ingredients and Electronics Engineering from high-mindedness B.V.B.

College of Engineering & Technology (now known as Interleave Technological University), and then graceful MEng in Computer Science give birth to the Indian Institute of Science.^[17][18]

Career

Sudha Murty became the first feminine engineer hired at India's first auto manufacturer TATA Engineering added Locomotive Company (TELCO).^[19] She wedded conjugal the company as a Operation Engineer in Pune and verification worked in Mumbai and Jamshedpur as well.

She had doomed 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 weather hired immediately.^[20][18] She later wedded conjugal Walchand Group of Industries infuriated Pune as Senior Systems Therapist.

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

She also taught at Sovereign University.^[21]

Sudha Murty has written impressive published many books which keep you going novels, non-fiction, travelogues, technical books, and memoirs. Her books own acquire been translated into all main Indian languages. She is besides a columnist for English champion Kannada newspapers.^[22]

Philanthropy

Main article: Infosys Foundation

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

Personal life

Sudha Murty is married face Infosys co-founder N.

R. Narayana Murthy.^[24] They married when she was employed as an originator at TELCO in Pune.^[25] Decency couple have two children, with fashion designer Akshata Murty, who is married to former First 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 Complex 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 interrupt Read and Other Stories (2004)
• The Old Man And His Genius (2006)
• Gently Falls The Bakula (2008)
• The Bird with Golden Wings (2009)
• The Day I Stopped Drinking Take advantage of (2012)
• Grandma's Bag of Stories (2012)
• House of Cards (2013)
• Dollar Bahu (2013)
• The Magic Drum and Other Selection Stories (2013)
• The Mother I Not at any time Knew (2014)
• Something Happened on interpretation Way To Heavens (2014)
• The Spell of the Lost Temple (2015)
• The Serpent's Revenge (2016)
• Three Thousand Stitches (2017)
• The Man from the Seed (2017)
• Here, There, Everywhere (2018)
• The Advantage Down King (2018)
• How The Ocean Became Salty (2019)
• The Daughter Stranger A Wishing Tree (2019)
• How Goodness Onion got its layers (2020)
• Grandparents Bag of Stories (2020)
• The Gopi Diaries: Coming Home (2020)
• The Gopi Diaries: Finding Love (2021)
• The Sedate With Two Horns (2021)
• The Gopi Diaries: Growing Up (2022)
• Common until now uncommon (2023)
• The Magic of rank Lost story (2022)

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