An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy
An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Language: English
- Print Length: 352 Pages
- ISBN-10: 9789353456443
- ISBN-13: 978-9353456443
Sudha Kulkarni was forging a career as TELCO’s first woman engineer when she met the serious, idealistic and brilliant Narayana Murthy, and they fell in love. For the first time comes the story of their early years – from their courtship to Infosys’s founding years, from their marriage to parenthood – told by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
What drew them together and kept them bound tightly through the challenges and loneliness they faced? What was it like to create a start-up during the licence raj, when there were no VCs, and entrepreneurship was regarded as a dirty word? How did Sudha Murty balance being a career woman, a mother and a start-up wife? How did Narayana Murthy’s obsession affect himself and his family?
Taking us deep inside the minds, hearts and values of the Murthys, with exclusive access to them, Divakaruni tells their story with extraordinary emotional depth, bringing them and their worlds vividly alive. This book is about the sacrifices it takes to forge a powerful and lasting marriage, about the early story of Infosys and Indian business before liberalization, and most of all about two icons before they became the legends that transformed the fields of business and philanthropy.
Sudha Kulkarni was forging a career as TELCO’s first woman engineer when she met the serious, idealistic and brilliant Narayana Murthy, and they fell in love. For the first time comes the story of their early years – from their courtship to Infosys’s founding years, from their marriage to parenthood – told by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
What drew them together and kept them bound tightly through the challenges and loneliness they faced? What was it like to create a start-up during the licence raj, when there were no VCs, and entrepreneurship was regarded as a dirty word? How did Sudha Murty balance being a career woman, a mother and a start-up wife? How did Narayana Murthy’s obsession affect himself and his family?
Taking us deep inside the minds, hearts and values of the Murthys, with exclusive access to them, Divakaruni tells their story with extraordinary emotional depth, bringing them and their worlds vividly alive. This book is about the sacrifices it takes to forge a powerful and lasting marriage, about the early story of Infosys and Indian business before liberalization, and most of all about two icons before they became the legends that transformed the fields of business and philanthropy.
Author Bios:
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning writer, activist, professor and speaker, and the author of twenty-one books such as The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, Before We Visit the Goddess, The Palace of Illusions, The Forest of Enchantments, The Last Queen and Independence.
Her work has been published in over a hundred magazines and anthologies, translated into thirty languages, made into films, plays and dance dramas, and performed as operas. Her awards include an American Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Premio Scanno and a Light of India Award. In 2015 the Economic Times included her in their list of the 20 Most Influential Global Indian Women. She is the McDavid Professor of Creative Writing in the internationally acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and lives in Houston with her husband Murthy.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning writer, activist, professor and speaker, and the author of twenty-one books such as The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, Before We Visit the Goddess, The Palace of Illusions, The Forest of Enchantments, The Last Queen and Independence.
Her work has been published in over a hundred magazines and anthologies, translated into thirty languages, made into films, plays and dance dramas, and performed as operas. Her awards include an American Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Premio Scanno and a Light of India Award. In 2015 the Economic Times included her in their list of the 20 Most Influential Global Indian Women. She is the McDavid Professor of Creative Writing in the internationally acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and lives in Houston with her husband Murthy.
