Sudha Murthy Essay

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Sudha Murthy was born on August 19, 1950 in Shiggaon in northern Karnataka, India. The daughter of a reputed local physician Dr. S.R. Kulkarni, Mrs. Murty and her siblings were raised by her parents and maternal grandparents of the Deshastha Brahmin Kadim Diwan-Melgiri-Ron family.[6][7][8] These childhood experiences form the historical basis for her first notable work entitled How I Taught my Grandmother to Read & Other Stories.[9] Two institutions of higher learning, the H.R. Kadim Diwan Building housing the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) department at IIT Kanpur[10][11] and the Narayan Rao Melgiri Memorial National Law Library at NLSIU,[6] were both endowed and inaugurated by the Infosys Foundation. Mrs. Murthy completed a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology, standing first in her class and receiving a gold medal from the Chief Minister of Karnataka. Thereafter, she completed a M.E. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, standing first in her class and receiving a gold medal from the Indian Institute of Engineers.[12] After graduation, Mrs. Murthy held the distinct honor of being the first female engineer hired at India's largest auto manufacturer TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company or TELCO (now the multinational Tata Motors, which owns Jaguar Land Rover and Daewoo commercial vehicles). The backstory reveals that Mrs. Murthy had written a postcard to then company Chairman JRD Tata complaining of the "men only" gender bias at TELCO. As a result, she was granted a special interview and hired immediately on her merits. Mrs. Murthy later met her husband N.R. Narayana Murthy while employed as an engineer at TELCO in Pune;[13] ironically, the couple's matchmaker G.K. Prasanna would later become the Global Head of Technology at Wipro, a competitor to Infosys in global IT

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