Mr. Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy

Mr. Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy (Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy) is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and the founder of Infosys. Born into a Kannada Madhawa Brahmin family in Mysore, Indian on  20.08.1946. He graduated wiht dregree3 in electrical engineering from National Institute of Engineerin and Master's from IIT Kanpur 1969.

His wife, Sudha Murthy  Kulkarni, is an Indian social worker and accomplished author. She is known for her philanthropic work through the Infosys Foundation. They have two children - Rohan and Akshata.

Family Phot of MR. Murthy

 -:Life lessons of Mr. Murthy:-  

He learned these lessons in the context of his early career struggles, a life lived under the influence of sometimes unplanned events which were the crucibles that tempered his character and reshaped his future.

The first event occurred when he was a graduate student in Control Theory at IIT, Kanpur, in India. At breakfast on a bright Sunday morning in 1968, he had a chance encounter with a famous computer scientist on sabbatical from a well-known US university.Scientist was discussing exciting new developments in the field of computer science with a large group of students and how such developments would alter our future. Scientist was articulate, passionate and quite convincing. He was hooked. He went straight from breakfast to the library, read four or five papers Scientist had suggested, and left the library determined to study computer science. This experience taught him that valuable advice can sometimes come from an unexpected source, and chance events can sometimes open new doors.
The next event of his left an indelible mark on me occurred in 1974. The location: Nis, a border town between former Yugoslavia, now Serbia, and Bulgaria. He was hitchhiking from Paris back to Mysore, India, my home town. By the time a kind driver dropped him at Nis railway station at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night, the restaurant was closed. So was the bank the next morning, and He could not eat because he had no local money. He slept on the railway platform until 8.30 pm in the night when the Sofia Express pulled in.

The only passengers in his compartment were a girl and a boy. He struck a conversation in French with the young girl. She talked about the travails of living in an iron curtain country, until they were roughly interrupted by some policemen who, he later gathered, were summoned by the young man who thought they were criticising the communist government of Bulgaria.

The girl was led away; he backpack and sleeping bag were confiscated. He was dragged along the platform into a small 8x8 foot room with a cold stone floor and a hole in one corner by way of toilet facilities. He was held in that bitterly cold room without food or water for over 72 hours.

He had lost all hope of ever seeing the outside world again, when the door opened. He was again dragged out unceremoniously, locked up in the guard's compartment on a departing freight train and told that he would be released 20 hours later upon reaching Istanbul. The guard's final words still ring in his  ears  --  "You are from a friendly country called India and that is why we are letting you go!"

The journey to Istanbul was lonely, and he was starving. This long, lonely, cold journey forced him to deeply rethink his convictions about Communism. Early on a dark Thursday morning, after being hungry for 108 hours, he was purged of any last vestiges of affinity for the Left.

He concluded that entrepreneurship, resulting in large-scale job creation, was the only viable mechanism for eradicating poverty in societies.

Deep in his heart, he always thanks the Bulgarian guards for transforming him from a confused Leftist into a determined, compassionate capitalist! Inevitably, this sequence of events led to the eventual founding of Infosys in 1981.

While these first two events were rather fortuitous, the next two, both concerning the Infosys journey, were more planned and profoundly influenced his career trajectory.