Sessions
The Circle of Life
Sudha Murty with Vani Mahesh
Bio
Sudha Murty is an author, philanthropist, educator, public speaker, engineer, founder of the Infosys Foundation and the Chairperson of the Murty Trust. A bestselling author with more than three hundred titles to her acclaim, some of her most famous books are Three Thousand Stitches, Dollar Bahu and Wise and Otherwise. She writes in English and Kannada and her books have been translated into all the major Indian languages and have sold more than 60 lakh copies around the country.
Over the years, Sudha Murty has been recognized with many prestigious awards including the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, Bal Sahitya Puraskar, R.K. Narayan Award for Literature, Rajyotsava and Attimabbe awards for excellence in Kannada literature. Currently, she is a President of India nominated Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha.