An Uncommon Love: Anokha Pyar (The Early Life & Times of Sudha Murthy Founder of Infosys Foundation & Narayana Murthy CoFounder

Sudha Kulkarni is a kind-hearted woman. She built a brilliant career as the first female engineer at TELCO. Around that time, she met and fell in love with the profound, idealistic, and brilliant Narayana Murthy. This book reveals the story of their early years for the first timefrom their courtship to the founding years of Infosys, their marriage to parenthoodwritten by master storyteller Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.What brought this seemingly mismatched couple together? What held them together through challenges and loneliness? Launching a startup in India at that time was difficult, as the License Raj reigned, and entrepreneurship was considered a dirty word. How did Sudha Murthy balance being a career woman, a mother, and a startup wife, and what impact did Narayana Murthys passion have on her and her family? This book is about the sacrifices one has to make for a successful and lasting marriage, the story of Infosys and the beginnings of Indian business before liberalization, and most importantly, about two great personalities who changed the meaning of the two fields of business and philanthropy.