Meeting with Sudha Murthy

Today reached MDI in the morning after 5 hour journey from Gwalior.
The day started on a good note with a healthy and sumptous breakfast - bread n butter, boiled egg, puri and sabji. Sudha Murthy was the first speaker as a part of the Change Master series.
Was glad to occupy my chair before the event started. Waited patiently for her to arrive. Had some description about her in the mind before she came, what all i knew about her was from her book " Wise and Otherwise " , a couple of articles by her and on her.

She arrived at 1030 sharp. She kicked off after a brief intro by a impressive lady. She occupied the podium with such ease and composure. Let me first describe how she came in there. I could just feel her as one of the typical south indian ladies you can see on bangalore streets. She was dressed in a grey color cotton sari which I could figure out was not costly. She had an air of simplisity around her.

Once she started talking the whole auditorium was just silent. She started talking about her real life experience and how as budding MBA we can learn from her success or failure which ever way we want to see the incidents. She went on narrating her life the same way she put them in her book. She talked abt various topics from why you didnt go on with ur career and become the IT Women in India, why did you break the rules n go for love marriage, what is a human for you. Do you think we can have a compassionate heart and a career mind, how difficult is it for a women to choose between career and family, how do you manage smart people working under you, What do you do when you get cheated.

She took all the array of questions with such a ease I was thouroughly impressed.
I wanted to touch her feet, but she had to rush to her other commitments.

Take home for me from the hour long talk, keep atleast some part of your income for philanthropy purposes, it could be any meager amount but make sure it comes form heart.

Sudha Murthy a legend in the making. Hats off to you madam. I salute you for all you are doing for the society.