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Narayana Murthy wants to teach now

Source: PTI
September 16, 2006 18:36 IST
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N R Narayana Murthy, who stepped down as executive chairman of Infosys last month, says he is keen to take up a professorship so that he could be with younger people.

"A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people," 60-year-old Narayana Murthy said in an interview published in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday.

"Secondly, I come from a family of professors. I am the only black sheep of the family, so I think I will become a little bit more respectable if I become a professor."

Like Bill Gates, whose mission was to bring computing to the masses, Murthy appears driven by social goals rather than a desire for riches, the daily said.

He developed his desire to set up a firm as he hitchhiked his way back home from Paris to India in the late seventies. One of his less pleasant experiences on this epic 11-month

trip crystallised his intentions.

Previously a staunch Leftist, a 72-hour spell in a Soviet prison was, he says, "the last nail in the coffin of socialism for me. I decided I would conduct an experiment in entrepreneurship and I embraced capitalism.

"I call myself a compassionate capitalist -- I'm a capitalist in mind but a socialist at heart. For me entrepreneurship is the only instrument for countries like India to solve the problem of its poverty, creating more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income."

"In Infosys a few of us have made lots of money, but there is still another section that has not. I believe it is our responsibility to ensure that those who have not made that kind of money have an opportunity to do so."

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