Narayana Murthy said reality is 'what you make.'
When enumerators came for the survey a few days ago, Sudha Murty and Narayana Murthy reportedly told them, "We don't want the survey conducted at our home."
Infosys chief mentor, N R Narayana Murthy is likely to become the non-executive chairman of the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) being set up to handle the retail payment operations of the Reserve Bank of India.
N R Narayana Murthy, who returned to Infosys last month, has now taken over the driver's seat at the Bangalore-based company.
In an interview with CNN-IBN, Infosys founder Narayana Murthy urges activist Anna Hazare to end his indefinite fast for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill
Its longest-serving CEO (he held the position from 1981 to 2002), he leaves Infosys when the gap between it and the number one information technology services company (TCS) is growing wider.
Infosys employees presented Murthy and his family members a sketch of his on a rice grain.
Describing Murthy as a business icon, T V Mohandas Pai, former CFO of Infosys, said he is more than eminently suited to hold the position of Chairman Emeritus.
Founder of software giant Infosys, N R Narayana Murthy on Monday said he was positive that the company's first centre would come up in the metropolis."
No great achievement or discovery or invention has been achieved without hard work. While the inspiration may have been an insight, it needs work to flesh the insight which requires hard work, asserts Mudit Jain.
N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Information Technology giant Infosys, has lamented that economic activities in India were 'stalled' and decisions were not taken by the Manmohan Singh government in time in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance-era.
Expressing shock over the killing of a Karnataka official, said to be a whistle-blower in some controversial land allotments, Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy on Sunday said the first priority of the government should be to protect honest officers.
The current executive co-chairman S Gopalakrishnan will be re-designated executive vice-chairman while S D Shibulal, who was one of the seven engineers to launch the company in 1981 by pooling together $250, will continue as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
A lot of my decisions are based on idealism, says N R Narayana Murthy
After agonizing over this for weeks, he made a decision. When they met after work one evening, he startled her by blurting out, 'I think we should break up.' A moving excerpt from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy.
His stepping down from the NDTV board has now sparked off speculation over whether he too is going the Nandan Nilekani way to take up a governmental responsibility.
Murthy's induction took place after the board hosted a reception to welcome Narayana Murthy chief mentor of Infosys to the board in his home country.
Infosys co-founder and chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy and Infosys Foundation chairperson Sudha Murthy's daughter, Akshata, is all set to tie nuptial knot with an Indian classmate of hers from Stanford Business School on August 29, family sources said.
Citing an example of traffic rule violation in the national capital, Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy on Tuesday said that he feels uncomfortable coming to Delhi because it is the one city where indiscipline is the highest. While speaking at the All India Management Association (AIMA) Foundation Day, Murthy shared that people should treat community property better than personal property as one of the values to avoid issues of dishonesty in public governance. "I really feel very uncomfortable coming to Delhi, this is one city where indiscipline is the highest.
Infosys Ltd co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy is close to entering into an e-commerce joint venture in India with Amazon.com Inc through his investment firm, Catamaran Ventures.
Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy is among the 12 "greatest entrepreneurs of our time" according to a Fortue magazine list that is topped by Apple's late chief Steve Jobs.
What do you think about Narayana Murthy stepping down? Will Infosys be the same again without him at the helm? Will it keep growing at the scorching pace it has set?
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) chairman S N Subrahmanyan sparked an online outrage with his comments advocating a 90-hour work week and suggesting that employees should even give up Sundays.
In spite of that the founders never voted against any resolution, those who differed abstained.
An Oxford, and Stanford University alumnae, Sunak is famously married to Akshata Murty, the daughter of billionaire Narayana Murthy.
Co-founder of IT major Infosys N R Narayana Murthy and his author wife Sudha Murty cast their ballot for the Karnataka assembly elections on Wednesday and exhorted people to vote.
In a short span of time, with the help of Amazon, Cloudtail was able to devise a model that could protect it from the vagaries of online retail business.
N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder and chief mentor of India's second-largest IT services provider Infosys Technologies, is planning to invest in US-based clean technology venture capital fund Siderian Ventures.
Rohan Murthy, the only son of his parents, has found his life partner in Lakshmi Venu, the 26-year-old daughter of TVS Motor co-chairman Venu Srinivasan. In no time after confirmation from the bride and the groom, the two families sealed the merger of souls with their engagement in Chennai on Friday evening.
The culture clash isn't the only issue - most of the founders are still wary of risky bets while the new management thinks calculated aggression is necessary in the new world of business, says Shyamal Majumdar.
In an hour-long chat on rediff.com, one of India's most respected CEOs talks about leadership, the vision he has for the company, the impact of the rupee, et cetera.
"I would hope that the government would very respectfully request him to continue for one term or my preference would be two terms," Narayana Murthy said.
There should be more scholarships to Indian students, Murthy said.
One possible way of accelerating National Education Policy's outcome is to invite 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India in STEM areas to create 2,500 "Train the Teacher" colleges in the country's 28 states and eight union territories, Murthy said.
S D Shibulal, former chief executive and managing director of Infosys, has joined the ranks of the company's other founders in nurturing start-ups.
The 34th annual general meeting (AGM) of IT major Infosys held Monday was an exceptional one.
While Infosys board gave a clean chit to the Panaya deal, Murthy stands firm on his allegations and said, 'sadly, it appears we will no longer know the truth'.
Listening to Narayana Murthy and Prannoy Roy talk was a scintillating experience.
Murthy met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal last week.
The government has kicked off a new employment survey to create closer-to-real-time credible information, the first tranche of which is expected to be revealed in December next year.
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