{"id":5588,"date":"2021-08-19T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=5588"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T05:02:33","slug":"sudha-murty-india-author-social-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/19\/sudha-murty-india-author-social-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Changemaker and Author: Sudha Murty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudha Murty is a favorite author among young children and adults. She is an engineer, author (in both languages, Kannada and English) and social worker and has won numerous such as Padma Shri. She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and a member of the public health care initiatives of the Gates Foundation. She also established the Murty Classical Library of India<\/a> at Harvard University.<\/p>\n

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Appreciation and accolades have always come naturally to Sudha Murty- in school and college she topped the class with honors. She also has the distinction of being the first female engineer at TELCO. Murty has done a world of work through her foundation with her focus on education, female empowerment, hygiene and poverty alleviation.<\/p>\n

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She is an exuberant mentor with a million stories to tell<\/a>. Her enthusiasm is infectious and her compassion for the downtrodden and love for children shines in her writing.<\/p>\n

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Happy b’day, Sudha Murty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudha Murty is a favorite author among young children and adults. She is an engineer, author (in both languages, Kannada and English) and social worker and has won numerous such as Padma Shri. She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and a member of the public health care initiatives of the Gates Foundation. 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