How Sudha Murty aced engineering to show people girls are better than boys
Updated On: 23 January, 2023 04:33 PM IST | Jaipur | Nascimento Pinto
In a very engaging first session on the second day of Jaipur Literature Festival 2023, Sudha Murty dived into her learnings, how she broke the glass ceiling by being the first female engineer in her college, and why her daughter Akshata is her guru
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Sudha Murty delved into her life growing up and how she pursued engineering even when many in her family weren`t okay with it during the session ‘My Books And Beliefs’ with Mandira Nayar. Photo Courtesy: Jaipur Literature Festival 2023
In a session full of laughter and wisecracks, Indian children’s book author Sudha Murty conducted the crowd like a teacher in a classroom during her session ‘My Books And Beliefs’ with Mandira Nayar. It was one of others that got Day 2 of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2023 off to a refreshing start. While sharing her wise words with the audience that included not only children but also parents and other young adults, she narrated several instances of how she learned from her daughter. One of which involved helping a talented individual but did not make her get into action the first time she heard it.
At the time, Murty’s daughter Akshata, who was 15 years old, reminded the author about her privilege. Murty narrates, “My daughter said if you don’t want to do social service, don’t expect anyone to do it. She was upset about it and went away.” However, her daughter’s words troubled her as she went for a university meeting. Since it was delayed, Murty had some time to ponder over her words and realised quite a lot. She explains, “My daughter had asked me, ‘What’s your aim in life?’ The first 25 years I had worked for myself to get the first rank because I wanted to show in engineering college that girls are as good as or even better than boys. I joined engineering college 55 years ago and there was not a single lady.” Over the next two decades after that, Murty says she did different jobs without a salary at Infosys with Narayan Murthy, her husband and founder of the company.
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