NR Narayana Murthy

The visionary



From the days when he was arrested in Bulgaria apparently on espionage
charges, to working as a software professional in Patni, to creating a global

company touching $3 bn in revenues, Murthy has indeed traversed a long and

interesting road. There have been interesting milestones on the way: 1981, when

Murthy with six friends started Infosys in a Pune garage with Rs 10,000 savings

of his wife's; 1991, when Infosys made its epic public debut; and 1998 when it

was the first Indian company listed on NASDAQ. But Murthy's biggest

achievement has been in bringing a certain Gandhianism to corporate functioning,

an emphasis on ethics and philanthropy as reflected in the Infosys Foundation.