In invoking her simplicity, Sudha Murty inadvertently set off a social media storm. The author and wife of Infosys founder, N.R. Narayana Murthy, appeared on The Kapil Sharma Show on television a few weeks ago.
Flanked by actor Raveena Tandon and award-winning producer Guneet Monga, Murty related two stories. Once, she was travelling business class, she said, and was dressed in a salwar kameez. Two women in the line with her told her, “Behenji, this is not the queue for you, economy passengers go elsewhere”. Murty didn’t say anything and they continued to speak to each other, referring to her as “cattle class people”.
On another trip, she said, she was at the immigration line at London’s Heathrow airport, and the officer asked for her residential address. She wrote down 10 Downing Street. “The fellow looked at me and said, are you joking? No one can believe that I am a 72-year-old woman and simple, so how can I be the mother-in-law of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?” Murty said.
