Lockdown inspired Sudha Murty relive her childhood with ‘Grandparents’ Bag of Stories’

New Delhi, Nov 13 : A prolific author and philanthropist, Sudha Murty is quite content at often being addressed as “Mrs Narayana Murthy”, as she presides over the Rs 400 crore Infosys Foundation that works among the less privileged sections of society and practices what she preaches — that “money alone does not bring satisfaction” and that “satisfaction comes from the heart”.
And it is from the heart that she has penned close to 40 books in Kannada and English, some of them translations and the bulk of them for children, with her latest offering “Grandparents’ Bag of Stories” (Puffin), an ode to keeping your spirits up in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic – a story a day keeps all troubles away – to be released on Children’s Day, November 14.
“My journey has taught me so many things, particularly to understand the difficulties of the human being. I enjoy writing for children…..they make me aware and to be sensitive to many, many issues,” Murty, the mother-in-law of Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, told IANS in an interview.
Tracing her journey in the world of writing, she said it “started when I was very young. I used to write in Kannada and changed to English only when I was 50 years-old (she is now 71)”.
“English translations, or writing in English, both helped me a lot because I could reach out to more people; a lot more people can read (English than Kannada),” Murty added.
Does she write to a pattern?