Bangalore’s wedding of the year: Infosys Murthy daughter

In what will probably be Bangalore’s wedding of the year, Akshata, the 29-year old daughter of Indian business icon and Infosys Technologies co-founder N R Narayana Murthy will wed fellow Stanford MBA Rishi Sunak on August 30 in Bangalore.

Akshata is currently marketing director in San Francisco for a European firm that invests in and operates businesses that offer clean, green technologies. Sunak, an Oxford graduate, Fulbright scholar and British citizen of Indian origin, is a partner at the UK-based activist, charitable hedge fund TCI, The Children’s Investment fund.

TCI, which bankrolls projects for children across the developing world, is headed by Chris Hohn, one of the ‘new’ philanthropists — the super-rich who give away a large part of their wealth through self-controlled charities.

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Karnataka Chief Minister says he won’t allow pub culture, his daughter disagrees

HOURS after Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa said he “won’t allow pub culture” in the state, one of his daughters Umadevi said: “It’s for women to decide if they would like to visit pubs or any other public place, and that government, politicians or outfits like the Sri Rama Sene cannot restrict their movements”.

“If she is an adult woman, it’s for her to take a call on whether to go to a pub or not. If she is not an adult, the issue is then essentially between the child and her parents. There is no role for anyone else in this,” Umadevi told The Indian Express.

Umadevi, who runs Candor Business Solutions Pvt Ltd, a BPO in Bangalore, said “individual freedoms” cannot be regulated and agreed that Bangalore is also known for, among other things, its pubs. “

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