Frankly, there is not much demand from home and I don't socialise much - no partying, get-togethers and very rare wedding appearances.Collection: Wedding
What separates old from the young is experience and patience.Collection: Patience
Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.Collection: Education
Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.Collection: Money
I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and poems as you do at the age.Collection: Teen
My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.Collection: Travel
Nobody owns the money he/she possesses. They hold it just as a trustee.Collection: Money
I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.Collection: Courage
When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it'll become a headache.Collection: Money
In life's journey, we all meet strange people and undergo many experiences that touch us and sometimes even change us.Collection: Change
Women should realise their strength and set goals.Collection: Women
I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a good life but we did not have much money.Collection: Medical
Social entrepreneurs come from different backgrounds and are by and large, starved of capital. Such socialpreneurs must have extraordinary passion to follow their dreams.Collection: Dreams
I work everyday, but every day is a holiday for me because I enjoy my work.Collection: Work
My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.
I don't write for fame or money, I simply want to share my experiences.
I am touched by my readers who loved my books. All the stories are true incidents in life. Now I have realised, any amount of imagination will not be as beautiful as the real life.
I don't want to be identified with any political party.
All that I can say is people who represents Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha should speak our language and represent our interests. How can your neighbour safeguard your interests when he cannot even speak your language or understand your difficulties. So, it is better to have our own people.
I will continue to work for people, but not from any political party. What I can do do as a Rajya Sabha member, I can do without being a member too, perhaps even more efficiently.
The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit and you have to play within that limit.
I would arrive in college at 8:30 A. M. and go back home at noon to go to the toilet. Then I would return again.
I write because I enjoy it and that I can give it to my granddaughter.
What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.
For someone who wants to write a story, they should go on thinking about the story. When it comes up to a level, where it has reached your neck that's when you should go about writing it.
Every philanthropist has a soft corner for one issue. For me it is health, because my father was a doctor.
For me, writing in English is not an easy task.
I feel my thoughts flow freely when I write in Kannada.
To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.
So, as a child in school, I used to write essays on how I spent my holiday or about a visit to a temple. I used to document small things and enjoyed the process of writing even then.
I watch movies regularly, especially Kannada films.
I believe people from the film industry, musicians, dancers, artists and writers are all internally connected. The form of expression externally may vary, but we are connected internally.
Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very early.
Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on a frugal budget.
People often ask me how I get so many unique experiences while they get none. I tell them the difference is in the sensitivity. I can observe those small emotions, which may look trivial to others.
If I wasn't an engineer, I would have been a film journalist.
When we started out, I kept wondering, what are the rules of philanthropy? And it turns out that there are rules for it. And nobody could talk about that. There is no set formula for this because anything with a human being cannot have a formula.
During my younger days, we didn't have digital media or electronic gadgets the way we do now. So the best part of my day was the one I spent either in listening to stories from my elders or reading them.
I don't want to associate my social work with Infosys, money, etc.
I happily watch movies made on the life and achievement of others.
Increasing the sale of liquor may benefit the government in terms of revenue. But liquor is a social evil, and its biggest victims are women and their children.
We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.
In my work, 80 per cent of the time people cheat, they run away with money, they lie but there are good things too. And I choose to write about the good and positive things.
There have been plenty of experiences that I wished to write about but found them to be somewhat similar to each other. Later I realised that though they are of similar nature but each of them has changed me in a different way.
Planning things is neither my cup of tea nor my choice. Same applies to books too.
The day I stopped drinking milk' is a very sensitive story telling the tale of how we forget what is 'normal' for us falls under the category of 'expensive' or 'unaffordable' for middle or poor class.
Most people share a yearning to be something bigger than them. Something they can be excited about and something that will challenge them to go beyond being average.
It's lovely to write for the youngsters because through your story, you can teach them the lessons of life.
Everything I write is mostly relatable to everyone and since everyone cannot write, they feel like Sudha Murthy is writing their story. I am your writer next-door.
I am a creative person and watching a movie is like writing a story. So when I see a movie, I also see the editing, the music, the camera angles, etc.