'I was in love': Narayana Murthy recalls travelling 11 hours in train without a ticket for Sudha Murty

Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty offered a deeper insight into their relationship with the release of their biography. (Image: screengrab from video @CNBCTV18News/X)

Billionaire and Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has recently recalled how he travelled ticketless for 11 hours in a train only to drop Sudha Murty home. In conversation with CNBC-TV18, as the 77-year-old spoke about how he had his hormones raging at that age, his 73-year-old wife blushed and did a facepalm.

"Those days, you see, I was..." starts Narayana Murthy, only to be interrupted by a smiling Sudha Murty: "Not ever, no."

"Those days, I was, whatever, in love. Well, I should say what somebody has said... you know what I am talking about. The hormones would be kicking in... you know how it is."

And in the video, this is the moment when Sudha Murty does a facepalm.

'I was in love!'

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A shy Narayana Murthy recalls the time he travelled 11 hours without a ticket just to drop Sudha Murty to her home! Watch @ShereenBhan's #exclusive interview with Murthy & Murty on CNBC-TV18 #AnUncommonLove#ChitraBanerjeeDivakaruni (@cdivakaruni) pic.twitter.com/cPMfKzoKjZ — CNBC-TV18 (@CNBCTV18News) January 8, 2024

The couple has recently offered a deeper insight into their relationship with the release of their biography ‘An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy’ by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by Juggernaut Books.

The book reveals the struggle the family faced as Narayana Murthy spent all his time building Infosys while Sudha Murty and their children Rohan and Akshata Murty missed him.

An excerpt published by the Times of India stated how "the quiet Akshata", who missed Murthy silently, once said that her grandfather was her "real dad" while her father was a "bonus dad", someone appeared at infrequent moments and tried to make up for his absence with fun activities. But it was not enough.

One day Rohan Murty decided to confront his father. "Who do you love more -- me and Akshata, or Infosys?" he asked him. Taken aback, Narayana Murthy said, "Of course, I love you both the most." He could, however, see that neither Rohan nor Akshata Murty was convinced, the book claimed.

Read more: An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy book review