About the Book: Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
So often, its the simplest acts of courage that touch the lives of others.
Sudha Murty-through the exceptional work of the Infosys Foundation as well as
through her own youth, family life and travels-encounters many such stories . .
. and she tells them here in her characteristically clear-eyed, warm-hearted
way. She talks candidly about the meaningful impact of her work in the devadasi
community, her trials and tribulations as the only female student in her
engineering college and the unexpected and inspiring consequences of her fathers
kindness. From the quiet joy of discovering the