We are discussing the project, sitting in the Bangalore office of Catamaran Ventures, a $127-million venture capital fund launched in 2010 by Infosys founder N.R. It was this interest that led to the formation of the Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI). I think it gave me a broader perspective because it represented a different way of life and a different intellectual thought that was not as necessarily organised as science was.'
'Philosophy changed everything in my life,' Murty now says. It was that, and a love for classics and old languages on the side, that kept the computer scientist going.
Rohan Murty, his friends in Harvard joked, had philosophy. He tells Avijit Chatterjee that he wanted to set up a library so that people could benefit from reading translated classics - the way he did Amartya Sen wanted him to teach, but Rohan Murty - Infosys founder N.R.
