{"id":258,"date":"2004-08-23T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=258"},"modified":"2005-09-13T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T19:16:45","slug":"infosys_ceo_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/23\/infosys_ceo_is\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys CEO is an ex-socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N.R. Narayana Murthy, billionaire CEO of Infosys, an Indian outsourcing giant, used to be a socialist until an encounter with&nbsp;a Frenchwoman on a train <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1101040823-682289-2,00.html\">didn&#8217;t turn out quite like <em>Before Sunrise<\/em><\/a><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Back in the early 1970s, while traveling through Europe by train, Murthy was seized by police in a town near the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border. He had been chatting up a fellow passenger in French, and he believes that her boyfriend complained to a cop. Murthy was kept in a room in the train station for 72 hours and shipped out on a freight car. &#8220;There was no going back to communism after that,&#8221; he says.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Ah, nothing like the smell of a burned convert in the morning&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.R. Narayana Murthy, billionaire CEO of Infosys, an Indian outsourcing giant, used to be a socialist until an encounter with&nbsp;a Frenchwoman on a train didn&#8217;t turn out quite like Before Sunrise: Back in the early 1970s, while traveling through Europe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/23\/infosys_ceo_is\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"-1","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}