While pursuing her career as TELCO's first female engineer, Sudha Kulkarni met the serious, idealistic, and intelligent Narayana Murthy, with whom she fell in love. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells their tale for the first time, including everything from their courting to the early years of Infosys, from their marriage to children. What brought them together and kept them firmly bonded despite the difficulties and loneliness they encountered? How did it feel to launch a firm in the days of the license raj, when venture capitalists were nonexistent and the term "entrepreneurship" was frowned upon? How did Sudha Murty manage to juggle her roles as a mother, a working woman, and a startup wife? What effects did Narayana Murthy's fixation have on his family and on him?