It all started rather innocuously. I walked into Dr GT Murthy’s office one fine day, and
changed my life. “Doc” was then the General Manager, Central R&D, of a very large
electrical company headquartered in Bombay. In his new state-of-the-art electronics center,
he had hand-picked some of India’s best engineers (over a hundred already) ever assembled
under one roof. Luckily, he too was originally a Physicist, and that certainly helped me gain
some empathy. Nowadays he is in retirement, but I will always remember him as a
thoroughly fair, honest and facts-oriented person, who led by example. There were several
things I absorbed from him that are very much part of my basic engineering persona today.
You can certainly look upon this book as an extension of what Doc started many years ago
in India … because that’s what it really is! I certainly wouldn’t be here today if I hadn’t met
Doc. And in fact, several of the brash, high-flying managers I’ve met in recent years,
desperately need some sort of crash course in technology and human values from Doc!
