Infosys-TVS merger!

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The south Indian wedding of the century is in the offing! Rohan Murthy, the 28-year-old son of Infosys co-founder and Chief Mentor N. R. Narayana Murthy, got engaged to Lakshmi, daughter of TVS Motor Co-chairman Venu Srinivasan on Friday in Chennai. This wedding will bring together two illustrious families who are industry moguls in their own right. Narayana Murthy told Deccan Chronicle, “Our son Rohan and Lakshmi, daughter of Venu Srinivasan and Mallika Srinivasan, were introduced to each other by a mutual friend of theirs seven months ago. They courted for seven months. Rohan proposed to Lakshmi yesterday (Thursday), and she said YES!”

Rohan is a Microsoft fellow doing a doctoral programme in computer science at Harvard University while Lakshmi is on the board of the TVS Motor Company and Sundaram-Clayton.

Murthy went on to say that everyone in his family is excited. “Lakshmi is a wonderful girl and Rohan is an extraordinary man. We are going to let both of them decide on the marriage date. All I can say is that my wife and I are very happy. We are looking forward to the wedding,” he adds. Lakshmi’s mother Mallika is the daughter of the Amalgamations Group Chairman, A. Sivasailam, and her father Venu is currently the chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry. Venu’s wedding to Mallika in the ’80s saw two big industrial families come together. The wedding to come is perhaps, even bigger with two well-known families of India being linked.

The Rohan-Lakshmi wedding is likely to take place on a date set by the young couple themselves. The wedding is expected to be in Chennai followed by a reception in Bengaluru where the Murthys live. The Murthys also have a daughter Akshata, who is married, while Lakshmi has a younger brother, Sudarshan.