Murthy Law Firm founder and president, Sheela Murthy, was among the many philanthropists and immigrant rights advocates who turned out for FIRN's 10th Annual American Success Awards on June 5th. Murthy was joined by MLF team members Aron Finkelstein, Dana Delott, and Harriet Bessel. The...
Last weekend, the MurthyNAYAK Foundation, the philanthropic heart of the Murthy Law Firm, hosted a delegation of educators from one of our favorite projects based in Bangalore, India. The Agastya International Foundation is a nongovernmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to spark creativity in the...
Murthy Law Firm attorney Kevin Andrews joined a small group of hardy souls to commemorate Memorial Day this year with a 60-mile march from Harper's Ferry, West Virginia to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. This was no ordinary hike, but a "ruck march," a military...
On May 31st, Murthy Law Firm founder and president, Sheela Murthy, moderated two panels at the World Trade Center Institute's 6th Annual Women Spanning the Globe Event, a one-day conference for women leaders in international business, held at the American Visionary Arts Museum, Baltimore, MD.With...
Hundreds of friends, family members, and well-wishers packed the ballroom at Valley Mansion in Cockeysville, MD last Saturday to honor Sheela Murthy for her outstanding humanitarian work and philanthropy. The applause was thunderous when Ms. Murthy took the stage to receive the 2012 Sadie Award...
Here's a tip for our readers in the Washington-Baltimore metro area: this year, the National Portrait Gallery commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America with a special exhibition on Juliette Gordon Low, the Savannah, Georgia native who founded the American Girl Guides...
Summer has come and gone, and even fall is on the wane, as the trees drop the last of their leaves, still glowing in sunset colors and blowing around the yard. Almost four hundred years ago, in 1621, the Pilgrims marked this time of year...
Move over, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg: you have company! According to BBC News, one of India's richest men - software billionaire Azim Premji, of Bangalore's Wipro Systems - has pledged a cool $2 billion to fund rural education and development projects in India. (See...
The MurthyNAYAK Foundation board was in India over the Thanksgiving holidays, visiting some of the projects and institutions we are privileged to support. A few days after our site visit at the Chennakeshava School in Bangalore (See Update: MurthyNAYAK Foundation in India, Part I, MurthyBlog,...
As we reported recently on MurthyDotCom, during the week of Thanksgiving, the MurthyNAYAK Foundation and its board members were in India, visiting several of the organizations we support there. (See The MurthyNAYAK Foundation: From Baltimore to Bangalore, Each Life Matters!, MurthyDotCom, 26.Nov.2010.) Though we missed...
