Multiple choice

Who among the following from India's IT industry donated $5.2 million to Harvard University and Harvard University Press to publish contemporary English translations of Indian works originally composed in classical languages such as Sanskrit, Persian and Urdu?

  1. Jerry Rao

  2. Nandan Nilekani

  3. Azim Premji

  4. Shiv Nadar

  5. N. R. Narayana Murthy

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Explanation

N R Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies, and his family have donated $5.2 million to Harvard University and Harvard University Press to establish a new publication series called 'The Murthy Classical Library of India' that will feature contemporary English versions of works originally composed in classical languages such as Sanskrit, Persian and Urdu, as well as literature from Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Punjabi and other Indian languages. These books will not only translate the work into English but also be supplemented by scholarly introductions, commentary by experts and textual notes.