In what will probably be Bangalore’s wedding of the year, Akshata, the 29-year old daughter of Indian business icon and Infosys Technologies co-founder N R Narayana Murthy will wed fellow Stanford MBA Rishi Sunak on August 30 in Bangalore.

Akshata is currently marketing director in San Francisco for a European firm that invests in and operates businesses that offer clean, green technologies. Sunak, an Oxford graduate, Fulbright scholar and British citizen of Indian origin, is a partner at the UK-based activist, charitable hedge fund TCI, The Children’s Investment fund.

TCI, which bankrolls projects for children across the developing world, is headed by Chris Hohn, one of the ‘new’ philanthropists — the super-rich who give away a large part of their wealth through self-controlled charities.

Akshata, who left Bangalore as a teenager to study as an undergraduate in the US, has said she would love to set up a company that has an India connection. Deeply influenced by the film Rang de Basanti, she has said that people like her should come into the political system to bring about change.

Confirming the wedding, Narayana Murthy said, “The invitations are getting ready.” He said he could elaborate only after he got his daughter’s permission as “she is very private and low key”.

A few hundred of Akshata Murty’s (who spells her last name differently) and Sunak’s friends — many of them batchmates from Stanford — are expected in Bangalore for the wedding. Given Narayana Murthy’s own business and personal connections in India and overseas, the wedding is expected to high-profile.

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