Leading by example: Narayana Murthy takes metro to commute in Bengaluru

The world over, it is becoming quite common for public figures and well-heeled entrepreneurs to use public transport to commute in a city. Recently, Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy and his author-philanthropist wife Sudha Murthy took the Metro from their south Bengaluru home to Malleswaram in the north of the city. The Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation was quick to tweet photos of the Murthys at the Metro station. Twitterati praised them, saying that they led by example. One Twitter user commented, “Metro Murthy”.