For anyone that doesn’t know (although admittedly not particularly relevant, but topical) Narayana Murthy is the FIL of the now-current UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.
Imagine marrying into a self-made billionaire Asian family, and feeling overshadowed by your father-in-law. Literally the only way you're getting out from under that is becoming leader of a major country.
Apropos, I've always wondered where the terms gf and bf, for girlfriend and boyfriend, came from, i.e. the West, or India. Wonder, because many such short forms come from or are unique to Indian English.