Kuruva Venkataramana Murthy
In a world accelerating toward automation, predictive analytics, and machine-led decisions, one Indian thinker is urging leaders to return not to the past, but to their center.
Kuruva Venkataramana Murthy, known for blending ancient wisdom with modern leadership, has released a book that doesn’t aim to compete with contemporary management manuals it aims to transcend them. The title: AI-Driven Leadership: Leading with Dharma in the Age of AI.
What makes this book striking is not its subject artificial intelligence and leadership have been discussed at length but its tone, intent, and emotional depth. This is not a playbook for scaling faster. It’s a field guide for staying rooted while the world evolves.
Murthy writes from lived experience not just as a leadership coach or spiritual mentor, but as a listener. And it shows. His writing doesn’t instruct. It reminds.
A Book Launched by Mothers, Not Market Metrics
At the book’s launch in Hyderabad, a simple but powerful choice was made: the first copies were unveiled not by industry stalwarts or celebrities, but by mothers.
“In an age dominated by speed and automation, we wanted to ground the message in what is eternal not just efficient,” Murthy said during the ceremony.
“Nothing embodies Dharma more than a mother. This book is a call to leaders to lead not just with logic, but with inner clarity. And the ones who first teach us that clarity are our mothers.”
It was a symbolic gesture but also a philosophical one. The act set the tone for what the book really represents: a return to conscience in an age of code.
Readers Respond with Reflection, Not Applause
Early readers have responded not with promotional blurbs, but deeply personal notes of reflection.
“AI-Driven Leadership is a luminous bridge between algorithms and ethics. It’s a soul map for the tech era.” Naina, Business consultant TCS
“The book gave me my compass. I’m no longer afraid of AI. I feel anchored now, rooted in my Dharma. Thank you, sir this is a gift to humanity.” Parul, Creative Design Director
“This isn’t just another book on AI. It helped me pause. It helped me look within. The Panchsheel framework didn’t just change my thinking it challenged me to lead with awareness. Everyone should read this.” Aditi, Senior Manager
These aren’t reviews for marketing. They are testimonials of transformation.
Leadership That Slows You Down On Purpose
Unlike other texts on leadership in the AI era, AI-Driven Leadership: Leading with Dharma in the Age of AI doesn’t focus on disruption. It focuses on discernment.
It challenges readers to examine not just what they are building, but why. Not just what they are scaling, but who they are leaving behind. Through a series of reflections, parables, and principles, the book emphasizes that Dharma is not ideology it’s intelligent alignment.
Ethics Made Practical Through Ancient Wisdom
Readers encounter not formulas, but frameworks grounded in ethics: the Panchsheel of Satyam (truth), Ahimsa (non-harm), Seva (service), Viveka (discernment), and Sambandh (relationship). These aren’t abstract values. They are practical tools for everyday decision-making in teams, policies, and product design.
The deeper proposition is this: growth without grounding leads to collapse fast, scaled, and catastrophic. Murthy urges a model of leadership where performance is not divorced from purpose.
Designed for Reflection, Not Consumption
The book’s language is slow by design. Chapters are not meant to be consumed but contemplated. Each ends with “Small Acts, Big Shifts” micro-invitations that help readers apply Dharmic insights in their own lives, whether they lead companies, classrooms, or communities.
What makes this work unusual is that it speaks with equal weight to technologists and teachers, to CEOs and students, to startup founders and spiritual seekers. It doesn’t flatten leadership into metrics. It elevates it into meaning.
More Than a Book A Convergence of Practice and Purpose
Through his platform One in the Universe, Murthy has long worked to bring transformation through books, art, clothing, and coaching. But this book in its voice, its timing, and its impact feels like a convergence. It doesn’t arrive with fanfare. It arrives with gravity.
In the pages of AI-Driven Leadership, Murthy doesn’t teach leadership as a title. He offers it as a practice one rooted in ancient clarity, designed for modern chaos.
A Final Truth in a Machine-Led World
And if the early responses are anything to go by, he’s not just offering a philosophy. He’s rekindling a forgotten truth:
That in a world run by machines, the most advanced technology we still have… is a fully conscious human being.
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