Meenakshi Malya did her M.Sc in Aberdeen and joined IIMA as a Assistant Professor in the mid 1960s. She was sent by IIMA to do her doctoral studies at Harvard Business School in Managerial Economics.
She returned to IIMA and did research and teaching for nearly a decade before leaving academic life in 1980 for spiritual pursuits. She is best remembered as the other 'M' in the famous MSM course taught at IIMA that stood for Mathematics and Statistics for Management but locally as Mote-Saha-Malya because of the faculty who taught it.

Date of Birth: 4th February 1936