Blunt talk needed in country today, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy says, citing his spat with Sikka

Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy said on Saturday that looking at “what is happening in different parts of the country today”, the youth need to state bluntly that this was not the country for which our forefathers got freedom.

Talking about his spat with Vishal Sikka, Infosys’ first non-promoter chief executive who quit in 2017, he said he had to speak up when he saw core values of the IT giant being thrown into the “dustbin“.

Speaking at a panel discussion at St Xavier’s College here, Murthy referred to Sikka’s confrontation with him and other promoters, without naming him, when asked about the concerns he had expressed about the way Infosys was being led after his retirement.