Hindi-Tamil row: Zomato reinstates employee it sacked, founder bats for ‘higher tolerance and chill’

Within hours of food delivery company Zomato sacking a customer care executive for telling a customer from Tamil Nadu that Hindi is the country’s “national language,” the company founder Deepinder Goyal tweeted saying they are reinstating the employee, underlining that the “level of tolerance and chill in our country needs to be way higher than it is nowadays”.

“An ignorant mistake by someone in a support centre of a food delivery company became a national issue. The level of tolerance and chill in our country needs to be way higher than it is nowadays. Who’s to be blamed here? On that note, we are reinstating the agent – this alone is not something she should have been fired for.