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Terrorism is not just destruction and killing. It is also threatening your survival and to follow a certain diktat. Is not Narayana Murthy's latest call to the youth to work 70 hours for nation builidng is akin to employee terrorism? Who is Murthy fooling? Is the call for nation buildng or building his personal fortunes? If nation building is his genuine interest, then why not start with donating 70% of his wealth towards nation builidng? His introduction to True Caller CEO Alan Mamadi, that he is a philanthropist and wants to give back to the world. Give back what? Fortunes earned from the sweat and blood of your employees?

Will his wife Sudha Murthy who goes about preaching and writing books with nice and goody stuff, will have the courage to speak out. In many a interviews she prides of she paying for her husband in their courting period. Does she know today her husband's company employees are paying for their wealth accumulation?

Rich Indian Industrialists and Business men should stop putting their foot in their mouth with noble, humane and kind faced statements. There is an Indian footwear company that lost a case where it wanted employees to work extended hours. So many of these rich not only put their foot in their mouth they even put their foot in the mouth with their footwear on.

https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/bombay-high-court-grants-compensation-to-bata-salesmen-fired-for-opposing-showrooms-opening-7-days-a-week-with-extended-hours-241470

Business Tycoons all over the world like to show their compassionate side towards humanity, nature and their well scripted speeches by their PR agencies. None of these companies would show their compassion to their employees when they are terminated like termites being eliminated. Why are there recent heart wrenching stories of staff putting up their stories on Linkedin of being terminated after over a decade of service? Why are they begging for jobs?

This is the same Naryana Murthy who once embraced Communism, till he tasted the pleasures of caplitalism. Which he related to some train journey in a foreign land and he got jailed and the whole 9 yards of the story is there in public domain. The irony is the moral of the story that it made him a compassionate capitalist. Did it make him compassionate? So this is the compassion, slave employees for 70 hours a week. There is no such thing as a compassionate terrorist.

What next Murthy? Work 70 hours a week till you are 70?

# posted by Sunny Fernandes @ 9:59 PM