Following the September 19, 2026 suicide of 22-year-old IIT Bombay student Sahil Ravindra Wakode -- whose parents alleged a professor, Suryanarayana Doolla, had used casteist slurs against him for months -- Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu publicly reshared and endorsed a post arguing the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was being 'weaponised' against Doolla, stating 'Prof Suryanarayana Doolla should not be subject to this' and calling for the case to be withdrawn. Vembu posted this as a personal statement on X, not as an official Zoho position.
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Sridhar Vembu
Founder and Chief Scientist Zoho Corporation
Founder of Zoho Corporation; stepped down as CEO in 2022 to become Chief Scientist; known for advocacy of rural entrepreneurship and bootstrapped business models.