National Anthem might be a symbol and Murthy might be a self made man. But his comments (if true) cannot be defended. If you go to some other country and attend universities/ jobs are they going to stop singing their anthem so as not to offend your sensiblities. And what's there to be offended? Coming to symbols, lot of symbols aren't well understood by 99% of people. That doesn't obliviate the need of symbols. It's quite possible that NRN doesn't know anything about why instrumental is chosen over vocal version. But defending every action of yours and offerinf stupid explanations land you in soup. Coming to his presidency, there are more self made , more successfull, more ethical people in India. We need proof that NRN did enough outside his daily work to deserve candidature. And PLEASE, don't start lecturing on his philanthropy, I can name atleast 10 better philanthropists. He keeps complaining about bad infrastructure while being in a position to change atleast a bit of that. Whiners don't go much distance. I personally dislike his(or company's) land grabbing everywhere. Why do you need 100s of acres everywhere, that too alloted by govt. Can't you buy land for yourself? And what are you manufacturing? Jumbojets? ICICI is constructing a 40 storeyed building on a ~20 acre campus in Hyderabad to house few thousands of its employees. And Infosys needs 500 acres to employ 3000. Figures quoted are approximate , but don't deviate from actuals by much. When you are a billionaire and still begging/ demanding something from govt (in name of shareholders) obviously you are not fit for a public position. Every 10 days you see that Holy NRN had pontificated on some issue or another. This looks like a well organised publicity campaign by Infosys. Disclaimer: I have nothing personal againest NRN nor am I jealous of his wealth/ position. ;) It's just that I am tired of inconsistencies in too many stories about him/ by him.
