Namita Thapar Slams Hotmail’s Sabeer Bhatia For Claiming 99% Indian Engineers Have Poor Work Ethic

Emcure Pharmaceuticals' Executive Director, Namita Thapar, has criticised Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia for claiming that Indian engineers have a poor work ethic.

In a recent podcast, Bhatia had said, "Ninety-nine percent of Indian engineering graduates move into management roles and start giving ‘gyaan' to everyone. But where's the work ethic? Where are the people building real products with their own hands?"

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Namita Thapar bashes Sabeer Bhatia

The Emcure boss said in her Instagram Stories that she has lived in the US for eight years and found that many Indians living there were not very optimistic about the state of India.

"Latest news 'Sabeer Bhatia giving gyan on quality of Indian engineers'. I lived in the US for 8 years and met many Indians living there who loved bashing India," she wrote in her Instagram stories. 

Adding that the Indian government should work on brain drain, which is a "real concern", she said it is easy to "give gyan" after moving to another country. 

"Please note that its easy to move to another country and give gyan but the real impact and challenge lies in staying in your own country and facilitating change!" 

Sabeer Bhatia claimed the irony behind India's respect for business luminaries who, in his opinion, promote outsourcing instead of the creation of original software.

The Hotmail co-founder added that India needs to overhaul its attitude vis-à-vis technical skills and start respecting people who write software, who write code, who do things, or who think about these problems critically. 

Drawing parallels with China, he said, “China educates everybody. It’s like subsidised education, subsidised cars.”

Bhatia also remarked, “Education today is the prerogative of rich. And what do rich do? They want to just get education and go and marry somebody and get dowry. What kind of thinking is this?”

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