Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu: I get called “Sanghi” and at least I am happy it is a … – Times of India

Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu was recently trolled by a doctor who goes by the moniker ‘TheLiverDoc‘ on X, formerly Twitter. ‘TheLiverDoc’ slammed Vembu for a post on the benefits on walking barefoot. “I have been walking bare foot in the farm for close to a year now. This thread talks about the health benefits of “grounding” – walking barefoot. It is easy to do, doesn’t cost anything and isn’t harmful – our rural people have been doing it for ages.So I reasoned why not try it and I got so used to it by now I don’t even think about it. Try it!”
To this ‘TheLiverDoc’, who has over 274K followers on Twitter, contested. “Grounding or Earthing (via bare-foot walking) is a pseudoscientific practice. It has no clinically relevant benefits. There are a lot of absolutely nonsense wasteful studies on this topic that has contaminated the published literature,” he wrote.
The two clashed in a series of posts. Vembu called him an arrogant doctor. “Stay away from arrogant doctors – that is the best health tip I can give anyone.” In response ‘theliverdoc’ called Zoho CEO “Health illiterate boomer uncle“.
Tagging the ‘boomer uncle’ post, Vembu wrote, “Can we at least be original in our insults online? Is that too much to ask?” He then went on to add that he has been insulted often online, and often called “boomer uncle”. He went on to write what the meaning of ‘boomer uncle’ is and how another common insult he most often faces is “Sanghi”.

What Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu wrote

“Take the insult “boomer” often handed out by “sophisticated” young people in India. The word “boomer” came from “baby boom” in the US which refers to the post World War II period of high fertility – so boomers are the generation born between 1946-64.
In the US, “boomer” insult is used as code by young people for “you guys had the good jobs, the good life and piled up debt and we face bad jobs and low income now and can’t even afford a house”.
In India young people are better off economically than their parents at the same age. Older people in their youth had jobs that paid a pittance and had long hours. So “boomer” has no meaning in India.
There are plenty of insults original to India – I get called “sanghi” and at least I am happy it is a very Indian insult! 😁
But “boomer” – I say “Guys I know you think it is sophisticated and shows you know American lingo but all it shows is that you are a mental slave to another culture, using terms with no relevance here at all”. And I technically don’t even qualify as a boomer – I was born too late and I was not born in America!”

How the ‘clash’ started and went on …