Divergent views

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/08/2011

A reader writes: It was amusing to watch the total divergence views on television on Thursday night of two former Infosys top guns. Infosys co-founder and former CEO Nandan Nilekani,now in the UPA government, completely rubbished the Anna agitation in a sit down one-to-one interview with Sagarika Ghosh in CNN-IBN , while former CFO and HR chief of Infosys ,Mohandas Pai passionately celebrated it as a people's movement and rubbished the UPA government on Arnab Goswami's programme on Times Now. How do Nilekani and Pai who worked so closely together for many years develop such opposing perspectives?

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