{"id":988313,"date":"2026-01-28T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988313"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:04:16","slug":"convenient-deflection-from-crisis-zohos-sridhar-vembu-sparks-a-row-for-blaming-indira-gandhi-for-devaluing-rupee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/convenient-deflection-from-crisis-zohos-sridhar-vembu-sparks-a-row-for-blaming-indira-gandhi-for-devaluing-rupee\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Convenient deflection from crisis\u2019: Zoho\u2019s Sridhar Vembu sparks a row for blaming Indira Gandhi for devaluing rupee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu is facing heavy criticism after blaming former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for \u201cdevaluing the rupee\u201d. The remarks came even as the currency fell to an all-time-low of 91.96 against the dollar last week amid heightened global geopolitical uncertainties. The rupee has been in freefall over the past two months as US policies under President Donald Trump sent the markets roiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu is facing heavy criticism after blaming former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for \u201cdevaluing the rupee\u201d. The remarks came even as the currency fell to an all-time-low of 91.96 against the dollar last week amid heightened global geopolitical uncertainties. The rupee has been in freefall over the past two months as US policies under President Donald Trump sent the markets roiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}