Bhishma

Published 20th August, 2017, in the Economic Times. So the Kshatriya has left the room. Vishal Sikka, MD and CEO of InfosysBSE -9.60 %, who identified himself as a corporate "warrior" a few months earlier, has resigned, and in his resignation letter has referred to being "besieged by false, baseless, malicious and increasingly personal attacks". What was the source of this siege? Shareholders? Founders? Narayana Murthy, in particular, who relentlessly complained about overpayment of the top management as well as inadequate boardroom governance, perhaps valorising Brahminical austerity over Kshatriya bravado? We will never know the truth. Like all corporate professionals, all answers will be couched ..