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Dravidianists Spew Venom Over Sridhar Vembu’s Personal Tragedy

March 14, 2023
The Commune

This morning, a Forbes article was making the rounds in social media alleging that Sridhar Vembu had abandoned his wife and autistic son in the US.

Pramila, the estranged wife of Sridhar Vembu, the co-founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation, a software company that offers cloud-based business applications, has filed a lawsuit against him, claiming that he transferred his ownership of Zoho without telling her. She alleged that he abandoned her and their special needs son and is keeping them from receiving their fair share.

In response to these allegations, Sridhar Vembu shared a tweet thread where he denied all the allegations and says that he never transferred his shares in the company to anyone else. He also said that these allegations were unfounded and that he had been supporting his wife and son financially all the while. The matter is currently before a US court.

In the deeply personal thread he shared on Twitter about his son’s autism and how it affected his marriage and his life, he said that he and his wife fought against autism for over 15 years and that he supported her in her cause of curing their son. He also said that he took some of the treatments that their son underwent to ensure his safety.

However, he said that their marriage collapsed due to their different views on their son’s future and that autism left him suicidally depressed. He also mentioned how his estranged uncle, whom he allowed to stay at his California house on compassionate grounds owing to his terminal cancer, has been the cause for the mess that has unfolded now.

In the meantime, the Dravidianists and DMK functionaries left no stone unturned in demeaning Sridhar Vembu over his personal tragedy.

Tamil Nadu State Deputy Secretary of the DMK IT Wing, Isai shared multiple tweets belittling Vembu.


He shared a screen recording of a Google search of the words Sridhar Vembu Vikatan which brought out many articles on Vembu and claimed that these articles were all planted and propaganda material for him.

He retweeted tweets that intended to humiliate Vembu at such a time.

He shared a tweet that said “Sanghis who speak nationalism” and shared a Sun TV tweet that spoke about the allegations made by Vembu’s wife.


The screen recording video shared by Isai was also shared by senior DMK leader RS Bharathi’s son Sai Lakshmikanth Bharathi who is known for his deep-seated hatred for Brahmins and Hindus.


Sai LakshmiKanth Bharathi also shared tweets which questioned the feminists who did not speak up against Vembu and his “bad deeds”. He tagged popular Twitter personalities who belong to the Brahmin caste.


He then goes on to compare Vembu to Modi and Savukku Shankar.


He also shared a tweet where he attacks Vembu over the alleged abandoning of his wife and special child in the US and that he was preaching to the youth of Tamil Nadu that they must not study and return to their villages in the name of nature and such.


Self-proclaimed social activist Piyush Manush shared a below-the-belt post on the issue.

He called Vembu an RSS stooge and goes on to say that all “Sanghis” are creeps.

Sun News, the mouthpiece of the DMK government also shared a post about the allegations.


The DMK IT wing Tanjore Zonal Incharge, Mayiladuthurai District Coordinator, P.M. Sridhar shared a disgraceful meme in the lines of the “Paridhabangal” video on migrant workers and accuses Vembu of abandoning his family “similar to his Guru”, taking a jibe at PM Narendra Modi who is incorrectly alleged to have abandoned his wife.

It is pertinent to note that Sridhar Vembu has faced criticism from Dravidian activists in the recent past for his endeavours in the Tenkasi region, his association with the BJP, vocal support for PM Modi’s schemes and initiatives, as well as speaking up for the Hindu cause. They also resent his success as a Tamil Brahmin entrepreneur despite the high reservation quota in Tamil Nadu.

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