Aarin Capital Chairman Mohandas Pai said recently that Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy's request to young Indians to work longer hours. Pai said that Murthy's remarks were aimed only at entrepreneurs, startup founders and high-performing innovators and not at ordinary employees.

Pai said that the backlash against the Infosys founder's take was "a misunderstanding". He explained that Narayana Murthy referred to teams that are building globally competitive tech companies, especially in the context of China's 996 rule. Advertisement

"This is for a select group of innovators who want to build unicorns. Ordinary employees are not being asked to work 70 hours. Nobody is asking bank staff or office-goers to do this," Pai, who has served as the CFO for Infosys, said in an interview with E

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