Ola co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal slams woke culture: "Hoping that this pronoun illness doesn’t reach India"

Notably, these statements came as he shared a screenshot from a response LinkedIn’s AI bot generated when he asked it about himself and the chatbot used “they” and “their” to address the CEO. Further, he expressed concerns about the usage of gender pronouns as he asked people to draw a line in following “the West blindly”.

He wrote, “Hoping that this “pronoun illness” doesn’t reach India. Many “big city schools” in India are teaching how to use gender pronouns to children, he said, adding, “Also see many CVs with pronouns these days. Need to know where to draw the line in following the west blindly! Screenshot is from LinkedIn’s AI bot. This ‘pronouns illness’ is being perpetuated in India by MNCs without us Indians even realising it."


Further, he emphasised, “Most of us in India have no clue about politics of this pronouns illness. People do it because it’s become expected in our corporate culture, especially MNCs.”

“Better to send this illness back where it came from. Our culture has always had respect for all. No need for new pronouns,” Bhavish Aggarwal concluded.


Netizens also lauded the Ola founder for raising this concern over gender pronouns. Here are some of tweets.