IT Correspondent
Mumbai, June 22:
Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata has called for stopping online hatred and bullying and instead supporting each other in what has been a “year full of challenges” for everyone.
In a post on social media platform Instagram on Sunday, Tata said the online community is being hurtful to each other and bringing each other down. “This year has been full of challenges for everyone, on some level or the other. I see online community being hurtful to each other, bringing each other down, harshly and with quick judgements,” the Chairman Emeritus of the Tata group said and added “I believe this year specially calls for all of us to be unified and helpful and is not the time to pull each other down,”.
Urging for more sensitivity towards each other, he reiterated the need for “more of kindness and more of understanding and patience than what one sees today.” Tata said while his “presence online is limited, but I truly hope it will evolve into a place of empathy and support for everyone, no matter what your cause, rather than hate and bullying.”
It may be recalled that in a post on social media platform Instagram earlier, veteran industrialist had earlier said that the coronavirus pandemic will force entrepreneurs to adapt, create and find ways to enable new or modified enterprises that would be benchmarks of tomorrow.
While seeking not to “downplay the challenges and the difficulties embedded in these current times” he had said that “It can all start on a clean sheet of paper that looks at ways of doing things that were never thought of before.”
“In past difficult times, entrepreneurs have displayed farsightedness and creativity that could not have been believed to exist. These became the flagpoles of innovation and new technology today. I hope that the ability to find another way to build a product, run a company, run operations a better way, will emerge as an outcome of the current crisis,” he had said.
Tata, who was the chairman of Tata Sons from 1991 till his retirement on December 28, 2012, further said, “I won’t downplay the challenges and the difficulties embedded in these current times. But my confidence remains high in the inventive nature and the creativity entrepreneurs today who will find ways to enable new or modified enterprises that would be benchmarks of tomorrow”.
