A current viral publish on social media has caught the eye of X’s boss Elon Musk. The publish listed the chief government officers of greater than 20 main multinational corporations, all of whom have Indian origins.

Musk appreciated the checklist and replied by terming it “impressive”. The checklist included:

• CEO of Alphabet (dad or mum of Google): Sundar Pichai – Born in Madurai, Tamil, India

• CEO of Microsoft: Satya Nadella – Born in Hyderabad, India

• CEO of YouTube: Neal Mohan – Born in Lafayette, Indiana, USA to an Indian-origin household

• CEO of Adobe: Shantanu Narayen – Born in Hyderabad, India

• CEO of World Bank Group: Ajay Banga – Born in Pune, India

• CEO of IBM: Arvind Krishna – Born in Andhra Pradesh, India

• CEO of Albertsons: Vivek Sankaran – Born in India

• CEO of NetApp: George Kurian – Born in Kerala, India

• CEO of Palo Alto Networks: Nikesh Arora – Born in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

• CEO of Arista Networks: Jayshree Ullal – Born in London, England to an Indian origin household

• CEO of Novartis: Vasant Narasimhan – Born in Pittsburgh, USA to an Indian-origin household

• CEO of Starbucks: Laxman Narasimhan – Born in Pune, India

• CEO of Micron Technology: Sanjay Mehrotra – Born in Kanpur, India

• CEO of Flex: Revathi Advaithi – Born in India

• CEO of Wayfair: Niraj Shah -Born to an India-origin household

• CEO of Chanel: Leena Nair – Kolhapur, Maharashtra

• CEO of OnlyFans: Amrapali Gan (Indian-born) was changed by Keily Blair in July

• CEO of Motorola Mobility: Sanjay Jha – Born in Bihar, India

• CEO of Cognizant: Ravi Kumar S -Born in India

• CEO of Vimeo: Anjali Sud – Born in Michigan, USA to an Indian-origin household

Opinions break up amongst netizens

Nevertheless, the publish confronted scrutiny because the neighborhood notes of X flagged the publish, accompanied by a remark saying that the CEO of YouTube is an American hailing from Indiana. Additionally, it was famous that the CEO of Vimeo is an American from Detroit, and the CEO of Chanel holds British-American citizenship. These prompted a division amongst netizens, prompting them to take sides within the remark part.

“CommunityNotes do you guys even read what’s in the links you add or do you just post it and go? 2 out of 3 people you listed as non-Indian were born in India, 3 person was a child of Indian immigrants. If that doesn’t count as being Indian then from now on call me Martian and I own Mars,” a person replied.

However, one other person disagreed with the publish, saying that nationality is set by authorized affiliation, not birthplace. “It doesn’t matter if they were born in India, if they are Americans, they’re Americans, that’s just how it works. If you wanna point out their “heritage” then you gotta say that, but they’re just not Indian by law.”

Who are individuals of Indian origin?

According to India’s Ministry of External Affairs, an individual of Indian origin is one who falls in any of the given standards:

1. A overseas citizen (besides a nationwide of Pakistan, Afghanistan Bangladesh, China, Iran, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Nepal) who at any time held an Indian passport

2. Who or both of their dad and mom/grandparents/ nice grandparents had been born and completely resident in India as outlined within the Government of India Act, 1935 and different territories that grew to become a part of India thereafter supplied neither was at any time a citizen of any of the aforesaid nations ( as referred above);

3. Who is a partner of a citizen of India or a PIO