Sabeer Bhatia, the man who gave the world Hotmail, is back in the spotlight with pointed, fact-based critiques of Indians and the Indian government.

During his podcast with Kintu Parantu with Sheeba, Bhatia talked about many problems that India is facing, mainly corruption and lack of critical thinking. He also discussed the criticism he faces for exposing the true picture of India, which does not reflect high social and moral values.

There’s more to do in life and that’s personal, it doesn’t matter from the outside, it’s like saying no. We have a car, we have a bungalow, we have this. Those things are irrelevant in life. It’s not how much you have. Our economy is the fourth largest, the third is the largest. USELESS.

You have to be satisfied inside. That we have, it’s nothing. But we’re happy inside. That’s not happiness. That’s false pride and this false narrative is being sold and resold to the people. And it is wrong. Internally, people are not happy. They think they’re happy, but they’re not.

You don’t get happiness by material satisfaction. I have all the material things in life at 29 and I realize it’s meaningless. My life has to be worth something.

— Sabeer Bhatia in conversation with the Kintu Parantu With Sheeba podcast

India is not a huge market : Sabeer Bhatia

The Hotmail founder argued that India is not a huge market as portrayed in the media. He opined this because he believes that a big market is possible only if people have disposable income.

It is only created when everyone has disposable income. Those disposable incomes will come only when you change your economy.

If you run the economy as a zero-sum game, it’s not a very big market.

What we’re focusing on is overall GDP, and even those numbers are a fudged lie. If you look at GDP per capita on a spreadsheet, it’s around $800.

And if you exclude the top 5%, the per capita GDP is only about $100. By comparison, the per capita GDP of the US is nearly $90,000 a year.

— Sabeer Bhatia in conversation with the Kintu Bharantu podcast

Sabeer Bhatia has been criticized in the past for his outspoken but real facts from prominent Indian personalities like Mohandas Pai (former Infosys CFO), Namita Thapar (Shark Tank India judge, Emcure Pharmaceuticals executive director), and Harsh Goenka (Industrialist, Chairman of RPG Group).