New Delhi, July 14 -- Nithin Kamath, Founder and CEO of stock brokerage firm Zerodha, on Monday advocated for simplifying short selling of stocks, arguing that the 'lack' of short selling in Indian markets is causing potential market distortions.

In a post on X, Kamath asserted that price discovery will be impaired unless India makes shorting of stocks easy in the Indian markets.

A short-seller in the securities market books gains from the subsequent reduction in the prices of shares.

"India has been a structurally long-only market with almost no shorting activity, because borrowing stock to short is really hard and is an offline process," Kamath's X post read.

He further argued that India lacked short-selling skills.

"Because of thi...