India, March 18 -- Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu said that a renewed mindset is needed so that we can focus less on exams and move away from putting "ultra-competitive exam pressure on children and young adults". In response to a FITJEE advertisement on X (formerly Twitter), Sridhar Vembu said that putting a lot of pressure on children at a young age can annihilate talent and make "zombified adults" which could lead to a "rat race to extinction".

"India has to get out of this ultra-competitive exam pressure on children and young adults. This is one area where I would *not* learn from East Asia but instead learn from Finland which has a superb state-funded educational system that serves every child without such competitive insanity," he wrot...