New Delhi, July 14 -- Nithin Kamath, the co-founder and CEO of stock broking platform Zerodha, warned that the lack of short selling in Indian markets is causing potential market distortions.

According to Kamath, the Indian stock market's structurally long-only nature not only impairs the price discovery but also hampers the development of short-selling talent.

"Unless we make shorting of stocks easy in the Indian markets, price discovery will be impaired," Nithin Kamath said in a post on the social media platform X on Monday, July 14.

Explaining the reason behind the lack of short sellers in the Indian stock market, Kamath said it is a cumbersome activity as borrowing a stock to short is really hard and is an offline process.

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