He’s the billionaire tech entrepreneur who gave up life in California to live and work from a small village in Tamil Nadu. He speaks and tweets about the importance of doing his duty and dharma, his mission to develop rural India, and how he no longer needs more money. It is not surprising then that Sridhar Vembu, co-founder and chief scientist of software products company Zoho, is held up publicly as a role model – someone with “simple living and high thinking,” as one interviewer put it.

This image, however, stands in sharp contrast to the pre-trial findings of a California court, where Sridhar’s divorce petition is being heard. In a strongly-worded order in January 2025, the court ordered Sridhar to post a bond of........

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