On October 15, Zoho Corporation's founder and chief scientist, Sridhar Vembu, declared that he will temporarily halt external engagements in order to concentrate on his primary technical job.

Vembu acknowledged that he had "fallen behind" on a coding job he had promised to finish in a post posted on his official X account. He indicated that he will "take a break from external engagements after this week" because he had promised to ship some code but had fallen behind.
Sridhar Vembu declares a brief hiatus to concentrate on coding.
The successful Arattai businessman, who is well-known for supporting deep technological development, stated that he wanted to make sure his words and deeds aligned.

I regret having to make this stringent restriction, but I am unable to work on sophisticated tech projects (of which I frequently preach in my external engagements) and then just preach without doing any practice. I run the risk of just preaching and not practicing, which would go against my maxim, "do not preach what you do not practise," Vembu wrote.
Regarding other news, Sridhar Vembu praised MapMyIndia's Mappls navigation technology, describing it as "very nice" and pointing out that it reflects "decades of R&D, much longer than Google Maps." On October 12, Vembu shared his opinions on X and congratulated Rohan Verma and the MapMyIndia team on their accomplishment.

The video that Ashwini Vaishnaw, India's Minister of Railways, Information & Broadcasting, and Electronics & IT, shared was reposted in Vembu's message. Vaishnaw praised the creative and useful features of the native "Swadeshi Mappls" app and urged consumers to use it on October 11.

The minister used the app while driving in the accompanying video to show off its 3D visualisation of bridges and underpasses as well as its capacity to locate stores and events inside multi-story structures. Vaishnaw encouraged people to check out Mappls, calling it an app full of "useful features."