India, April 23 -- Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has recalled studying at IIT with Raju Narayana Swamy, a brilliant student who would go on to become an IAS officer. Vembu was responding to a viral X post about Swamy's career and his anti-corruption crusade.

In his post, Vembu recalled Swamy's academic brilliance and his decision to stay back in India even as most other IIT classmates went abroad. Both Swamy and Sridhar Vembu studied computer science at IIT Madras.

"Raju Narayana Swamy was my classmate in IIT Madras. He also had a very high rank in IIT JEE 1985, my recollection was AIR 10 and he came from small town Kerala and most top rankers were from the big cities so he stood out," Vembu recalled.

"Most of our classmates - including m...