Sundararajan Pichai, Chief Executive Officer of Google Inc. responding to Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s comments seeking ban on Muslim entry into the US, Pichai, in a post on Medium wrote, it is “disheartening to see the intolerant discourse playing out in the news”.

“I debated whether to post this, because lately it seems that criticism of intolerance just gives more oxygen to this debate. But I feel we must speak out — particularly those of us who are not under attack,” he wrote.