Apropos “‘Love contracts’ after #Metoo” (June 29); intimate relationships between superiors and subordinates are frowned upon not just in the United States and not merely in businesses.
In the early 1990s, the doyen of Indian steel industry reluctantly handed in his papers, the ostensible reason being that he did not fit into the scheme of things envisaged by the new group chairman who was showing the door to many old satraps. The cognoscenti kept the grapevine abuzz with whispers about the said gentleman’s major misdemeanours that included promoting a younger executive to exalted positions in the company for reasons not related
