Shark Tank India's Namita Thapar speaks up against criticism: 'Being a Shark doesn't mean...'

Shark Tank India judge Namita Thapar has spoken out against toxicity surrounding the business reality show after the first episode of the second season was aired recently.

Taking to Twitter, the Emcure Pharmaceuticals executive director wrote: "Being a shark doesn’t mean we are not entitled to our independent values and speaking candidly so if I don’t invest in a fellow sharks competition, that’s me, no regrets."

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Namita Thapar may have been referring to the recent criticism the Shark Tank India judges have been facing after they rejected the pitch of two entrepreneurs because they were representing a make-up brand Recode. Except Lenskart CEO Peyush Bansal, all the other sharks rejected the idea and one of the reasons being that one of the Sharks, Vineeta Singh, herself heads a cosmetics brand Sugar. On the show, the judges stated that they did not want to invest in "friend's rival businesses."

The move did not sit well with netizens who called out the Shark Tank India judges for being "unfair".