And not without reason.   

'Since he was appointed Larry Page's successor two years ago, he's had to deal with a staff protest over the president's immigration policy, a prolonged standoff with advertisers over unseemly videos on YouTube, a record regulatory fine, debates about gender inequality, and a growing sense around the globe that the tech giants -- Google chief among them -- are too big, too powerful, and perhaps too careless with the trust that their billions of users have invested in them,' they write.   

And despite the challenges facing him, Pichai 'is taking on long-standing problems that Page, in all his visionary brilliance, never much cared about.'    

'Page always managed to delegate the political and managerial messes that Pichai now has to confront. Page is also largely invisible to the media; his last interview was two years ago.'   

'But Pichai returns phone calls. He's working with News Corp. and other media companies on subscription tools and has scrapped a rule demanding free articles in search results, which punished news organizations that tried to charge for professionally produced work.'   

You can read the fascinating account of the Chennai-born Pichai's life as Google CEO, here.