Wading into "70-hour" debate
After the famous "70 minute" speech by SRK in popular Hindi film "Chak de India", number 70 is buzzing again! This time it's "70 hours" comment by Hon. Mr. NR Narayana Murthy in one of his interviews. As with most topics these days, it seems to have divided people into either strong supporters or strong opponents of the idea. Having watched the full interview , here's my take on the controversial headline itself: It was the worst possible headline that could have been given to that interview. It was an excellent discussion on wide ranging topics related to India's economic progress in past 75 years and future ahead. But media intentionally chose to pick a juicy statement without context, and made it a click-bait headline. It absolutely does not capture the essence of the full interview in my view. Mr. Murthy was talking about how India needs to work in a "mission mode" to not only become a #2 economy in "Total GDP" terms, bu...