New Delhi: In the past few weeks, we have faced awkward questions about how many hours should be enough if our main aim was ‘nation building’. Larsen & Toubro chairman, Subrahmanyan, faced considerable wrath of the country when he proposed that a 90-hour work week is ideal. Narayana Murthy, Founder of Infosys, had earlier espoused a 70 hour work-week. The OLA and Zepto biggies have also come up with their own ‘average hours-per-week concept’. All of the effort, it is believed, is towards the ‘greater good’ of building a nation that would boast of ample opportunities for the generations to come.

With a booming economy and a thriving technology ecosystem, India is no longer just a talent exporter — it’s a place to build the next ChatGPT or DeepSeek or even the Qwen. The choice is clear: brain drain or nation-building. Going by the sheer numbers, it seems like we have gone for the safer option of taking our prowess offshores rather than finding means to explore in-grown options.

Will Trump’s statement on the birthright citizenship being an idea only for slaves and their children, and the fact that he had not hoped that people would just “pile on” on the US, change the Indian obsession with chasing an American dream? It’s pertinent for us to point here that according to a........

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