Do Indians not work sufficient? According to one of many co-founders of the Indian software program big Infosys Ltd., we don’t. The billionaire Narayana Murthy said final week that younger Indians specifically have been choosing up “undesirable habits” from the lazy West and thereby holding again India’s productiveness and its development. “My request,” he mentioned, “is that our youngsters must say, ‘This is my country, I want to work 70 hours a week.’”

Murthy’s concern displays greater than the same old generational whinging. He just isn’t alone in worrying that, except the present technology of younger Indians succeeds the way in which their predecessors have in international locations equivalent to China, India isn’t going to catch up. “Unless we improve our work productivity,” he insisted, “we will not be able to compete with those countries that have made tremendous progress.”